The Freestone Point Hunt Club

The Freestone Point Hunt Club was established in 1926 by a group of businessmen from New York. The large waterfowl populations found along the Potomac, and the proximity of the railroad made Freestone Point both attractive and accessible to hunters ...

Beginning Point of the U. S. Public Land Survey

West Side:Ohio1112 feet South of this spot was the "Point of beginning" for surveying the public lands of the United States. There, on September 30, 1785, Thomas Hutchins, first Geographer of the United States, began the Geographers Line of the ...

Southernmost Point

The Conch Republic

90 Miles to Cuba

Southernmost

Point

Continental

U.S.A

Key West, FL

Home of the Sunset

Marker is on South Street, on the left when traveling south.

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The Battles of Trenton, Turning Point of the Revolution

By December of 1776, the Continental Army had withdrawn in disarray from New York, across Central New Jersey and the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. The British were in complacent pursuit, confident that it was only a matter of weeks or ...

Highest Point on the Atlantic Seaboard

Mount Mitchill

Mount Mitchill, at an elevation of 266 feet above sea level, is the highest natural point on the Atlantic Seaboard between southern Maine and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Cartographers (map makers) named the prominence, located in the southwest ...

The Battle of Point Pleasant

The Chief Event of Lord Dunmore's War

[Front Plaque, Facing East]

This monument was erected in the year 1909 in commemoration of the Battle of Point Pleasant, fought at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River, now in West Virginia, October 10, ...

Departure Point of The Donner Party

Lincoln Square marks the Departure Point of the Donner Party on April 15, 1846 for thier ill-fated trip to California.

Marker is on East Adams Street west of Sixth Street, on the left when traveling west.

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West Point in the American Revolution

The history of West Point in the American Revolution began in May 1775 when George Washington and other Americans recommended that the Hudson River be blocked to prevent the British from using the waterway to strike into the interior of ...

The Burying Point

1637

Here are buried

Capt. Richard More

Mayflower Passenger

Gov. Simon Bradstreet

Rev. John Higginson

Chief Justice Benjamin Lynde

Justice John Hathorne

of the Witchcraft Court

Marker is on Charter Street 0.1 miles west of Hawthorne Boulevard (Massachusetts Route 1A), on the right when traveling east.

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Commissioners Appointed to Locate the Town of Pickens

July 27, 1868

James H. Ambler

Reese Bowen

W.T. Fields

J.E. Hagood

James Lewis

T.R. Price

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (U.S. 178) and Pendleton Street (U.S. 178) on East Main Street.

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