28th St Draw Bridge / Great Shiplock Canal

"The Tidewater Connection"

28th St Draw Bridge

The lift bridge before you was built by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1929 to serve the paper mills along the Pamunkey River at West Point.

A moveable bridge was always necessary to allow ships ...

Where do we bury our dead? Lincoln Cemetery

The first half-acre of this cemetery was purchased in 1867 by a society of Black men calling themselves the “Sons of Goodwill,” and for many years this place was called the “Goodwill Cemetery.” The minutes of the Sons of Goodwill ...

The Founding of Fairbanks

Captain E.T. Barnette, whose trading post on the Chena River became the city of Fairbanks, arrived here on the sternwheeler Lavelle Young with Captain Adams on August 26, 1901.

Felix Pedro and partners, mining for gold in the hills above town, ...

The Reedy River

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

The Reedy River, named for the "reeds" which once grew close around its banks, flows from Traveler's Rest southward for almost sixty miles. In the middle of Greenville, it tumbles into steep, narrow falls, and then ...

Barnette's Landing

Captain E.T. Barnette, a passenger on the riverboat Lavelle Young, debarked near this site on August 26, 1901, and established a trading post which in 1902 became known as Fairbanks.

Alaska Centennial 1867-1967

State of Alaska

Governor Walter J. Hickel

Alaska Centennial Commission

Marker is ...

Nathan Wild House

National Register   c 1826

Nathan Wild 1790–1867, a founder

of Valatie and its textile mills,

one of the nations’ earliest

industrial villages.

Marker is on Main Street west of Lake Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church

The National Cathedral of African Methodism

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was founded in the District of Columbia in 1838. It is the oldest A.M.E. church and the oldest continuously black-owned property in Washington, D.C. - the Nation's Capital. The ...

Srahwee or Altóir Megalithic Wedge Tomb

Clew Bay Archaeological Trail site 13

Sraith Bhuí – The Yellow River Land

This is one of the finest megalithic tombs in Ireland. This particular example is a wedge tomb, so-called because of its shape, wider and higher at the entrance and ...

Concord Fight

On the morning of April nineteenth, 1775, while the British held this bridge, the minute-men and militia of Concord and neighboring towns gathered on the hill across the river. There the Concord Adjutant, Joseph Hosmer, demanded, “Will you let them ...

Tipton County (Indiana) World War I and II Memorial

This Hospital

Erected by public subscription

to keep alive

the Honored and Prayerful memory

of those who served from Tipton County

in World Wars I and II

Tablet presented by

Charles Sturdevant - -Post No.46 American Legion

Sharpsville - - - - -Post No. 443 American Legion

Wisehart and ...