Athletic Field

The army encouraged sporting events and friendly competition between units on the post and among neighboring forts. Fort Hancock had its own baseball, football, bowling, basketball, and weight lifting teams, which competed with posts in the region.

Fort Hancock was in ...

Mount Zion Camp Ground

The first Camp Meeting was held on this site in 1828 by a "few scattered Methodists" before any Methodist Church in the area was organized. William Hendry, William Blair and Hamilton W. Sharpe, as a committee, selected the site. Rev. ...

Alexis I. duPont Middle School

The oldest portion of this structure was erected in 1893 to replace two smaller schools that were no longer adequate to serve the needs of local students. This building was constructed largely through the efforts of the duPont family, long-time ...

The Last Stagecoach Hold-Up In San Mateo County

Near this location on Aug.17, 1905, a masked desperado described as "nine feet high and armed with a small canon" stopped the Half Moon Bay Stagecoach. He angrily demanded driver Ed Campbell to throw down the Wells Fargo Co.'s treasure ...

Blackman-Strader

Judson Blackman, son of businessman David Blackman who owned the store across the street, started construction on this brick home in 1861, but it was not completed until after the Civil War. The brick for the house was made on ...

Ezion-Mount Carmel United Methodist Church

In 1805 a group of African-Americans, desiring greater freedom of worship, withdrew from Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church to form a separate congregation. Led by Peter Spencer and William Anderson, they established what was then known as the African M. E. ...

Stephen Goodyear

In Memoriam

Stephen Goodyear

First Deputy Governor

of the

Colony of New Haven

and one of the

Earliest Members of this Church

Died in London 1658

Erected by his descendent Wm. B. Goodyear

Marker can be reached from Temple Street 0.1 miles south of Elm Street, on the right ...

Old Stockbridge Grist Mill

In 1640 Isaac Stedman dammed up First Herring Brook and beside the pond thus formed, constructed the first water driven grist mill in the old colony. The mill owned and operated by the Stockbridge and Clapp families until 1922 was ...

1781 Friends Meeting House

The Friends Meeting House is the oldest religious building in Baltimore. In 1781, the Patapsco Friends Meeting, formerly located on Harford Road two miles north of the Inner Harbor, moved to this site. In 1784 a group of Quakers established ...

The Dead House

This was the morgue for the Post Hospital. The soldiers called it the Dead House. It was later used as a U.S. Army recruiting office.

Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 to 1974.

Marker is on Hartshorne Drive, on the right ...