Savannah's Liberty Ships and the Atlantic Bridge

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, President Roosevelt and Congress authorized a ship building program to construct a fleet of transport vessels that could carry American supplies to England. The design ...

Grassy Memorial Chapel and Cemetery

Established in 1894 as New Salem Presbyterian Church. Originally afflicted with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the first recorded meeting was held 1897, William White, Pastor.

The Church became affiliated with Presbyterian U.S.A. in 1907. In 1976, it became the property of ...

Housing Several Thousand Federal Troops

“To a civilian, a camp is always a sad-looking sight – men living on the ground like animals, in the mud, under the rain which penetrates the tents, surrounded by thick and acrid smoke of burning wood. Army camps are ...

Hilda Doolittle

(H.D.)

The renowned poet was born here on September 10, 1886; died in Zurich, September 27, 1961. H. D. sought the Hellenic spirit and a classic beauty of expression. She is buried in nearby Nisky Hill Cemetery. "O, give me burning ...

The Unknown Soldier

Within this crypt rests the bones of an unknown soldier in the war for Independence. He was one of more than five hundred men who died in the hospital here at Bethlehem, and was buried on this hill side.

Marker is ...

The Delaware House

N. Main & Mt. Vernon Street

c. 1817

National Register of Historic Places of the Smyrna

Historic District

Marker can be reached from N. Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

New Hartford Soldiers Memorial

[ south side ]

Erected

1892

To The Memory Of

New Hartford

Soldiers And Sailors,

Who Served In The War

Of The Rebellion.

1861. 1865.

[ east side ]

17th Conn. Infantry

Francis E. Coe

12th Conn. Infantry

Corp. James Forbes • William D. Gray • William F. Green • George ...

Castle Dome Mining District

1864 - 1979

In 1863 Jacob Snively, founder of Gila City, and right hand to Sam Houston, avenger of the Alamo, following blazes left on the saguaros by Mexican and Conquistador predecessors, came to Castle Dome, and within 15 years, Castle ...

Oak Grove Methodist Church

A direct outgrowth of the New Mill Creek Society organized in 1772 by the Rev. Joseph Pilmoor, the first official Methodist missionary to America. Methodist meetings were held as early as 1770 in the Cutherell home, a regular preaching place ...

Site of Old North Church

First known as Union Church as several denominations joined here to worship as early as 1836. Organized in 1838. A small log church was completed that year on ten acres donated by Dr. John M. Sparks. The present structure dates ...