Wings over Great Lakes

Early aviation at Great Lakes included both pilot training and schools for enlisted Aviation Quartermasters, Machinists Mates, Aviation Armorers, and Ordinancemen [sic]. The first pilots were from among wealthy Illinois families who not only encouraged Captain Moffett, the base commander, ...

Beneath the Surface

This 1893 map shows the system of tunnels that ran under the West Side Milling District–part of the complex waterworks that brought energy from the 50-foot drop of the falls into the mills. Water from the

river above the falls flowed ...

Howe Hall Plantation / Howe Hall Elementary School

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Howe Hall Plantation

Howe Hall Plantation was established here by Robert Howe about 1683 and passed to his son Job Howe (d. 1706), Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly 1700-05. Later owned by such prominent lowcountry families as ...

Pascalis Plantation / Pascalina

Pascalis Plantation

Elizabeth Pascalis purchased these 790 acres in 1835, settled here with her son Cyril Ouviere, and brought the orphaned children of her daughter, here, to live. Cyril, a civil engineer, was a resident engineer constructing the Charleston-Hamburg railroad (world’s ...

Freedom Boat Yards

Moving from Phillipsburg, Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz built a three acre yard for building of steamboats and barges in 1832, on land bought from Abner Lacock. The firm changed ownership many times in the next forty years. 138 boats ...

Tolomato Indian Village

A 1737 map of the city of St. Augustine describes the site of Tolomato Cemetery as "the church and village of Tolomato, an Indian village served by Franciscan priests." The Tolomato Indians were Guale refugees fleeing attacks on their mission ...

Tolomato Cemetery

During the First Spanish Period, prior to 1763, this site was occupied by the Christian Indian village of Tolomato, with its chapel and burying ground served by Franciscan missionaries. The village was abandoned when Great Britain acquired Florida. In 1777 ...

Welcome to Valatie

Settled 1665

“Valatie, from the Dutch Vaaltje meaning “Little Falls,” was settled about 1665 as part of the Kinderhook Seettlement. The original inhabitants were Mohigan, an Algonquian Indian people.

The Dutch established grist and lumber mills on the Kinderhook Creek ...

28th St Draw Bridge / Great Shiplock Canal

"The Tidewater Connection"

28th St Draw Bridge

The lift bridge before you was built by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1929 to serve the paper mills along the Pamunkey River at West Point.

A moveable bridge was always necessary to allow ships ...

Nathan Wild House

National Register   c 1826

Nathan Wild 1790–1867, a founder

of Valatie and its textile mills,

one of the nations’ earliest

industrial villages.

Marker is on Main Street west of Lake Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org