Forest Glen Estates Historic District

Youngstown's earliest automobile suburb, Forest Glen Estates was developed in the 1920s during a period of change in urban transportation patterns and rapid expansion in the regional steel economy. A composite of design work by leading northeastern Ohio landscape and ...

A Bateau Pole

This pole is a reproduction of the poles used by Bateau polemen. The crew of a Bateau consisted of two polemen, who walked on boards running the length of the boat on either side and a steersman who used a ...

Haxall Headgates

One of Richmond's early canals began as a millrace, built by David Ross in 1789.

When the Ross Mill was acquired by the Haxall family in 1809, the race became known as the Haxall Canal.

Before the American Revolution, Samuel Overton built ...

Kingstree: Gathering Vital Intelligence

By late August 1780, Francis Marion and the Whig militiamen of eastern South Carolina had already begun to cause alarm among the British military leaders in charge of subduing the province. Sensing the British would move against him, Col. Marion ...

Naugatuck Soldiers' Memorial

[ East face ]

Erected by the Citizens of

Naugatuck

A.D. 1885.

In Memory of Her Sons

Who Fought to Maintain

The Union

1861-1865.

[ North face ]

The Deeds of Those

Who Died in Defense

Of the Government

Of the People

Are ...

Waters Creek

Dammed in 1930

Preface: Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original ...

Archeology at Popes Creek

Most of what we know about George Washington's birthplace has come to us thanks to the archeologist's trowel.

After generations of uncertainty about the location of the main plantation house, archeologists excavated its foundations in 1936. They discovered a house built ...

Naugatuck Veterans Monument

Naugatuck

Honors the Men and Women who Served

Their Country in Time of Need

[ Center panel ]

Vietnam

Alho, Antonio L. • Brewer, Samuel A. • Carney, James P. • Fabrisi, Pail E. • Holland, Joseph P. • ...

Catonsville

A Turnpike Town

This 1877 “Plan of Catonsville” lays outs all the possibilities of an energetic and emerging suburb of Baltimore, only eight miles, or a one-day carriage ride, to the east. The centerpiece of the town is the Frederick ...

Naugatuck

(Front)

These lands were settled in 1702 by Samuel Hickox, Jr. of Mattatuck, now called Waterbury. Eight years later he began operation of a fulling mill, the first of many and diverse industries to follow. The earliest school was ...