Gadsden Amphitheater

Through the efforts of local citizens, Benny Dean and Floyd Beddingfield, the City of Gadsden obtained this facility from American Legion Post Number 5 in 1985. Built in 1935, the amphitheater seats 1600 persons. Designed by local architect, Paul W. ...

John Witherspoon

1722 Scotland – Princeton 1794

Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Presbyterian Minister.

“For my own part, of property I have some reputation more that reputation staked. That property is pledged on the issue of this contest: and although these gray hairs ...

Saint Paul's Episcopal Church

This property

has been placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior.

Marker is on S. Pitt Street north of Duke Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fairport Harbor Lighthouse

Lighthouse and keeper's dwelling, erected in 1871 to replace the 1825 structures designed by Jonathan Goldsmith. From the time it guided early settlers into the Western Reserve until it was decommissioned in 1925, this station served Great Lakes shipping for ...

La Salle Expedition

1669

In search of a westward-flowing river, French explorer and trader René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) mounted an inland expedition from the south shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Grand River in the fall of 1669. ...

White Sulphur

Side A

Large Federal fish hatcheries are located here. A mile east on Howard's Creek the armies of North and South fought in 1863. At "Oakhurst" three miles north the first golf club in America was organized in 1884.

Side B

Twelve Presidents, ...

Sharpshooter

The rifleman was the "sniper" of the

Patriot forces. Instead of a rather

inaccurate smoothbore musket, his

rifle had spiral grooves in the barrel

that tightly gripped the lead ball. It was

slow to load but had great accuracy.

Marker can be reached from South Cambridge ...

Near Routes of Alonso de Leon Expeditions

Spain's desire to colonize this area of the New World in the late 17th century was spurred by the fear that French adventurer Rene La Salle, who had landed on the Texas coast in 1864, was claiming vast areas for ...

Lake Quassapaug Station

The trolley bed was located where we now have the Greenway Trail.

The picture was taken in 1910. it was common for trolley companies to build and operate recreation facilities to provide a passenger base for the line. The Amusement ...

Great Western Railroad Depot

This depot, built in 1852, was the site of Abraham Lincoln's famous farewell address upon leaving Springfield on February 11, 1861, to assume the presidency of the United States.

Marker is at the intersection of E. Monroe Street and 10th Street ...