The Stratford Cliffs

Approximately 17 million years ago, during the Miocene Epoch, these 150-foot-high cliffs along the Potomac River formed the ancient seashore. Rich Miocene fossil deposits, which exist in the 1 1/2 -mile-long series of Horsehead, Stratford and Nomini Cliffs, can only ...

Congers Station

In 1880 the fledgling Jersey City & Albany Railway Co. completed a track through this area on easements granted by Abraham and Mary Conger, large landholders and prominent citizens. In 1883 a new railroad timetable listed the stop as “Congers.” ...

6th Independent Battery, New York Artillery

1st Brigade Horse Artillery

(Around the Base):6th Independent Battery

New York Artillery

1st Brig. Horse Artillery

Cavalry Corps

(back):Occupied this position

July 3rd, 1863.

Mustered into service

June 15th, 1861.

Mustered out of service

July 8th, 1865.

Marker is on Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling south. ...

The American Psychoanalytic Association

The American Psychoanalytic Association was founded at this site on May 9, 1911 by James J. Putnam, M.D., President; Ernest Jones, M.D., Secretary, and Drs. Trigant Burrow, Ralph C. Hamill, John T. MacCurdy, Adolf Meyer, G. Lane Taneyhill and G. ...

Father Rocco Petrarca

The Italian Community gratefully remembers

Father Rocco Petrarca

Pastor of

St. John the Baptist Church

from 1913 to 1948

“Flos Memoriae Lapide Perennior”

Marker is at the intersection of Hamlet Street and Cedar Alley, on the left when traveling south on Hamlet Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Mormon Battalion at San Diego

On arriving at San Diego on January 29, 1847, soldiers of the Mormon Battalion occupied Fort Stockton on this site. They promptly began to improve this community, digging the first wells, crating the first pumps to draw water, building the ...

Reverend Father Alexander Cestelli / Chiesta Italiana di San Gio

Side A: Reverend Father Alexander Cestelli

The National Italian Catholic parish of Saint John the Baptist was founded in October 1896 by the Reverend Father Alexander Cestelli, D.D. Father Cestelli was born in Fiesole, Italy and came to America in 1888 ...

The Latrobe Building

1912 The Latrobe Building 1984

The Latrobe building was designed by Edward H. Glidden, a prominent Baltimore architect. The Latrobe name commemorates John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, a respected attorney whose home formerly stood on this site. John Latrobe was a leader ...

Women of the Mormon Battalion

[Marker located on Front of Base:

Mormon women were anxious to reach the glorious West and any means offered seemed an answer to prayer to help them on their way. When it was learned four laundresses would be allowed each of ...

Old Stone Church Confederate Memorial

In Memory of

our Confederate Dead

Marker is on Anderson Highway.

Courtesy hmdb.org