Whitewater Canal State Historic Site

The Whitewater Canal was one of several projects begun by the Indiana Improvement Act of 1836, which was designed to improve transportation and develop commerce state-wide. Constructed to link southeastern and central Indiana, the canal was completed in 1847. The ...

Tidewater Pipe Co.

Opposite here was station no.1 of the first pipe line to carry oil across the Alleghenies. Built by an early competitor of Standard Oil, it began May 28, 1879, to pump oil 109 miles to Williamsport, Pa.

Marker is at the ...

City of Watervliet

The land now occupied by the City of Watervliet is part of a tract purchased by the first Patroon, Kiliaen van Rensselaer in 1630 from the Mohican or River Indians. The tract was within a large area on the west ...

Battles of Falling Waters

“A splendid falls”

During the Civil War, the strategically important Valley Turnpike crossed the stream just above the small waterfall here. Two battles were fought nearby. The first occurred on July 2, 1861, half a mile south on the Porterfield Farm. ...

Turning Water into Gold

The Rising Tide of History in the Trinity Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area

By 1956 the Gold Rush was only an echo along the river now covered by Trinity and Lewiston Lakes. The abandoned remnants of fevered mining activity ...

Washburn Historic Waterfront

Bigelow / Hines Railroad Trestle

In the early days of Washburn, the waterfront was filled with saw mills. The A.A. Bigelow Mill (1887-1902), later to become the Hines Mill, was the largest of three major sawmills in Washburn. It rested on ...

Bayfield Historic Waterfront

Eastern Waterfront / Ferry Dock

Bayfield’s history has been powerfully shaped by its location. Situated on the shores of a deep, natural harbor, the city is sheltered from Lake Superior’s notorious storms by the outlying Apostle Islands. Lighthouses, shipwrecks, and a ...

Bell's Trading Post and Village Water Well

1869 - 1870

Location of

Dr. J. W. Bell's Trading Post

and Village Water Well,

hand dug by John Luppy.

Also, original Caney

Survey Point and Marker

Marker is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and State Street, on the right when traveling west on 4th Avenue. ...

Widewaters Field

These stones from the first aqueduct and the locks were set October 30, 1926 at the eastern widewaters to commemorate the first centenary of the Erie Canal presented to the City of Rochester

Marker is on Culver Road 0.1 miles ...

Watertown Region

Historic New York

Where the North Country touches Lake Ontario is the western gateway to the Adirondacks. Although reached by Samuel de Champlain in 1615, and viewed by other French explorers, La Salle and Frontenac, this area was an unsettled ...