Las Placitas

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The Sandia Mountains have been occupied by human beings for thousands of years. This area was settled by 1767, when Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta made the land grant known as La Merced de San Antonio de ...

Barton Springs

Clear and icy, these springs over the years have drawn Indians, pioneers, and tourists to this spot. The waters are brought from the limestone strata to the surface by the Balcones Fault, which bisects Central Texas. Average flow is 27,000,000 ...

Petticoat Bridge Skirmish

December 23, 1776

On orders from General Washington to pull Hessian troops southward from positions of support near Trenton, 600 Americans, stationed at Mount Holly under Colonel Samuel Griffin, attacked a Hessian outpost here on December 21. When the 3,000 Hessians ...

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

City of Berkeley Landmark

Designated in 2001

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

North Branch Library is one of Berkeley’s many civic buildings by James Plachek, including the Central Library (1930), the Claremont Branch Library (1924), ...

Joseph Hayne Rainey

This National Historic Landmark was the family home of Joseph H. Rainey, the first African American elected to the US House of Representatives, 1870–1879. Born in Georgetown County in 1832, Rainey, it is said, made blockade-running trips during the Civil ...

Joseph Baker

Born in Maine 1804. Died in Austin, Texas July 11, 1846. One of the founders of “The Telegraph and Texas Register” at San Felipe De Austin, October 10, 1835. A soldier at San Jacinto. First Chief Justice of Bexar County, ...

Carlisle Public Square

Before the erection of Cumberland County - 1750 - this site was the intersection of the Indian trail leading from mountain to mountain across Groghan's Gap westward.

With the laying out of Carlisle in 1751 the square became the center of ...

Philip Trammell Shutze

1890-1982

A Columbus Native whose birthplace stood close to this site, Shutze became one of the most prominent American architects of the twentieth century. After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology and from Columbia University with degrees in architecture, Shutze ...

Captain John Carpenter

In Memory Of

Captain John Carpenter

Born in London, England, 1628

Settled In

Stratford, Connecticut

Before 1646

He commanded the Jamaica Fusiliers

In the Defense of Fort James, New

York, When the Dutch Fleet Of

William of Orange Recaptured

New York From the English

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Presented by

The Connecticut Chapter

Of The National ...

Captain David Judson House

The Captain David Judson House

Built 1723

Has been entered into the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States Department

Of the Interior – 1973

A priceless reminder of Stratford’s

cultural heritage

Marker is at the ...