Firepower

This deck housed San Cristobal’s main cannon battery. In terms of firepower, it was the strongest of the fortification’s defenses. If attackers got past defenses farther east, cannon from here would drive them back.

Did Spanish troops ever fire in ...

In Defense of San Juan

At this site you can sample a few of San Juan’s historic fortifications. Features seen here date from the 1760’s through the 1960’s, the latter part of San Juan’s military history.

The concrete blocks scattered on the lawn were left ...

This Tablet Marks The Site of Fort Bedford

This tablet erected by Bedford Penn'a Chapter D.A.R.

May 30, 1925

Marks the site of Fort Bedford

One of the Frontier Forts

Built by the British in 1758

The stockade enclosing the fort contained about 7000 square yards of ground

It was the rendezvous and protection ...

Frederick S. Duesenberg

(1878-1932)

Near this site on July 2, 1932, the builder of Duesenberg luxury automobiles was seriously injured when his supercharged Model J crashed into the mountainside. He died on July 26 at Memorial Hospital of Johnstown.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Foxburg Golf Course

Oldest golf course in continuous use in the U.S. In 1887, land was made available to the newly formed Foxburg Golf Club by Joseph M. Fox, its first president. Course was enlarged from five to nine holes in 1888. The ...

Buchanan Furnace

A short distance NW of here is the well-preserved cold blast furnace, named for James Buchanan. It was built in 1844; abandoned, 1858, due to lack of timber. At the time of its operation, the iron industry was very prosperous ...

The Changing Faces of H Street

Hub, Home, Heart

The handsome church on this corner is the second to occupy this spot. The first was a small brick chapel built by John A. Douglas in 1878 for the new Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after, it ...

Enterprising Families

Hub, Home, Heart

The small scale and low rents of H Street's oldest buildings have lured waves of immigrant entrepreneurs since the buildings were new in the 1880s. By 1930, alongside Greek, Italian, Irish, and other immigrant-owned shops, at least ...

Education for All

Hub, Home, Heart

Gallaudet University is world renowned as the premier institution for higher education for deaf and hard of hearing students. It opened as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind in 1856 ...

Farmer's and Merchant's Bank Building

A Downers Grove Historic Site

The Farmer's and Merchant's Bank Building was built in 1892 for the first bank in Downers Grove. The bank was organized on May 10, 1892. The officers of the bank included Charles Curtiss, President, W.A. Tope, ...