Lock 19

Double chamber lock for

raising-lowering boats.

Built 1842 during enlarge-

ment of Erie Canal. Far

chamber lengthened 1885.

Marker can be reached from Ferry Drive.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Connellsville Memorial Bridge

Dedicated to the memory of the men and women who served their country during the Revolutionary and all succeeding wars.

Marker is at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard (U.S. 119) and West Murphy Avenue, on the right when traveling south on ...

Connellsville Coke Region

Located in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, the region's abundant high quality Pittsburgh vein coal yielded superior coke, used to smelt iron. This refined form of coal was produced in beehive ovens from the mid-19th century to the 1970s. Immigrant and ...

Penn-Craft

This experimental community for coal miners unemployed during the Depression was developed, 1937-43, by the American Friends Service Committee. On the 200-acre tract, fifty families built their stone houses, a cooperative store, and a knitting factory. A model for other ...

Washington's Canal

This will become the great avenue into the Western Country. - George Washington

The stone wall you see nearby is not just any stone wall; it was built here in the late 1700s as part of George Washington's Patowmack Canal. The ...

Crossing the Potomac at Rowser's Ford

J.E.B. Stuart's Most Difficult Achievement

Late afternoon on June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart began assembling his cavalry brigades at Dranesville. To avoid the Union Army of the Potomac (90,000-strong) then crossing the Potomac upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart ordered ...

Michie Stadium

In memory of

Dennis Mahan Michie

U.S.M.A. 1982

Born at West Point, N.Y.

April 10, 1870

Killed action at

San Juan, Cuba, July 1, 1898.

In 1890 he organized and

captained the first

football team of the

United States Military

The Winecoff Fire

This is the site of the worst hotel fire in U.S. history. In the predawn hours of December 7, 1946, the Winecoff Hotel fire killed 119 people. The 15-story building still stands adjacent to this marker. At the time, this ...

French's Beach

Eunice & Hezekiah French came here from Billerica, Massachusetts in 1799 built a log cabin nearby and ten children were born there

Marker is at the intersection of Atlantic Highway (U.S. 1) and Maine Route 173, on the right when traveling ...

The Dog of Discovery

Inscribed on his collar:

"The greatest traveler of my species. My name is Seaman, the dog of Captain Meriwether Lewis, whom I accompanied to Pacifick Ocean through the interior of the continent of North America."

This statue is dedicated to "Seaman" and ...