Battle of Lewinsville

Union Reconnaissance Party Attacked

On September 11, 1861, Lt. Orlando Poe led a party of U.S. Army Topographical Engineers to map the area around Lewinsville for military use. Col. Isaac Stevens and 1,800 men protected the engineers. Stevens’s command included the ...

Bransford and McIntyre Store

McIntyre & Co.’s General Store was on this site in the mid 1870’s. The building was burned in 1881 but was immediately replace with the brick building that is standing today. By 1883 the new general store included the telegraph ...

Bransford and McIntyre Warehouse

circa 1877

This frame building was built between 1877 & 1881. Bransford and McIntyre purchased the building in 1881 as a warehouse for their store. Later it served the stores of J.R. Murray & then Frank Miller. This is the ...

Fort Wetherill

Situated atop 50-70 foot high cliffs with clear views of the horizon and Block Island to the south. Fort Wetherill held an important strategic position within an extended harbor defense system of Narragansett Bay during World Wars I and II.

The ...

Fallen White Mulberry Tree

About 1861, this white mulberry tree (morus alba) was planted across the carriage path from the large sycamore tree. The tree flourished for just under 150 years until an ice storm over this past winter (2012) caused the tree ...

“ . . . a Farmer in my native Town”

Martin Van Buren Nat’l Hist Site

The view before you is much like the one Martin Van Buren enjoyed during the last 21 years of his life. Although in the course of his political career Van Buren traveled widely and ...

First Presbyterian Church of Valatie

Congregation formed 1835

This edifice built 1878

Ogden & Wright, achitects

Marker is at the intersection of Church Street and High Street, on the right when traveling north on Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route 1 and DeKalb County Road 68 (County Route 68), on the right when traveling north on State Route 1.

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Site of Opera House

c. 1879 – c. 1933

Here in 1916 Gov. Martin H. Glynn

gave his famed speech

“He kept us out of war”

This slogan re-elected Wilson.

Marker is on Upper Main Street (County Route 28A), on the left when traveling ...

Fort Drummond

[English Text]: Fort Drummond

This small redoubt, or square fortification, and the U-shaped advance battery, named in honour of Sir Gordon Drummond, were built in the late spring of 1814 to defend the main portage road from Chippawa to Queenston. ...