The Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet

June 29, 1776

A memorial to the seamen and officers

of the

Brigantine Nancy

Marker is at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and E Miami Avenue, on the right when traveling south on New Jersey Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Steerage Rock

1630 - 1930

Four miles distant on the summit of East Waddaquodduck Mountain is Steerage Rock, a landmark on the Indian trail which became known as the Bay Path and a guidepost to the pioneer settlers of the Connecticut Valley from ...

"Very loth to go on"

The detachments approached Walden's Ridge within days of leaving Blythe's Ferry. The climb up the mountain proved difficult. Supplying food to both people and animals became a major problem. Particular hardship accompanied the climb up Walden's Ridge and according to ...

Spring Hill Methodist Church

According to tradition, Methodists worshiped here under a brush arbor as early as 1800. On August 2, 1814, Phillip Keller deeded one acre for a Methodist Church and burying ground. Eden and Rebecca Green Thrower deeded an additional acre in ...

Connable Fort

1630 - 1930

Site of the second fort and building in Fall Town, erected in 1739 by Samuel Connable. Its original timbers are still in the house on a knoll to the northwest.

Marker is on Brattleboro Road (U.S. 5), on the ...

George Washington Bicentennial

In memory of

George Washington

1732 - 1799

this tree is planted by

Lewis Boyer Chapter D.A.R.

in the bicentennial year of his birth

1932

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue (Ohio Route 29) and Poplar Street, on the right when traveling south on Main ...

Old Deerfield

1630 - 1930

Indian land called Pocomtuck, settled by men from Dedham in 1671. Attacked by Indians, burnt, and abandoned in 1675. Reoccupied and attacked in 1704 by French and Indians, who took 47 lives, and carried off 112 captives to ...

"The People were over"

Moving the thousand's of people and about 5,000 horses and 500 wagons across the Tennessee River at Blythe's Ferry proved slow. Some crossings took as long as three days.

"I reached Blythe's ferry on Sunday evening last, and found the great ...

Gravesite of Lt (jg) Thomas E Zellars -Namesake of USS Zellars D

Grantville native Thomas E Zellars (1898-1924) graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1920 and reported for duty aboard the USS Mississippi. As turret commander he rose to the rank of lieutenant. In 1924, an explosion and fire engulfed his ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of ...