Norton S. Townshend, M.D.

(1815-1895) A progressive farmer, physician, and legislator, Norton S. Townshend lived in Avon from 1830 until his death. His introduction of field drainage tile significantly increased the productivity of Avon farmland. A well-educated country doctor, he served this district as ...

Site of Home Field of First Pro Baseball Team

The first professional baseball team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, played their home games on this site in a ballpark called Union Grounds. The facility included a main grandstand (nicknamed the “Grand Duchess”), two wings of bleacher seats down ...

Louis L. Redding City County Building

Named in honor of Delaware’s first Afro-American attorney, graduate of Howard High School, Brown University, and Harvard Law School, admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1929, pioneer in the struggle for equality and tireless advocate in civil rights cases of ...

Conservation and Environmental Studies Center, Inc.

Conservation and Environmental

Studies Center, Inc.

has been designated a

National Environmental

Education Landmark

This site possesses distinctive values

in revealing significant natural and

cultural processes through effective

environmental education programs

Marker is at the intersection of North Whites Bog Road and West Whites Bog Road, on the left ...

Sandstone Center of the World

The City of Amherst was founded in 1811. Beginning in 1847, Amherst developed and prospered around the sandstone industry and its associated quarries. This sandstone proved to be an important economic blessing to our early settlers and is the foundation ...

John James Audubon in Cincinnati

The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History is part of Cincinnati Museum Center. The Western Museum Society, organized by Dr. Daniel Drake in 1818, preceded it. The Western Museum Society's collection was built around ornithology, fossil zoology, geology, and Native ...

Richmond Howitzers Monument

To commemorate

the deeds and services

of

The Richmond Howitzers

of the period

1861-1865

[On south side of granite base, on the bronze emblem of the Richmond Howitzers]:

Cita Mors Aut Victoria Laeta 1859

[On north side of granite base, on bronze emblem of the Confederacy]:

From Bethel to ...

The Burning of Nevada

Missouri's Civil War

Nevada City was laid out as Vernon County's seat of government in 1855, and was named for a California town prominent during the Gold Rush. Founding spirit DeWitt C. Hunter had spent some years mining there before returning ...

Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences

Open to the Public ~~~

Created under the Will of Miss Mary Telfair (c. 1789-1875), the Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences opened as the first public art museum in the Southeast with a preliminary private showing February 12, 1885.

Fort Delaware / Narrowsburg’s History

Upper Delaware Scenic Byway

The present day Fort, a replica of the frontier “lower fort” of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, was originally located six miles up river near Milanville, Pennsylvania. Another fort was situated further up river in the Cushetunk ...