Bridgewater Township Historic Monument

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Early History

The Lenni Lenape Indians settled along the Raritan River, utilizing the river for food and transportation, while cultivating the flood plains by planting corn and a variety of other crops.

Heavy barges hauled goods to the mills along ...

The Tioga Pass Road

Constructed 1883 & 1910 - Commemorated 2002

Tioga Pass at 9945 feet is the highest automobile pass in California. The road to the pass was constructed in two parts. The first part was a wagon road, 56 miles long, going from ...

Site of St. Thomas A.M.E. Zion Parsonage

Home of Paul Robeson

On this site stood the St. Thomas A.M.E. Zion Parsonage. From 1910 to 1925, it was the home of Paul Robeson, noted actor, singer, scholar, athlete and humanitarian.

Marker is on Cliff Street, on the right when traveling ...

Champlain Monument

Samuel de Champlain:

Born at Brovace in Saintonce about 1567. Served in the French Army as Marechal des Locis under Henri IV. Explored the West Indies from 1599 to 1601 and also Acadia from 1604 to 1607.

Founded Québec in 1603. ...

Patrick Ferguson

Tory force led by Col. Ferguson camped nearby Oct. 4-5, 1780. Two days later Ferguson died in major British defeat at Kings Mountain, 5 mi. SE.

Marker is on M H Camp Highway (U.S. 29) north of Interstate 81, on the ...

Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park

First Park in Culver City

This land was first traversed by Native Americans, called Tongva, (later known as the Gabrielinos). Under Spanish rule, it was settled as a portion of Rancho La Ballona. After Culver City was incorporated in 1917, ...

Civil War Union Camp Latham

(1861-1862)

The First California Infantry, under Col. James H. Carleton, and First California Calvary, under Lt. Col. Benjamin F. Davis, marched from the port of San Pedro, 18 miles, a day's journey, to lay out Camp Latham. Named for U.S. ...

Hunewill Upper Sawmill

Buckeye Canyon – 1863

Napoleon Bonaparte Hunewill and his wife Esther arrive in San Francisco from Maine in 1859, and early in 1861 they came to Aurora. Late fall found them building a home at Buckeye Hot Springs. In 1862, N.B. ...

Dynamo Plant and Pond

Completed December 1, 1892, by the Standard Consolidated Mining Company, this hydro-electric generating plant began operation in October 1893. Electricity was transmitted over a 13 mile line to the mining company’s 20 stamp mill at Bodie. This facility was one ...

St. Mary's Hospital of Emporia

St. Mary's Hospital of Emporia was first opened on this location in 1884 by the Sisters of the Order of St. Francis at Lafayette, In. For many years it was the only hospital between Kansas City and Wichita, and it ...