General Horatio Gates

1727-1806

General Gates was commissioned a Brigadier General and was appointed Adjutant General of the Continental Army in 1775 by orders of General Washington. He was in Fort Lee with General Washington in October 1776.

Marker is on Parker Avenue, on the ...

Replicas gates for Northington General Hospital

These gates are replicas of the gates for Northington General Hospital, a U.S. Army Hospital that operated on this site during World War II. From 1947 to 1952, Northington General Hospital was the temporary home of DCH Regional Medical Center ...

The Carriage Gates of Westminster Burying Ground

Westminster's carriage gates, completed in 1815, were among the nation's first examples of Egyptian Revival architecture. Commissioned by the First Presbyterian Church, the gates were designed by Maximilian Godefroy (1765-ca.1840), a French architect who spent 15 productive years in Baltimore.

Site of the Annapolis City Gates

1698-1790

All roads leading to this provincial capital, marked AA to guide the traveler, entered the city here beside the city gate house. A wooden fence, enclosing the city, kept out wandering cattle and "men of ill fame."

Erected by the National ...

Feeder Gates

Lock, dam and toll house of Genesee Valley Canal located approximately one hundred feet east

Operated 1840 to 1878

Marker is at the intersection of Rochester Street (New York Route 251) and Main Street (New York Route 383), on the left when ...

Haxall Headgates

One of Richmond's early canals began as a millrace, built by David Ross in 1789.

When the Ross Mill was acquired by the Haxall family in 1809, the race became known as the Haxall Canal.

Before the American Revolution, Samuel Overton built ...

Gen. Horatio Gates

This building was the residence of Gen. Gates in 1778. At that time he was President of Board of War. It was said that the "Conway Cabal" was thwarted here by Lafayette's loyalty to Washington.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Shangarai Chasset - Gates of Mercy

Site of the first permanent Jewish house of worship in the State of Louisiana, Gates of Mercy Synagogue, 1845; located at 410-420 N. Rampart St. Gates of Mercy, chartered by the State in 1827, confirmed the abolition of the Code ...

Maurice Gates

Dedicated to

the memory of firefighter

Maurice Gates

October 3, 1960 - September 15, 1982

A resident of Franklinton, he joined the Columbus Division of Fire on March 16, 1981 and was assigned to E10, 3 Unit. On September 15, 1982 he answered his ...

Old West Point Gates

This gate, and the cemetery gate further along Washington Road, were the main gates to West Point during the last half of the nineteenth century. These intricately detailed cast iron gates and posts are rare survivors of early exterior decorative ...