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Tudor Wharves

In the 1830s, Frederick Tudor became known as Boston's Ice King. Since around 1805, he had ice cut from local ponds and shipped to far away places as Calcatta, Rio de Janeiro, the West Indies and the Far East. As ...

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The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge

The Leonard P. Zakim

Bunker Hill Bridge

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, part of The Big Dig Project in Boston, is the widest cable-stayed bridge in the world. The Bridge serves as the northern entrance to and exit from ...

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Raum's Brigade

John E. Smith's Division.

Raum's Brigade.

John E. Smith's Division - Seventeenth Corps.

Col. Green B. Raum.

Col. Francis C. Deimling.

Col. Clark R. Wever.

Nov. 25, 1863

56th Illinois - Maj. Pinckney J. Welsh.

17th Iowa - Col. Clark R. Wever.

17th Iowa - Maj. John F. Walden.

10th ...

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Corse's Brigade

Hugh Ewing's Division

Corse's Brigade

Hugh Ewing's Division - Blair's Corps.

Brig. Gen. John M. Corse. - Col. Charles C. Walcutt.

Nov. 25, 1863

40th Illinois - Maj. Hiram W. Hall.

103rd Illinois - Col. Willard Dickerman.

6th Iowa - Lieut. Col. A.J. Miller.

15th Michigan - Lieut. ...

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The Green Bay Trail

One branch of the Green Bay Trail traversed this region. Originally an Indian trail, after 1816 the route connected Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Fort Howard at Green Bay. Couriers faced hunger, cold and Indians to carry dispatches on a ...

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Shavers Fork

Mountaintop Watershed

Near this point the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike crossed the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River, going over Cheat Mountain at a high point of almost 4000 feet at White Top. The Shavers Fork forms a high elevation watershed on top ...

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Warsaw's First House

Near this site Elizur Webster erected the first dwelling in Warsaw in the Summer of 1803

Marker is on South Main Street (New York Route 19) just south of Livingston Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Cabin Remains

This area is where troops were quartered. Most cabins within the earthworks were lumber structures with bark roofs. These measured roughly 40 feet by 20 feet and were extremely crowed at times. The circular mounds usually represent collapsed chimneys. Under ...

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Richmond-Andrus Mill Site

This site marks The Richmond Mill, constructed in 1822 as a sawmill. The Andrus family first became involved with the mill in 1872.

The 1915 History of Perry reports that the sawmill was operational. With 93 years in business, it ...

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Andrus Mill Pond

This view was from a point South of the Andrus planing mill looking West, and shows the "Andrus Pond" and culvert under Main Street.

The Andrus Mill pond was filled in. In 1999, it is the Perry Village's main parking ...

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