Northern Defense Lines

After the English burned St. Augustine in 1702, the Spanish built earthworks beyond the fort for defense against attack. Water and marsh protected the other sides.

English raiders were stopped in 1728 at the Hornwork, a half mile north of here.

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Nevius Street Bridge

The Nevius Street Bridge is a 300-foot-long, two span, double-intersection, Pratt through-truss bridge. It is the oldest documented metal-truss bridge in the county, being constructed in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The county hired two ...

Wortendyke Homesite

Frederick Wortendyke owned this land in 1723. It was once part of a large grant called the Tappan Patent. His son Jacob, who owned the homestead during the Revolutionary War, was taken captive in one of many British raids made ...

The Rainbow Viaduct

Dedicated to the Brave Men of the 167th Infantry who fought to Preserve Our Freedom

On May 10, 1919, soon after its completion, this 21st Street Viaduct was named the Rainbow Viaduct in tribute to Alabama's famous 167th Infantry of the ...

Smithfield

Marker Front:

This residential area was carved from the Joseph Riley Smith plantation, a 600 acre antebellum farm, one of the largest in 19th century Jefferson County. Smithfield lies to the west of Birmingham's city center on the flat land ...

The "Corkscrew" Railroad

When wealthy North Bennington resident Trenor Park purchased the Bennington-Rutland Railroad, he found that the railroad "barons" of the Troy and Boston Railroad refused him access to the New York lines. Rather than fight this monopoly, Park built a rail ...

Richwood Opera House and Town Hall

Side A:

The Richwood Opera House and Town Hall was erected in 1890 as a community center designed to house the town council chambers, fire department, jail and opera house. The Richardsonian Romanesque styled building served Richwood in all these capacities ...

Here Stood Lincoln

1809 -1865

At the invitation of the citizens of Columbus, Ohio, Abraham Lincoln delivered a memorable address here on the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred fifty nine.

This commemorative marker was erected on the 75th anniversary of that event by the ...

Peter J. Dalessandro

Congressional Medal of Honor

Peter J. Dalessandro

Congressional Medal of Honor

Technical Sergeant, US Army, Company E. 39th Infantry, 9th

Infantry Division Sergeant DAlessandro was born May 19, 1918.

Entered service at: Watervliet, N.Y.

Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor

by President Harry S. Truman ...

Memorial to the Naraticong Indians

Whose friendship for the Whites, made possible the building of the Olde York Road over their trail which from 1765 until 1839 was the swift sure stage line between New York and Philadelphia from this point to Lambertville thence to ...