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Eau Gallie Yacht Basin

Aaron Bennett established the Eau Gallie Yacht Basin in 1896. But even before that the basin was the terminus of a steamboat line in the days before the railroad reached Eau Gallie.

Phillip David Barbour, a native of Louisville, KY. ...

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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 ...

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Eau Gallie Public Library

This library is the second oldest library in Brevard County. It was founded by the members of the Avilah Club in 1898. Its first location was in the Eau Gallie Post Office (See marker on Highland Avenue.)

The Eau Gallie ...

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Rochambeau Route 1781 – 82

In this vicinity

French Troops under

Rochambeau

enroute to Yorktown

encamped during June 1781

Erected by the state

and

Mattatuck Branch,

Sons Amer. Rev.

Cooperating

Marker is on Middlebury Road (Connecticut Route 64) 0.1 miles west of Charcoal Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Middlebury

The name of the town derives from the central

position its meeting house occupies, six

miles from three older neighbors, Waterbury,

Southbury and Woodbury.

Winter ecclesiastical privileges, permitting

local church services, were established for

West Farms, originally the southwest portion

of Waterbury, in 1768. In 1790, West ...

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William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

In Memory of Forty-Niner

William Barker Hubbell

1816 – 1894

Who built his building for a

General Store circa 1867

Served as Justice of the Peace

1888 – 1892

Marker is on Main Street (Old Highway 49) near Fiefield Street, on the right when traveling ...

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John Moses Browning Home

Utah Historic Site

Home constructed of sandstone blocks and red bricks. Completed in 1900. Built for John Moses Browning --- world famous gun maker. Architect Sam Whittaker. Purchased by Y.W.C.A. of Ogden in 1949

Marker is on 27th Street near Adams Avenue. ...

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Liberty Poles

Here in the ancient commons of the city, where before the time of our national independence five liberty poles were successively set up, this flag pole of 1921 is placed in grateful remembrance of all lovers of our country who ...

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Lambert Hitchcock

In This Factory

Lambert Hitchcock

Made His Famous

Hitchcock Chairs

1826 - 1840

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 20) and School Street, on the right when traveling west on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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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 ...

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