Rosecliff & Its Neighbors: Fading Glamour & Modern Revival

The 1940s brought enormous change to houses on this block of Bellevue Avenue as Gilded Age glamour faded due to demolitions, fire, and acquisition of many properties for use by schools. Increasing income and real estate taxes and a ...

Rev. Joachim Bulow.

In Memory of the Rev. Joachim Bulow.

Organizer and first Pastor of St. Pauls

Lutheran Church about 1761

Marker is on Wicker Rd (South Carolina Route 773).

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Shieldstown Bridge

Built in 1876 by J.J. Daniels

Burr Arch

Length 331 Ft. + 12 Ft. overhang/ends.

Width 16 ft. height 12ft.6in.

Cut stone abutments and pier.

Marker is on East County Road 200 North.

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Newbury

1630 - 1930

Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the puritan clergyman Thomas Parker.

Marker is on Main Street (Alternate Massachusetts Route 1), on the right when traveling north.

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Woodbine Cemetery

The Soldiers’ Section

During the Civil War, Woodbine Cemetery was Harrisonburg’s principal burial ground. Chartered in March 1850, it opened later that year after the city’s first mayor, Isaac Hardesty, sold 2.5 acres of his property to the cemetery company. The ...

Rough Point & Its Neighbors: Preserved Houses

This part of Bellevue Avenue reflects the architectural variety of 19th century Newport houses, from the Gothic Revival and Second Empire French villas of the early 1850s to the Stick Style cottages of the 1870s and the Beaux Arts ...

Martha Jane Ogle Cabin

This cabin is the first house built in what is now Gatlinburg. About 1802, William Ogle selected a building site near here, in what he called "The Land of Paradise." Ogle cut and hewed the logs for the house then ...

Old Cokesbury and Masonic Female College and Conference School

The National Register

of Historic Places:

Old Cokesbury and

Masonic Female College

and Conference School

Marker is at the intersection of College Drive and Asbury Road on College Drive.

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Steamboats, Trains, and Barges

The Mississippi River has long been a major artery for trade and transportation.

For thousands of years, Indians traveled on the river by canoe. By the 1850s, rivertowns like Hastings boomed as steamboats brought settlers into the region. The steamboat era ...

Here Lieth the Body of Sarah M. Crittenden

Wife of

Doct. John Crittenden

Who died 14th July 1835,

Aged 37.

She occupies the first

grave opened in this consecrated ground.

Leaving an affectionate

husband with six

weeping children.

Her infant Sarah M.

died on the 17th and lies

entombed in the 2nd grave

Aged 8 months and 17 days.

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This grave ...