New Silver Brook Veterans Monument

In Memorial

To All Veterans

Who Have Served Their Country

Honorably and Bravely.

May They Rest in Peace.

Marker can be reached from East Shockley Ferry Road (U.S. 29) north of White Street, on the right when traveling north.

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William Barclay Parsons

William Barclay Parsons, Hon.M.ASCE

Chief Engineer, Cape Cod Canal, 1906-1914

The original construction of the Cape Cod Canal demonstrated the feasibility of constructing and operating a sea -level canal without locks.

Marker is on Scenic Highway (U.S. 6), on the right when traveling ...

August Belmont

February 18, 1853 - December 10, 1924

In Memory of

August Belmont

February 18, 1853 - December 10, 1924

Whose vision, initiative, an indomitable courage made possible the first complete construction of

The Cape Cod Canal

Connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay which ...

Burbank's First City Hall

Burbank's first City Hall was built here in 1916. The building housed the offices of the City Council and City Manager, and was also home to the Police and Fire Departments. In 1943, these offices were relocated to the present-day ...

Hillhouse Avenue Bridge

The original Hillhouse Avenue Bridge was one of fourteen bridges provided by the Farmington Canal Company to carry city streets across the canal. The wooden bridge at this site rested on abutments of unmortared rubble. The New Haven construction firm ...

Big Eli Wheel No. 17

"I have discovered the machine I want to design and build, a portable 'Ferris Wheel'", W. E. Sullivan, 1893.

A young man's dream became reality when W. E. Sullivan of Roodhouse, Illinois, designed and built a small, portable, revolving wheel, patterned ...

August Belmont II

1853 - 1924

Man O' War, the legendary race horse from the Golden Age of Sport, was bred in Kentucky by August Belmont II. For more than a quarter-century, Belmont was perhaps the most important figure in Thoroughbred racing, as chairman ...

Greene Vardiman Black

G.V. Black, father of modern dentistry, was born in 1836 on a farm near Winchester, Illinois. He studied medicine and dentistry and in 1857 began his practice of dentistry in Winchester. After serving in the Civil War, he resumed dental ...

Bridgeforth High School

Though black public education existed in Giles County by 1869, Bridgeforth was the first black high school. Designed by America's first black architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, which had the local roots, and named for black educator J. T. Bridgeforth, ...

Legend of Paul Bunyan

The legend of Paul Bunyan is the creation of lumberjacks from Canada to the United States and from Maine to the Pacific Northwest. It probably had its roots in a real person. There was a soldier, named Paul Bunyan, who ...