Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building

1800 11th Street, NW

The independent weekly Afro-American, one of the most enduring Black newspapers in the country was founded in Baltimore in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr. The Washington Afro-American began publication in 1932, and operated from this ...

George Cleeves Memorial

In honor of

George Cleeves

Founder of Portland

1633

Deputy President

of the

Province of Lygonia

1645 - 1659

There landed with

George Cleeves,

his wife Joan,

and daughter

Elizabeth,

his partner

Richard Tucker,

and his wife

Margaret

Erected

July 4th, 1883

[Base sides read] Machigonne, Casco, Falmouth and Portland

Marker is at the intersection of Eastern Promenade and Congress ...

4. The Counter-Offensive Takes Shape

The Battle of Queenston Heights Walking Tour

The Niagara escarpment rises above you. The British reinforcements arriving here from Fort George, in battle dress and exhausted from a "double quick march", struggled up this slope some distance to your right.

While the ...

Welcome to Thomaston, Maine, the Town That Went to Sea

The Museum in the Streets

Thomaston is known for its historic white houses. Both Main and Knox Streets are on the National Historic Register. Of the slightly more than 700 homes in town, approximately eighty-five percent are more than one hundred ...

The Line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection

The line of Rail Fence and Grass Protection formed after the British Troops landed on the seventeenth of June extended in this direction to Mystic River

Marker is on Bunker Hill St just west of Polk St, on the right when ...

The Builders, the Captains and the Seamen of Thomaston Ships

This flagpole was erected

as a memorial to the

Builders, the Captains and

the Seamen of

Thomaston Ships

by those who take pride

in their accomplishments

Dedicated July 4, 1950

Marker is at the intersection of Knox Street and Main Street (U.S. 1), in the median on Knox ...

Charlestown Heights

Designed in 1891 by the firm of America's foremost park planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, this playground is one of the best surviving examples of the neighborhood parks in Boston's original system. Olmsted divided the park into three ...

Citizen’s National Bank

First bank in

community – located

on the main floor

of this building

1908

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Schneider Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.

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Maurice K. Goddard

(1912-1995)

Served five governors from 1955 to 1979 in an extraordinary career as Secretary of the former Departments of Environmental Resources and Forests and Waters. Goddard significantly expanded the state park system, established state forest natural and wild areas, and professionalized ...

Cook Memorial Library

Has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on North Milwaukee Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

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