Brickyards

After the disastrous fires that swept through Kewaunee County in 1871, a more substantial building material was sought and brickyards made their appearance in several locations in the county.

A good supply of clay located in the area between here and ...

Bear Mountain Bridge Toll House

This property has been placed on

the National Register of Historic Places by

The United States Department of the Interior

Dedicated on September 22, 2002

New York State

and

Town of Cortlandt

Marker is on Bear Mountain Bridge Road (U.S. 6) ½ mile north of Roa ...

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry / Solomon's Lo

On this site stood the

building in which the Supreme Council, 33°,

Mother Council of the World,

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite

of Freemasonry, was founded

May 31, 1801, A.D., corresponding to

Sivan 19, 5561, A.M.

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Solomon's Lodge No. ...

A Permanent Post

By 1863 the Drewry’s Bluff post expanded into a military city. Hundreds of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines camped on these grounds. The Confederate States Naval Academy held classes in buildings and aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, anchored ...

William Bruce

William Bruce founded and platted the city of Eaton in 1806. Born in Virginia in 1762, Bruce relocated to Ohio in 1793. In 1806, he purchased nearly two thousand acres of land from the government for the founding of Eaton. ...

Robert Morris (1734 - 1806)

Financier of the Revolution

Robert Morris risked his life, wealth, and reputation to help create the United States of America. A patriot, he signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.

An immigrant orphaned at 16, Robert ...

Shiloh Baptist Church

The Church began in 1866 with seventy ex-slaves who met in a private home (Doc Walton), then under a brush arbor, followed by a log cabin church and later in a framed church; this burned in 1898 and was replaced ...

Beaverdam Episcopal Church

288 Yards south is the site of the Second Episcopal Church in Goochland County. Built before 1764, this church was in use until about 1861. William Douglas of Scotland was the rector until 1777. Among other rectors were Charles Hopkins ...

Hoover's Valley Cemetery

Established in 1850 by the Rev. Isaac Hoover, of local Methodist Protestant church. He came from Tennessee; soon initiated services in nearby oak grove. Oldest stone dates from about 1850. Another grave is of Whitlock family, killed by Indians. Marked ...

A Working-Class House in the Capital City

Wealth makes all the distinction of classes in Philadelphia.

Duc de la Rochefoucault-Liancourt, 1783

The house of a workman stood here in the late 1700s when Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the United States. Its location is marked by ...