Susquehanna River/Chesapeake Bay

This marker signifies the point where the beautiful

Susquehanna River completes its 444 mile journey

to meet the Chesapeake Bay

Presented to

City of Havre de Grace

by the

Susquehanna River Basin Commission

May 18, 1995

Marker can be reached from Commerce Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

President William J. Clinton

On this site

President William J. Clinton

and

Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.

delivered addresses in celebration of

America's 25th Earth Day

April 21, 1995

Marker can be reached from Commerce Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

ARPANET

The ARPANET, a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, developed the technology that became the foundation for the internet at this site from 1970 to 1975. Originally intended to support military needs, ARPANET technology ...

Tipton County (Indiana) Veterans Memorial

Tipton County Veterans Memorial

Marker is on East Jefferson Street east of South Main Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Perfect Location

Prior to roads and rails, water was the most significant transportation mode in the growth of our nation's emerging economy.

Situated at the juncture of the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay, the town of Havre de Grace grew and prospered.

Blessed ...

Field Hospitals - Third Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Third Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Third Corps were located July 2nd in houses and barns along the Taneytown Road from the Schoolhouse Road to the Mill Road. During the night they were ...

Bearpaw Shale and the Inland Ocean

The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some ...

Field Hospitals - Sixth Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Sixth Corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Sixth Corps were established July 2nd near the Trostle House east of Rock Creek and two hundred yards southwest of this point. These Hospitals cared for 315 ...

Lure of the Chesapeake

Canvasback ducks float quietly on the water

The hunter waits

Flocks of ducks appear in the sky, cup their wings and drop down to the waiting canvasbacks

The hunter's ploy has worked

For it was not real canvasbacks that lured the ducks but ...

East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Depot

Constructed in 1891 as a union depot for the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (nicknamed “Tweetsie”) and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, the building served as a passenger railway terminal until 1940. From 1912 until 1930, ...