From Plantation to Suburb; a Community Grows

Town of Riverdale Park. A key factor in the initial development

of Riverdale Park in 1887 was its proximity

to Washington, D.C. By the end of the

19th century, transportation between

Riverdale Park and Washington was

extremely convenient by either the

Baltimore Turnpike, the B ...

Olde Greenfield Church and Historic Cemetery

In Memory of Rev. T.C. Gregory

This site, along with 19,600 acres, was purchased through a state land lottery, September, 1843-44, by Rev. Eli Graves, formerly of Vermont. In March, 1848, all was sold to his brother, Presbyterian pastor, Rev. Joel ...

Burial Site of Chief Solano

In the vicinity of this plaque is the burial site of Chief Sem Yeto, christianized Francisco Solano. Chief of the Suisun Tribe "their word for west winds" sub-group of the Patwin Indians. The village was located near Rockville and he ...

Schiller Park

Long a gathering place for residents of Columbus, this area, which became known as Schiller Park, hosted German songfests, Fourth of July festivities, the 1864 and 1865 Ohio State Fairs, and the 1871 peace celebration commemorating the end of the ...

Town of Searsville

Here stood the lumberman’s village of Searsville whose first settler, John Sears, came in 1854. Across the road westerly from this monument stood a hotel. The school, store, blacksmith shop, and dwellings were to the southeast. Some on the site ...

Milling in Pencader Hundred

What is Milling?

Milling is a process of taking whole bulbs, tubers, nuts, seeds, grains or other foods from its original size to a smaller size by pounding, grinding or rolling it until it is the consistency of a meal, flour ...

Daggett

This community long served as a supply point and railhead for the mines of Death Valley and Calico. In the early 1880's the first borax produced in Death Valley was hauled by mule team to the Atlantic & Pacific R.R. ...

Greenfield Church

Used as a hospital and recruiting station during War Between the States.

This marker placed by Moultrie McNeil Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy

Date 1929.

Mrs. J. R. Hall, Jr. President.

Marker is at the intersection of Greenfield Church Road and Kilgore Road, ...

Consolidated Gold Mines

1 mile?

One mile southeast of here, from 1900 to 1906, the Dahlonega Consolidated Mining Company operated what is considered the largest gold plant ever constructed east of the Mississippi River.

Capitalized at $5,000,000, the plant included a 120-stamp mill, a large ...

Connecticut Camps

On the hill west of the

brook are remains of hut

sites, oven, etc., made by

New England troops guarding

West Point, 1778 – 1783.

Marker is on Bear Mountain Beacon Hwy (New York Route 9D) north of Snake Hill Road, on the right when ...