The Great Valley

 The Great Valley

Before the American Revolution, this narrow footpath, cutting through the Great Valley, was a major thoroughfare that linked Yorktown's busy waterfront district with businesses and government offices on Main Street.

Evaporator Works & Grimm Marker

Evaporator Works/Grimm Marker

46 Ravenna Street

A marker to Gustave H. Grimm on Ravenna Street was approved by the Ohio Historical Society and installed in 2007, thanks in part to the efforts of Hudson Archivist, Gwen Mayer.

Grimm, a German ...

Robert Treat Paine

Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814) was a lawyer, preacher, teacher, merchant mariner, activist, and an intellectual. He came from a well off Boston family of educated ministers. Paine’s people came from Tyrone, Ireland. One of which originally traveled to the New ...

Boston Women's Memorial: Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) came to America when she was a sickly eight years old. After landing in Boston, John Wheatley bought her as a domestic slave for his wife Susana. John and Susana, then later their children, were all instrumental ...

Patrick A. Collins

Patrick A. Collins (1844-1905) was the second Irish mayor of Boston, serving from 1902-1905 when he died still in office. He was born in Ireland and when he was four, he and his mother immigrated to the United States. They ...

Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks died March 5, 1770 during the Boston Massacre. He is considered the first martyr of the American Revolution and later became a role model during the civil rights movement of the 1850s. Little is known about Attucks, but ...

Chinatown Heritage Mural

The Chinatown Heritage Mural Located at Oxford Street and Oxford Place is a replica of Chinese artist Wang Yun’s “Autumn Mountains with Travellers.” The piece is hidden away in an alley among closely clustered buildings. The street used to be ...

Chinatown Gate

The South Cove area that the Chinese immigrants turned into their home was once home to all of the different immigrant groups throughout Boston’s history, with the Chinese being the last group to move into Boston. The Chinese began immigrating ...