First Church in Cambridge Patent

Site of first church in Cambridge Patent

Building started 1775 interrupted by Revolution

Completed 1783

Marker is on South Union Street just from County Route 71, on the right when traveling south.

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Continental Road

Di- On- On- Da- Wa- Ha Trail

Col. Baum's route from Ft. Miller to Bennington August 14,1777

Marker is at the intersection of Turnpike Road and Academy Street, on the right when traveling south on Turnpike Road.

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Checkered House

Site of the Checkered House built by James Cowden 1765.

Baum's headquarters Aug. 13,1777

Continental hospital Aug.18,1777

Marker is at the intersection of Turnpike Road and Owl Kill Rd, on the left when traveling south on Turnpike Road.

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Allen Cabin

The log cabin where all six of the Allen family and three slaves were killed, July 26,1777 by Leloup and his Indians was north of here.

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 49 and Allen Road, on the ...

Birthplace of American Forestry

George W. Vanderbilt, following the recommendation of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, was the first American landowner to implement scientific forestry, the management and conservation of forest lands, on a large scale. He hired Gifford Pinchot, founder of The Society ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Biltmore Estate Landscape Architect

As work progressed on Biltmore Estate, his last and largest private project, Frederick Law Olmsted observed, "It is a great work of peace we are engaged in and one of these days we shall all be proud ...

The Stinking Rose: A Garlic Restaurant

1991

San Francisco’s first restaurant to celebrate the

euphoria of garlic.

Ancient Roman soldiers dubbed the pungent herb garlic “the stinking rose”. They believed garlic made them extremely strong and extra virile and rubbed their bodies with garlic oil before ...

San Francisco Brewing Company

This building is the last of the Barbary Coast saloons. Prior to the great earthquake and fire of 1906, this was the site of the infamous Billy Goat Saloon, operated by Pigeon-Toed Sal.

After reconstruction, the original Andromeda Saloon opened ...

Cameron's Depot Engagement

"What news now?"

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated Early ...

Commander John B. Montgomery's Landing Site

On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B. Montgomery – for whom Montgomery Street was named – landed near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War “Portsmouth,” to ...