"A state of perfect chaos"

William Bainbridge 1812

This 1833 view of Boston from the west end of the Navy Yard shows a harbor full of busy activity. The steeple of the Old North Church is still a prominent landmark.

[courtesy Library of Congress]

The Navy Yard in ...

A Legacy of the Past

Box Canyon and Lomaki ruins are a short 15-minute walk from here, along the edges of ancient earthcracks. The 1/4-mile trail will take you back in time over 800 years to the remnants of this once-thriving community. You will see ...

Cayuga-Seneca Canal Entrance

At this point in 1828, water from Seneca Lake was first released into the newly constructed Cayuga-Seneca Canal, forming a navigable link to the Erie Canal. The waterway enabled commerce to flow between Seneca and the Hudson River and soon ...

Fay and Bowen Engine Company

Known for its boats, the Fay & Bowen Engine Company built quality pleasure craft and marine and industrial engines near this site from 1904 to 1929. Fay & Bowen sold launches and runabouts worldwide that earned them the reputation - ...

Sunset Crater Volcano

The distant San Francisco Peaks would have looked much like they do today. To the east, however, Sunset Crater Volcano would still have been belching black smoke and cinders when the Sinagua and Anaszi lived here. The thick layer of ...

Ancient Landscapes

Eight hundred years ago, a savannah-like grassland covered much of this high desert with abundant grasses. The residents would have collected and burned much of the nearby fuel, necessitating long walks to adjacent areas to gather wood. Sparse annual rainfall ...

Medical College

Site of Geneva Medical College

Eliz. Blackwell received here in 1849 the first degree of M.D. ever conferred upon a woman.

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 14) ½ mile south of Hamilton St (U.S. 20), on ...

Le Domaine CASTRES

Une “campagne” au coeur du village. Malgré le patronage officiel de Rouget de Lisle, pour les gens du cru, le “plan de Castres” sert toujours à designer la place et tour le quartier.

[Translation by Google Translate (with modifications):

Domain CASTRES

A ...

Brookhaven Historic District

Developed in 1910, the Brookhaven Historic District is the oldest planned golf course and country club residential community in Georgia. It consists of three separately platted subdivisions with similar street patterns, houses and landscape features that merged together to create ...

Warren County Patriots

This monument is dedicated to those

Patriots laid to rest in Warren County

Indiana whose Service and Sacrifice

helped form our Nation during the

American Revolution

[ Row One ]

Humphrey Beckett ? Richard Biddlecomb ? George Dixon ? Peter Dixon ? ...