Puddin’ Swamp 1776 – The Frontier

During the American Revolution, Puddin’ Swamp and the Black River were on the frontier. Brave and adventurous pioneer families settled on the higher ground near the Rivers. Pioneers cooked over open fires, grew their food, tapped pines for rosin and ...

The First Campaign

Civil War Begins in the Mountains of (West) Virginia

West Virginia, born of a nation divided, was the setting for the first campaign of America’s Civil War. Although still part of Virginia in1861, many citizens of the west remained loyal ...

Remnants of the University of Nashville

These Ionic column capitals once adorned the Cumberland College building constructed in 1806 just south of downtown Nashville. Originally founded in December 1785 as Davidson Academy (the nation's 15th college), Cumberland's charter was altered in 1826, changing its name to ...

Deep Cut at the Licking Summit / Millersport and the Ohio-Erie C

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Deep Cut at the Licking Summit

Digging of the Ohio-Erie Canal began in 1825, and the first canal boat navigated the Deep Cut at Licking Summit in 1831. The surrounding swamps were drained to create the Licking Reservoir, today known ...

Mother Seton House

This house, built around 1807, was the home of Saint Elizabeth Bayley Seton, the first American-born canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in New York to a prominent Protestant family, Elizabeth Ann Bayley married William M. Seton in ...

On The Campaign Trail

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Clifton H. Moore, DeWitt County’s first resident attorney, built this stately brick home in 1857-58 on an eighty-acre tract of land purchased from Judge David Davis. The original house suffered damage from a windstorm and ...

The Civil War at Ferry Farm

George Washington's Ferry Farm, seen here from the opposite side of the river, was in the middle of the Union lines during the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862. On December 11th Union engineers began building a pontoon bridge at ...

The Great Ford of the Mohawk

40 mile route taken by Gen. Herkimer Aug. 3-6, 1777 for the relief of Fort Stanwix. The Battle of Oriskany Aug. 6, between Herkimer's men and St. Leger with his Indians was the turning point of the Revolution.

1500 feet east ...

The Famous Czech Composer

Antonin Dvorak

Lived in a house on this site

from 1892 until 1895

In memory of his 100th birthday

and for future generations of

free Czechoslovakia, the

grateful government in exile

caused this inscription to be

erected initially on

December 13th 1941

Longing for his Czech

home, yet happily inspired

by the ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1887 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to ...