Pine Grove Rosenwald School

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This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded

in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller ...

Province Line Road

In 1664, the Duke of York sold New Jersey, or "Nova Caesaria" to Lord Berkley and Sir George Carteret.

East Jersey: Carteret's Trustees sold a "Half" in 1682 to twelve associates, thereafter proprietors of East Jersey.

West Jersey: Berkley sold a "Half" ...

Cesar Chavez Park

In Commemoration and Appreciation

"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect of other cultures."

Cesar E. Chavez (1927-1993)

Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American Labor leader & cofounder of the United Farm Worker (UFW). Cesar Chavez was born in ...

Mary E. Sheridan Park

Park, formerly called York Street Park, was re-named for longtime Lambertville City Clerk (1948-1982) and Mayor (1983-1988). Park was established in 1900 when Civil War Monument, dedicated in 1870 was moved from Mount Hope Cemetery to this location. Inscribed on ...

Site of Hopper-Croucher Homestead

One of the last farmsteads in Fair Lawn stood on this site. The house built by Henry A. Hopper in 1855 was razed for road improvement in 1989. He was a Sheriff and Freeholder of Bergen County and served in ...

A View of Winchester in 1745 - The Four Public Lots

Winchester, originally known as Frederick Town, was officially founded in 1744 by Col. James Wood. It was the first British town established west of the Blue Ridge mountains and in believed to have looked something like this. These four public ...

Lambertville Railroad Shops

The Bel-Del Railroad shops stood between the station and the river. Along with repairing trains, the shops built locomotives between 1864 and 1872.

Marker is at the intersection of Mt. Hope Street and Canal Street, on the right when traveling west ...

Speedwell

Saw Mill

Built by Daniel Randolph, 1770.

Furnace and forge by

Benjamin Randolph, 1773.

Log house standing until 1948,

also a log schoolhouse here.

Marker is at the intersection of Friendship-Speedwell Road and Hawkins-Speedwell Road, on the left when traveling west on Friendship-Speedwell Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First People of the Potomac

Piscataway Park

When Europeans first arrived on the shores of North America, they found a continent inhabited by perhaps tens of millions of people! These people had arrived more than 10,000 years earlier, and through many generations had created complex societies, ...

Johnny “Appleseed” Land Lease and Nursery

John “Appleseed” Chapman (b. September 26, 1774—d. March 18, 1845) was the first lessee of this 160 acre tract (NW ¼, S 20, T 20, R 16), when he secured it for 99 years from the Virginia Military District School ...