David R. Pinn Community Center

After the Civil War, a small community of African Americans lived on Route 654, now known as Zion Drive. The Wrights, Hamiltons, Whites, and Pinns were farmers and laborers. In 1904, David R. & Sarah F. Pinn donated an acre ...

The French and Indian War 1756-1763

A Fight for the Continent

Waterways to the Interior

Rivers and lakes served as the superhighways of the 18th century. Many rivers and lakes in the Colony of New York either bordered New France (Canada), or connected the bordering water ...

Old Eastman School

Eastman’s first public school, serving both elementary and high school students, opened on this site in 1898. A second building was added in 1904. In 1946, financed through individual and community contributions, the school was remodeled.

In 1957, the school at ...

Old St. Peter’s Church

Landmark of New York

Here worships New York State’s oldest Roman Catholic parish organized in 1785. The first church on this site built a year later, remained until 1836. The present building, whose Greek Revival design is attributed to Isaiah ...

Residence of Konstantin Päts

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Konstantin Päts,

first President of Estonia,

lived in this building from 1922 to 1940.

The Finnish Embassy

was located here from 1923 to 1940,

and has been again since 1996.

Marker is on Kohtu Street ...

Florida 2000 Center of Population

Each decade, after it tabulates the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the center of population for the U.S. and each state. The center is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of each ...

Site of the Jerome C. and Mary Chiles Davis Homestead

Two olive and two fig trees survive from the Davis’ prize-winning farm of the 1850’s. Nearby also stand some of the original shingled buildings of the University State Farm, located here in 1906. From this nucleus, the University Farm has ...

Completing the Triangle

Make No Little Plans

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center honoring the 40th president, filled the last open space in the Federal Triangle. When former First Lady Nancy Reagan dedicated it in 1998, the redevelopment of this area of ...

Barcelona Light House

Barcelona Light House

Erected in 1829

By the Federal Government

Marker is on East Lake Road (New York Route 5) near North Portage Road (New York Route 394).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rapp School

A One-Room, Eight Grade, Country School

Rapp School District No. 50 was organized on June 10, 1870. The school and the town, ¼ mile east and ½ mile south along the railroad tracks, were named after an early settler in the ...