The Blacksmith Shop

This restored log structure is a working blacksmith shop, equipped with tools and materials similar to those John Haley used in his trade. The shop was found in Davidson County and was relocated to this site in 1970 with funds ...

Colonel Henry P. Brewster

Texas In the Civil War

Side A:

County Named for Texas Confederate

Colonel Henry P. Brewster

1816-1884South Carolinian came to Texas, 1836 - Attorney General, State of Texas, 1847-49. When South seceded he was instrumental in recruiting post office personnel, gathering property, arms, munitions ...

Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River

1781 * 1954

Near this point

Le Comte de Rochambeau

crossed the Housatonic River

leading the French Army

enroute to victory at Yorktown.

Marker is on Interstate 84 (Interstate 84), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Buzz Bomb

This war machine is a German built V-1, commonly known as a "Buzz Bomb." Adolf Hitler unleashed the V-1, precursor of the cruise missile, against London in 1944. It was a new German weapon, literally a "flying bomb." Officially it ...

Rochambeau Route 1781-82

In 1781 and 1782 Jean Baptiste Count de Rochambeau and his French Troops marched by here enroute to and from Yorktown, Va.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street North (U.S. 6) and Dublin Hill Road, on the left when ...

Hillis Bridge

This bridge is also known as the Baker's Camp Covered Bridge. It was constructed in 1901 by J.J. Daniels over Big Walnut Creek. It is a single span and measures 128 feet long, 14 feet wide and stands 13 feet ...

Furybrook Farm

Placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its part in the settlement and history of the Town of Chester, New York

Settled 1731 by Roe family.

Marker is on Kings Highway (County Route 13) 0.3 miles north of Well Sweep ...

First Ebenezer Baptist Church

This congregation began when a handful of slaves gathered for services on the Rhodes Plantation in August 1812. In 1851 Absalom A. Rhodes sold a quarter acre of land here for two dollars to the deacon board of Ebenezer Baptist ...

Oldest Building in High Point

Colonial home of Mary and Philip Hoggatt

A Quaker Potter

Typical example of a Pre-Revolution home

Built in Guilford County ca. 1754

In continuous use until the 1960’s.

1996 State Regents Project

Mary Ann Groome Helper, State Regent

Marker is at the intersection of E Lexington Avenue ...

Historic New York Bedford House

On Route 22 near Katonah

John Jay (1745 – 1829), statesman, jurist, first Chief Justice of the United States, and Governor of New York State for six years, built Bedford House in 1800. It remained his home for the last twenty-nine ...