Billerica

1630 - 1930

Early name Shawshin, originally a part of Cambridge, set off as a town in 1655. Named after Billerica in Essex.

Marker is on Concord Road.

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Peter Navarre

(Front):Peter Navarre

1790-1874Considered the first citizen of the East Side, Peter Navarre, along with his brother Robert, first settled the land east of the Maumee River in 1807. A fur trader by profession, Navarre was experienced in wilderness survival and had ...

Verkamp's Curios

John G. Verkamp rented a tent from the Bright Angel Hotel in 1898 and began selling curios and Indian crafts for Babbitt Brothers' Trading Company. After several slow weeks he closed and sold his stock to the hotel. But he ...

Site of First House

1630 - 1930

Built in 1640 by Edward Converse, who led the party sent out by Charlestown to explore "Waterfield." Selectman twenty-four years, deacon nineteen years, arrested in 1662 for speaking disrespectfully of the King's letter.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

The Symmes Farm

1630 - 1930

Farm of about three hundred acres granted to the Reverend Zachariah Symmes, first minister of Charlestown, in 1634. This portion of the farm is still owned by his descendants.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Everell ...

Pleasures of Roadside Dining

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

Located at the fork of Route 16 and “The Lincoln Way -the Road Without Toll,” Johnnie's Motel was built in the 1940s to serve the many motorists passing through McConnellsburg. The motel's neon sign advertises “rooms with ...

Lincoln Visits Strevell

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While sitting up late the night of January 27, 1860,

in the Pontiac home of Jason

Strevell, Abraham Lincoln

predicted he would be nominated for the vice presidency of the young Republican party. In a letter to his son ...

Fulton County World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Memorial

My God My Country

Dedicated to all

Veterans

of

World War II,

Korea and Vietnam

Marker is at the intersection of Market Street and 2nd Street (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling west on Market Street.

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Bellingham-Cary Mansion

1630 - 1930

Six hundred feet from this point is the mansion built by Governor Richard Bellingham in 1659, rebuilt and enlarged by Samuel Cary in 1791. Here Washington stationed the last outpost of the left wing of the Continental Army ...

Deane Winthrop House

1630 - 1930

In 1637 William Peirce, Captain of the ship "Lion" erected this house which was occupied from 1647 to 1703 by Deane Winthrop, younger son of Governor Winthrop.

Marker is on Shirley Street, on the right when traveling south.

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