Bridgeport / Newtown Turnpike

Stepney

1801

Bridgeport / Newtown Turnpike

The forerunner of CT Route 25. Five toll stations were located along this road. Travelers would be stopped by a pole or “pike” across the road attached to a base. Upon paying a ...

Original Bell of Stepney Baptist Church

Original Bell Of

Stepney Baptist Church

In Service

From 1885 to Sept. 9, 1964

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 25) and Green Street, on the right when traveling south on Main ...

Battle of Port Gibson

On May 1, 1863, Confederate forces under Brig. Gen. John Bowen clashed with elements of two Union corps commanded by Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant. The battle began around midnight near the Shaifer House four miles west of town. At dawn, ...

First National Bank Building

1872-1873, Thomas J. Johnson

Cast iron facade by Richard M. Upjohn

The First National Bank Building features the oldest known cast iron facade

in the Intermountain West. It was designed by Richard M. Upjohn, one of America’s most distinguished 19th-century architects. The building ...

Belmont Inn (1903)

Opened August 1903 as $30,000 hotel "The Eureka" under management W.T. McFall. Built to cater to "drummers" of the textile trade with 30 rooms and 1 public bath. Banquet rooms used to show their wares while Curtain Call Lounge was ...

Birdsey’s Plain Stepney Baptist Church

[ North side ]

Stepney

1848

Birdsey’s Plain

Stepney Baptist Church

This two-story Greek Revival-style church was built under the direction of Hanford Hull, a noted joiner. The congregation was formed by the unification of the Stepney Baptist ...

Elephant Butte Lake State Park

Situated beside the huge, 36,000-acre Elephant Butte Reservoir, this is one of the largest and most popular parks in New Mexico. It combines boating, waterskiing, fishing and other water-based sports with land activities such as camping, picnicking, and hiking. Fish ...

The First Unitarian Church of Baltimore

(Unitarian and Universalist)

In 1817, when Baltimore Town boasted 60,000 inhabitants and Mount Vernon Place was still a forest, a group of leading citizens met in the home of Henry Payson "to form a religious society and build a church ...

Burr Hawley & Burritt General Store

Stepney

ca 1855

Site of the Burr Hawley &

Burritt General Store

At this site farmers assembled horse teams & wagons to bring milk to the milk station & to buy feed, hay and grain; residents purchased sewing supplies, groceries ...

Phillipsburgh

During the Revolutionary War, Mill owned by patriots Henry Wisner and Moses Phillips produced gunpowder for Washington’s Army here.

Marker is on East Main Street (County Route 67) 0.1 miles east of Philipsburg Rd, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy ...