Shifting Sands: The Story of Rosalie Island

You’re now standing in the cove protected by Rosalie Island, the point of first landfall for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Rosalie Island is actually not an island at all–it is a peninsula. Indeed it is not even a ...

Potter County

Formed March 26, 1804 from Lycoming County, and fully organized in 1835. Named for Revolutionary hero General James Potter. An early center of the lumbering and tanning industries. Coudersport, the county seat, was laid out in 1807; incorporated 1848.

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Stark’s Knob

A natural history site of

the New York State Museum

Stark’s Knob

A quarry in volcanic pillow basalt

donated by Jennie A. Hammond, Carrie B. Mercier, and Caroline E, Orville D. and Elizabeth M. Towne

1916

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Paper Mill Playhouse

The Paper Mill Playhouse was founded in 1934 through the vision and dedication of Antoinette Quinby Scudder. Paper was manufactured here as early as 1795. Despite fire and changing times, it continued as a mill until 1926.

The Playhouse opened with ...

Gov. Bert T. Combs (1959-1963)/Bert T. Combs (1911 – 1991)

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Gov. Bert T. Combs (1959-1963)

Accomplishments during Comb’s administration included highways connecting eastern and western Ky., expansion of state parks system, a statutory merit system for state employees, an end to segregation in public facilities, increased funding for teachers’ salaries and ...

Ann Marwood Durant

d. 1695

First woman known to have acted as attorney in an N.C. court, 1673. Appeared before Council in Perquimans Precinct.

Marker is at the intersection of Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) and New Hope Road, on the right when traveling north on ...

George Durant

1632-1694

Pioneer settler in the Albemarle, about 1662. Speaker of the Assembly. Site of home 20 miles east, at Durant's Neck.

Marker is at the intersection of Ocean Highway (U.S. 17) and New Hope Road, on the right when traveling north on ...

Wheel Repair

Paducah, being located at the confluence of the ohio and Tennessee rivers and within close proximity of the Cumberland and Mississippi, is the hub of the river industry. Two major shipyards serve the Port of Paducah: James Marine and Walker ...

Fort St. Marys

Erected here in 1795 by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, probably after the signing of the Greenville Treaty, on land ceded by the Indians. This area was also the site of the signing of the Treaty of St. Marys in 1818 ...

Paducah Marine Supply and Service

Paducah Marine Supply and Service, owned and operated by Hougland Barge Line, was one of the first floating boat stores on the inland waterways.

The operation had its own fleet of towboats, barges and a machine and carpentry shop. Houghland Barge ...