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Washington Avenue Historic District

Even before Cedarburg incorporated in 1885, the community thrived with mills, shops, hotels, churches and residences, many of which remain in Cedarburg’s commercial center as part of the Washington Avenue Historic District. The District is ...

Washington Arms Apartments

In commemoration of

Washington’s stand against

the British, under Howe,

near this site during

the Battle of White Plains.

October 28, 1776.

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Battle Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Washington Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

76 Washington Street

ACCORD Freedom Trail

The St. Augustine office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was located in this building from the 1970's until the early 1990's. The organization's roots in the Ancient City began much earlier. William ...

George Washington

Visited Warwick Feby, 1756, March 1756. “Din’d and lodg’d at Mr. D’L Heath’s May 1773. Passed through Sept, 9 and Oct. 28, 1774. Breakfasted March 23, 1791 and again in September 1793.”

Marker is on Cecilton-Warwick Road (Maryland Route 282) ...

George Washington

On August 5 and 6, 1785, and again June 30 and July 1, 1791, was the guest of Thomas Johnson at the latter's manorial residence which stood on the site of the present farm house, about 150 yards east of ...

George Washington

Around 1750, while surveying

Natural Bridge, George

Washington carved his initials

under the bridge's arch.

His initials can still be seen

today, directly across Cedar

Creek and 23 feet up.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Lee Highway ...

Washington City 1857

Washington City was founded by 38 southern families in the spring of 1857. Brigham Young called these families to serve on a mission to grow cotton in an area explored by John D. Lee in 1852. The mission was called ...

Washington (La.) Artillery

Anderson's Brigade - Ruggles Division

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

Washington (La.) Artillery,

Anderson's (2d) Brigade, Ruggles' (1st) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

This battery was engaged here April 7, 1862. Three of its guns were captured at 11 a.m., but were soon after recovered. The battery was ...

Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree

To honor

Mrs. Eliza Tibbets,

and to commend her good work

in planting at Riverside in 1873

The First Washington

Navel Orange Trees

in California,

native to Bahia Brazil,

proved the most valuable

fruit introduction yet made by

the United States Department

of Agriculture

Marker is at the intersection of Arlington Avenue ...

The Washington Navy Yard

authorized by the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddard, is the U.S. Navy's oldest shore establishment. It occupies land set aside by George Washington for use by the federal government. The Navy Yard expanded rapidly as a shipbuilding facility ...