Schuyler – Colfax

This house is an example of 18th century architecture. The Schuyler and Colfax families were prominent in shaping New Jersey history.

Marker is on Hamburg Turnpike (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling east.

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The First Post Office

1877

According to early sources, the first post office in DeLand was in the rear of the Jordan & Lancaster store on West Indiana Avenue somewhere "between Woodland Boulevard and Florida Avenue." Dr. G. W. Lancaster, DeLand's first druggist, was also ...

First American Flag

First American Flag

Raised on Michigan soil

In Frenchtown

By Capt., Porter 1796.

Site of River Raisin

Block house occupied

By American troops.

Burned by the British

Capt., Elliott under order

Of Col. Proctor. Aug. 1812.

Marker is at the ...

Christ Episcopal Church, Frontenac Minnestota

Built to the Glory of God

1868

by Gen. Nathaniel C. McLean

and Consecrated October 27th

by Bishop Henry Whipple.

This church has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior.

Bergen Neck Fort

Built by Americans, 1776, at the site of Bayonne. Occupied 1777 – 82 by Loyalist forces, who named it Fort Delancey.

Marker is on Avenue B, on the right when traveling north.

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Memorial To Two French Soldiers

1781 1914

This memorial was erected by

Patriotic Citizens and Statesmen to

commemorate two French Soldiers

of Rochambeau's Army who volun-

teered to fight for American Indepen-

dence under Washington, enroute

from Newport to Yorktown, died and

were buried here, 1781.

Contributors

Govs. Baldwin, Conn. Dunne, Ill. (native of

Waterbury) Glynn, ...

Second Battle of Drewry's Bluff

The Second Battle of Drewry's Bluff, or the Proctor's Creek engagement, began on 14 May 1864 when part of Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Army of the James feigned an attack toward Richmond from Bermuda Hundred. After two days ...

Drewry’s Bluff

This bluff on the James River, a mile east, was fortified by Captain A. H. Drewry in 1862. A Union fleet, attempting to pass it, was driven back, May 15, 1862; and thereafter it served as a bar to attacks ...

Copacabana Fort

Army History Museum

Together with the Arpoador Rock and Cape, the Fort is part of an important landscape group located between two highly populated neighbourhoods: Copacabana and Ipanema.

Date: inaugurated in 1914 by President Marechal Hermes da Fonseca.

Last Restoration: in 1987, with ...

Post Office and General Store

(Latta, S.C.)

In rural communities throughout the country, the local general store was the focal point of town activities. Not only did these stores serve to provide the necessities of life, they offered a gathering point for the exchange of information ...