Sacramento Engine Company No. 3

Organized March 27, 1851

This original building built in 1853, housed Sacramento Engine Company No. 3. In 1921 the building was abandoned as a firehouse. It was restored to its present state in 1960, as an historical landmark.

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Broadmouth Baptist Church

[Front]:

This church, named for nearby Broadmouth Creek, was organized in 1837 with nine charter members. Rev. William P. Martin was its first minister, and William Long and Noah Riddle Reeve were its first deacons. This tract was purchased from Jesse ...

Pittsburgh Glass Works

First glass factory in Pittsburgh was established on this site by James O'Hara and Isaac Craig in 1797. It manufactured bottles and window glass until the 1880s. A precursor of Pittsburgh's rise as the nation's largest glass producer.

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Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs Archeological District

This property

Has been listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

1976

Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs

Archeological District

Marker can be reached from Petrified Forest Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Duck Creek: Early Industry and Business Development

Fort Wayne business had a start on Duck Street, named for the 19th century Duck Creek that drained the area from the higher ground near Superior Street into the St. Mary’s River. Along Duck Creek in the 1840s and 50s ...

Mt. Pleasant Church

In 1835 St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church

moved here from about 1 mi. south and

changed its name to Mt. Pleasant.

It is generally accepted that this

congregation was organized ca. 1750

and that John George Bamberg

preached there shortly after 1798.

In 1873 the S.C. Lutheran ...

Silver Spring Presbyterian Church

Founder 1734 on land of James Silver by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, earliest settlers of the Cumberland Valley. Present church built in 1783, restored in 1928 to its original style, and still used for worship.

Marker is on Silver Spring Road 0.1 miles ...

Simpson Ferry Road

Built about 1792. It extended from Michael Simpson's ferry on the Susquehanna to Carlisle, following, at this point, a course later known as Simpson St. Used by many persons traveling to western part of state.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

St. Paul's Bastion

Baluarte de San Pablo

You are standing in a "bastion," looking along the "curtain" wall toward another "bastion." The angles are planned to expose attackers to cross fire from several walls.

Marker can be reached from South Castillo Drive (State Highway A1A), ...

Old Military Road - 100 Mile Point

In July, 1833, Lt. Alexander Center blazed a nearby oak, marking the 100-mile point of a military road he and James Doty were surveying. The Old Military Road, built from 1835 to 1837, connected Ft. Crawford at Prairie du Chien, ...