The Athens Double-Barrelled Cannon

This cannon, the only known one of its kind, was designed by Mr. John Gilleland, a private in the “Mitchell Thunderbolts,” an elite “home guard” unit of business and professional men ineligible because of age or disability for service in ...

Indian Trail

1630 - 1930

Churchill's Lane. When the Indians sold their land near the mouth of the Neponset River they removed to the territory south of the Blue Hills, which they called Ponkapoag, sweet water.

Marker is at the intersection of Adams Street ...

The Goodnow Garrison House

1630 - 1930

Portion of the Goodenow Garrison

House in which the settlers took

refuge from King Philip's Indians

during the battle of April 18-21,

1676.

Marker is on Boston Post Road (U.S. 20) just west of Goodmans Hill Road, on the left when traveling west. ...

Sudbury Fight

1630 - 1930

One-quarter mile north took place the Sudbury Fight with King Philip's Indians on April 21, 1676. Captain Samuel Wadsworth fell with twenty-eight of his men; their monument stands in the burying ground.

Marker is at the intersection of Boston ...

Monroe County World War II Memorial

In memory

of our comrades

of Monroe County

who gave their lives

in World War II Robert Arnett - Lynn Bartley - Lonnie Birdge - Carlos Blankenship - Fred Brown - Creed Carter - Raymond D. Carter - S. Carson Coffelt - Junior Colson ...

Monroe County World War I Memorial

Lest We Forget

To the memory

of our

comrades

who entered

the service of

their country

from this county

and who gave

their lives in

the World War

——————

Herschel J. Belcher • Walter L. Bray • James H. Chism • Walter Clemons • Lessie L. Cook • William G. Downing • ...

Ice Cream Stand

Site of Tangier's only unsolved murder

This is the site of the island's only unsolved murder. Charles C. "Bud" Connorton, the Town Sergeant, was eating in an earlier building here when he was fatally shot through an open window. His assailant ...

Indian Meeting House

1630 - 1930

On this site John Eliot helped his Indian converts to build their first meetinghouse in 1651, with a "prophet's chamber" where he lodged on his fortnightly visits to preach to them in their language. His disciple Daniel Takawambait ...

Old Welsh Tract Church

Oldest Primitive Baptist Church in America.

This marker was presented by Delaware Chapter - Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Marker can be reached from Welsh Tract Road 0.1 miles west of South College Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The American Southern Defenses – 1776-1777

“we are Building a Large & Long Breast work on the South Side.” -

Pvt. Thomas Killam, August 19, 1776

When the American Northern Army arrived at Ticonderoga in mid-July 1776, the 300-acre peninsula opposite on the Vermont shore was a ...