San Gabriel Park

The land and springs around this site made it a favored camping site for local Indian tribes for centuries before the Spanish discovered it. Raids, drought and conflict led the Spanish to abandon the area in 1756. The Mexican state ...

Acquacknonk Bridge

American troops encamped

between the Hackensack and

Passaic Rivers, were ordered

by Washington, Nov. 21, 1776,

to cross the Passaic here.

After dismantling the bridge,

they marched across Jersey.

The Tap House often

was used as a headquarters.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue and Prospect Street, ...

Alex Brown Investment Banking Company

On this site in 1900 was constructed the banking headquarters for the Alex Brown Investment Banking Company, America's oldest banking house in continuous operation.

This building survived the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 with evidence of that event remaining today ...

Site of Black’s Fort

The fort, built in 1776, stood a short distance to the south. Here the first court of Washington County was held, January 28, 1777.

Marker is at the intersection of Pecan Street SE and East Main Street (U.S. 11), on the ...

John Cleveland Robinson

Brevet Major-General U.S. Army

John Cleveland Robinson

Brevet Major-General U.S. Army

1817 - 1897

Commanded Second Division

First Army Corps at Gettysburg

July 1-3. 1863.

Cadet U.S.M.A. July 1, 1835. Second Lieut. Fifth U.S. Infantry Oct. 27, 1839. First Lieut. June 18, 1846. Captain August 12, 1850. ...

Alex. Brown & Sons Company Building

This building was home to Alex. Brown & Sons Company, founded in 1800, the first and oldest continually operating investment banking firm in the United States. The building represents the firm's and Baltimore's importance in the financial world of the ...

The Garrett Building

This 13-story building, completed in 1913, was designed by Baltimore architects J. B. Noel Wyatt and William G. Nolting. Reflecting a mixture of styles, this transitional building combines the Chicago windows, flat wall panes and flat skyline characteristic of the ...

Wilderstein's Boathouse

You are looking at the sight of Wilderstein's boathouse (pictured above) and the Ellerslie dock (formerly Lewis Landing) owned by Governor Morton. In 1888 Arnout Cannon Jr., an architect from Poughkeepsie, NY, designed the boathouse for Robert Suckley's fleet. It ...

After the Breakthrough: April 2, 1865

The Banks House

Following their breakthrough near the Boisseau and Hart Farms, Federal soldiers of Major General Horatio G. Wright’s Sixth Corps poured over the earthworks southwest of Petersburg and into the Confederate rear. Some Federals penetrated as far as a ...

Wendel Bollman

Wendel Bollman, one of a handful of men who transformed bridge-building from an art into a science, was born on this site to German parents on January 21, 1814.

Largely self-educated, Bollman acquired his engineering knowledge and experience at the ...