Peddler Hill Overlook

This marker is made up of three separate panels.

[Panel 1:]

The Road

From a narrow dirt wagon road to a scenic byway, the Carson Route has evolved over time to meet the needs of generations of travelers and our changing means of ...

Conrad Weiser Trading Post

A hewn-log building, erected on this site about 1750; operated until 1760 by Conrad Weiser, distinguished pioneer settler, treaty maker, Indian agent and interpreter, and first Berks County lay judge.

Marker is at the intersection of Penn Street and 5th Street ...

170 & 240 Ton Production Trucks

The giant 170 ton production truck in front of you was donated by Hibbing Taconite in 1998. It was originally purchased in 1975 at a price of $451,900 and operated for a total of 110,000 hours or an equivalent of ...

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Drinking Fountain

For God and Home and Every Land

Erected by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Reading Pa. for the use of the public.

[Bust of] Francis E. Willard

Marker is at the intersection of Penn Street and 5th Street (Business U.S. 222), on ...

Newport Hill

On this site, on October 8, 1871, geologist Raphael Pumpelly of Harvard University discovered one of the iron ore formations that created Gogebic County’s “boom era”. The Newport Mine, named for Pumpelly’s home in Rhode Island, began operations in 1884; ...

Companies G. I. and K., 4th U.S. Infantry

U.S.A.

Companies G. I. and K., 4th U.S. Infantry.

Lieut. C.H. Carlton, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

Between 3 and 4 p.m., of the 17th, the 4th U.S. Infantry took position on the right (north) of the Boonsboro Pike, near the Bloddy Lane.

Companies G. I. ...

Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge

National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

The Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge is the oldest surviving steel cantilever bridge in the world, and when built, had the longest truss and cantilever spans. The bridge provided the first, and only, all-rail route across the Husdon River ...

Fifth Army Corps

Second Battalion, Fourteenth U.S. Infantry

U.S.A.

Fifth Army Corps.

Second Battalion (8 Cos). Fourteenth U.S. Infantry

Captain David B. McKibbon, Commanding.

September 16-19, 1862.

On September 16th, the Second Battalion, Fourteenth U.S. Infantry was in line on the east base of the ridge beyond the Antietam ...

Poropotank Creek

Land was patented on this creek as early as 1640. In 1653, John Lewis settled here. John Lewis, Jr., was living here in 1676 when Bacon's troops were encamped near by. He suffered from the depredations of the rebels.

Marker is ...

Apple Tree Church

About two miles south stood the colonial church known as the Apple Tree Church or St. Clement's Church. First authorized by the House of Burgesses in 1710, it served as the upper church of St. Stephen's Parish until after the ...