2 State Street

1844

Built as a warehouse and ships chandlery

for the whaling firm of Perkins & Smith.

In 1889, became the Winthrop Hotel to

recognize the city’s founder,

John Winthrop Jr.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

City of New ...

Perrysburg / Perrysburg Plat Map

[West Side of Marker] : "Perrysburg"

Following the War of 1812, settlers reestablished the 1810 Maumee River town, Port Miami of Lake Erie, on the land below the deserted Fort Meigs. The inhabitants nicknamed the new town "Orleans of the North" ...

The United States Treasury

Civil War to Civil Rights

Billions for the war, and a bunker for the president

The grand, pillared United States Treasury building that stands before you, its first section designed by Robert Mills in 1836, was the financial command center ...

35 Water Street

Union Railroad Station

By Henry Hobson Richardson, initiator

of Romanesque revival in America and

architect of Trinity Church in Boston

and Harvard University’s Sever Hall.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

Frank Loomis Palmer Fund

Marker is at the ...

Pony Express Home Station No. 1

1859

This barn, a Pony Express Station of 1860-61, stands on the original site. Here courageous Pony Express Riders changed mounts as they carried the Overland Mail through 1966 miles of territory, now eight states.

Russell, Majors, Waddell

Founders, Owners, Operators

Pony Express

Entered on ...

Windsor Hill Plantation

Windsor Hill Plantation, steeped in the history

and traditions of the South of another

day, was for a time the home of one of the best

known and highly respected heroes of the

American Revolution.

General William Moultrie

General William ...

McPherson's Troops March to Decatur

July 17, 1864. The three Federal armies, commanded by Gen. W. T. Sherman, having crossed the Chattahoochee River at Soap Creek, at Power’s & Pace’s ferries, & at Shallow Ford near Roswell, began the moved toward Atlanta on a wide ...

The Battle of Fort George

La Bataille de Fort George

On the 25th May, 1813, the American Fleet and the Batteries at Fort Niagara across the river began a devastating two-day bombardment of Fort George. On the 27th a large American force was landed and after ...

Battle of Edgar's Lane

Sept. 30, 1778 Continental Dragoons Under Maj. Henry Lee killed 23 Hessians on a Marauding Expedition. Battle Waged Here to Ravine

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 9) and Edgar's Lane, on the right when traveling north on ...

Wright-Patterson AFB

1927

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...

-John Gillespie Magee

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has led the nation throughout the evolution of U.S. military air superiority. When the original Wright Field was ...