The Lukens Mill - Early 1900s

The Lukens National Historic District

In 1891 Lukens installed its first two open hearth furnaces which were then quickly upgraded and complemented by four new 35-tons for a total of six. Lukens poured its first heat of steel on February ...

Occoquan Workhouse

In the nearby Occoquan Workhouse, from June to December, 1917, scores of women suffragists were imprisoned by the District of Columbia for picketing the White House demanding their right to vote. Their courage and dedication during harsh treatment aroused the ...

Property of John Ogden   1680

Home of Royal Governor

Jonathan Belcher 1751 – 1757

Wedding of Catherine Peartree Smith

to Elisha Boudinot held here 1778.

Attended by Lafayette and

Alexander Hamilton. Home of Governor Aaron Ogden, descendant

of original settler 1812.

Marker is on E Jersey Street, on the left when traveling ...

Denyse’s Ferry – Gravesend Bay

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail

At the time of the American Revolution, travelers from Long Island boarded a ferry that took them across the Narrows to Staten Island near this point. In the summer of 1776, a British fleet commanded by Admiral ...

St. Philip School of Nursing

During the era of racial segregation, the Medical College of Virginia established the St. Philip School of Nursing for African-American women. It operated from 1920 until September 1962, when the last of its 688 graduates received their nursing diplomas. Five ...

The Historic Southside Railroad Complex of Stevens Point

Once the rail hub of central Wisconsin, Stevens Point’s Historic Southside Railroad Complex still contains buildings, engines and tracks that evoke the time when the railroad was the dominant means of transportation in the country. The first train chugged into ...

Old Depot Museum

Historic Ottawa Tour

The Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston was the first railroad built south of the transcontinental Union Pacific which passed through Lawrence. Building the 30 miles of track to Ottawa in 1867-8 was difficult. Veterans of the UP construction, including ...

St. Augustine Beach Wade-Ins

ACCORD Freedom Trail

Some of the most widely-publicized events of the civil rights movement took place at St. Augustine Beach in the summer of 1964, when wade-ins were conducted at what had historically been a beach reserved for “Whites Only”. Many ...

Gaines Memorial Bridge

Named by the Highway Departments

of Louisiana and Texas

in honor of two brothers

James Gaines,

Who owned and operated a ferry line

1819 to 1844 and was a signer of the

Texas Declaration of Independence, and

General Pendleton Gaines,

An officer in the ...

81 Bridge Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

This Victorian house in the historic Lincolnville neighborhood (founded by freed slaves after the Civil War) became a civil rights landmark in 1964. It was a gathering place for people in the movement, where they could meet, rest, ...