Park Home and Site of Park’s Mill

This house, built in early 1800 and used as a stagecoach stop, was located on Seven Islands Road which ran from Philadelphia to New Orleans. On Nov. 20, 1864, Federal raiders under Gen. Geary destroyed the nearby mill and ferry. ...

Public Burying Ground

During the yellow fever epidemic of 1821, this half-acre plot was set aside as a public cemetery. Many Protestant pioneers to the new Florida Territory are buried here. Often such burials, made at public expense, went unmarked.

The Presbyterian Church ...

Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters

Most free standing light houses were accompanied by "keeper's quarters," which housed the light keepers and their families. The Piney Point Lighthouse and keeper's quarters were built in 1836 by John Donahoo of Havre de Grace.

The original brick structure measured ...

Winning School of Parke County Indiana

American Legion Oratorical Contest 1954

1809 (Relief of Lincoln) 1865

The Gettysburg Address

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created ...

"The Stuart Little Pond"

In the spring of 1953, Eleanor Olney Spicer age 12 was walking her dog, a toy Manchester terrier named Stuart Little, after the children's book, Stuart Little by E.B. White. Suddenly Stuart noticed a small animal and chased it into ...

201st Anniversary of the Marine Corps

1775 — 1976

This Monument Is Placed

On This Green By The

Members Of The

Silver City Detachment

Marine Corps League

Of Meriden In The Year

1976, To Honor All

U. S. Marines On The

201st Anniversary

Of The Marine Corps

Semper Fidelis

Marker is at the intersection of ...

The Prairie

A Sea of Grass

In its early days Fort Snelling was surrounded by a sea of head-high grass. The vast Minnesota prairie was broken only by small groves of trees—willows, cottonwoods, and oaks that grew near creeks, lakes, and marshes.

Early soldiers ...

Potomac River Military Testing

Almost from the beginning of the new nation, the United States established military facilities along the Potomac River - to test guns and munitions before placing them into service, to train troops and to defend the Nation's Capital.

Piney Point became ...

Miller's Point / Cathedral Gorge

Miller's Point

Named by the Union Pacific Masonic Club February 22, 1935. Dedicated by St. John Lodge No. 18 F & A M August 18, 1935.

Cathedral Gorge

Named by Mrs. W. S. Godbe 1894. Designated a state park by Gov. Jas G. ...

Palisades Interstate Park

Palisades Interstate Park

Has Been Designated A

Registered National

Historic Landmark

Under the Provisions of The

Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935

This Site Possesses Exceptional Value

In Commemorating and Illustrating

The History of The United States

U. S. Department of The Interior

National Park Service

1965

Marker can be reached ...