Pawling School 1907

Dr. Frederick L. Gamage

founded the school to

prepare boys for college

The name was changed

to Trinity – Pawling in 1947

Marker is on New York Route 22 0.2 miles north of Coulter Avenue, on ...

Pawling World War I and Civil War Memorial

[ West Side ]

Roll of Honor

To Honor the Pawling Men

Who Served in the World War

This Tablet is Erected By

The Inhabitants of the Town

1917 – 1919

Akin, Albert John • ...

Pawling Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to

The Memory of Those Who

Paid for Our Freedom With

Their Lives

World War II 1941 – 1945

Ira Baker • George N. Burr • John Stark Colman • Harold Davis • Walter C. ...

The Founding of Chippawa

In 1792-94 a village grew up near Fort Chippawa on Chippawa Creek at the end of the new portage road from Queenston. In 1793 the creek was renamed the Welland River, but the village, where a post-office was opened before ...

Country of the Pawnee

Long before white men settled Kansas this region was the home of Pawnee Indians. French traders in the late 1700's named those along this river the Republican Pawnee in the mistaken belief that their form of government was a republic. ...

Communipaw and Lafayette

Henry Hudson’s “Half Moon” anchored off Communipaw in 1609. In 1633 the Dutch West India Company built the first house occupied by “John the Laugher.” A small colony of Dutch houses and farms developed along the shore where water extended ...

Mansfield's Famous Southpaw

Sherrod Malone Smith (1891-1949) played 23 years of professional baseball including 14 seasons in the major leagues. Babe Ruth, another left-hander, said

that he was, "the greatest pick-off artist who ever lived." He played in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and Cleveland and in ...

Pawnee Rock

A mile northeast is Pawnee Rock, a famous landmark on the Santa Fe Trail. Considered the mid-point of the long road between Missouri and New Mexico. Pawnee Rock was a symbol of challenges overcome. Many early travelers mentioned it in ...

Pawpaw Tree Incident

This episode is result of August 1882 election-day fight. Tolbert, a son of Randolph McCoy, exchanged heated words with Ellison Hatfield, which started a fight. Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy Jr. stabbed Ellison to death. Later the three brothers were ...

Paw Paw

Important concentration point of the Union Army from 1861 to 1865. As many as 16,000 Federal troops were encamped here at one time. A blockhouse stood along the tracks of the B&O Railroad at this point.

Marker is at the intersection ...