The Work Force

We welcome you to our yard. You are now a member of our army of 25,000 men and women building the ships so urgently needed to carry war supplies to the fighting front.

New England Shipbuilding Corporation, Employee Handbook

With the shipyards ...

About River Transit ...

Riverfrontiers

The great Ohio River - and the Beaver River that flows into it - played important roles in attracting settlers to the Rochester area. Two hundred years ago, the rivers here served as main transportation routes, sources for industrial water ...

Voyages for Victory

Each new ship strikes a blow at the menace to the Nation and for the Liberty of the Free People of the World…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

September 27, 1941

At the launching of the first Liberty ship, Patrick Henry from Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard

In ...

De Soto Trail

1540

In this neighborhood Hernando de Soto and his army discovered the inland waters of the Flint river (“the River of Capachequi”) on Friday, March 5, 1540. Leaving the vicinity of the present Tallahassee, Florida, the Spaniards marched northwest, spent the ...

El Camino Real

(The King’s Highway)

In this vicinity was the Indian trail which, during the period of Spanish occupation, became known as El Camino Real or King’s Highway. This road, connecting St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, crossed the Flint River at the ...

Samual Baker Grist and Sawmill Site

1810-1870

Founded by Josiah Millerd in 1731. For over 140 years neighborhood farmers had their corn ground into meal and their logs sawn into lumber at this mill.

Marker is on Brook Street north of Pleasant Street, on the left ...

Sumter's Memorial To Its Brave Soldiers

In solemn and thankful remembrance of the unselfish and patriotic sacrifice on the part of the brave men of Sumter County who served in the forces of the United States of America in the war against Germany and her allies ...

Site of Original Oak Swamp Church

(Baptist)

Framing for this church had begun at Peckham Street, when disgruntled Oak Swamp people took away the timbers in the night and raised the church here.

Marker is at the intersection of Pleasant Street and Chestnut Street, on the right when ...

Palmer River Pound

"Old Pot Ash Neighborhood"

This town pound maintained by Col. Frederick Drown for many years. Stray cattle were kept here until retrieved by their owners.

The Wheeler family ran a pot ash business nearby.

Marker is on Brook Street east of School Street, ...

Horton Signal

1777 - 1779

When the British occupied Newport, RI. during the Revolution they often threatened the surrounding towns with raids or "alarums" as they were called. When a raid began a system of beacon fires were lit to warn the militia ...