The Farm Manager’s Cottage

John Jay Homestead

The brick cottage was built ca. 1800 for Jay’s first farm manager, Major Samuel Lyon. Lyon oversaw such daily activities on the farm as: ditching and draining land; building and maintaining fences; plowing, planting, and harvesting fields; ...

The Bermuda Campaign

May 1864

As part of Ulysses S. Grant’s overall strategic plan to win the Civil War, Gen. Butler’s Federal army advanced up the James River in the spring of 1864 in an effort to operate against Richmond from the south while ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the ...

The Hermit of Emerald Bay

An Eccentric Caretaker

Captain Richard “Dick” Barter found his way to Lake Tahoe in the 1860s. Barter spent the long winters in Emerald Bay as the sole caretaker of a summer villa owned by Ben Holladay, Jr.

Originally an English sailor, Barter ...

The Glasshouse Complex and Herb Garden

John Jay Homestead

The design of the herb garden located here among the ruins of the old glasshouse yard is based on typical 18th- and 19th-century American and English gardens. Please enter and explore. An herb garden brochure is available ...

The Homestead Farm

John Jay Homestead

This property has seen many changes. Over 2,200 years ago, Native Americans lived and hunted here. As the family’s tenanted farm in the 1700s, it produced wheat, rye, corn, and other grains. After Jay’s retirement and the ...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition Across Missouri

On Nov. 23, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived at Cape Girardeau, a trading post established in 1795 by Louis Lorimier, the Spanish-appointed Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Here, Lewis, co-commander of the expedition, left the keelboat to ...

The Blacksmith Shop

This restored log structure is a working blacksmith shop, equipped with tools and materials similar to those John Haley used in his trade. The shop was found in Davidson County and was relocated to this site in 1970 with funds ...

General Matthew D. Ector

Ector County

County Named for Texas Confederate

General Matthew D. Ector

1822-1879

Enlisted 1861. Lieutenant 3rd Texas Cavalry. Fought in Arkansas, Missouri and Indian territory. As colonel led 14th Texas Cavalry Kentucky invasion. Made brigadier general 1862 to command famed Ector's brigade in Tennessee ...

Where Rochambeau Crossed the Housatonic River

1781 * 1954

Near this point

Le Comte de Rochambeau

crossed the Housatonic River

leading the French Army

enroute to victory at Yorktown.

Marker is on Interstate 84 (Interstate 84), on the right when traveling east.

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