Watertown Plank Road

Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extended 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown. The $110,000 road of white oak ...

Conrad Sly Homestead

Settled in Warwick 1778, a

blacksmith who forged Rev.

War chain that crossed

Hudson River at West Point.

Pvt. in Col. Hathorn’s Regt.

The Sly Family

Marker is on Maple Avenue (New York Route 17A), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Georgia Southwestern State University

Georgia Southwestern State University was founded in 1906 as the Third Agricultural and Mechanical School. In 1926, the Legislature authorized the school to offer two years of college work and change the name to Third District Agricultural and Normal College. ...

Farmington Disaster

Explosion in Consolidated Coal No. 9 mine November 20, 1968 resulted in deaths of 78 miners, with only 21 men rescued. Mine sealed ten days later due to fires and explosions. In 1969 recovery efforts began. Over ten year period ...

Steuben’s Division

The 2,000 men of Major General Baron Von Steuben’s American Division bivouacked in the woods and fields to the right of the road. They were chiefly Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland units, and some others, such as sixty “Delaware Recruits” of ...

The Fresno Water Tower

An American Water Landmark

Designed by architect George S. Mayer of Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in November 1894, replacing two wooden tanks erected on this site in 1887. The Tower stands 100 feet high with a tank capacity of 250,000 ...

Bohemia

Formerly Milligan Hall

Home of George Milligan (1720–1783), Scotch trader, purchased from his son, Robert, by Louis McLane (1784–1857) who represented Delaware in the United States House and Senate, was Minister to Great Britain, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, ...

James Polk Johnson Building

Built by Johnson City founder James Polk Johnson (1845-1885), this structure has housed a variety of businesses and served as a community gathering place. In addition to serving as a community hall, opera house, and meeting place for churches and ...

Chuckhass

Signed Indian deed 1703

to Wawayanda patent lands.

Lived ½ mile south on

Benj. Aske’s farm named

Warwick by owner in 1719.

Marker is at the intersection of Galloway Road (New York Route 17A) and South Street, on the right when traveling east on Galloway ...

William Randolph Barbee

Here stood “Hawburg,” birthplace of the eminent Virginia sculptor William R. Barbee (1816–1868). He studied in Florence, Italy, where he carved his famed “Coquette” and “The Fisher Girl.” Returning to the United States in 1858 he was at work on ...