Taylorville General Store

Known as Young’s Market

for over a century

This store was built in 1862

to serve Indian Valley

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Nelson Street on Main Street.

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Kinderhook Creek

Prior to 1667

known as “Major Abram’s

(Staats) Kill” and “Third

Falls.” In 1823 called

Stuyvesant Falls” and after

1845 “Kinderhook Creek”

Marker is on Hudson Avenue (County Route 25A), on the left when traveling south.

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Church Hill

This name was given to the large settlement here because of its many churches. Shiloh Baptist, still active, was constituted in 1835. Smyrna Presbyterian, constituted July 28, 1838, was active until 1925. Church Hill Methodist was here from 1838 until ...

Dorado SS (248)

Dedicated to the Crew of the Submarine SS Dorado

In Honor of one of 52 Submarines on Eternal Patrol

[Honor Roll of Lost Crew Members]

The United States Submarine Veterans organization of WWII was founded in 1955 and federally chartered in 1981. The ...

MK-14 Submarine Torpedo

The MK-14 torpedo was developed in the 1930's on a very meager budget. These torpedoes were successfully deployed during World War II, destroying more than four million tons of Japanese shipping.

Early in the war the MK-14 proved to be very ...

Anchorage Cemetery

The family of William and Mary Allen Stiggins emigrated here from Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1882. Included in the group were their daughter Mary Jane (1855-1935), who had studied medicine, and her fiancé Thomas Whittet (1838-1913), a former sea ...

Emerson Majestic Theatre

The Emerson Majestic Theatre is the only Boston building designed by nationally prominent architect John Galen Howard. Completed in 1903 for merchant an music patron Eben Jordan, it has been used for movies, opera and musical theater. Its monumental Beaux ...

John Boyle O'Reilly

John Boyle O'Reilly

1844-1890

Poet Patriot Orator

Marker is at the intersection of Boylston St and Fenway, on the right when traveling east on Boylston St.

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Site of First Church in Norton

Site of First Church in Norton

Built 1710

This post ordered by the town in 1889

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (Massachusetts Route 123) and Taunton Ave (U.S. 140), in the median on West Main Street.

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1st Kansas Colored Infantry

The 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, a regiment that included many former Arkansas slaves, was formed in August 1862, the first black unit recruited during the war. Ist Kansas troops were the first black men to see combat, losing 10 killed ...