Wildlife of the Northern Range

Elk - Sometimes called "wapiti" (the Shawnee word for "one with a white rump"), elk are often seen in large herds in open areas where they graze on grasses and forbs. Bull elk have antlers that they shed every ...

A Wildlife Paradise

Northern Yellowstone sustains one of the largest and most diverse populations of free-roaming wildlife seen anywhere on earth.

It is often called "America's Serengeti." About half of the approximately 30,000 elk that summer in the park spend the winter here ...

Site of Middle Fort

Site Of

Middle Fort

Fortified Aug. 13, 1777

To Protect Inhabitants

During Invasion of

Brant and Johnson

Marker is on River Street (New York Route 30), on the right when traveling north.

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Rolling and Puddling

The Scrantons initially intended to make and market pig iron alone. However, they soon decided to produce a smaller, finished product. In 1844, nail-making machinery was installed and a puddling mill constructed approximately one thousand yards above the furnaces along ...

The Miami and Erie Canal in Middletown

Port Middletown Plaza

Ohio's canal system was the most effective between 1827 and 1850, before the introduction of the railroads. In Middletown, the canal was still used well into the 20th century but in 1913 a devastating flood destroyed much ...

Port Middletown

Port Middletown Plaza

Port Middletown, located at Third St. (Central Ave.), was the main port along the Miami & Erie Canal. A scale was located there and tolls were collected.

[Photos] Left, a fire in 1881 at the Ben Smith Livery at ...

Engagement Of Middletown

Here Stonewall Jackson, on May 24, 1862, attacked Banks retreating from Strasburg and forced him to divide his army.

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles north of First Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Findley Ridge

Many famous gold mines of the Dahlonega era were along this ridge on both sides of this highway. The saprolite and vein gold mining operations along here contributed much to the $35,000,000 in gold taken from this district.

Surface and underground ...

Middlebrook Historic District

Nestled here in the countryside south of Staunton,

along historic Middlebrook Road, is one of the

oldest villages in the region. William and Nancy

Scott sold the first 27 lots in April 1799 to

Scots-Irish and German settlers. In 1851, the

stagecoach road through the ...

Middletown

Union Left Flank

Late in June 1863, the Union Army of the Potomac pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it invaded the North for the second time. The Federal left flank under Gen. John F. Reynolds occupied ...