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You are about to enter South DakotaCreated with its twin, North Dakota, 2 November 1889, its 77,047 square miles ranks 15th in size. Those square miles include exceptional corn land in the SE, grass land in the W, wheat land ...

Arendt Van Curler

To honor the memory

of

Arendt Van Curler

Acknowledged leader of the

fifteen original settlers of Schenectady.

Born at Nijkerk, Holland, 1620;

Came to New Amsterdam, 1638;

To Schenectady, 1662;

Resided here until death.

Home lot, southeast quarter of this block.

Cousin of Patroon Kilian Van Rensselaer;

Often consulted by ...

Peter Pond

Peter Pond

1740 – 1807

Somewhere in the adjacent cemetery lies the unmarked grave of Peter Pond, a veteran of the French and Indian War, fur trader, explorer and cartographer born in Milford. He helped organize expeditions west of the Great Lakes. ...

Colonel Mordecai Sheftall

1735 - 1797

As Deputy Commissary General of Issues for Georgia

and South Carolina, Colonel Sheftall was the highest

ranking Jewish officer in the Revolutionary War.

Captured by the British in the Battle of Savannah,

Dec. 29, 1778, Sheftall was imprisoned for ...

Kenneth L. Maddy

Dedicated to the Memory of

KENNETH L. MADDY

1934 – 2000

served in the California State Legislature from 1970 to 1998,

and as the Senate Minority Leader from 1987 to 1995.

”As someone who spent nearly three decades in the Capitol attempting to craft bipartisan ...

Landing Site

Near This Site The

Early Settlers Landed

Their Tools Utensils And

Building Materials

For The Common House

August 1639

Marker is at the intersection of Helwig Street and South Broad Street, on the right when traveling north on Helwig Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Deep Bottom Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fourmile Creek flows into the slender oxbow of the James River here. Oxbows, successive curvatures in the river’s course, forced Smith and his men to row long distances on their exploratory trip upstream. Navigating ...

Boxcar used in the 1st World War

Presented by the French National Railroads to the State of North Dakota in gratitude for the help given to France by the American people

Marker is on E. Boulevard Ave..

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Old Federal Road Historic District

Development along Indian trails of the Old Federal Road began in the early 19th century to improve transportation between South Carolina and Tennessee. Although European settlement in this area began in the late 1700s, the road increased populations and

prompted the ...

The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Compa

On this site in 1891, Thomas Edison developed an enormous complex of mines, crushers, separators, and subsidiary buildings that came to be known as “Edison” or, more properly, “The Works of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.” This company ...