Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

Tayor Steelworkers Historic Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Lake Solitude and Taylor Falls

With the depletion of natural resources that provided energy to power the adjacent Iron Works, Lake Solitude was constructed by the Taylor Iron and Steel ...

Thomas Sherwood Memorial

In memory

of

Thomas Sherwood

1586 – 1655

Puritan – Pioneer – Ancestor

A founder of New England

A first settler of Fairfield

Deputy to the General Court

Committeeman

Soldier of the Pequot War

and his wives

Alice Seabrooke 1587 – 1639

Mary Fitch 1619 – 1693

Marker can be reached from the ...

Fairfield Revolutionary War Memorial

1775 1783

In everlasting memory

of the Patriots and Soldiers of

Fairfield who served in the War

of the American Revolution

———

Erected by the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

A.D. 1904

Marker is at the intersection of Beach Road and Sunnieholm Drive, on ...

The Destructive Power of the Patapsco

"[Rainfall] nearly all night with a violent gale of wind. This morning the river begins to rise. The rain pours down furiously all day. The river in a freshet, rising all the time... At night the waters very high, threatening ...

Freeport Railroad

1863-1865

In 1863 a ten mile long short line was built from Brighton Station on the Sacramento Valley RR to this here spot. It was called “Freeport” because it avoided the high charges for landing freight and passengers at the Sacramento ...

The Tolbert Building

Dedicated December 10, 1990

In honor of former Vice Mayor

John W. Tolbert, Jr.

The Tolbert building was originally two dwellings located at 6 and 8 Loudoun Street; built prior to 1796 on a part of lot no. 14, which was sold by ...

Historic Milling District

This aerial view shows the gatehouse, water power canal and adjacent mills as they appeared in 1945. They, together with similar structures on the east bank, made Minneapolis the milling capital of the nation from 1880-1930. Changes in marketing and ...

Strom Thurmond

[East Inscription]:

A Century of Service

Born December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina, Strom Thurmond provided nearly a century of service to the Palmetto State and to this nation. Highlights of his extraordinary life include:

Participation in the D-Day Invasion June 6, ...

25th and 75th Ohio Infantry Regiments

2nd Brigade, 1st Division

(Front):Ohio Honors

Her brave sons

25th & 75th

Ohio Infantry

2nd Brigade, 1st Division,

11th Corps

This memorial is erected by

the State of Ohio

(Left):After a Severe Battle

In the open fields beyond

Gettysburg on July 1, 1863,

the 11th Corps withdrew to

Cemetery Hill and at dark

on ...

Solitude House

Taylor Steelworkers Historic Greenway

The Union Forge Heritage Association welcomes you to Solitude House

Solitude House started life as a classic Germanic style stone home in 1712 and was part of a 10,000 acre parcel of land that came to be ...