Lutheran Church Site and Cemetery

Lutheran Van Buskirk

Church Cemetery

1704

Designated Historic Site

1994

Teaneck Historic Preservation Commission

Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Maitland Ave, on the right when traveling south on River Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of the French Church and Cemetery

Site of the French Church and Cemetery of Kinkachemeck, New Jersey. Deeded to David Desmarest June 8, 1677 by Tapan Indians.

Erected by the Bergen County Historical Society 1935.

Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Patrolman Ray Woods ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 15, 1864, after destroying Atlanta, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, USA, began his March to the Sea. His army (650,000 infantry and 5,500 cavalry) moved in two widely separated wings. The Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps), Maj. Gen. ...

Montreal Trails – The Montreal Mine

Iron County Heritage Area

1884 . . . The rush was on to discover “red gold” on the Penokee Range! Speculators, miners and immigrants flocked to this area seeking their fortune in iron ore. Established as a small open pit mine ...

The Battle of New Market

May 15, 1864

In the spring of 1864, Union Gen. Franz Sigel marched his 10,000-man army south through the Shenandoah Valley as part of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s strategy to attack the Confederacy on several fronts simultaneously. To counter this threat, ...

The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

1732 – 1932

The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

was authorized by Congress May 23, 1928

as an activity of

the United States Commission

for the celebration of the

two hundredth anniversary

of the birth of

George Washington

The highway was designed and constructed

under the direction of

the United States Department ...

The Upper Mississippi

From Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois, the upper Mississippi River flows through America's heartland for over 1100 miles. Its currents have borne the Indian's canoe, the explorer's dugout, and the trader's packet. Jacques Marquette, Louis Jolliet, and Zebulon Pike ...

Southeast Kansas Coal Mining

The Three Phases of Coal Mining in the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field

Phase One: Pioneer Mining

The coal fields of Cherokee and Crawford Counties covered over 300 square miles of land, making it a prime area for coal mining. When early settlers first ...

The Cottage House Hotel and Motel

1867 - 1872

Originally a boarding house owned by Reverend and Mrs. Joab Spencer, who added to the 1867 three room cottage shortly after they purchased the property in 1871.

Purchased by Lewis Mead in 1870 and owned and operated by the ...

Women of the Camino Real

Front of Marker

In 1598 the first Spanish settlers in New Mexico traveled up the Camino Real from north-central Mexico. Of the 560 people so far identified on that expedition, at least 20 percent were women. They came on foot, on ...