The Chesapeake Bay : History Happened Here

The Navy Sees the World

On the morning of December 16, 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt sent the "Great White Fleet" around the world to demonstrate American technology and resolve. Sixteen battleships passed by this point en route to Trinidad and points ...

Alviso Adobe

Alviso Adobe Community Park

Built in 1854, the Alviso Adobe is one of the few adobe structures remaining in the Bay Area. Declared a California Historic Landmark in 1954, the building stands relatively unmodified since the 1920s.

The adobe was in continuous ...

Bridging Gwynns Falls

The lofty, triple-arched Baltimore Street Bridge was built here in 1932 to provide better access across the Gwynns Falls Valley to the city's rapidly developing west side. Earlier, the Frederick Turnpike crossed farther south on a relatively short, low bridge ...

Tahoe City Begins, 1860 to 1895

A Town of 25 Takes Shape

Most folks traveling to Tahoe City in the 1800s arrived by stagecoach from Truckee. By 1868, 25 people called Tahoe City home.

Some harvested hay on what is now Tahoe City’s Golf Course, some worked as ...

Presbyterian Church

1844

Federal style church erected by Presbyterian congregation. Since 1934, the Weston Christian Assembly Church. Weston's only remaining church building of the 1840's.

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Street and Thomas Street, on the left when traveling north on Washington ...

The Battle of White Oak Road

The Union Counterattack

As the fight progressed, the Confederates met stiffening resistance. Lee and his subordinates realized they had too few troops to hold their advanced position. They determined to withdraw to the slight earthworks constructed by the Federal soldiers just ...

Parr Building

1853

Commercial building, brick porcelain facade added early 1900's. Used as a drug store until 1896. Home of Weston's first electric theatre in 1909.

Marker is on Main Street near Short Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

BC Permanent Building

City of Vancouver Heritage Building

This small scale but well-executed example of Beaux-Arts classicism was designed by Thomas Hooper (the architect of Shaughnessy's Hycroft Mansion) and Elwood Watkins. Built in 1907 for Thomas Talton Langlois' BC Permanent Loan Company, after 1935 ...

Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses

Through this square ran the southern line of defenses of the British who held Savannah from December 29, 1778 to July 11, 1782. After a seige of 22 days, at dawn of October 9, 1779, the strong western defenses on ...

Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kentucky's Most Famous Citizen

Birth of a Legend

Kentucky's

Most Famous Citizen

Colonel Harland Sanders began the part of his life that brought him fame in a small gasoline service station on the opposite side of this highway. Born on September 9, 1890, near ...