Davis-Byrne Building

1895

This building was originally part of the small commercial district that grew up around Dwight Way Station where Shattuck Avenue commuter trains intersected with the horse-car line that ran up Dwight Way to the California Schools for the Deaf and ...

Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse

A temporary light was established on the south end of the recently completed National Harbor of Refuge Breakwater on January 1, 1902. It was replaced in 1908 by a three-story frame lighthouse. A series of storms damaged the structure, resulting ...

15 Bank Street

Lawrence Hall

Built in the neoclassical style for

Joseph Lawrence, head of a prominent

New London whaling family,

as a hall for lectures and exhibits.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

City of New London, Maritime Heritage Park ...

Perrysburg / Perrysburg Plat Map

[West Side of Marker] : "Perrysburg"

Following the War of 1812, settlers reestablished the 1810 Maumee River town, Port Miami of Lake Erie, on the land below the deserted Fort Meigs. The inhabitants nicknamed the new town "Orleans of the North" ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Raid on Jefferson

In June and July of 1863, about 7500 Confederate and Union soldiers passed through Jefferson, taking horses, livestock, supplies, and food from local residents. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's rebel troops occupied the town on June 30. Plundered by ...

Site of Bivouac and Banquet for The New Orleans' Greys

Led by Adolphus Sterne, citizens of Nacogdoches helped outfit a volunteer force, the New Orleans' Greys, to fight in the Texas War for Independence. One company of Greys traveled overland to San Antonio by way of Nacogdoches in Nov. 1835. ...

The Ohio River Bridge

Cairo, Illinois - Wickliffe, Kentucky

Completed November 11, 1933

Freed of Tolls November 11, 1948

by

The Cairo Bridge Commission

The Ohio River Bridge was conceived and built in the public interest by the Cairo Bridge Commission with the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Administration ...

The Beginning of the Third Principal Meridian

The beginning of

the Third

Principal Meridian

is located

in the Ohio River

1,810 feet

directly north

of this point.

In November, 1803,

this was the mouth

of the Ohio River.

At this location,

the Lewis & Clark

Corps of Discovery

encamped for

six days.

Marker is on Washington Avenue (U.S. 60/62), on the right when ...

Hardscrabble

The term "Hardscrabble" was created during the 1700s when two men of Irish extraction engaged in a rough fight where Sussex 473 and 446 cross. The skirmish ended in a stalemate, even when the first structured store was built in ...

16 Bank Street

c. 1900

Figureheads in cornice reflect New

London’s maritime tradition.

Originally housed the New England

Cigar and Tobacco Company.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

City of New London, Maritime Heritage Park Grant

Marker is at the intersection of ...