Anabaptist - Mennonite Faith and Life

Anabaptism originated in Switzerland in 1525 during the Reformation under the leadership of Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, Georg Blaurock, and others. Most Anabaptists were later named "Mennonites" in recognition of the leadership of Menno Simons, Dutch priest who joined ...

La Salle Built the Griffon

Hereabout in May, 1679

Robert Cavelier de La Salle

Built the Griffon, "of sixty

tons burthen," the first vessel

to sail the Upper Lakes.

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Erected by Niagara Frontier Historical Society

and

Presented to Niagara Frontier Landmarks Association

May, 1902

General Thomas Holcomb

17th Commandant of the Marine Corps

"You will be the first officer of the Corps to hold the rank of General - the highest rank in our Armed Forces. I know of no other officer to whom that distinction more fittingly ...

First Gainesville Skirmish / Battle of Gainesville

First Gainesville Skirmish

The first Civil War gunfire in Gainesville's streets came on February 15, 1864, when a raiding party of 50 men from the 40th Massachusetts Cavalry entered the City to attempt the capture of two trains. The raid ...

Black Rock Harbor

June 1823

Black Rock Harbor

June 1823

Designated as the western most

Port of the Erie Canal for

Transfer of passengers and cargo

Marker is on Amherst Street east of Niagara Street (New York Route 266), on the left when ...

Southwest No. 8 Boundary Marker

The U.S. Government erected 40 sandstone markers on the boundaries of the District of Columbia in 1791 and 1792. The boundary survey was initiated by President George Washington and executed by Andrew Ellicott, who became Surveyor General of the United ...

A Neighborhood For Everyone

Tour of Duty

THE BUILDINGS NEAR THIS CORNER were built during a wave of private development that began after the United States won the Spanish-American War in 1898, and became a world power for the first time. As America flexed ...

The Big Mill

Here stood, from 1890-1930, the North Country's largest sawmill built by John Hurd. It had the longest bandsaw in the world and twice broke the world's record for lumber sawed in a day.

The Santa Clara Lumber Co. was its ...

Brigadier General Henry Lewis Benning

Born in Columbia County, Georgia, on April 2, 1814, Henry L. Benning attended Franklin College prior to practicing law in Columbus. As a local attorney and state Supreme Court Judge, Benning played an active role in Georgia’s secession in 1861. ...

Monuments in Bryant Park

An “outdoor museum” of public art works

(18) The William Cullen Bryant Memorial, a tribute, like the name of the park itself, to one of the most important New Yorkers of the nineteenth century, is a bronze by Herbert Adams ...