St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery

This late Georgian (1799) church replaced the chapel Peter Stuyvesant built in 1660 on his Bouwerie or Farm - making this Manhattan’s oldest site used for a place of worship. Not only is the last Dutch Governor-General buried here, but ...

The Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac

To commemorate the valor of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and in loving memory of its heroic dead this monument has been erected by Major General Daniel Butterfield, U.S.V., its commander on this field December 13th 1862.

Organized July ...

Site of the First Mill At Falls of the Squamscott River

A grist mill built by Thomas Wilson in 1640. The island and site were granted to him by the town which reserved the right for canoe landing and the laying of fish. Wilson’s Creek flows on the easterly side.

Marker is ...

Monument to the Alliance and Victory

Yorktown Monument Commissioners , 1881

R. M. Hunt, Architect, Chairman

Henry Van Brunt, Architect,

J. Q. A. Ward, Sculptor

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Oskar J. W. Hansen, Sculptor of Liberty, 1957

Front of Monument:

At York on October 19 1781, after a ...

In Commemoration of the Last Public Appearance of William F. “Bu

At Portsmouth, Virginia on November 11, 1916

William F. Cody, asso­ci­ated with a West­ern exhi­bi­tion titled “Buf­falo Bill (Him­self) and the 101 Ranch Wild West Com­bined,” passed by this spot on a route that would take the parade to the inter­sec­tion ...

The Home and Arboretum of Humphry Marshall

The Home and Arboretum of Humphry Marshall Early American Botanist 1722 – 1801 marked by Chester County Historical Society 1913

Marker is on West Strasburg Road (Pennsylvania Route 162), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Playwicki Farm Labyrinth

This Labyrinth was inspired by an ancient symbol for harmony and unity, the Vesica Pisces. Two symmetrical circles overlap forming an eye-shaped center enclosing the Common Ground shared by the circles. Following the events of 9-11, designer Connie Fenty, ...

The Brian Farm

"His property ... was thus under fire of the enemy and the very midst and thickest of the battle"

-damage claim of Abraham Brian

In 1863, this was the home and farm of Abraham Brian. He and James Warfield, who owned a ...

The Naming of Dothan

In 1858, the tiny Poplar Head community requested a post office. Since there was a town called Poplar Spring in the state, the postal authorities arbitrarily assigned the name Dothan to the new post office to prevent misdirected mail. Early ...

The Burwell-Morgan Mill

This grist mill, built in 1782-85 by General Daniel Morgan of Saratoga and Colonel Nathaniel Burwell of Carter Hall, was in continuous operation until 1943. Now owned by the Clarke County Historical Association.

Marker is at the intersection of Millwood Road ...