Engagement at the Forty

[English Text]: Engagement at the Forty

Here at the Forty Mile Creek, on 8th June, 1813, American forces, retreating after the Battle of Stoney Creek, were bombarded by a British flotilla under Sir James Lucas Yeo.

Indians and groups of ...

United States Merchant Marine Veterans of World War II

1941 - 1945

Side A

In memory of those who plied the North Atlantic routes, the Murmansk run, the Invasions of N. Africa, Italy, Normandy, Philippines, Okinawa and every other major Invasion around the Globe.

Recruited as an all volunteer group to man ...

Dr. L.B. McBrayer

Leader in fight against

tuberculosis in North

Carolina, Superintendent

of State Sanatorium

in

Hoke County, 1914-24. His

birthplace is 400 ft. W.

Marker is on Brevard Road (North Carolina Route 191) near Bent Creek Ranch Road, on the right when traveling ...

Mount Mitchell Railroad

Opened Black Mountains

to logging and tourism.

Built, 1911-1914. Ran

from point nearby to

Camp Alice, 21 mi. NE.

Marker is at the intersection of Old U.S. 70 and Old Toll Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 70. ...

Ramapo Valley

Historic New York

          The steep, barren Ramapo Mountains, with elevations of less than 1300 feet, isolated this region from the mainstream of developments in the Hudson Valley. The Ramapo River, flowing from Round Lake near ...

Stockport-Stuyvesant Line

Stockport formed from parts

of Hudson, Ghent, Stuyvesant,

1833. Stuyvesant formed from

Kinderhook 1823.

Marker is on U.S. 9 south of Keil’s Lane, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

New England Courant

Here in 1719 stood the printing office of James Franklin publisher of the New England Courant. Here served as an apprentice his brother Benjamin Franklin

Here 1769 to 1776 Edes and Gill published the Boston Gazette

Marker is on Court Street, ...

Fenway Park

Fenway Park opened in 1912, then the largest ballpark in the major leagues. Home of the Boston Red Sox, it is the nation's oldest operating major league baseball venue, and a rare survivor of the "Golden Age" of baseball parks ...

New Fenway Park

New

Fenway Park

Built 1912

Reconstructed 1934

Boston

American League

Baseball Company

Thomas A. Yawkey

President

Marker is on Yawkey Way, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Van Ness Street Player Banners

Suspended high above Van Ness street between Gates B and D, these banners represent legends in Red Sox history. Each of these players entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame wearing a Red Sox hat, or joined the Hall of ...