Octagon Earthworks

A Wonder of the World

These walls were once the center of an ancient civilization. The Octagon Earthworks, like a modern cathedral or county fairgrounds, were a focal point for the social and religious activities of the Hopewell people about 2000 ...

Mohegan Lake School World War I Memorial

Erected By the Alumni Of

The School to the Memory Of

C.F. Chamberlain '06 Cadet

Garnett Noyes '06 Cadet

Percy F. Burrage '08 Cadet Major

Raymond Moore Jr. '14 Cadet Capt.

Harry M. Schaper '14 Cadet Capt.

Perry Ross '14 Cadet

Sidney E. Prindle ...

Providence Church

Half a mile northeast stands Providence Presbyterian Church, built probably in 1749 and little altered since. John Todd, Senior, a founder of Hampden-Sydney College, was pastor for forty years (1753-1798). Hanover Presbytery met there in October 1762.

Marker is on ...

Reis Park

Reis Park

dedicated

to the memory of

Carolyn Wright

& Walter Reis

The Wright Family Homestead (c. 1862) and 81 acres of land (now Reis Park) were bequeathed to the Town of Somers by Carolyn Wright Reis in 1967 to be used for educational ...

Holland Springs

Indians had probably visited these clear, cool springs for centuries when, in 1847, Henry E. McCulloch established a Ranger camp here, on Hamilton Creek. A year later, Samuel E. Holland (1826-1917), a Georgian, decided while visiting the camp that this ...

Mt. Zion Church

Mt. Zion Church

1794

National Register

of

Historic Places

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Primrose Street (New York Route 139) and Primrose Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

This Old Federal Land Office

[Left Historical Marker]:

This Land Office was established by Congress

on May 10, 1800.

President John Adams appointed David Hoge

as Land and Title Registrar, which position

he held for forty years.

In 1801 Mr. Hoge bought the lot on North Third

Street from Bezaleel Wells, founder ...

Amoroleck Encounters John Smith

In August 1608, the first meeting between the Mannahoac Indian people of the Piedmont and the English colonists at Jamestown occurred at the falls of the Rappahannock River. Men from the upriver town of Hasinninga were hunting here at the ...

Camp Butner

World war II infantry training camp; housed Axis prisoners of war. Named for N.C. native, Gen. Henry W. Butner.

Marker is at the intersection of E C Street (North Carolina Route 56) and South 33rd Street, on the right when traveling ...

The Down Town Ottawa Historic District

Is a block of commercial structures built between 1872 and 1900 of late Victorian styling with Renaissance, Eclectic and some Classical features. The buildings are individualistic but have the same underlying style and character. Their uniqueness lies in almost unaltered ...