Gilbert Elementary School

Gilbert School, named in honor of Henry C Gilbert, school superintendent 1892-1904 and long time member of Board of Education was built in 1920, costing $79,000. The structure was planned by George D Waller, architect. A relief sculpture portraying a ...

Dansbury Mission

Erected about 1744, by Daniel Brodhead, for use by Monrovian missionaries. Destroyed by the Indians in 1755, during the French and Indian War. The site adjoined the present cemetery.

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 209), on the right when traveling ...

Colonel Jacob Stroud

Colonel Jacob Stroud is buried in this graveyard,

originally the cemetery of the Mission of Dansbury.

Begun by the Monrovian Brethren in 1743, the chapel destroyed in the Indian uprising of 1755 was erected in 1753 under the leadership of Daniel Brodhead ...

Canal Builder

Canal Builder

"James Shanahan Lock"

Lock 12 so designated 1989.

In 1864 he built 1st Bridge

over Hudson River at Albany.

Sup't NYS Canals 1878-1897

Marker can be reached from Main Street (County Route 27).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Talbot-Dutton House

Circa 1869

Talbot-Dutton House

Registered Landmark 57

City and County of San Francisco

Marker is at the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Franklin Street, on the right when traveling west on Pacific Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fairfield County / Winnsboro

Fairfield County

A center of activity in the Regulator movement to bring law and order to the backcountry, this area in 1769 was made part of Camden District under the Circuit Court Act. In 1775 it formed part of the District ...

Origins of the Base / Construction

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Origins of the Base

During the 1898 Spanish-American War, the Navy recognized that over half of the American sailors in that war had come from the Midwest. Congressman Foss of Illinois suggested that in the future, it might be advisable ...

Bunker Hill Monument

“Don’t fire ‘til you see the whites of their eyes.”

The Battle of Bunker Hill, fought here on Breed’s Hill, June 17, 1775, was the first major military confrontation of the Revolutionary War. Although the British won the battle – at ...

The Battlefield In 1862

Command and Communications at Lee's Headquarters - Signaling At Stuart's Hill

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The Battlefield in 1862

At the time of the Civil War, the area of the Battlefield was largely agricultural. Fields and pastures alternated with woods, while modest farmsteads and middling ...

Burgoyne’s Headquarters

Scaled in size according to the rank of the occupant, Crown Force officers’ tents – or marquees – graced the American wilderness with fluttering pennants, elegant fringe and elaborate awnings and breezeways. The several large, colorful marquees that marked the ...