Peter Navarre

(Front):Peter Navarre

1790-1874Considered the first citizen of the East Side, Peter Navarre, along with his brother Robert, first settled the land east of the Maumee River in 1807. A fur trader by profession, Navarre was experienced in wilderness survival and had ...

Verkamp's Curios

John G. Verkamp rented a tent from the Bright Angel Hotel in 1898 and began selling curios and Indian crafts for Babbitt Brothers' Trading Company. After several slow weeks he closed and sold his stock to the hotel. But he ...

Pleasures of Roadside Dining

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

Located at the fork of Route 16 and “The Lincoln Way -the Road Without Toll,” Johnnie's Motel was built in the 1940s to serve the many motorists passing through McConnellsburg. The motel's neon sign advertises “rooms with ...

Santa Fe Depot

"Won't you be one of the 25,000 visitors at the Grand Canyon of Arizona this summer? It is the world's scenic wonder - nothing like it."

Santa Fe Railroad brochure, 1914.

The Santa Fe train whistle that was heard here on September ...

Deane Winthrop House

1630 - 1930

In 1637 William Peirce, Captain of the ship "Lion" erected this house which was occupied from 1647 to 1703 by Deane Winthrop, younger son of Governor Winthrop.

Marker is on Shirley Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Hannah Boone Pennington

In Memory

Hannah Boone, born 24 August 1746, sister of Daniel Boone, and wife of Revolutionary War soldier Richard Pennington, who served at Enoch Osborne’s Fort in Virginia, died near here on 9 April 1828. The family arrived at Mill Creek ...

Powder House

1630 - 1930

This stone windmill built by John Mallet about 1703 was sold to the Province for a gun powder magazine in 1747. Rifled by General Gage of the Colony's powder on I September 1774, it became a magazine of ...

Captain John Heald

1630 - 1930

Here was the home of Captain John Heald, first selectman of Acton, who on April 19, 1689, marched to Boston with a military company to assist in the overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros.

Marker is on Carlisle Road 0.6 ...

Governor Winthrop House

1630 - 1930

Site of house erected by Governor Winthrop about 1634 and occupied for a time previous to 1647 by his son Deane who established on the nearby hill a ship signaling station by hoisting a bush to the top ...

Peter Navarre

(Front):Peter Navarre

1790-1874Considered the first citizen of the East Side, Peter Navarre, along with his brother Robert, first settled the land east of the Maumee River in 1807. A fur trader by profession, Navarre was experienced in wilderness survival and had ...