Navigating Sandy Hook Waters

Aids to Navigation

The broad expanse of New York Harbor is misleading. Shoals and sandbars pose underwater threats to navigation and ships must stay in channels for safe passage.

Until the Ambrose Channel was created, all ships entered the harbor through a ...

Water Power at Speedwell

Powering the Factory

Originally water for the Factory waterwheel was supplied from the Upper Pond, or reservoir, which was located beyond the housing development behind you. When the wheel was installed, the water from the pond was piped under ground to ...

Whitewater

Site of Cahuilla Indian Village of Wanapiapa, home of the Wanakik Lineage. Visited by Jose Romero Expedition exploring overland route from Sonora to California 1823. Eastern boudary of Rancho San Gorgonio. Adobe south of highway served as Stage Station for ...

Waterford Baptist Church

Erected 1853

At dawn on August 27, 1862, Captain E.V. White's 60-man company, nucleus of the 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, attacked 28 men of Captain S.C. Means' Company of Independent Loudoun Virginia Rangers (Union) encamped here in this church. After three ...

Waterford

Unionist Stronghold

Historically Quaker and abolitionist Waterford decisively split with Loudoun County's pro-Confederate majority and rejected secession (220 votes to 31) in Virginia's May 1861 referendum. Many residents fled to Maryland as Southern troops occupied the town and its Quaker meeting ...

The Watering Place

Near this spot early colonial navigators replenished their ships’ supply of water from a spring well known to those anchoring inside the Narrows before the year 1623.

The Richmond County Chapter,

Daughters of

the American Revolution,

place this tablet to mark

the earliest historical ...

Waterhouse's Battery

Sherman's Division

U. S.

Waterhouse's Battery,

"E", 1st Ill. Lt. Art., Sherman's (5th) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

One section of this battery was in action here from 7 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. April 6, 1862. It then retired 300 yards to main battery.

Marker is ...

William H. Waterhouse Residence

Built in 1884

This property has been placed

on the National Register of

Historic Places by the

United States Department

of the Interior

July 15, 1983

Marker can be reached from Lake Lily Drive south of Maitland Avenue South, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Downtown Waterfront Revitalization

In the 1950s the downtown waterfront contained an assortment of aging facilities-wharves, warehouses, rail lines, ship chandlers, tugboat operations, and ferry docks. The city of Norfolk made a significant decision. An area of downtown along the Elizabeth River should be ...

Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway

Off this point in the Elizabeth River is the zero mile buoy marking the beginning of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. In colonial times water transportation was the principal mode for moving cargo. The idea of a canal connecting the Elizabeth ...