Castle Clinton National Monument

[Left plaque]:

Last of a series of forts which, from the Dutch ssettlement of 1624, guarded lower Manhattan, this structure was built by the United States in the years 1808 to 1811. It was first called "West Battery," and was one ...

Mt. Sinai Congregation

First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Wyoming

The first Permanent Jewish Synagogue in Wyoming was erected in 1915 by Cheyenne’s Mt. Sinai Congregation. German Jewish merchants came to Cheyenne starting in 1867, organized but were unable to build a Synagogue. ...

Historic Fire Station No. 4

In 1897, the first city-owned fire station in Ybor City was established on this site, then the heart of the Italian section.

It was a two- story frame building with a bell tower. Equipped with a hose - wagon and a ...

The Great Sauk Trail

Part of an ancient network of Indian paths, the Great Sauk Trail, as it came to be known, extended from Rock Island in present-day Illinois to the Detroit River. It played a significant role in the communications between the native ...

Confederate Fortification

This Fortification was part of a line of Confederate earthworks that guarded Swift Creek and the western approaches to Fort Clifton on the Appomattox River. It was probably constructed in response to Federal threats during Butler’s Bermuda Hundred campaign in ...

Besley Demonstration Campsite

Recreational camping on Maryland's public lands began near this spot about 1916. Maryland's first state forester, Fred W. Besley, encouraged the public to participate in outdoor recreation on state forest lands in an effort to foster an appreciation for forest ...

Commemorating Jacob Isaacson

Pioneer Settler

First postmaster of Isaacson, Arizona (Changed to Nogales June 4, 1883)

Marker is on North Morley Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Richard Watson Gilder House

circa 1788

About The Gilder Family

The Gilder family, which also includes the Nutts and Bunting families, rose to prominence in the publishing world of New York City with Richard Watson Gilder as the Editor of Century Magazine, his sister Jeanette Gilder ...

Great War

To remember those of this locality who gave their lives in the Great War 1917-1918

Clifton R. Faith, James Flood, Luther Williams (colored)

And to honor those who served

David Allen, Norman F. Andreae, Millard Barnes, William Barnes, Charles P. ...

Magnolia Acuminata

Commonly called “Cucumber Tree”

One legend says that Thomas Shore, the owner of Violet Bank, planted this tree from a slip given to him by Thomas Jefferson.

General Robert E. Lee was camped here on the morning of July 30, 1864 and ...