Lafayette Town Hall

Community spirit led to construction of this hall by the Lafayette Improvement Club. Land was donated by Frank and Rose Ghiglione with funds and labor provided by the townspeople. A grand opening ball and midnight supper were held on May ...

Frank Padget Water Tragedy

Heavy rains in late Jan. 1854 left the James

River and the treacherous Balcony Falls in

full flood. On 21 Jan., the canal boat Clinton

and its passengers became stranded in the

raging waters. Frank Padget, a skilled

boatman and slave, led four other men ...

Shaft Drill Core

1935-36

Experimental vertical shaft 5’ in diameter to 1125’ depth thru serpentine and gabbro at Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine, Grass Valley. Machinery invented by J.B. Newsom. Greatest drilled footage – 21’ in three days. Core weight 11-tons. Donated to Nevada City by ...

Inn of George Severson

Old Schoharie Road

Built at close of Revolution

First Post Office of

West Guilderland as

this place was then called

Marker is on Altamont Blvd (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling east.

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First Meeting

of Town of Guilderland

held April 5, 1803 in this

house at that time a

tavern conducted

by Hendrick Apple

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 146 and Hurst Road, on the right when traveling east ...

Dr F. Crounse

Built this house, 1833

First physician at

West Guilderland (Altamont)

Practiced here sixty years

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 146 and Danvers Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 146.

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Fort Howell

(Front )

This Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864), was built by the U.S.

Army to defend Hilton Head Island and the nearby freedmen’s village of Mitchelville from potential Confederate

raids or expeditions. That village, just ...

PFC Floyd Everett Campbell

In Recognition of the 2nd Marine Division

Asian-Pacific Campaign World War II

The Battle for the Gilbert Islands

In Memory of Pfc. Floyd Everett Campbell

Killed in action during the amphibious

landing on Tarawa 20 November 1942

Purple Heart presented posthumous[ly]

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Great Falls Tavern

Panel 1 - plaque on the C&O tow path:

Life was very different around the Great Falls Tavern during the canal era. The building before you began as a small lockhouse and was added onto twice until it became what ...

Gold Star Mothers of America War Memorial

In memory of our sons and daughters who gave their lives in service to our country

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