"Beware The Savage Rocks"

Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold

Cape Neddick Light Station

43° 9' 45" N. Lat.

70° 35' 30" W. Long.

Constructed 1879 • Automated 1987

The booming of a bell like this warned mariners of the "savage rocks" surrounding this tip of Cape Neddick. It hung from a ...

Rainbow Route / Western Fremont County

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Rainbow Route

Completion of this road opens up a scenic paradise unequalled in any other state of the Union and unsurpassed by the scenic gems of the Wild West.

Governor George A. Carlson on the opening of the Rainbow Route, 1915

Conceived ...

C. F. Marschner Building

Erected in 1905-06 by local contractor Otto Haase, this building housed the Texas Bottling Works and the family residence of C. F. and Marie Marschner. Shortly before the completion of the building, C. F. Marschner died. His widow inherited the ...

Spot where the British Landed

Near this spot 800 British soldiers from Boston Common landed April 19th, 1775 on their march to Lexington and Concord

Marker is at the intersection of 2nd St and Otis St, on the right when traveling south on 2nd St.

Courtesy ...

Florence Fifer Bohrer

(1877 - 1960)

The first woman elected to the Illinois Senate, Florence Fifer Bohrer served two terms from 1925 to 1933. She chaired the Senate committee to visit charitable institutions, led efforts to revamp Illinois' child welfare laws, and sponsored legislation ...

Historic Lake Labelle

On September 20, 1980, 11 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in the Pickwick area causing a flash flood that severely damaged the mill and Lake Labell's flood gates. In 1982, Pickwick Mill Inc. was founded to restore the ...

Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Preble

Dedicated to the

men and women of

the Coast Artillery Corps

who defended Portland Harbor

at Fort Preble in five wars

from 1808 through 1945

Marker is on Fort Road near McKernan Drive, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle of 1702

In this vicinity was fought the Flint Battle of 1702 between the English under Capt. Antonio with Creek allies from Achito (near Columbus) and the Spaniards under Capt. Francisco Romo Uriza with 800 Indians from Bacuqua (north of Tallahassee). In ...

"Nubble Light House"

Cape Neddick Light Station

Erected in 1879 by the United States Light House Service to protect mariners from the "Savage Rock."

Sohier Park

William Davies Sohier

1858-1938

Mr. Sohier generously donated this site of four acres to the York Beach Village Corporation in 1929 to ...

Bushy Run Battlefield

British and Americans under Col. Henry Bouquet defeated the Indians here, August 5-6, 1763, during the Pontiac War, and lifted the siege of Ft. Pitt.

Marker is at the intersection of Bushy Run Road (Pennsylvania Route 993) and Harrison Avenue (Pennsylvania ...