Historic Village of Port Chester

Historic

Village of Port Chester

in the

State of New York

County of Westchester

Town of Rye

A border community with the State of Connecticut on Long Island Sound. Settled as the Town of Rye in 1660, the area became ...

Fort Worth Stock Yards Company

The Fort Worth Stock Yards Company was created in 1893, when Boston capitalist Greenlief W. Simpson led a group of investors in purchasing the Fort Worth Union Stock Yards. Under Simpson's leadership, the Company earned the support of the Texas ...

Old Federal Road

Fort Warren

Site of Fort Warren, built in 1816 by Colonel Richard Warren, who owned considerable land in this vicinity. This facility was used as a refuge for settlers who feared for their lives in the early days of the aftermath ...

Quarters for the Troops

On the hillside before you, inside the fort walls, stood some 100 log huts, part of 400 built in the area to house the Confederate garrison. The activity of hundreds of men probably created acres of mud during the winter ...

Old Federal Road

Burnt Corn

Burnt Corn, Monroe County's earliest settlement, became the crossroads of the Great Pensacola Trading Path and The Federal Road. Settler Jim Cornells returned from Pensacola in 1813, finding his home destroyed and his wife kidnapped by a Creek Indian ...

Site of Recruiting Tent

Site Of

Recruiting Tent

For

19th Conn

Vol. Infy

August 1862

Marker is at the intersection of East Street (Connecticut Route 202) and North Street (Connecticut Route 63), on the left when traveling west on East Street.

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Fort McArthur

About 3 miles west - site of

Erected 1812, by Colonel Duncan McArthur, as one of the forts along the line of General Hull's march against the British headquarters at Detroit.

Marker is on North Detroit Street (U.S. 68) near East Franklin ...

Astronauts of the Shuttle Columbia

In honor of these

astronauts who perished

serving their country in space

on the Shuttle Columbia,

February 1, 2003

Rick D. Husband, Commander

Wiliam C. McCool, Pilot

Michael P. Anderson, Mission Specialist

David Brown, Mission Specialist

Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist

Laurel Blair Salton Clark,

Mission Specialist

Ilan Ramon (Israel), Mission Specialist

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Furnace Hill

Center of Industry for new town of Sheffield. Five blast furnaces with 75 ft stacks build 1886~1895 1/2 mile west. Promoted by E. W. Cole and E. Ensley. Iron ore and limestone from Franklin Co., coke from Walker Co. and ...

Ebenezer Fiske House Site

Minute Man National Historical Park

Minute Man National Historical Park was the starting place of the American Revolution: here the resolve of citizens willing to risk their lives for the ideals of liberty and self-determination was instrumental in the formation of ...