First Cabin in Rensselaer

This tablet marks the site of

the first cabin in Rensselaer

Built and occupied by

Joseph Yeoman and wife

December 1836

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street (U.S. 231) and the Iroquois River, on the left when traveling west on Washington Street.

Courtesy ...

Group Effort

Before airplanes and missiles, the United States defended itself with fortifications along its coast and harbors.

In this harbor a system of forts stood ready to protect New York; nearly a dozen were built before the War of 1812. Cannons ...

James Frederick Hanley

Side A:

Born February 17, 1892 in Rensselaer; became part of New York Tin Pan Alley music scene. Wrote for Broadway musicals such hits as "Second Hand Rose" (Grant Clarke, lyrics) for Fanny Brice (1921 Ziegfeld Follies) and "Zing! Went the ...

Site of Colonial Shipyard

Approximately 300 yards northeast of this marker there was located in colonial days a shipyard where at least one vessel capable of engaging in overseas trade was built.

The creek on which it stood is known as Shipyard Creek. The ...

Chas. Hoya Land Office

Built in 1897, by Charles Hoya (1848-1926), son of Prussian immigrant Joseph T. Van Der Hoya, and long-time Nacgodoches County surveyor. Designed by Houston architect Frank E. Rue in Victorian style with the Gothic revival details, this was the first ...

WCTU Fountain

This fountain was built by the Women's

Christian Temperance Union and dedicated

to this City of Ontario on July 4th 1908, to

provide the town with "a drinking fountain

where only the pure, sparkling water

can be had at any ...

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

(front)

In Memoriam

Battle of Dinwiddie Court House

Dedicated to the Confederate and Union soldiers who gave their lives in the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, sometimes called Chamberlain’s Bed, in the last brief victory of the Army of Northern Virginia, March 31, ...

The Russell-McFarland Homestead

William H. and Mary Russell built this Victorian residence in 1883-84. Russell, a veteran of the Civil War (1861-65), headed the Burnet school system about 15 years. Sold in 1895, the house had such tenants as J. W. Edgar, later ...

Spirit of Roanoke Island

Recreating History

The Spirit of Roanoke Island, completed in 2000 by volunteers of the North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island, is a fine example of the shad boat. A traditional work boat built of juniper (Atlantic white cedar) and fastened ...

White Bluff Meeting House

Here meets the oldest congregation following the Reformed (Calvinistic) theological tradition in continuous service in Georgia. In 1737, 160 Reformed Germans came to Savannah seeking religious freedom. After working their terms as indentured servants the colonists petitioned the Trustees of ...