Wetland Habitats of the Past

Little Bean Marsh Conservation Area

July 4th Wednesday (1804)

...proceeded on, passed the mouth of a Bayeau lading from a large Lake on the S.S. which has the appearance of being once the bed of the river & reaches parrelel for several ...

Henry Fleete and Fleet’s Island

Henry Fleete was born about 1602 in Kent, England, and moved to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1621. Fleete was seized by the Anacostan Indians during a trading expedition and held for five years. He learned their language and after his release ...

Peter Francisco / Marquis of Bretigny and Col. Wm. Washington

To Peter FranciscoA giant in stature, might and courage –

who slew in this engagement eleven of the enemy with his own broad sword rendering himself thereby perhaps the most famous private soldier of the Revolutionary War.

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1781 1903

To ...

James Clyman--Trapper and Explorer

James Clyman - Trapper and Explorer. Prominent in opening the Far West. He was with Jedediah Smith in 1824 at South Pass. Prepared the way for the pre-Gold Rush pioneers. Settled in Napa County in 1848.

Marker can be reached from ...

In Memory of Agustus Canfield Ledyard

In Memory of

Agustus Canfield Ledyard

Of the class of MDCCCXCVIII First Lieu-

tenant US Army. Born February XVII

MDCCCLXXVII Killed in Action on

island of Negros Philippine

Islands December VII MDCCCXCIX

Erected by his Classmates

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Grove Street and College ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana territory. ...

Dr. James Naismith

Born November 6, 1861 in Almonte Ontario, Canada and died November 28, 1939 in Lawrence, Kansas. Buried in Lawrence Memorial Park.

Dr. Naismith invented the game of basketball as a winter indoor sport for the YMCA at Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.

In ...

Crockett Homestead

One mile south, on south side of East Branch of Mulberry Creek, David Crockett built a log house in which he lived from 1811 to 1813. While here he hunted, and cleared a field three miles northwest on "Hungry Hill." ...

The San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery

This Cemetery, earlier known as Morningside Cemetery, is the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in San Fernando Valley. It was used from the early 1800's until 1939. It was legally abandoned in 1959. In this same year Mrs. Nellis S. Noble donated ...

Camelback and Market Street Bridges

The bridge river crossing at this spot is Harrisburg's oldest and most historic. First to be erected was the Camelback Bridge, known for its irregular and "rolling" covered bridge profile and the first bridge to ever cross the Susquehanna River ...