Capt. Harry Guggenheim

1890 - 1971

Charles Lindbergh regarded Capt. Harry F. Guggenheim and Dr. Robert Goddard as the two most forward looking men in the early history of aerospace. Guggenheim financed much of Goddard's research and was himself a combat flyer in both ...

Home Place of Capt. Wm. Moore

Here on land granted him in 1787.

He erected the first house of white

settlers west of the Blue Ridge.

Capt. Moore and his troops camped near

here when on the Rutherford Expedition

against the Cherokee in 1776.

Erected by Unaka Chapter

Daughters of American Colonists.

Marker is ...

Capt. Frederick Way, Jr.

1901-1992

Riverman, author, historian, America's foremost authority on inland waterways. Captain Way lived close to this spot, on River Avenue. Reared in Edgeworth on land settled by the Way family before 1800, he was the first president of the Sewickley Valley ...

Capt. Brown House

This 1854 A.J. Downing designed "Carpenters Gothic" is among the earliest such wood frame structures in the state. Built by Josiah Prentiss Brown, miner, 49er, local banker, multi-term state legislator and Commander of the Yuba Light Infantry, Co. E, 1st ...

Capt. Curtis Blakeman and the Marine Settlement

In memory of

Capt. Curtis Blakeman

and the

Marine Settlement

Just north of here, in 1819, a group of sea captains,

Blakeman, Allen, Breath, Deselherst, and Mead

from Connecticut, arrived and built log cabins,

naming the settlement Marine.

Captain Curtis Blakeman,

our great, great, great grandfather,

built an ox driven ...

Capt. Charles F. Rand

In Memory of

A native Batavian who once lived at No. 4 Liberty Street. Charles Franklin Rand is officially recognized by the Congress of the United States as the first person to answer President Lincoln's appeal for volunteers in the ...

Capt. Robert Kirkwood (1756-1791)

At the start of the American Revolution, Robert Kirkwood served as a lieutenant in Hazlet’s Delaware Regiment and in 1777 was promoted to captain and company commander in the 1st Delaware Continental Regiment. In the Battle of Camden (Aug. 16, ...

Capt. James Cook, R.N.

1728-1779

After two historic voyages of the South Pacific[,] Cook was cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest on his third and final voyage, with his two ships, Resolution and Discovery[.] He was searching for the western exit to the legendary ...

Capt. Milton Wesley Damron

Milton Wesley Damron (1825-1887), an early settler and Salado public servant, was born in Tennessee and came to Texas as part of the Mercer Colony. He arrived in the 1840s and shortly afterwards married Sarah Pennington. When original settlement plans ...

Capt. Simon Kenton

The Grave of

Capt. Simon Kenton

1755 - 1836

Revolutionary War Soldier

Clark Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Troops

Brigadier General of the Ohio Militia - 1812

Inscription on Gravestone:

In

Memory

of

Gen. Simon Kenton

Who was born April 3rd,

1755, in Culpepper Co. Va.

& Died, April 29th, 1836

Aged 81 years & ...