Site of Rappahannock Industrial Academy

1902 - 1948

Founded by

Southside Rappahannock Baptist Association

Education - The Hope of a Glorious Future

Original Trustees

Willis Brook - Ned Fitzgerald - C. H. Newman

D. R. Page - Thomas Pollard - J. R. Ruffin

N. A. Wiggins

W. E. Robinson - Principal - 1904 ...

A Century of Service: Manitowoc Public Library 1900-2000

Manitowoc has a rich library tradition. Around the Civil War several efforts were made to provide library services, but failed primarily due to lack of funding. During 1898 and 1899 the Clio Club, a women's literary group, raised $4,700 to ...

Macarthy~Pope House

Side 1:

Known as Clinton’s oldest house, the Macarthy~Pope house is believed to have been built between 1809 and 1810. Benjamin and William Trapp owned the dwelling between 1818 and 1832. During the latter two years of their ownership Benjamin Trapp ...

Patriots of the Revolution

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

British Forces Burn Kingston

Responsible for the security of Kingston, when the British burned the Village on October 16, 1777 – General Clinton wrote to General Gates that of the promised 3000 men, only 400 were ...

British Royal Navy in the Estonian War of Independence

IN MEMORY

of the officers and seamen of the British Royal Navy

who served and gave their lives in the cause of freedom

in the Baltic during the Estonian War of Independence

1918 - 1920

MALESTUSEKS

Briti Kuningliku Merevae ohvitseridele ja meremeestele

kes voitle sid ja andsid ...

Aunt Polly Crosby's Cabin Site

Aunt Polly Crosby,

First Mother of the Church,

Poplar Grove Baptist.

Site of her cabin.

Marker is on Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

St. Genevieve ~ Of ~ The ~ Pines

The Religious of Christian Education, an

order of nuns originally from France,

established Hillside Convent School on

January 6, 1908. In 1910, the school was

moved to this site and renamed St.

Genevieve~of~the~Pines. For eight decades,

the school educated young women and

men ...

Sophia Fussman

During burning of Humboldt, Sophia Fussman saved valuables on a feather bed thrown down her well.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Post Headquarters -- JAG

1911-2009

Side 1:

On this site stood Building 5, the first permanent Post HQ building and later the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Building. Built in 1911 as a dairy creamery, it became the Officers' Mess in 1919. In 1924 it became the ...

A Radical Idea: Government by the People

Senate House State Historic Site

Consider the sacrifices made by ordinary citizens like Abraham van Gaasbeck, who risked his life, family, and property, when he offered his modest stone house as a meeting place for the first New York State ...