Old Cemetery

The land for this cemetery was given to Poland in the year 1804 by Turhand Kirtland who came from Wallingford, Connecticut. As agent for the Connecticut Land Company he surveyed much of this Western Reserve territory. In his grant he ...

First Reformed Church of Nyack

Ca. 1830 a group of local residents of Dutch Reformed faith began holding private religious services in Nyack. They built their first small church on this site in 1836 and in 1853 incorporated as The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church ...

The Corporation Burying Ground

and other Fredericksburg Cemeteries

The park around you was once known as the Corporation Burying Ground. Burials occurred here from 1787 through 1853 and included Dr. Charles Mortimer, who had been Mary Washington's personal physician. He also served as Fredericksburg's first ...

Clinton's Ditch

(Old Erie Canal)

Construction began in Rome N.Y. on July 4, 1817. The canal measured 40'x 28'x 4' and was 363 miles long. It went from Albany to Buffalo and was used into the 1830's.

Marker is on Fort Bull Road south ...

Johnston’s Headquarters

Established here on the night of March 18, 1865 and remained during the battle.

Mower’s Division came within 200 yards of this point in the Union assault of March 21.

Marker is at the intersection of Bentonville Road (County Route 1197) and ...

Confederate Prayer Service

Pendleton County Civil War Landmark

Near this site, in May 1862, following the battle of Mcdowell, General "Stonewall" Jackson received orders to return to the Shenandoah Valley while attending church service with the army.

Marker is on U.S. 220 0.1 miles north ...

Park Dreams, Stuyvesant Park

Diedre Murphy, Cycling

"At the age of six, I started cycling in Stuyvesant Park. I couldn't have ever dreamed where cycling would later take me in life. At the late-for-competition age of 33, I started competing at local races in Central ...

Post Rock Limestone and the Czechoslovakian Immigrant Experience

Innovative use of native Dakota sandstone, a unique geological formation found only in this region, by pioneer Czech settlers can still be seen in our fencelines, farmsteads, civic & vernacular architecture, bridges, backroads, & byways.

Marker is on Main Street near ...

To the Confederate Dead

(Text of tablet placed in 1992):In honor of Confederate Soldiers

who died in Fredericksburg Oct 1861 through Mar 1862

and buried in Barton St. Cemetery

No record of reinterment when site reused in 1920

Alabama

14th Infantry-

Archer G.W.

Barron W

Blair R

Brooks J M

Chalk B P

Clark J ...

Hugh Hammond Bennett (1881-1960)

Hugh Hammond Bennett, “the father of soil conservation,” joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Soils in 1903. While conducting a soil survey of Louisa County in 1905, he came to understand the link between soil erosion and soil ...