Washington-Wilkes Historical Museum

This museum shows the splendors of plantation life in Georgia before the War Between the States, displays relics, mementos and keepsakes of the era that tried men’s souls, and adds a fine collection of Indian relics for variety.

Washington had many ...

Purple Heart Memorial

Combat Wounded Veterans

Dedicated to the recipients of this nation’s oldest military decoration, “The Purple Heart”

My stone is red for the blood they shed.

The medal I bear is my country’s way to show they care.

If I could ...

Dr. Bellamy Meetinghouse

Erected

July 4, 1890

Here Stood The

Meetinghouse Where

Dr. Bellamy

Ministered

1767 – 1790

Marker is at the intersection of West Road and Main Street South (Connecticut Route 61), on the left when traveling west on West Road. ...

King’s Ferry

Here the American and French armies, under Generals Washington and Rochambeau, crossed the Hudson River in August 1781 enroute to capture Cornwallis in Yorktown, Va.

N.Y.S. Organization Daughters of the American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of N ...

Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow / China Grove Plantation

Birthplace of Jeremiah John Snow. China Grove was the birthplace of the Reverend Jeremiah John Snow (1836–1892), a son of the third James Snow who lived here. He entered the Methodist Conference in 1863, and was a chaplain in the ...

Draper House

1821

Built by Dr. Simeon and Catherine (Wilkinson) Draper on a lot leased from town founder Richard Ratcliffe, this is the second oldest home still standing in the Old Town Fairfax Historic District. Catherine's sister was Matilda Wilkinson, the daughter-in-law of ...

Three Rivers Petroglyphs

Three miles to the east is a mile-long array of pictures pecked into the solid rock walls of a volcanic ridge. They include both geometric and animal forms. They were likely made by prehistoric Mogollón Indians between ca. A.D. 1000 ...

Ancient Burial Ground

Meriden School For Boys

The 30 to 40 boys buried on this site were forgotten children of their time. Delinquent, orphaned or abandoned they came to live at the Connecticut School for Boys, a reform school that occupied these grounds from ...

The Furnace Legacy

Business in the Hanging Rock region blossomed in the 1850s, and the area became Ohio's first chief industrial center. Much of the iron produced here was used to build the nation's growing railroad system. The railroads, in turn, provided transportation ...

Three Rivers

Located in the Tularosa Basin east of the great lava flows known as the Malpais, Three Rivers was once prominent in the cattle empires of Albert Bacon Fall, John S. Chisum, and Susie McSween Barber, “the cattle queen of New ...