The Buttermilk Channel and Brooklyn Waterfront

Governors Island

This view looks over the Buttermilk Channel to the Brooklyn waterfront, located only 400 yards away. Many theories surround the naming of this narrow waterway. In years past, the channel was much wider and shallower than it is ...

Central Presbyterian Church

This church which had its origins in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church was first mentioned at a meeting of the Presbytery on April 7, 1812. It became known as First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Huntsville, Alabama. In 1828 the first building ...

Gen. John F. Reynolds

"Dear Kate"

On the last day of June 1863, Emmitsburg became a Union army supply base. Union Gen. John F. Reynolds, commanding the left wing of the Army of the Potomac (I, III, and XI Corps), arrived as I Corps came ...

Stafford's Point

One of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," William J. Stafford (1764-1840), founded the settlement of Stafford's Point on the 6819.7-acre land grant he received in the winter of 1824. Bringing his family and slaves from his Louisiana sugar plantation, he ...

North Sea Mine Force Memorial

A type of the 56,571 mines laid and swept in the mine barrier placed in the North Sea by the United States Navy during the World War, 1917-1919, the greatest achievement of its nature recorded in all naval history ...

Berry Schools' Old Mill

From the mill’s construction in 1930 , students under the supervision of a miller used the Old Mill to produce corn meal and food stuffs for the Berry Schools. The Republic Mining and Manufacturing Company donated the iron hub, while ...

Gewidmet Unseren Kriegern 1861 - 65.

[Our Dedicated Soldiers 1861 - 65.]

B. Kuehl ·

J. Tams ·

J. Muenster ·

H. Banderob ·

L. Loewenhagen ·

H. Bock ·

H. Jensen ·

A. Ramm ·

G. Larsen ·

F. Roehr ·

D. Dammann ·

F. Temke ...

Lake Harriet School

1849-1940

Named for Harriett Hayes, daughter of early immigrants from New England. John Muir, the naturalist and explorer, taught here in 1861-62.

Marker is at the intersection of Storytown Road and County Road D, on the right when traveling north on Storytown ...

Midway Church

Midway Presbyterian Church, named because of its location halfway between Salem and Williamsburg Churches, traces its beginning to 1801, when services were being held under a brush arbor. The earliest building was erected in 1802, and the Rev. G. G. ...

John Speer Farmstead

Murphy-Bromelsick House

Abolitionist John Speer established a farmstead on this site shortly after his arrival in Kansas Territory in September 1854. A newspaper publisher from Pennsylvania, Speer became a part of the struggle to bring Kansas into the Union as a ...