Mitchell Building

The first house on this corner was Solomon Juneau's residence, built in -1835. The Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co. and its successor, the Marine National Bank occupied this site from -1846-to-1930. The present building was erected in -1876 ...

Bear Skin Neck

1630 - 1930

Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 160 years. First dock built here 1743. Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of Stone Fort and Sea ...

Old Burial Hill

1630 - 1930

Established in 1638, one of the oldest graveyards in New England. Site of first meetinghouse. Six hundred Revolutionary heroes and several early pastors were interred at the top of the hill.

Marker is at the intersection of Orne Street ...

British Landing Prevented

July 17, 1776

Capt. Rezin Beall (later Brig. Gen. in "Flying Camp") was wounded here in repulse of British efforts to cross to mainland from St. George's Island. Fighting continued until July 29, Lord Dunmore, commanding 72 marauding British vessels on ...

Bartlett Electric Cooperative

Although the town of Bartlett had regular electric service by 1905, farmers in the surrounding rural area were not supplied with electricity until thirty years later. On May 11, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the ...

Sardis Baptist Church

On Sept. 28, 1803, a group of men living in Burke County near Beech Branch Meeting House, "found to be in the true Baptist faith", by a presbytery of Rev. Henry Hand and Rev. John Ross, were constituted into one ...

Site of Blanding House

In this square stood the home of Colonel Abram Blanding (1776-1839) for whom this street was named. He was first principal, Columbia Male Academy 1798, a noted lawyer and philanthropist, ably served the state on Board of Public Works 1819-28. ...

Bell Street Terminal, Pier 66

Historical Point of Interest

The site of the Indian camping place called Muck-Muck-Wum. In 1911 the headquarters of Washington’s first public port was established here by commissioners H.M. Chittenden, C.E. Remsberg and Robert Bridges. This tablet dedicated May 19, during ...

Smith's Mississippi Battery

Stephens' Brigade - Cheatham's Division - Polk's Corps

C.S.

Army of the Mississippi.

Smith's Mississippi Battery,

Stephens' 2d Brig., Cheatham's 2d Div.,

Polk's Corps.

One section, two guns, of this battery was in action here Monday April 7, 1862 until about 10.30 A.M.

Marker can be reached ...

Schwartz's Battery

Battery E, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery - McClernand's Division

U.S.

Schwartz's Battery,

"E" 2d Ill. Lt. Art., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.1 miles south of Cavalry Road, on the left when traveling ...