The Battle of Cape Porpoise (Goat Island)

August 8, 1782, a British ship of 18 guns attacked a small force of inhabitants gathered on Goat Island and was driven away by severe musket fire, losing 17 men. Lieut. James Burnham of this town was killed.

This tablet was ...

Court of the Assistants

Near here, August 23rd 1630

Governor George Winthrop

and members of the Massachusetts Bay Company

organized the Court of Assistants

forerunner of the

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

Marker is on Winthrop Street, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley

A veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War, Dr. L. H. Colley (1843-1924) and his wife, Martha Sabrina (Fowks) (1860-1914), migrated from Missouri to Texas in 1880. They settled in Bransford community in 1885, where Dr. Colley became ...

St. Louis School

For Osage Indian Girls

One-half mi SW. Est. 1887 by St. Katharine Drexel and Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, D.C. Original frame structure located near Main and Palmer burned in 1889, replaced here 1890 by a four-story stone building. Operated ...

Blacksmith Home

Built in 1871, this 5-room house with native timbers and 18" thick sandstone walls was the first to be built in Pawhuska. When the Osages were moved from Kansas, Sid Delarue, a Swiss blacksmith, was promised the house if he ...

First Congregational United Church of Christ

The First Congregational Church was organized in the Public Hall at Vanville (later renamed Bloomer) Chippewa County on November 20, 1868. In 1870, lots 4 and 5 of block 4 of the Town of Bloomer were donated by Mr. Samuel ...

Worcester Academy

A Congregational Mission School

Established at Vinita

Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

by the Rev. J. W. Scroggs, D.D.

Dedicated Jan. 14, 1883

Named in honor of the

Rev. Samuel A. Worcester, D.D.

Missionary among the Cherokees

Marker is at the intersection of West Canadian Avenue and South Smith ...

The Tonge Factory

The Tonge Factory, owned by S. D. Tonge, stood on the South bank of the Flint river one-fourth mile West of here. The cloth produced by this plant was used by the women of Bainbridge to make uniforms for the ...

El Palacio Real

Fortress and Castle

built by order of the

Spanish crown 1610-1612

Seat of Government

under three flags–Spanish,

Mexican & American-

From 1610 to 1910 the

residence of over a hundred

Governors & Captains General

The oldest public building

in the United States–

Marker is on West Palace Avenue west of Old ...

"Beware The Savage Rocks"

Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold

Cape Neddick Light Station

43° 9' 45" N. Lat.

70° 35' 30" W. Long.

Constructed 1879 • Automated 1987

The booming of a bell like this warned mariners of the "savage rocks" surrounding this tip of Cape Neddick. It hung from a ...