Native American Site 36BV9

Artifacts covering a span of 8000 to 9000 years were found here by members of the Amockwi Chapter 17 Society for Penna. Archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s. This stratified site is located on a flood plain with periodic floods ...

Mesas and Buttes

This is Mill Bluff, one of many isolated and rocky castle-like hills which rise abruptly from the surrounding plain. This formation is properly called a mesa (Spanish for "table") if large and butte if small.

Mesas and buttes in this ...

Steepbrook Plantation

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This plantation was established in 1701 by a grant of 500 acres near Goose Creek to Lewis Lansac from the Lords Proprietors. In 1757 the original grant, with an additional 1,000 acres that had been owned by the ...

McPherson Birthplace

Here stood the log cabin where General James B. McPherson was born Nov. 14, 1828.

Marker is on East Maple Street (Ohio Route 101).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fauboug Marigny

In 1805 Bernard de Marigny began the subdivision of his plantation, creating the first suburb below the original city. As Americans settled up-river, immigrants and free persons of color settled in Faubourg Marigny.

Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association

Marker is at ...

Adaven Building

1435 Highway 395

Originally the site of the I.O.O.F. hall built by Baptiste Borda at the turn of the 19th Century. The Adaven Building has been a merchandise store, soda fountain, restaurant, and hotel. The Adaven Building also had a post ...

Berkeley Training High School

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Berkeley Training High School, located here from 1955 to 1970, replaced a four-room wood school 1 mi. S at Main St. and Old U.S. Hwy. 52. That school, built in 1918-1920 at a cost of $6,700, had been ...

Pecquet Building

In 1835 Louis Pecquet purchased this site and likely replaced the existing Spanish Colonial buildings shortly thereafter with the present Greek Revival shop-residence.

During the late 1830s, the shop housed a dry goods store, then a milliner and a hatter ...

Battery Duane

Fort Wadsworth

Crumbling over time, these concrete platforms mark where large guns once guarded New York Harbor. In the late 1800s, a Glacis Mortar Battery – once located just beyond these ruins – could lob projectiles onto enemy ships entering the ...

George Hill Building, 1897

This three-story structure was built to replace the landmark Horton’s Hall, which was partially destroyed by fire. The building was designed for five storerooms on the first floor, and thirty offices on the upper floors. The San Diego Normal School, ...