Historic Derby Street Chapel

Dedicated on July 13, 1924, this structure was built by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and was heralded by The Cocoa Tribune as an honor to the City. In 1955 it was sold to the Church of Christ, Scientists. In ...

Site of the Vine Street Brown Derby

1628 Vine Street

The most famous Hollywood restaurant of its day, the Brown Derby opened Valentine's Day, 1929. Owner Robert Cobb was also the inventor of the Cobb Salad. He originated furnishing telephones at tables during mealtime. celebrities popularity was ...

Derby

[Marker front]:

Birthplace of two distinguished wartime heroes

General David Humphreys, aide-de-camp to General George Washington, accepted the British colors at the surrender at Yorktown, Virginia. Friend of both Washington and General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish patriot and hero of the American ...

Derby Korea – Vietnam Memorial

Dedicated to Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice and Advanced the American Ideals of Liberty and the Brotherhood of Man

Korea

James Ellingwood Towle 1st Lt. U.S.A.F.

Vietnam

Norman Edward Dawson Jr. P.F.C. U.S.M.C. • George Albert Kurtyka T. ...

Derby Firemen’s Memorial

Memorial to Derby Firemen

Dedicated 1974

[ Northwest Facet ]

Hotchkiss Hose Co. 1 Org. 1837

[ Southwest Facet ]

Storm Engine Co. 2 Org. 1851

[ Northeast Facet ]

East End Hose Co. 3 Org. 1950

[ Southeast ...

Derby Veterans Monument

[ West Face ]

Dedicated

To The Memory

Veterans

Derby, Conn.

World War I

World War II

Korean War

Vietnam

[ Northwest Face ]

Always

Faithful

[ Southwest Face ]

This We’ll

Defend

[ Northeast Face ]

From

Knowledge

...

Derby and Huntington Civil War Memorial

[ West Face ] In

Memory of The

Men of Derby and Huntington

Who Fell

In the Service of Their Country

In The

War of the Rebellion

1861 – 1865

As

Defenders of Liberty And

Nationality

Gettysburg

[ South Face ] Roll of Honor

Killed

Charles S. Munson, ...

Derby Wharf

The wharf in front of you was Salem’s longest, and was once one of the busiest in the nation. During the War of Independence, American privateers sailed from here to prey on British ships on the high seas. After the ...

The Soap Box Derby

An annual summer tradition for American youth since the 1930s, the All-American Soap Box Derby was the concept of journalist Myron E. ("Scottie") Scott, who covered an impromptu homebuilt gravity-car race in Dayton in 1933. Scott conceived and promoted a ...

Derby Dike

Until 1853 the erratic San Diego River dumped tons of debris into the harbor or poured into False Bay, now Mission Bay. At times it threatened to destroy Old Town San Diego. Lieutenant George Horatio Derby, U.S. Topographical Corps, built ...