Captain Jefferson Hunt, Soldier, Pioneer, Churchman

Born January 20, 1804 in Kentucky - Died May 11, 1879 in Idaho

Charles Jefferson Hunt served in the Mormon Battalion as Captain of Company “A” and as assistant executive officer. In it’s historic march from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San ...

The Concord Minute Man of 1776

By Daniel Chester French

Donated by

Ben and Marie Birillo

on the occasion of

the 125th charter

anniversary of

the town of Highlands

August 17, 1997

Marker is on U.S. 9W, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Loyalist American Regiments / Loyalists of the Indian Nations /

[ Front of Monument ]

Loyalists American Regiments 1775-84

This monument has been erected by a grateful province to commemorate the services of His Majesty's Forces in North America, 1775-84 In particular the following which were disbanded as units and settled along ...

Fraunces Tavern Block Historic District

Exploring Downtown

Samuel Fraunces in 1762 named his Queen’s Head tavern after Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. His politics, however, were strictly patriotic, and his tavern hosted meetings of the radical Sons of Liberty and, later, the New ...

Corner of Highland and Law Street

The three story building on the corner of Law and Highland was built by the Gleason family in 1910. The third floor was the Masonic temple. The building was built on some of the highest ground in the area and ...

Monterey's Commercial Fishing Fleet

This harbor is the home of....

Monterey's Commerical Fishing Fleet.

It once boasted the largest sardine fishing industry in the world, an industry that flourished until the late 1940's. Commercial fishing was pioneered and developed here by the Sicilian fishermen, whose courage ...

First Almshouse

During the 1999 restoration of City Hall Park, archaeological excavations uncovered burials in this area believed to have been associated with a shelter and workhouse for the poor known as the First Almshouse (1736 – 1797), located where City Hall ...

The Defenders of the Union

1861 — 1865

[Front Side of Monument]

Rich Mountain

Antietam, Gettysburg,

Vicksburg, Cloyd Mountain

Opequan, Appomattox.

[Back Side of Monument]

They counted not their

lives dear unto them.

Marker can be reached from Wheeling Park Drive east of National Road (U.S. 40).

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Site of the B-24 Crash During W.W. II

On the night of March 26, 1944, three B-24 aircraft were flying loose formation from Chatham field in Savannah, Georgia on a training flight. Somewhere over the Atlantic ocean, two of the planes went down without even giving a distress ...

In Memory of Sgt. Albert Elson

In Memory Of

Sgt. Albert Elson

U.S.M.C.

Who Died On Okinawa

In The Service Of His Country

On April 17, 1945

This Memorial Erected

By His Friends and Associates

Marker is at the intersection of Center Street (Connecticut Route 20) and West Street, on the right when traveling ...