The Hermit of Emerald Bay

An Eccentric Caretaker

Captain Richard “Dick” Barter found his way to Lake Tahoe in the 1860s. Barter spent the long winters in Emerald Bay as the sole caretaker of a summer villa owned by Ben Holladay, Jr.

Originally an English sailor, Barter ...

The Glasshouse Complex and Herb Garden

John Jay Homestead

The design of the herb garden located here among the ruins of the old glasshouse yard is based on typical 18th- and 19th-century American and English gardens. Please enter and explore. An herb garden brochure is available ...

Sturgis's Division, Ninth Army Corps

U.S.A.

Sturgis' Division, Ninth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. Samuel G. Sturgis, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

On the night of September 16th, Sturgis' Division bivouacked on the eastern slope of the ridge bordering the east bank of the Anitetam to the left of this point. ...

Plymouth Consolidated Mines

Founded in 1852 from several claims and consolidated in 1883. Sold to the Argonaut company in 1925 and closed in 1943. Empire workings reopened 1946-47. Pacific shaft 4450’ deep. Total production $13,500,000. Mines north to Cosumnes River: Aden, Alpine, Green, ...

The Plank Road

The Fayetteville and Western Plank Road was constructed in the late 1850’s, stretching 129 miles long and covering what is now High Point’s Main Street. In 1852, when the North Carolina Railroad Company surveyed the proposed rail route from Goldsboro ...

The Homestead Farm

John Jay Homestead

This property has seen many changes. Over 2,200 years ago, Native Americans lived and hunted here. As the family’s tenanted farm in the 1700s, it produced wheat, rye, corn, and other grains. After Jay’s retirement and the ...

Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod 1828 ~ 1867 Poet Laureate of the Confederacy ~ * ~Within this building he taught, among others, “Katie,” later to become his wife.

Marker is on Timrod Park Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

11th Independent (Havelock) Battery

New York Light Artillery

11th Independent (Havelock)

Battery,

New York Light Artillery,

4th Volunteer Brigade,

Artillery Reserve,

July 3rd 1863.

Attached to Battery K,

1st New York Light Artillery.

Casualties

Woudned 5.

Organized at Albany, New York.

October 26th, 1861.

Mustered into

United States service.

January 6th 1862.

Participated in all battles

of the Army of the ...

The Equitable Building

This building, designed in 1889 in the Richardson-Sullivan tradition by Charles L. Carson and Joseph Evans Sperry, was considered the first skyscraper to be erected in Baltimore. It is the oldest of the existing structures on Monument Square and once ...

Gunn's Tavern / Trading Post

Logan County, On Top of Ohio

[North Side of Marker]:Gunn's Tavern

»— 500 yards west —›

About 1797, John Gunn, a land agent from Canada, came to the head of McKee's Creek to start a town. His two story log house, licensed ...