Birthplace of George Westinghouse

Birthplace Of

George Westinghouse 1846 - 1914

Inventor of the Westinghouse

Air Brake

Marker is at the intersection of George Westinghouse Road and Sidney Road, on the right when traveling south on George Westinghouse Road.

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On Thursday, September 18, 2003

Hurricane Isabel, a massive Category-2 storm, slammed into the east coast.

With its eye located just south of the Chesapeake Bay, Isabel's high winds and tidal surge caused widespread flooding, property damage and power outages from North Carolina to New ...

Norfolk Botanical Gardens

These gardens were conceived by City Manager Thomas Thompson during the Great Depression. His idea was executed by city gardener Frederic Heutte; noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette served as a consultant. In 1938 about 200 black women were paid ...

Arnold's Battery

July 2, & 3. 1863

(Front):Arnold's Battery

July 2, & 3, 1863

(Left):Battery A

1st R.I. L.A.

Artillery Brigade

2nd Corps

(Right):4 Killed

24 Wounded

Marker is on Hancock Avenue, on the left when traveling north.

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The Army Comes to Belvoir

By 1910, the area including Belvoir was sold to the US Government. In 1912, the land was transferred to the War Department, designated for use as an Army training site, and was first used in 1915. By 1918, the area ...

Brunswick

Founded c. 1725, long a principal port of N.C., site of Spanish attack, 1748, and of Stamp Act resistance, 1766. Later abandoned. Was 2 mi. S.E.

Marker is on Plantation Road near Orton Road, on the left when traveling south.

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The Bermuda Campaign

May 1864

As part of Ulysses S. Grant’s overall strategic plan to win the Civil War, Gen. Butler’s Federal army advanced up the James River in the spring of 1864 in an effort to operate against Richmond from the south while ...

Madera County Library Service

Starting in 1901 with a book on lumber, the library moved from place to place until 1917, when this historic building was built with county funds only. That eliminated strings from grants. An example of home rule. This was the ...

African-American Soldiers in Combat

Near Dalton on August 15, 1864, during the Civil War, the 14th United States Colored Troops (USCT), whose enlisted men were mostly former slaves, helped drive off a Confederate cavalry attack on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, U.S. General William ...

The Brick Lot

John Jay Homestead

When John Jay began planning his Westchester farm in the 1790s, he was fortunate to find a source of clay on his property which he used to make the brick for constructing a home and various farm buildings. ...