Connecticut Police Memorial

[ inscribed on the obelisk in the center of the pavilion ]

Dedicated To Those

Who Have Made

The Supreme

Sacrifice

Off. Milton Hodder Hamden 04/22/1943

Tpr./Trn. Stanley C. Heilberg C.S.P. 06/01/1929

Lt. Paul J. Beaupre Bloomfield 12/19/1967

Off. Matthew J. McNally Waterbury ...

Pueblo of Laguna

Keresan speaking refugees from Santo Domingo, Acoma, Cochiti, and other pueblos founded Laguna after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Spanish reconquest of 1692. Named by the Spaniards for a marshy lake to the west, the pueblo still occupies ...

Colonial Ropemaking

One of the maritime industries that was present in the colonial port of Bladensburg was the making of rope and various other types of cordage. In colonial and nineteenth century America, this activity took place in a manufacturing facility known ...

Pennsylvania Memorial

(South Panel):

Gettysburg was immediately recognized as an important event in the course of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address solidified the national significance of this battlefield. As early as 1864 efforts began that eventually transformed the battlefield to ...

Pennsylvania Memorial

(South Panel):

Gettysburg was immediately recognized as an important event in the course of the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address solidified the national significance of this battlefield. As early as 1864 efforts began that eventually transformed the battlefield to ...

Historic Bladensburg Waterfront Park - Port Town History

The Ports of Bladensburg and Beall Town

In 1742, the town of Bladensburg was created on the banks of the Anacostia River (also known as the Eastern Branch of the Potomac river) through an act of the Maryland General Assembly for ...

Pueblo of Laguna

Keresan speaking refugees from Santo Domingo, Acoma, Cochiti, and other pueblos founded Laguna after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Spanish reconquest of 1692. Named by the Spaniards for a marshy lake to the west, the pueblo still occupies ...

J.P. Schneider Store

In the mid-1860s, shortly after the Civil War, Jacob Peter “Jake” Schneider (1852-1925) began working in William Brueggerhoff’s general mercantile store, and part-time as a legislative page in the Capitol. About 1870, he and his mother, Margarita Schneider, opened a ...

Independent Boat Operations of the 1850s

The Sacramento Wood Company’s steamer wood freight shed, between N and O streets in the Front Street right-of-way, remained at this location for approximately 30 years. The Sacramento Wood Company could trace his roots from an earlier enterprise that gathered ...

George W. Sampson Home

Former Confederate Army Captain and leading Austin merchant George W. Sampson (1825-88) married Mary Goodwin Hall (b. 1845), niece of Gov. Edmund J. Davis. Their wedding in 1872 was the first held in the Governor’s Mansion. In 1875 the Sampsons ...