Watertown Region

Historic New York

Where the North Country touches Lake Ontario is the western gateway to the Adirondacks. Although reached by Samuel de Champlain in 1615, and viewed by other French explorers, La Salle and Frontenac, this area was an unsettled ...

Rochester Area

Historic New York

Seneca Indians often camped along the lower Genesee River where Rochester eventually developed. During the 17th century, French soldiers and missionaries visited the area. In 1803, Nathaniel Rochester, William Fitzhugh and Charles Carroll of Maryland purchased the ...

The Finger Lakes

Historic New York

The Finger Lakes of central New York occupy deep north-south valleys bordered by beautiful sloping shore lines which are occasionally cut by picturesque glens and gorges. From west to east these sparkling lakes are Canandaigua, Keuka, Seneca, ...

Syracuse Area

Historic New York

Onondaga Indians, the keepers of the council fires for the Iroquois League, lived here. French soldiers and Jesuit missionaries came from Canada in 1654 to seek their friendship. In that year, Father Simon Le Moyne discovered salt ...

Locke Craig

1860 ~ 1924

Governor, 1913-1917. He

created the state highway

& fisheries commissions,

est. Mt. Mitchell State

Park. Lived 1/2 mi. W.

Marker is at the intersection of Chestnut Street and Broadway Street, on the right when traveling west on Chestnut Street. ...

United Spanish American War Veterans Memorial

In Memory of United Spanish American War Veterans

1898 - 1902

Erected By

John M. Allison Camp No. 16

and

Auxillary Camp No. 13

Phillipine Islands

Cuba

Puerto Rico

U.S.A.

Marker is on Center Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Swiss (Volhynian) Mennonite Memorial

This Centennial Memorial, erected in gratitude to God, commemorates the coming to America of the Swiss-German Mennonites in the Fall of 1874 from Volhynia, a former Polish province, in the present Russian Ukraine. It symbolizes the Christian faith among the ...

Squaw Island - Divided Island

War of 1812

Named Squaw Island by the men of LaSalle's expedition in 1679, this island was called Divided Island, "De-dyo-we-no-guh-doh," by the Senecas, referring to a division by marshy creek known as "Smuggler's Run." Presented by the Seneca Nation ...

Brigadier General Henry Lewis Benning

Born in Columbia County, Georgia, on April 2, 1814, Henry L. Benning attended Franklin College prior to practicing law in Columbus. As a local attorney and state Supreme Court Judge, Benning played an active role in Georgia’s secession in 1861. ...

Vitamin D Production Ends Rickets

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

The discovery of how to produce vitamin D stands as a critical event in the history of vitamin research. In 1924, University of Wisconsin biochemist Harry Steenbock discovered that ultraviolet light converts an inactive material ...