Robert Foyles & Family

This Stone Commemorates:

Robert Foyles & Family, killed by indians 1753, half mi. s.

settlement of David Tygart, 2 mi. s. near bridge.

First English settlers west of Alleghenies.

Westfalls Fort, built 1774, half mi. s.

Battle of Rich Mountain, ...

Fishkill Landing

One of the oldest landings along

Hudson River. During Rev.

supplies for troops in

Newburg & N.J. from New

England brought across River.

Marker is at the intersection of Beekman Street and Ferry Street, on the right when traveling south on Beekman Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Synagogue in Annapolis

Kneseth Israel (Assembly of Israel), chartered in 1906, purchased this home in 1910 for use as the first synagogue in Annapolis.

The congregation used the building as a synagogue

until 1912, when it moved to larger quarters on

Prince George Street.

Erected in celebration ...

Christofer Columbus

The Great Navigator

Whose first act upon landing in the New World, on October 12, 1492 was to give thanks to God for safe deliverance.

Presented to the City of Chester in the year of our Lord 1955 by the Italian-American Associations ...

Lester Flatt

He was born at Duncans Chapel near the boundary of Putnam and Overton Counties, TN, and moved to Sparta at an early age where he made his permanent home. A bluegrass music pioneer and composer, Mr. Flatt was also a ...

The Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natural History Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts. Robert Carey Long was the Architect. Purchased by the City of Baltimore, 1830, Jacob Small being Mayor, it was occupied ...

Fire House Number 1

Fort Hancock’s first fire station was manned by enlisted soldiers who were the post’s firefighters. The tower at the rear of the building was used for drying hoses. Today this is the National Park Service Sandy Hook fire fighting station.

Fort ...

Baked Fresh Daily!

Every day at the Post Bakery, fresh bread was made for the mess halls and for sale at the Post Commissary. At 3 a.m. each morning soldiers would begin baking bread to feed the hundreds of troops who would report ...

Hoskins Farmstead

Joseph Hoskins bought his 150-acre farmstead for £200 “Current money of the State of North Carolina” in May 1778. Not much is known about the property and how it was utilized after Hoskins purchased it, but his will indicates some ...

Historic Fairfax Elementary School

Built 1873

Old Town Fairfax

This is the oldest, two-story, brick public school house in Fairfax County. Bricks were made from a clay pit on the Farr property across Main St. The original portion of this structure, the rear, was build for ...