Old Betsy

Cannon used by

Major George Croghan

Against the British and

Indians in the defense

Of Fort Stephenson

Aug. 1st and 2nd 1813

Marker is at the intersection of Croghan Street and High Street, on the right when traveling east on Croghan Street.

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The Battle’s Aftermath

Although Stony Point and Verplanck’s Point became a focus of British strategy in 1779, they had shown interest in the Hudson Highlands before. On October 6, 1777, the British had landed here and attacked Forts Clinton and Montgomery, seven miles ...

Swedish Cabin

Hancock House Historic Site

This single-room cabin is a rare remaining example of hand-hewn, white cedar plank construction and reflects a traditional Swedish cabin. This cabin, with its glazed windows, is more elaborate than those typically constructed in the seventeenth-century.

Known as ...

The Journey Begins Here

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark of the Corps of Discovery stayed at Camp River Dubois during the winter of 1803–1804, on their journey to find an all-water-route to the Pacific Ocean. For five months, the Corps stayed near the confluence ...

Litto’s Hubcap Ranch

This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around Hubcap Ranch are constructions and arrangements ...

The Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin

The Brothertown (Brotherton) are descendants of the Pequot and Mohegan (Algonquin-speaking) tribes in southern New England. They became a tribe in 1769 when seven Christian and English-speaking communities organized and moved to land in upstate New York. They cleared the ...

Santa Clara Women’s Club Adobe

This adobe, among the oldest in Santa Clara Valley, was one of several continuous rows of homes built in 1792–1800 as dwellings for the indian families of Mission Santa Clara. It links the Franciscan padres’ labors with California of today.

Marker ...

Gubserville

Named after Frank Gubser, a German immigrant and barber, Gubserville was an important stage, mail and teamster stop on the road between San Jose and Saratoga. Gubser served as the village's first and only postmaster, beginning July 5, 1882. Gubserville ...

Birthplace of The San Diego Union

This birthplace of the San Diego Union

October 10, 1868

Oldest daily in Southern California,

is declared to be a

HISTORIC SITE IN JOURNALISM

by San Diego Professional Chapter

SIGMA DELTA CHI

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Third Battle of Winchester

"One Moving Mass of Glittering Sabers"

On September 19, 1864, Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s Army of the Shenandoah routed Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early’s Valley Army at the Third Battle of Winchester (also called Opequon) in the bloodiest and largest ...