The Neighborhood

Prominent places in the colonial landscape

Accotink Village:

The town of Accotink was started as a 17th century meeting place. During the colonial period a gristmill and racetrack were located here.

Pohick Church:

Truro Parish was established in 1732 for Virginians north of the ...

Boyhood Home of Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling

Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan School of Music in Cincinnati, where he served as dean. The Victorian frame house was built by his parents, ...

East Town Neighborhood

When the White family began selling off their farm, new neighborhoods sprang up in the place of cotton fields. North Confederate Avenue (originally called Pine Street, later called Academy) was first opened in the early 1890s. In 1904 the White ...

Highland Park Neighborhood

Platted 1891

Highland Neighborhood Park

Has Been Placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by The United States

Department of the Interior

Listed March 14, 1996

Marker is on Highland Avenue south of Kossuth Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Civil War Camp to Victorian Neighborhood

City within a City

The Shaw neighborhood and the Greater U Street Historic District are rich in African American and Civil War history. They are the ideal place for the African American Civil War Memorial now located on this Metro ...

Historic Pughsville Neighborhood

Pughsville was one of Winter Haven's earliest neighborhoods, populated predominately by African Americans. These individuals cleared land and settled in what is now the southwest section of the city. For many decades, Pughsville remained a vibrant and thriving community. Pughsville ...

Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin

(1835-1906)

Born in Detroit to Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother’s family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840’s the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house ...

The "Statehood Riots" / The Enabling Act 1802

Side A:

The "Statehood Riots”

The first Northwest Territory assembly formally met in Cincinnati in September 1799 to initiate self-government. The legislators were deeply divided politically. The Republicans (antifederalists or “Jeffersonians”), led by Thomas Worthington and Edward Tiffin of Chillicothe, opposed ...

Dolly's Childhood Home

This cabin is a replica of the Parton home place where Lee and Avie Lee Parton raised Dolly and her 10 brothers and sisters. The replica cabin was constructed by Dolly's brother Bobby, and the interior was reproduced by her ...

Neighborhoods at Tredegar

[Three] communities grew up around the Tredegar Iron Works: Oregon Hill, Penitentiary Bottom, and Gamble’s Hill. Today little remains of these communities. A part of Oregon hill still survives, but Penitentiary Bottom and Gamble’s Hill are both gone, torn down ...