The Metropolitan Club

Landmarks of New York

Designed in Italian Renaissance style by McKim, Mead & White, this building, on a site formerly owned by the Duchess of Marlborough, was complete as a home for the Metropolitan Club in 1894. The club, whose first ...

Moving Goods on the National Road

“Open a wide door, and make a smooth way for the produce of that Country to pass to our Markets.” George Washington, 1784

America’s founders looked west for the future success of the new country. The United States needed good roads ...

Last Home of the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of Jesus Christ

Notice About The Shrine

This place is considered to be the last home of the Blessed Virgin, the Mother of Jesus Christ.

The Facts According to the Scriptures: St. John, in his Gospel, tells us that Jesus, before dying on the Cross, ...

The Start of Something Big

This is where Eastport's famed boat building industry began. On this site in 1868, a German immigrant named Wilhelm Heller began crafting fine wooden boats. His reputation spread and business flourished. Heller's became the largest boatyard on Spa Creek serving ...

The Army of Tennessee

They are all gone now with their

tattered flags and their faded uniforms.

Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Averasboro, Bentonville and finally to Greensborough.

[ Right of Monument: ]On ...

The Old Farmhouse

This century-old farmhouse is one of the only reminders of the agrarian past of Eastport. Yet, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, horse racing and farming were the economic mainstays. As late as 1798, there were only two buildings ...

The Maritime Tradition Lives On

Prestigious sailboat racing events have made Annapolis famous. But the real reason for Annapolis' reputation as "America's Sailing Capital" is the community of Eastport. There are more marine-related businesses here than anywhere on the East Coast between Newport and Fort ...

Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and the Plum Street Temple

This historic synagogue symbolizes the work of one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American Jewry, Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900). The Bohemian-born rabbi's many achievements include the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, Hebrew ...

The Baltimore & Frederick-Town Turnpike

A Transportation Revolution started here

Maryland toll roads helped revolutionize American travel. The Baltimore and Frederick-Town Turnpike began with a tollgate, placed near this corner in 1807. For

a few cents, you could head west on a “smooth” road that ...

The Thirty Third Massachusetts Infantry

Detached from the Second Brigade, Second Division, Eleventh Corps, on July Second 1863. After supporting the batteries in action on Cemetery Hill, while in position in a line extending westward from near this spot, withstood and assisted in repulsing a ...