Granby Street

Granby Street was named in 1769 to honor Englishman John Manners (1721?–?1770), Marquess of Granby. The orig­i­nal street ran three blocks from Bute Street south to Town Back Creek, a semi-navigable stretch of marshland run­ning the length of today’s City ...

Petrus Stuyvesant

Director General of Niev Nederland

of Curacao and the Dutch West Indies

This bust was given to the people of New York

in trust of

Saint Mark’s-in-the-Bowerie

in 1915 by

Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands

---------------

From the Commissie Boek of the States General

The States General of ...

Site of Charlestown Wharf

Stone wharf and warehouse were built here by Decree of General Assembly in 1744. Remains of wharf can be seen. Officer’s chests left behind by two Companies of Royal American Regiment quartered in winter of 1756-1757 were auctioned by town ...

North East

George Talbot of Susquehanna Manor renamed North East River, “The River Shannon.” The iron forges of the Principio Company were located here. Saint Mary Ann’s Parish Church is one of the oldest in Cecil County. Russell, one of the owners ...

Bioretention

This facility was converted from a stormwater pond into a bioretention facility in 2009. A bioretention facility, also known as a rain garden, filters polluted stormwater before it enters into a waterway.

When it rains, water washes over parking lots picking ...

March to the Sea: Ebenezer Creek

One mile north, on December 9, 1864, during the American Civil War, U.S. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis crossed Ebenezer Creek with his 14th Army Corps as it advanced toward Savannah during Gen. William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea. Davis ...

Judson Memorial Church

Landmarks of New York

Constructed in 1892, this Baptist Church, named in memory of Adoniram Judson, was designed in a Greco-Romanesque style by McKim, Mead and White, with stained glass windows by John La Farge and a baptistry executed by Herbert ...

Camp Gauley

Used in battle reenactments, these log breastworks stand near the site of the original Confederate entrenchments designated by General Floyd as Camp Gauley. The rebel fortifications consisted of several thousand feet of log breastworks, trenches, wooden palisades, and felled trees ...

Gilpin’s Falls Covered Bridge

Built circa 1860, the bridge is one of the few covered ones left in Maryland and the only one on public ground in Cecil County. The area to the East has been the site of several mills, the earliest Samuel ...

15cm Medium Field Howitzer, M18

Standard howitzer for German divisions.

This gun captured in Normandy, France

during June 1944.

Courtesy hmdb.org