Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

During a volcanic eruption, we are reminded that our planet is an ever-changing environment whose basic processes are beyond human control. As much as we have altered the face of the Earth to suit our needs, we can only stand ...

L’épanchoir de Pietat

The Pietat Flood Diversion

Ouvrage de basalte, construit après la catastrophe de 1766. Il a été complété en 1776 par l’épanchoir à siphon du fer à mulet du à l’ingénieur Garupuy (monument inscrit). Avec les aqueducs de l;Ale et de Pietart, ...

National Historic Site

San Juan

Here in San Juan are the oldest European type masonry fortifications in United States Territory. The historic site includes the Spanish built forts of El Morro, El Canuelo, San Cristobal, Casa Blanca and the old city walls. These structures ...

B and O Railroad Station

"No malice in my heart"

At this intersection, President Abraham Lincoln spoke from a railroad car platform to Frederick residents assembled in the street on October 4, 1862. He had just returned from viewing the battlefields of South Mountain and ...

Gates

Established March 30, 1802 as part of Northampton.

June 10, 1812 named for General Horatio Gates, hero of Saratoga, 1777.

Subdivided into Gates and Greece March 22, 1822.

Geographical center of Monroe County.

"County Cornerstone"

Marker is on Buffalo Road ...

Town of Gates

Town of Gates

Named in 1813

Last remnant of old town of Northampton

Marker is on Buffalo Road (New York Route 33) just west of Relim Blvd., on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Decisive Day has come on which the fate of America depends..

Abigail Adams

This high ground of Breed's Hill bound the American colonies to the cause of independence. An open field once located here commanded this entire area. On the night of June 16, 1775, two month after the fighting at Lexington ...

Women's Rights National Historic Park - Hunt House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...

Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House

Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started ...

Camp Ford Confederate Guards

The initial guards at the camp were local militia commanded by a regular officer, Captain S.M. Warner. With the

arrival of the Fordoche prisoners in October 1863, their numbers were inadequate, and an independent Cavalry

company, the Walter P. ...