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A Tale of Three Jurisdictions

Did you know that you traverse the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia when you cross this bridge? The brass lines in the walkway mark the boundaries. They also commemorate the cooperation required to build this bridge.

Follow the numbers to ...

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Scarritt College for Christian Workers

Established in Kansas City in 1892 by the Methodist Episcopal Church South and moved to Nashville in 1924, Scarritt trained laity in Christian education, music, and missions until it closed in 1988. Much of the Collegiate Gothic campus architecture was ...

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The Settlement of Knapp Creek

The Settlement of Knapp Creek, formerly known as Knapps Creek, was a genuine boomtown in the early days of the Bradford Oil Field, beginning about 1877. It was on a narrow gauge railroad and later an electric street car line. ...

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In Memory of Those From Ellicottville

In Memory of Those from Ellicottville who served in World War I and World War II and especially the following who paid the supreme sacrifice

Egbert L. Barnhard •

William N. Burton •

Douglass D. Dineen •

Alton G. Eastman ...

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Ellicottville Town Hall

Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, N.Y.

was entered on the National Register of Historic Places

April 4, 1973

Marker is on Jefferson Street just north of West Washington Street (New York Route 242), on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Evelynn M. Crandall

 

First woman to serve as a Chautauqua County Legislator

Evelynn M. Crandall

Elected from District 7

Years of service 1978-1981 & 1984-1989

Remembered for her dedication to local history

Marker is on Jamestown Road (U.S. 62) just west of ...

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The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends..

Abigail Adams

This high ground of Breed's Hill bound the American colonies to the cause of independence. An open field once located here commanded this entire area. On the night of June 16, 1775, two month after the fighting at Lexington ...

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This Column Stands on Union!

Daniel Webster

In the years following the battle, this hill became sacred ground. A new patriotic spirit swept the nation in the 1820s. Americans looked to honor the sacrifice and service of their ancestors. For two decades, many men and women, ...

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Hojack Railroad

Opened as Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg RR, 1876. Fruit shipments by rail made Hilton prosper & grow. Last train ran March 31, 1978.

Marker is at the intersection of East Avenue and Railroad Avenue on East Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Women's Rights National Historic Park - Hunt House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...

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