Great Northern War Trail

c. 1650-1700

Over which Indians led New England captives to Canada during Indian Wars.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 22 and New York Route 313, on the left when traveling north on U.S. 22.

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Continental Road

Di- On- On- Da- Wa- Ha Trail

Col. Baum's route from Ft. Miller to Bennington August 14,1777

Marker is at the intersection of Turnpike Road and Academy Street, on the right when traveling south on Turnpike Road.

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Checkered House

Site of the Checkered House built by James Cowden 1765.

Baum's headquarters Aug. 13,1777

Continental hospital Aug.18,1777

Marker is at the intersection of Turnpike Road and Owl Kill Rd, on the left when traveling south on Turnpike Road.

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Friends Log Meeting House

Surrounded by Burgoyne's Indian allies in 1777 but finding Friends unarmed stacked arms and attended meeting peaceably.

Marker is on Meeting House Road just east of Hoag Road, on the left when traveling east.

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Breastworks of General Fellows

Facing Burgoyne's camp across the River

Marker is on General Fellows Road 1 mile from County Route 113, on the right when traveling west.

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Birthplace of American Forestry

George W. Vanderbilt, following the recommendation of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, was the first American landowner to implement scientific forestry, the management and conservation of forest lands, on a large scale. He hired Gifford Pinchot, founder of The Society ...

Frederick Law Olmsted

Biltmore Estate Landscape Architect

As work progressed on Biltmore Estate, his last and largest private project, Frederick Law Olmsted observed, "It is a great work of peace we are engaged in and one of these days we shall all be proud ...

Duffields Depot Raid

Mosby Strikes the B&O

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated ...

The Stinking Rose: A Garlic Restaurant

1991

San Francisco’s first restaurant to celebrate the

euphoria of garlic.

Ancient Roman soldiers dubbed the pungent herb garlic “the stinking rose”. They believed garlic made them extremely strong and extra virile and rubbed their bodies with garlic oil before ...

San Francisco Brewing Company

This building is the last of the Barbary Coast saloons. Prior to the great earthquake and fire of 1906, this was the site of the infamous Billy Goat Saloon, operated by Pigeon-Toed Sal.

After reconstruction, the original Andromeda Saloon opened ...