The Decline of the Jewish Community of Gerolzhofen from January

Niedergang der Jüdische Gemeinde Gerolzhofen ab 30. Januar 1933

[Marker text in German:]

Urkundlich nachweisbar genehmigte im Jahr 1425 Fürstbischof Johann II v. Brunn die Ansässigmachung von Juden in Gerolzhofen. Viele jüdische Mitbürger engagierten sich im öffentlichen Leben und genossen Vertrauen und ...

First Court House of Berkshire County

Near this spot stood the first court house of Berkshire County erected 1764.

Here August 16, 1774 occurred the first open resistance to British rule in America

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Castle Street, ...

Staunton’s Wharf Historic District History

When the Central Virginia Railroad was built in 1854, it changed Staunton from a rural village into a booming center of commerce. By the turn of the century, the warehouses that had grown up around the train depot supplied everything ...

New Market Battlefield Park

has been registered as a

Virginia

Historic

Landmark

pursuant to the authority vested in the

Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission

Act of 1966

[ Lower Marker : ]

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on George R. Collins Parkway ...

F and G Headquarters

Site of

The Headquarters of the

Fonda, Johnstown and

Gloversville, Rail Road

1870 -1984

Fulton County

Historian 1995

Marker is on West Fulton Street (New York Route 29A), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battle Field

Battle of Johnstown fought

Oct. 25, 1781. American

forces led by Col. Willett

British forces under Maj.

Ross and Capt. Butler.

Bicentennial

Fulton Co. 1975

Marker is on Johnson Ave., on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

French Broad River

The French Broad River played a major role in this region’s early development. Initially called the “Broad River” by eighteenth-century French hunters and traders, it was later named the French Broad River. With headwaters on Pisgah Ridge twenty miles southeast ...

Lookout Valley and Browns Ferry

You are now looking

to the northwest

From this commanding viewpoint 1,300 feet above the river, you can see many of the historic areas associated with the Battles for Chattanooga in 1863. Among these features are Lookout Valley and Browns Ferry through ...

Forest Decline

What killed the trees? The balsam wooly adelgid, a pinhead-size insect native to Europe, is responsible. It began attacking the Fraser fir forests here in the 1970s. The red spruce, unaffected by the adelgid, survives in the midst of this ...

Madame Josephine Felix

Josephine Felix arrived from France in 1852, one of the first settlers in Salt Spring Valley. Soon widowed, she established a waystation at the junction of the Angels and Central Ferry Roads. She wed neighbor Alban Hettick and the couple ...