Hotel Creek

28 settlers spent winter, 1806, in surveyor's cabin called "The Hotel." First Riga home, 1806, by Elihu Church, owner of this land

Marker is on Chili-Riga Center Road (New York Route 33) ¼ mile west of Palmer Road, on the ...

Bergen Village

1810 Buell's Corners - Tavern General, Shoe, Tailor shops Blacksmiths, Hotel, Church

1832 Bergen Corners

1877 inc. with Wardville

Marker is at the intersection of Lake Avenue (New York Route 19) and Townline Road, on the left when traveling south ...

Village of Bergen

National Historic District

Laid out as Wardville 1840s

Railroad forwarding station destroyed by fire 1866 & 1880 incorporated as Bergen 1877

District Registered 1985

Marker is at the intersection of North Lake Avenue (New York Route 19) and Leroy Street, ...

Battle of Wilton

February 17, 1693

British forces of 250

Whites & 290 Indians

engaged French & Indian

forces of “800 or 700” men.

Marker is on Parkhurst Road near Greenfield Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Caledonia

Organized 1803 as town of Southampton; name changed to Caledonia 1806; Scottish emigrants settled 1799 Village incorporated 1891

Marker is at the intersection of North Street (New York Route 36) and Pamela Way, on the right when traveling south on ...

Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church

Erected 1855-1857 for third episcopal mission in Republic of Texas. Established Feb. 6, 1841, by the Rev. Benjamin Eaton, rector from 1841 to 1871, who is buried beneath the sanctuary.

First service held Nov. 1, 1857. Here Rev. Alexander Gregg ...

Jacksonville's 1901 Fire

"The Great Fire"

On May 3, 1901 at 12:30 p.m., a fire began at the Cleaveland Fibre Factory, ten blocks northwest of this site. Chimney embers ignited sun-dried moss to be used as mattress stuffing. Fueled by wind and dry weather, ...

1960 Civil Rights Demonstration

On Saturday, August 27,1960, 40 Youth Council demonstrators from the Jacksonville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) advised by local civil rights leader Rutledge H. Pearson (1929-1967), sat in at the W.T. Grant Department ...

Spirit of 1775 Beeline March to Cambridge

On 11 June 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of ten companies of riflemen in

Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to aid General George Washington at the British siege of Boston. The Berkeley

County Committee of Safety selected Captain ...

Camas-Washougal War Memorial

This memorial is dedicated to all servicemen from the Camas-Washougal area who have died as a result of hostile action since the beginning of the Vietnam War.

Marker is at the intersection of NE 4th Avenue and Dallas Street, on the ...