Post Trader's Store

Each post had its trader or sutler that sold general merchandise to soldiers. The trader was the only civilian allowed to operate a business for profit on a military fort. The trader's store at Fort Hays was located 50 feet ...

Major General Richard Montgomery

Major General

Richard Montgomery

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Born In Ireland Dec. 2, 1736

Entered British Army 1756

Served In North America 1757-1765

Returned to New York, Married

Jane Livingston and Settled

At Rhinebeck 1773

In 1775 Made Brigadier General

In the ...

Fonda

Fonda 1836-1918

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Mohawk Turnpike Improved 1800

Utica & Schenectady R.R. Built,

Station Named for Pioneer

Family 1836

Montogomery Co. Agricultural

Society Formed Oct. 13, 1844

First County Fair held at

Court House Nov. 11-12, 1844

Incorporated as Village

Caughnawaga 1667 - 1780

Caughnawaga

1667 - 1780

*Site of Mohawk Indian Turtle Clan village 1667-1693

Jesuit Mission of St. Peter 1669-1684

Home of Kateri Tekakwitha

"Lilly of the Mohawks"1667-1677

Mohican attack repulsed 1669

Destoryed in French raid 1693

Settled by Dutch prior ...

Loara School Bell

In 1869, near this location, Mr. Benjamin F. Kellogg helped establish the pioneer farming community of Fairview. In 1870 Mr. Kellogg donated land for the first Fairview school, built at today's Ball Road and Euclid Avenue. By 1888 the school, ...

Helicopter Landing Pad

Navy purchased the land in 1943. Fixed wing planes used the airstrip into the 1950's. In 1952 Marine Helicopter pilots practiced take-offs and landings at this site up through the Vietnam era.

Marker can be reached from Brookhurst Street near Heil ...

Fountain Valley Drive-In

Opened on July 12, 1967 and was part of the Pacific Theater Group. The Nations largest Drive-In and it contained the only fountains in town. Demolished in 1984

Marker is at the intersection of Brookhurst Street and Talbert Avenue, on the ...

Callens Home

Rene and Virginie Callens came here in 1910. He developed and farmed 60 acres. Present home of son Joseph R. Callens and family.

Marker is on Ellis Avenue just west of Jacaranda Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hungry, Wet and Cold

The historic Lewis and Clark Expedition travelled along this river in 1805. As the first white men to document this region, their maps, diaries, and encounters with different cultures forever changed the western landscape.

Cold, wet and hungry, Captain Clark's ...

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

Clifford A. Maughan P.F.C.

F. Co., 505 PIR, 82nd Airborne

Born 1920 — Died 1990

This plaque is to commemorate

P.F.C. Clifford Maughan

who parachuted into the garden of this

house at approximately 01.45 hours

on the morning of 6th June 1944

He was taken prisoner by a ...