Glens Falls Area

Historic New York

          Where the Hudson River runs eastward before turning south is a series of falls, an obstacle to navigation but also a source of power. These lay athwart the north-south trail between Albany ...

The Battles of Saratoga - 1777

Historic New York

          One of the most decisive battles in world history ended with the surrender near here of the British army invading from Canada under General “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne in 1777. The defeat ended ...

Grant’s Last View of the Valley

This stone marks

the spot where

General U. S. Grant

had his last view

of the valley

July 20, 1885

Marker can be reached from Mt. McGregor Road, on the right when traveling north.

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First Baptist Church of Alpharetta

circa 1905

In 1903, a group of women who met weekly for prayer and Bible study began collecting offerings. From those collections, the women purchased a sixty by one hundred foot lot and began construction of the First Baptist Church. The ...

The Zetterström Fountain

Vasa Museum

Text in Swedish:

Zetterström-Fontänen

Mustycke som användes för att spola tunnlar

under Vasa vid bargningen 1961.

Konstructör: Dykarpionjären Arne Zetterstöm (1917-1945)

Donatorer: Flygt AB och Marinen

Text in English:

The Zetterström Fountain

Nozzle used for making tunnels under the warship Vasa

when it was salvaged in ...

Site of First Quaker Meeting House

Quaker Meeting House Town of Wheatland Frame Building 1827 used until 1854 by Hicksites

Marker is on Quaker Road 0.3 miles east of Bowerman Road (County Road 716), on the right when traveling east.

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The First Church in Kenosha

Was built ten yards west of this site by the Society of Methodists in 1840

Marker is at the intersection of 6th Avenue and 59th Street, on the right when traveling north on 6th Avenue.

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Buford Pusser Memorial Park

"In Memory of a Man Who Walked Tall"

Personal History

Buford Hayes Pusser was born near Finger, Tennessee on December 12, 1937. His early education consisted of elementary schools in this area and graduation from Adamsville High School in 1956. About a ...

Their Fame Liveth

Canada Remembers

Lieutenant Samuel Hooker,

Sergeant Joseph Hunt, Pri-

vates James Daig, Thomas

Fearnsides, Richard Hugill,

George Longley, Laurence

Meade, John Pegler, John Smith,

and John Wale of the First

Battalion of the Eighth

(King's) Regiment of Foot; and

Sergeant ...

Elizabeth City Confederate Monument

Our Heroes

1861 1865

To our

Confederate Dead.

Erected by

The D.H. Hill Chapter

United Daughters

of the Confederacy

Elizabeth City

North Carolina,

May 10th, 1911.

Marker is on East Main Street east of North Elliot Street, on the left when traveling east.

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