Derby Firemen’s Memorial

Memorial to Derby Firemen

Dedicated 1974

[ Northwest Facet ]

Hotchkiss Hose Co. 1 Org. 1837

[ Southwest Facet ]

Storm Engine Co. 2 Org. 1851

[ Northeast Facet ]

East End Hose Co. 3 Org. 1950

[ Southeast ...

Robert G. Fowler - Colfax

Sept. 13 - 23

Near this site, the shattered remains of Robert G. Fowler’s Wright Model B biplane was rebuilt following a crash near Alta on the second day of his west to east flight. The ten-day rebuilding effort, which took ...

Brinkerhoff-Demarest House

This old house was built around 1735 by Hendricks Brinkerhoff on land owned by his grandfather since the 17th century. An excellent example of early Dutch Architecture, it has been in the possession of the Brinkerhoff and Demarest descendants since ...

The Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

In the spring of 1864, Union Gen. Franz Sigel marched his 10,000-man army south through the Shenandoah Valley as part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s strategy to attack the Confederacy on several fronts simultaneously. To counter this threat, ...

Site of Neusser (Naizerville)

Moravian immigrant Johann Neusser came to Texas in 1872 and settled in Fayette County. In 1881, he and a number of fellow immigrants moved their families to this area. The Georgetown and Granger Railroad Company built a line through Neusser’s ...

Site of Loafer's Glory Apostolic Church

Loafer’s Glory Apostolic Church was organized in 1908 after Wesleyan Holiness preacher George Sutton conducted a revival at Loafer’s Glory School on Wilson Atwood’s farm. Beginning in 1909, evangelist Fred Lohmann served as minister and conducted tent revivals that drew ...

Colfax Passenger Depot

Placed on the National Registry of Historic Places

15 January 1999

Built in 1905 by Southern Pacific Railroad in what SPRR called the Colonnade style. It is the only remaining depot of this type in Placer County. It was used as a ...

Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

First African American Church in Hackensack. Organized in 1864 as “Olive Branch Colored Mission Number Three of Hackensack.” First church was an old lime shed moved here in 1867. In 1917 current name was adopted in honor of the first ...

Marquis de Lafayette Encampment

Marquis de Lafayette

1757 1834

General in the Continental Army

Camped Here With 2800 Troops

Enroute to Rhode Island

July 26 and 27, 1778

dedicated here by

CT Society Sons of the American Revolution

General David Humphries Branch

and

The East Haven Historical Society

1996

Marker is at the intersection of Main ...

Site of the Theodore Roosevelt Oak

This is the Site Of

The Theodore Roosevelt Oak

Given by The

President of The United States

To the Town of East Haven

On May 1, 1908

Erected by

The East Haven Women's Club

1965

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 100) and Hemingway Avenue ...