Rovensky Park & Its Neighbors: Open Space Preserved

Endowed with spectacular natural scenery and a gentle climate, Newport was a gardener’s paradise. This section of Bellevue Avenue reflects the rich horticultural heritage of the city and centuries of garden design, estate development, and land conservation. Beaulieu’s extensive ...

Planters Neck

1630-1930

Here in 1630-31 a company from Plymouth, under Abraham Robinson, established a fishing station

and built curing stages. For nearly two centuries and a half Annisquam was a fishing and ship-building center.

Marker is on River Road, on the right when ...

Settlement of Cape Ann

1630-1930

On this site in 1623 the Dorchester Adventurers founded the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and fishing industry. Here Roger Conant averted bloodshed between two factions contending for a fishing stage, a notable ex- ample of arbitration in the ...

Confederate President Jefferson Davis

1808-1889

Friend of Texas. Visited first as officer Mexican War 1847. As U.S. Secretary of War in 1855, built up frontier forts to open West Texas to settlers. Camels imported for patrols, hauling.

His Postmaster-General and personal aide were Texans, as ...

USLSS/USCG Station Pea Island Memorial

1880 - 1947

Located south of Oregon Inlet, Lifesaving Station Pea Island was the only unit in the history of the Coast Guard manned by all Black crews. This marker is dedicated to the crews of Pea Island who risked their ...

Pilger Ruh

"Pilgrim's Rest" was the name given to this spring on the Tulpehocken Path by Count Zinzendorf, the Moravian missionary, on his journey to the Indian towns of Shamokin and Wyoming in 1742.

Marker is at the intersection of Lancaster Avenue (Pennsylvania ...

Chateau-sur-Mer & Its Neighbors: A Victorian District Preserved

The buildings surrounding Chateau-sur-Mer capture the spirit of Newport in the High Victorian era. This block preserves one of the greatest concentrations of Victorian architecture and landscape design in Newport from the period 1850 to 1890. The residents of ...

The Hump

Here between 1942 and

1948, the painted ladies

serviced the needs of

our men from Travis AFB.

Closed by the order of an

unsympathetic sheriff.

Marker is on Rio Vista Road (State Highway 12) 3 miles west of State Highway 113, on the left when traveling ...

First P.O. 1868

Site of

First P.O. 1868

Established in Reid's

General Store,

Farm of James Reid

Town's First Supervisor

Marker is on Altamont Road (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Burholme Memorial for Peace

United States Army Panel

Harry F. Berry, 32, PFC, USA, WWII

Frederick W. Peterman, Jr., 21, PFC, USA, WWII

Howard G. Watkins, 20, Sgt, USA, WWII

Frank N. Flick, 21, Pvt, USA, WWII

Harry Childs, 19, Pvt, USA, WWII