Fort Casimir

was built by the Dutch in 1651 and recaptured by them from the Swedes, 1655. Site now lies beneath the Delaware 250 feet E.N.E. from this stone which is erected by the Delaware Society of the Colonial Dames of America, ...

General Thomas Holcomb

17th Commandant of the Marine Corps

"You will be the first officer of the Corps to hold the rank of General - the highest rank in our Armed Forces. I know of no other officer to whom that distinction more fittingly ...

Guilford Korean War Monument

In Memory Of The Members

Of The United States Armed Forces

Who Served In The

Korean War

June 25, 1950

July 27, 1953

“Freedom Is Not Free”

Marker is at the intersection of Park Street and Broad Street, on the right when traveling south on Park Street. ...

Andrew Leete Home Site

1643 • 1702

On this site lived Andrew Leete, principal preserver of the Charter of Conn. from usurper Sir Edmund Andross, 1687, member of the Conn. General Court granting charter to Yale College 1701

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street ...

Guilford Vietnam Memorial

Vietnam

Each peaceful dawn in this place

we are reminded of these men

who died for their country

Stephen J. Brennan P.F.C.

Ara. Crosby Jr. W.O.

Frederick W. Dauten Jr. Maj.

Dedicated May 28, 1984

Town of Guilford Conn.

God – Duty – Honor – Country

Marker is at ...

Guilford World War I Monument

1917 1918

In Honor of Our Men and Women

Who Served in the World War

John R. Alcorn • Murrie Alcorn • Elmer Anderson • Elmore Ashman • Frank E. Barlow • David B. Beattie • John B. Beattie • Clyde G. Beckwith ...

First Gainesville Skirmish / Battle of Gainesville

First Gainesville Skirmish

The first Civil War gunfire in Gainesville's streets came on February 15, 1864, when a raiding party of 50 men from the 40th Massachusetts Cavalry entered the City to attempt the capture of two trains. The raid ...

Black Rock Harbor

June 1823

Black Rock Harbor

June 1823

Designated as the western most

Port of the Erie Canal for

Transfer of passengers and cargo

Marker is on Amherst Street east of Niagara Street (New York Route 266), on the left when ...

Southwest No. 8 Boundary Marker

The U.S. Government erected 40 sandstone markers on the boundaries of the District of Columbia in 1791 and 1792. The boundary survey was initiated by President George Washington and executed by Andrew Ellicott, who became Surveyor General of the United ...

A Neighborhood For Everyone

Tour of Duty

THE BUILDINGS NEAR THIS CORNER were built during a wave of private development that began after the United States won the Spanish-American War in 1898, and became a world power for the first time. As America flexed ...