Devastated Area

[Two markers, side-by-side, describe the events that created the Devastated Area.]

Marker 1:

A Night to Remember

May 19, 1915

You are standing in the aftermath of the volcanic destruction known as the Devastated Area. Late on the evening of May 19, 1915, a ...

Home of General Nathaniel Massie

Built 1800, One Fourth Mile South

Nathaniel Massie, born Goochland County, Virginia, December 28, 1763, 1800 married Sarah Everard Mead, died November 13, 1813.

Revolutionary soldier; surveyor of wilderness then known as Northwest Territory and locator of Revolutionary War land grants.

1780-87 Cut ...

Kenneth B. Keating

Born May 18, 1900 in Lima. One of America's greatest patriots. Veteran of World War I & II, Congressman, Senator and U.S. Ambassador.

Marker is on Rochester Street (New York Route 15A) just south of College Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Captain Furnival's Battery

Site of Captain Furnival's Battery

Commanding Marshall house and river crossing.

N.Y. State Historical marker 1927

Marker is at the intersection of County Route 113 and Clarks Mills Rd on County Route 113.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Battles of Falling Waters

“A splendid falls”

During the Civil War, the strategically important Valley Turnpike crossed the stream just above the small waterfall here. Two battles were fought nearby. The first occurred on July 2, 1861, half a mile south on the Porterfield Farm. ...

Territory and State of Nebraska

Nebraska, originally part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, became a territory of the United States Government in 1854 when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Nebraska Territory included parts of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming. Nebraska ...

Kingston Operation Desert Storm Memorial

Dedicated to

Kingston’s own

Defenders of Freedom

To the men and women of Kingston

who served us so proudly in

the armed forces during

“Operation Desert Storm”

We are forever grateful and proud.

Presented by:       Citizens of ...

Battle of Wilton

February 17, 1693

British forces of 250

Whites & 290 Indians

engaged French & Indian

forces of “800 or 700” men.

Marker is on Parkhurst Road near Greenfield Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

1960 Civil Rights Demonstration

On Saturday, August 27,1960, 40 Youth Council demonstrators from the Jacksonville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) advised by local civil rights leader Rutledge H. Pearson (1929-1967), sat in at the W.T. Grant Department ...

Turning Water into Gold

The Rising Tide of History in the Trinity Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area

By 1956 the Gold Rush was only an echo along the river now covered by Trinity and Lewiston Lakes. The abandoned remnants of fevered mining activity ...