Shaft Drill Core

1935-36

Experimental vertical shaft 5’ in diameter to 1125’ depth thru serpentine and gabbro at Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine, Grass Valley. Machinery invented by J.B. Newsom. Greatest drilled footage – 21’ in three days. Core weight 11-tons. Donated to Nevada City by ...

Revolutionary War Veterans

Dedicated to

the men and women

of the Revolutionary War

who fought for

American Independence

Placed by

Emporia Chapter DAR

to celebrate NSDAR Centennial

1890-1990

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United States Merchant Marine Veterans

In memory of

United States

Merchant Marine Veterans

of

Foreign Wars

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Korean War Memorial

In memory and honor

of the men and women

dead and living

who served the United States

in the Korean War

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Creating a National Park

[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park]

“It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capital …”William O. Douglas.

Look around you. The park you stand in exists because people cared. In January ...

Inn of George Severson

Old Schoharie Road

Built at close of Revolution

First Post Office of

West Guilderland as

this place was then called

Marker is on Altamont Blvd (New York Route 156), on the right when traveling east.

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George Darby House Cleburne’s H’dq’rs.

May 25, 1864. Maj. Gen P. R. Cleburne’s div. marched with Hardee’s A.C. [CS] from New Hope Church May 24th, to Power Springs.

These troops, the left flank of Johnson’s Army, marched S.E. to find the position of the Federals known ...

First Meeting

of Town of Guilderland

held April 5, 1803 in this

house at that time a

tavern conducted

by Hendrick Apple

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 146 and Hurst Road, on the right when traveling east ...

Dr F. Crounse

Built this house, 1833

First physician at

West Guilderland (Altamont)

Practiced here sixty years

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 146 and Danvers Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 146.

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Fort Howell

(Front )

This Civil War fort, named for Gen. Joshua Blackwood Howell (1806-1864), was built by the U.S.

Army to defend Hilton Head Island and the nearby freedmen’s village of Mitchelville from potential Confederate

raids or expeditions. That village, just ...