Starr's Mill

The property that became Starr’s Mill was owned by Hananiah Gilcoat who built the first mill here before his death in 1825. This site, on Whitewater Creek, was less than a mile from the boundary between Creek Indian lands and ...

Manchester Elliott Grays

(front)

Here on the site of the old market

square the Manchester Elliott Grays,

the first volunteer company in this

section, was mustered into service

May 9, 1861, commanded by Louis

Francis Bossieux. After attending

services at the old Ninth ...

Delaware and Raritan Canal

1830 – 1935

The State Street Locks were located here. The canal was 42.9 miles long and there were 14 locks between Bordentown and New Brunswick via Bound Brook. The feeder extended 21.6 miles from Raven Rock. The main stream ...

Tredegar Iron Works

"The industrial economy of the South once revolved around a few acres of land in the Capital of the Confederacy."Giles Cromwell, Historian, 1992

"It is doubtful whether an abler business man than General Anderson ever lived in this state." Richmond Times, ...

Anchor from the "Phil Scheckel"

A steamboat which was run on the Chippewa River for many years during the last half of the 19th century.

Captain Scheckel was perhaps the best known pilot that ever put his hand to a wheel of a Chippewa River ...

The Mammoth Consolidate Gold Mine

Mammoth’s famous gold mining boom began in 1877 and ended abruptly in 1881 when the Mammoth Mining Company’s property was sold at a sheriff’s sale. Miners have contributed to prospect and mine Red Mountain on a small scale to this ...

Francis Scott Key Monument

1780-1843

Presented to the City of Baltimore

Charles L. Marburg

[this marker tells its story in a pictorial manner]

On one side, ships are depicted bombarding Fort McHenry. On the other, the view is from Fort McHenry out onto the ...

Fort Morrow

A stockade fort built by Capt. Taylor about 1812 and a place of common refuge for the pioneers during many Indian attacks.

Marker is on Brundage Road (Local Route 125) 0.7 miles north of Ohio Route 229, on the left ...

Artillery Park

Along this site in July, 1759,

British forces under Amherst

erected an artillery battery

to attack the French Fort at

Carillon, which they seized

and named Fort Ticonderoga.

Marker is on The Portage, on the right when traveling south.

The Star-Spangled Banner

The Flag. The immortal words "star-spangled Banner" refer to the magnificent flag which Francis Scott Key saw "by the dawn's early light" after the British bombardment of Fort McHenry on September 14, 1814. It is the largest flag ever flown ...