Articles of Convention

Near This Spot

October 16, 1777

American and

British officers

met and consummated

“Articles of Convention”

of

General Burgoyne

of the British Army

to

General Gates

of the American Army

and on

this historic ground of

Saratoga

the British Army

laid down its arms

October 17, 1777

thus assuring

American Independence

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 4) ...

Father Philip J. Wagner

Dec. 23, 1882 — Nov. 1, 1959

Pastor of St. Philomena’s Parish

July 1917 — Nov. 1959

Founder of Grotto Shrine

Marker can be reached from Grotto Avenue north of Second Street North, on the left when traveling north.

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Thomas Fitzsimons

Signer of the Constitution of the

United States of America

Deputy from Pennsylvania to

Federal Constitutional Convention

May 25, 1787 - September 17, 1787

Marker can be reached from 4th Street.

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1888 Cannon Falls Fire Hall

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on West Mill Street east of 3rd Street North, on the left when traveling east.

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Home of Doctor John Lining

Who made the first systematic weather observations with instruments in America January 1738-February 1753

In this building, which probably ante-dates the year 1715...Dr. Lining lived...made observations of the weather...and may have conducted his apothecary shop...It is certain that is has ...

Church of the Atonement, 1875

St. Thomas' Episcopal Parish

Here a "Carpenter Gothic" church was consecrate July 1875 by Bishop William Pinkney of Maryland. Built on land purchased by Enoch Pratt, formerly Thomas F. Bowie's estate "Cheltenham" and William Talbert's "Finches Discovery". Bell tower constructed in ...

William Preston Few (1867-1940)

[Front]:

William Preston Few, prominent Southern educator, was born 1.6 mi. NE in 1867. Few received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1896 and joined the faculty of Trinity College, Durham, N.C., that same year. He became Trinity's fifth president in 1910 ...

Women Airforce Service Pilots

WW II 1942 – 1944

We Salute all WASPS…Y

You have shown that you can

fly wingtip to wingtip

with your brothers

Marker can be reached from Buchanan Boulevard.

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St. Raphael's Frenchtown Cemetery

Final resting place of early French emigrants and their descendants.

Coming directly to the Montrose-Belleville community from St. Germain in eastern France, 32 families arrived beginning in the early 1850's. Unique and isolated, the group prospered and grew, numbering nearly 500 ...

Fourth United States Colored Heavy Artillery

The Fourth United States Colored Heavy Artillery was initially organized as the Second Tennessee Heavy Artillery, African Descent and also briefly known as the Third Mississippi. Despite its initial designation as a Tennessee unit and second assignment to Mississippi, the ...