Great House

Three Cranes Tavern

History and Archaeology

In the 1900s, as part of the major highway reconstruction project that built the tunnels beneath this park, a team of archaeologists studied City Square and its history.The investigators researched historic documents and conducted an archaeological ...

Deacon Larkin House

This 1790s Georgian residence was built for Deacon John Larkin, a patriot best remembered for his role in Paul Revere's legendary midnight ride. It was Larkin's horse that carried Revere out to Lexington and Concord to warn the Committee of ...

Lawrence Lafayette Richardson, M.D.

July 23, 1867 - August 9, 1958

Physician 64 Years.

Mayor of Simpsonville 38 Years:

1917 • 1923 • 1928 • 1958;

Chairman Simpsonville School Board 20 Years

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and West College Street, on the right when ...

Grant's March Thru Louisiana

Grant's March Map included

Winter Quarters

(Picture included)

Winter Quarters, the country home of Haller and Julia

Nutt, is the only plantation home along Lake St. Joseph

that survived the Vicksburg campaign. The Nutts were

Union sympathizers who offered hospitality to Union

soldiers at Winter ...

Marine Railway Gears

Gift: Gorman A. Buckler CMM74.521

Set of cast iron gears formerly used to operate the marine railway at M.M. Davis and Son shipyard on Mill Creek, Solomons, Maryland: The gears were originally powered by steam and later converted to electricity. A ...

Battle for the Mississippi: The Vicksburg Campaign

The fall of New Orleans in April1862,

capped the beginning of an 18-month drive

to control Vicksburg and the Mississippi River.

The fight for this strategic location was arduous.

Vicksburg, sitting high atop bluffs, was protected

by artillery and a maze ...

Soldiers' Memorial Fountain

This monument depicting a Union Soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the Civil War. Due to lingering bitterness over the conflict, local Union veterans first excluded him from their ...

Monroe, New York

Before the railroad came to town, Monroe had been an isolated community, composed mainly of farmers. When the New York & Erie Railroad (later reorganized as the Erie Railroad) rolled into town in 1841, an entirely new way of life ...

Greycourt - Orange Co., N.Y.

The origins of a railroad in this area date back to 1836, when the Hudson & Delaware Railroad was chartered to build a rail line from Newburgh, New York to Chesterville, New York (now known as Greycourt) with the intention ...

Chester, New York

When the first train entered Chester, New York on September 23, 1841, few realized exactly what kind of an impact the railroad would have on the town. Before the New York & Erie Railroad (later reorganized as the Erie Railroad) ...