Welcome to Chester

Home of Neufchaltel Cheese

Birthplace of Hambletonian

progeditor of trotters

Marker is on New York Route 94 1.2 miles from Craigville Road (County Route 51), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

1st Sergeant Elmer J. Burr

1st Sergeant Elmer J. Burr was fatally wounded December 24, 1942 on the island of New Guinea. Burr covered an enemy grenade with his body to save his commanding officer and others. He died December 25 Christmas Day 1942.

Marker can ...

Latrobe

Est. 1864

The youngest town acquisition of El Dorado County owes its origin to the Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad. They established a station for neighboring Amador County at this crossing of the roads. The town started on the completion of ...

German POWs in the East Texas Timber Industry

The U.S. Army began building POW camps in the United States in early 1942 for captured Axis prisoners. During World War II, the Army shipped almost 425,000 military prisoners to 511 camps in the U.S. Approximately 50,000 of those POWs, ...

Fort Howard Stockade

853 degrees north 45 degrees, 7 minutes east, from this tablet, stands a flag pole, marking the southeast corner of the stockade of Fort Howard; occupied by United States troops August 1816, and almost continuously until 1852. On this ...

Owl Cafe and Tourist Hotel

On December 28th of 1881 while crossing 5th St., Virgil Earp was ambushed and shot. Would be assassins hidden in a new building under construction opened fire with shotguns. Virgil was severely wounded. He survived, but lost the use of ...

I'on Cemetery

This family cemetery is also known as the

Hobcaw Cemetery, the Bond Family Cemetery,

and the Read Family Cemetery.

Only fragments of the old gravestones remain.

It is likely that the cemetery was first used in

1713 to bury David ...

The Blizzard of 1888

Known as the “Great White Hurricane,” the Blizzard of 1888 was one of the most devastating weather events in recorded history. Affecting coastal states from Virginia to Maine, this paralyzing storm resulted in widespread death and destruction. With its large ...

Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor

1881

Bob Hatch and John Campbell opened a billiard parlor in 1880. Bob Hatch was a colorful character and an amateur thespian. It was said he kept a jar of frogs on the counter as their croaking helped him predict ...

History Happened Here

You are standing on "Corn Cob Hill" where corn was once shelled, weighed and and lowered in hopper cars into a grain elevator below, thence onto ships.

Under the bridge to the left is the foot of the rapids where non-native ...