Watertown

The local Paugasuck Indians sold this area of land to Thomas Judd and thirty-five other proprietors in 1684. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Westbury was formed in 1738 and in 1780 Westbury separated from Waterbury, was named Watertown, and soon ...

Sudbury

1630 - 1930

Settled 1638 by a company of Puritans who arrived in the ship "Confidence" and were attracted by the meadows on the Musketaquid River. Named after Sudbury in Suffolk.

Marker is on Boston Post Road (U.S. 20) 0.2 miles east ...

Methodist Episcopal Church

Inc. March, 1835. Original

Church Erected 1836, Present

Edifice Built 1868. Rev.

S. Coleman, First Pastor.

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Central National Road

During the early days of the Republic of Texas, settlers and pioneers coming from the United States entered Texas by crossing the Red River in Northwest Red River County. On the north side of that crossing was the terminus of ...

Sandy Run Church / Christian Theus

Sandy Run Church

This Lutheran church, one of the oldest in the state, is thought to have been organized ca.1765. By 1774, the Rev. Lewis Hochheimer was minister here. The church was incorporated in 1788 as "The German Lutheran Church of ...

First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Designed in 1889 by Walter J. Mathews, this solid masonry Romanesque church departed radically from California's traditional Gothic wood frame construction. Noted for its world famous stained glass windows produced by Goodhue of Boston, and for arching redwood spans, the ...

11th Iowa Infantry

Hare's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

11th Iowa Infantry

Hare's (1st) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This regiment reformed here at 11.30 A.M. April 6, 1862 and advanced, fighting, to within 50 yards of its first position. It was then driven back ...

Charge and Countercharge

After ordering Webster to attack, Cornwallis commanded Lt. Col., Lord Rawdon to advance on his left. Through heavy fire, they drove back the 2nd Maryland Brigade until Gen. Baron De Kalb succeeded in halting the British charge and leading a ...

Williams Tavern

1630 - 1930

The first tavern was erected on this site by Lieutenant Abraham Williams in 1665. Destroyed by Indians in 1676, it was promptly rebuilt and managed by the Williams Family until 1829. Here the early Circuit Courts convened, stage ...

The War of 1812

Lewes Maritime History Trail

During the War of 1812, British vessels

blockaded the mouth of Delaware Bay in

an effort to disrupt shipping patterns and

supply lines and cause economic hardship

in the Mid-Atlantic. But when crews

attempted to land at ...