First Meetinghouse in Hopkinton

Near this spot stood

the first

Meetinghouse

in Hopkinton

Built in Removed in

1724 1830

Marker is on Main Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Prehistoric Irrigation in the Salt River Valley

Approximately 300 B.C. Prehistoric Indians entered the Salt River Valley. They developed an extensive canal system and raised corn, beans, squash, agave and cotton.

Over 500 miles of Hohokam canal have been recorded in the Salt River Valley. Estimates suggest that ...

Federici Park

Named in honor of Gaetano Federici, 1880 – 1964, Paterson’s famous Italian-American sculptor. He was able to capture the hearts and spirit of our city and its people in his world famous works. The moving of his Christopher Columbus statue ...

Christopher Columbus Monument

Columbus

This memorial pioneers in initiating and symbolizing a national movement for the Americanization of Columbus Day in the United States. Thousands of Patersonians of all racial origins by their voluntary contributions made possible this truly American tribute to the discoverer ...

Per Ardua Ad Astra

On June 12th, 1982, this plaque was unveiled to commemorate the years 1941 to 1945 when Falcon Field was established as No. 4 British Flying Training School.

To this airfield came many air cadets of the British Royal Air Force, ...

A Tribute to the B-29 Super Fortress "FIFI"

This propeller, one of four, was installed on a B-29 Super Fortress. The B-29 was the largest and deadliest American heavy bomber of WWII. It is the aircraft that effectively ended WWII by delivering atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

John P. Holland’s First Submarine

was launched in 1878,

a one man craft with engine which after a series of trials was sunk in the Passaic River at this spot where she lay buried until raised in 1927 by a group of Paterson youths who presented ...

Frank Padget

In memory of Frank Padget, a coloured slave who during a freshet in James River in January 1854, ventured and lost his life by drowning in the noble effort to save some of his fellow creatures, who were in the ...

Frank Padget Water Tragedy

Heavy rains in late Jan. 1854 left the James

River and the treacherous Balcony Falls in

full flood. On 21 Jan., the canal boat Clinton

and its passengers became stranded in the

raging waters. Frank Padget, a skilled

boatman and slave, led four other men ...

The Leaping Tuna

(The Thunnus Thynnus or Bluefin Tuna)

The sport of big game fishing originated in Avalon when Charles Frederick Holder caught a 183 pound Blue Fin Tuna with sport fish tackle on June 1, 1898. This angling milestone inspired him to ...