General Sullivan’s New York Campaign Trail

Routes of the armies of

General John Sullivan

and

General James Clinton

1779

An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggression of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the dominion of the United States

Marker ...

Site of Indian Trading Post

This is the place

where one of the

original Creek

Indian Trading Posts

stood in 1830.

Ladiga was Chief

of the tribe.

Marker is at the intersection of Public Square West (State Highway 21) and Ladiga Street Southwest, on the right when traveling south on Public Square ...

USS Sacramento (PG-19)

“The Galloping Ghost of the China Coast”

As part of our nation’s maritime history, USS Sacramento steamed more than one-half million miles during her proud service in the United States Navy.

She logged 64,000 miles convoying 483 ships through submarine-infested European waters ...

Prospect Hill

The mansion which formerly stood here was built in 1841 by James Roach, a prosperous contractor who supplied most of the brick and stone used in the construction of the Aqueduct Bridge and Alexandria Canal (under construction 1833-1843) and the ...

Court Square & Springhouse

Temporary Prison Camp

During the Civil War, a road (Market Street) ran east and west through the courthouse square, dividing it roughly in half. The courthouse occupied the northern portion while the jail, clerk’s office, and springhouse were in the ...

East Depot High School

East Depot High School, constructed in 1923, began in 1866 as LaGrange Academy. East Depot provided education for African-Americans in LaGrange. The school produced many outstanding alumni with careers in education, business, law, medicine, religion, science, the arts, government and ...

The Lincoln Highway Meets the Superhighway

Nearly three centuries of transportation history can be found in Pennsylvania: native American paths to wagon trails, early canals and railroads, the Forbes and Burd Roads, and a string of ten other turnpikes. However, none were more important in the ...

Peralta Home – Alta Mira Club

1860

This house was built by William Toler for his father-in-law Ygnacio Peralta. It may be the first brick house in Alameda County. Peralta and his brothers established the first Spanish/Mexican settlements in the northern East Bay on the land grant ...

Pennsylvania Turnpike

This is one of the original service plazas for the nation's first long-distance superhighway. On October 1, 1940, the Turnpike opened, stretching 160 miles from Irwin to Carlisle. The Turnpike Commission had been created in 1937; construction utilized the old ...

Isaac Pearson House

Built 1773

Elected Nottingham Tax Collector in 1763, Isaac Pearson later served as a justice of the peace, freeholder, township clerk and delegate to the NJ Provincial Congress.

Two days later after the Battle of Trenton, in 1776, Isaac Pearson was murdered. ...