Georgetown and Goldsboro

African Americans were first brought to the Sanford area by slave-holding families settling in the Fort Mellon area during the 1840s. Later in the nineteenth century, Henry Sanford welcomed black residents to his city when it was established in 1870 ...

Old Clarkstown Reformed Church Cemetery

A Dutch meeting house and burial ground occupied this site ca. 1740. The First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church was organized here in 1750. A sandstone building replaced the old wooden structure in 1826. This cemetery, in use for almost two ...

Old Town

In 1839 John Cuppy laid out 42 lots on his farm between Ohio River and hill; added 50 lots in 1850. Named Vernon but called Cuppy Town. In 1840 John Chapman built the first house. Industry based on rich clay ...

Waterford - An Old Mill Town

Amos Janney, a Pennsylvania Quaker, settled on the south fork of Catoctin Creek around 1733. Other Quakers soon followed drawn by the fertile land. Most were grain farmers, making a mill an early priority. By the early 1740s, Janney had ...

Old Town

Pioneer Mt. Horeb, complete with houses, churches, stores, harness shop, undertaker, hotel, and tavern stood on this spot. Known as “The Corners” by early settlers, it was the intersection of the Old Military Road with a major wagon trail from ...

Truckee’s Old Stone Garage and Site of Town’s First Dwelling

In 1863, Joseph Gray built Truckee’s first structure on this site for use as the Dutch Flat–Donner Lake Wagon Road’s Toll Station. The old log structure was moved in 1907 to the Englehart property on Church Street, one block east ...

Old Town Hall and Academy

The Village of Tallmadge was founded in 1807. The first Academy building was erected in 1815. The fifth home of the Academy was located on the second floor of this Town Hall, which was erected in 1859. The Academy served ...

Old Georgetown Cemetery

This site on the south bank of the South San Gabriel River, a portion of the land donated by George W. Glasscock in 1848 for the county seat of Williamson County, was used as a burial plot from 1840 to ...

Shikellamy’s Old Town

On the plain stretching southeast from this ridge

was situated the Indian village of

Shikellamy’s Old Town,

which was visited by Conrad Weiser in 1737, when

on his way to Onondaga. Shikellamy was appointed vice-regent of the Iroquois Confederacy in 1745,

and made Shamokin (Sunbury) ...

Soldiers Buried in "Old Town Cemetery" - Crawfordsville, Indiana

This Memorial erected in Memory of the following soldiers who are buried in this Cemetery.

The exact location of some are unknown.

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Revolutionary War

Thomas Mason • James McArthur

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War of 1812

Janson Cory

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Black Hawk War

Elijah Mills

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( Star of the G A R (Grand Army ...