First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne

Site of First Permanent Settlement in Shelburne, Mass. 1760

Martin Severance 1718 - 1810

Scout in French and Indian Wars

Scout with Rogers Rangers

Revolutionary soldier

Marked by Dorothy Quincy Hancock Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.In cooperation with the ...

First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

First Settlement in DeKalb County Indiana 1828

Marker is at the intersection of Indiana Route 1 and DeKalb County Road 68 (County Route 68), on the right when traveling north on State Route 1.

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First House of Moravian Settlement

The first house of the Moravian settlement occupied March 9, 1741, stood on this site. In this house on Christmas Eve 1741 COUNT ZINZENDORF, conducting a love feast, named the place Bethlehem.

Marker is on Main Street 0 miles from West ...

First Settlement

1630 - 1930

Here, enclosed by a stockade, the first settlement was made in 1673. Nine rods to the westward a fort was built in 1685 and eight rods southeast stood the Indians' Council Rock.

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 10) ...

First Settlement of Perryville

Perryville

The area around this cave was the site of Perryville’s original settlement, Harbison’s Station. Named for its founder, James Harbison, the station was settled in the 1770s. Harbison and the group of Virginians traveling with him chose this location because ...

First Permanent English Settlement in Machias Bay

1763 - 1904

This tablet marks the landing place of the company which made the first permanent English settlement in this town, May 20, 1763. The little band consisted of Samuel and Sylvanus Scott, Timothy George, and David Libby, John and ...

Nyack First Settlement

The Tappan Indians, from time immemorial, occupied these lands fronting on the river shore. Here, in summer, they lived upon the fish and oysters which the waters produced in abundance. In the Algonkian dialect, spoken by them, they called this ...

First Settlement

About five miles southwest is Dunkard Bottom, where Dr. Thomas Walker found a settlement in 1750. The fort there was built about 1756 and was the first fort in Virginia west of New River. The first store and first mill ...

First Settlement of Waterbury

The first settlement of Waterbury was made on land in this region about 1675. The settlement was abandoned during King Philip’s War and was resumed around the present Waterbury green after 1677.

Marker is at the intersection of Highland Avenue and ...

Athens First Settlement - 1797

In the spring of 1797, Rufus Putnam sent eleven “substantial men ... possessing firmness of character, courage, and discretion” to found a settlement on the bank of the Hockhocking River. In 1800 the territorial legislature named the community Athens and ...