Phase 3 Albany 2002 - Present

The whole painstaking process of restoring the ship, acquiring the parts and installing the refurbished gear, has been driven by volunteers and would have never been possible without these dedicated individuals. The SLATER's wooden whale boat has been restored to ...

Power from the Wind

Sustainable Solutions: Residential Wind Turbines

You are looking at a Windspire, a vertical-axis wind turbine that generates electricity from wind power. This model produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity a year in an area with average wind speeds of 12 ...

Power from the Wind

Sustainable Solutions: Residential Wind Turbines

You are looking at a Windspire, a vertical-axis wind turbine that generates electricity from wind power. This model produces about 2,000 kWh of electricity a year in an area with average wind speeds of 12 mph ...

Pennsylvania State Forest Academy

The Commonwealth’s first forestry school was established here at Mont Alto in 1903 and named the State Forest Academy in 1905. Among the first in the nation, it later merged with the Pennsylvania State University. Joseph T. Rothrock, the Commonwealth’s ...

Ralph Elwood Brock

(1883–1959) The first African American graduate of the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy here at Mont Alto and a member of the original class of 1906. A student & associate of Dr. J.T. Rothrock, Brock was Mont Alto State Forest Nursery ...

Granite Mountain Mining Company Office

This two-story building, constructed in about 1885, was one of the first structures in Granite, and housed the brick vault that is seen here. The mining office handled the payroll for the men who worked at the Ruby Shaft and ...

Colonial Trading Path

Colonial Trading Path or “Lower Path” joined the heart of the Creek Nation on the Chattahoochee River to the English Trading Post in Ocmulgee Old Fields, now Ocmulgee National Monument. Here the chief towns of the ancient Creek Confederacy stretched ...

Corporal James Tanner

Birthplace of

Corporal James Tanner

1844-1927

Enlisted 87th N.Y. Vol. Co C.

Wounded Second Battle Bull

Run. Present at Lincoln's

Death Bed.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 7 and West Richmondville Road (County Route 33), ...

Formal Southern Landscapes

Like Madison's high-style architecture, its formal landscapes were Southern translations of both prevalent trends and earlier traditions. Boxwood gardens were an antebellum landscape feature gracing many Madison homes. Parterres were a garden form developed in Renaissance France and originally inspired ...

Gold Discoveries Trigger Stampede

Prospectors found gold in 1895 under the present Canyon Creek Highway Bridge and on Mills Creek. Those discoveries launched a rush to Turnagain Arm more than a year before the Klondike Gold Rush.

Prospectors Poke Around

After gold was discovered near Hope ...