The Monument to Women of the Southern Confederacy

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1861  In Memory of the Women of Our Southland  1865

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Let this mute but eloquent

structure speak to generations

to come, of a generation of

the past. Let it repeat

perpetually the imperishable

story of our women of the 60s.

Hannibal

The boyhood home of Mark Twain. The Clemens home and a State statue in Riverview Park stand as memorials to the great humorist. At Cardiff Hill stands a statue of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Twain's cave and the islands ...

Stockade Historic District

The Seventeenth Century

The Schenectady Stockade is one of the oldest communities in America. Founded by the Dutch on land purchased from the Mohawk Indians in 1661, it came under English rule three years later. From the earliest days a ...

The Old Main Watch

Ehem. Hauptwache

[Marker text in German:]

1774 unter Fürstbischof

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim

nach Plänen von J.E. Roppelt erbaut

militärische Embleme von

Johann Bernhard Kamm

Repräsentationsgebäude der fürstbischöfliche Infantrie

[Marker text translated into English, more or less:]

Constructed in 1774 under Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim according to ...

A Stand Up Fight

Second Battle of Manassas

Union Brig. Gen. John Gibbon advanced through the woods with his men intent on driving off the Confederate artillery. Discovering Stonewall Jackson's infantry in force and "...finding that the regiment had become badly involved I ordered the ...

Sheffield World War I Monument

In Memory Of

The Citizens of Sheffield

Who So Loyally Served

In the World War

1917 - 1918

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Miller Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Barnard Park

Barnard Park

Given to Sheffield in 1937 for a Public Park

by

John Hall Barnard

In Memory Of

Gen. J.G. Barnard

and

Dr. F.A.P. Barnard

Former President of Columbia University

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) and Miller Avenue, on the left when traveling north ...

A Victorian Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery---The necropolis that in life (Cornelius Volk) did so much to beaut(ify) and make attractive" (Quincy Daily-Herald, 1898). Among significant historical Woodland memorials are the gravestones of Orville and Eliza Browning. Abraham Lincoln's closest Quincy friends. The couple rest ...

Cast Steel Bell

Cast Steel Bell

Sheffield, England, 1860

Made by the Naylor Vickers & Co. foundry using E. Riepe’s patent. This bell hung in the steeple of the Methodist Church on Main Street, Sheffield, MA (now a private home). Donated by Tom and Cynthia ...

Old Parish Church Clock

The Clock On This Church Was

Placed Here By The

G.A.R. and W.R.C.

Of This Country As A Memorial Of

George F. Root

Born In Shefffield, August 30 1820

Died August 6, 1895.

Musician – Patriot - Christian

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 7) ...