The Site of Old Fort Schuyler

40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

The site of ...

Clifts Plantation Burial Ground

Who Was Buried Here?

The Clifts Plantation cemetery was located on the opposite side of the current road. Because of long distances to the nearest church in the 17th and early 18th centuries, plantation burial grounds were common in the Chesapeake ...

Milford World War I Veterans Monument

1914 World War 1918

These brave men of the Borough of Milford N.J. answered the call of their country during the World War.

Jake Bazanka •

Russell Bunn •

Pierre Drewson •

Morris Geddis •

George Haney •

Karl Holden •

Cyril ...

Ponce De Leon Hotel

The magnificent structure was erected between 1885 and 1887 by Henry M. Flagler, the hotel and railroad magnate whose activities contributed greatly to the development of Florida's eastern coastal area. Designed by the New York architectural firm of Carrere and ...

Downieville Cemetery

Sometimes referred to as the “Masonic Graveyard”, began in circa 1860. Interred here are the remains of many early Argonauts. Nature’s storms and miner’s greed exposed many graves in the prior cemetery, including that of Thaddeus Purdy, the first District ...

Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

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Greene's Division, Twelfth Army Corps.

Brig. Gen. George S. Greene, Commanding.

September 17, 1862.

Greene's Division crossed the Antietam, by the Upper Bridge, about midnight of the 16th and bivouacked on the Hoffman Farm.

On the morning of the 17th, it followed Williams' Division, ...

The Surrender Interview Site

July 3, 1863

Here in the shade of a stunted oak General John C. Pemberton met General Ulysses S. Grant to negotiate the surrender of Vicksburg. When Pemberton refused unconditional surrender terms, Grant suggested they step aside and let subordinate officers ...

Fuldner Mortuary

In 1845, Jacob Fuldner and Samuel Cobb established an undertaker's shop at 143 Sycamore Street. His son William F. and grandchildren William L., Howard F. and Mary E. carried on the family business until 1977 when it was merged with ...

Wiltsee Undertaker

In 1836, Paul Rust, cabinetmaker was selling “coffins”. Developed into a modern funeral home by three generations of the Wiltsee family. The operation was entrusted in 1945 to two employees, Schaefer & Busby. It is now Ohio's oldest funeral ...

Fairfield Institute / Kelly Miller

[Fairfield Institute Side]

This grade school and normal institute for blacks was founded in 1869 during Reconstruction by the Northern Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Willard Richardson was principal. In 1880, one-hundred of its students were studying to be teachers and twenty ...