Macedonia Baptist Church

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This church, the first African-American Baptist church in Barnwell County, was founded in 1866 when Rev. James T. Tolbert preached in Blackville under a brush arbor; the first sanctuary was built in 1868. The church hosted the first ...

Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford, publisher, attorney,

farmer, and financial agent, served

as Third Governor of Kansas, 1856-1868,

and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer

Cavalry, 1868-1869. His wife, Isabel,

the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder

of Topeka, at age 18 became the youngest

First Lady of Kansas.

Arthur ...

Nicholson Homestead

1835

Lakewood's oldest frame house.

Lakewood Historical Society

Courtesy of the Junior Board & the Fieg Sewering Co.

Marker is at the intersection of Detroit Avenue and Nicholson Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Detroit Avenue.

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Freedom Boat Yards

Moving from Phillipsburg, Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz built a three acre yard for building of steamboats and barges in 1832, on land bought from Abner Lacock. The firm changed ownership many times in the next forty years. 138 boats ...

Walkway Over the Hudson

Walkway Over the Hudson

A place to enjoy the river and a place to appreciate the wonder of an engineering feat unprecedented in its time with a beauty unsurpassed in our generation.

History

• Completed in 188, the Poughkeepsie-Highland train ...

Fighting Tradesmen

During World War I, the Public Works Department at Great Lakes was tasked with the original construction of new facilities. Originally, Public Works was to use local civilian contractors. The problem, however, was that patriotic tradesmen joined the armed forces ...

Detroit Avenue Bridge

The fourth bridge to span the Rocky River was opened from Rocky River to Lakewood in 1910. Its outstanding features were its twin unreinforced concrete arches of 280 feet, a world record at the time. It was the first long ...

The Queen City of the Hudson

The city's early economic & social

history ties it to the river with

Poughkeepsie known as

The Queen City of the Hudson

1776 – 1876, Shipyard Point. Site of the Revolutionary War shipyards, various ships were built along the City's ...

Hasman Building/General Store

This property has been

placed on the

NATIONAL

REGISTER OF

HISTORIC PLACES

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on Elk Grove Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.

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Dear General, We have met the enemy and they are ours

Dear General, We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.

British Naval cannon captured by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's fleet during the Battle of Lake Erie at Put In Bay, ...