Watering Trough & Fountain

Watering Trough & Fountain

Circa Early 1900s

Memorial by Catlin Family Descendants

The carved stone drinking fountain and horse watering trough provided gravity-fed spring water during the early twentieth century, whenhorses and oxen pulled the heavy loads, people walked dusty ...

City Point’s Rails And Waterways

Tools of War for General Grant

City Point...tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert ...

Running Water Creek Bridge

Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail

The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Bridge over Running Water Creek was a vital link in the rail connection between Nashville and Chattanooga. The retreating Confederate Army destroyed it in the summer of 1863.

The pursuing Federal Army expected ...

Waterman House

Home of Asa Waterman-

Revolutionary War officer.

He captured Tories and

fought at Bemis Heights.

Family farm for generations.

Marker is on Saratoga Road (New York Route 50), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Delaware Breakwater Quarantine Station

1884-1926

Many of the European immigrants who came to this country at the end of the nineteenth century brought with them a variety of epidemic diseases including cholera, typhus, smallpox and bubonic plague. This posed a serious threat to urban areas ...

The Charlie Tayler Waterwheel

Charlie Tayler used this waterwheel to power a stamp mill at his gold mining operations on Ute Creek. Tayler, who attributed his good health to the fact that he never kissed woman or took baths, built the waterwheel in 1893. ...

Breakwaters

Lewes * Maritime History Trail

Two massive breakwaters shield Lewes Harbor from the punishing seas where Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet. They create an 800-acre anchorage that is nearly empty now, but in the early 1900s it was capable ...

Delaware Breakwater East End Lighthouse

Located on the eastern end of the Delaware Breakwater, this brown conical structure was built in 1885. The tower is composed of four tiers of cast iron plates lined with two feet of brick. It is twenty-two feet in diameter ...

35 Water Street

Union Railroad Station

By Henry Hobson Richardson, initiator

of Romanesque revival in America and

architect of Trinity Church in Boston

and Harvard University’s Sever Hall.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

Frank Loomis Palmer Fund

Marker is at the ...

The Confederate High Water Mark

You have reached the farthest point to which any organized Confederate infantry advanced on July 1. Two simple wooden structures stood within this cleared area. They are thought to have housed the slaves working the Crew farm.

During the twilight fighting, ...