The Portage Path Connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River

The First Americans

You are standing at the North Terminus of the renewed Portage Path, which formed the vital link in the shortest and best water route between the great lake to the north and the rivers flowing south. The trail ...

Norfolk

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Norfolk

In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius Brown of Windsor. The town was incorporated in 1758 with forty-four voters at the first town meeting. ...

The Norfolk Academy

Built 1840 for

The Norfolk Academy

later used as the Town Hall & Jail

Since 1960

The Norfolk Historical

Museum

Marker is at the intersection of Village Green and Greenwoods Road East (U.S. 44), on the right when traveling north on Village Green.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ripon World War II Memorial

In Honor of

Ripon High School Students

KIA World War II

Radomir Kilak • Henry Bouma • Raymond Clifton • Lyman Fulton • Billy Haller • Jack Harp • John Kamps • Paul Madsen • Oscar Poelstra • Carl Peterson • Viggo Peterson ...

1797 Portage Path Survey

Trail Stones Identify Portage Path

This series of flat stones has been laid on the ground to mark the actual trail of the Portage Path as it was surveyed by Moses Warren in 1797. From here, the trail winds southwest and ...

Fort Lyttelton

Begun in 1755 by George Croghan, named by Governor Morris after Sir George Lyttelton, then the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Garrisoned variously by Provincial and regular troops, as well as local volunteers in 1763. By 1764 it was reported in ...

Helmchen House Historic Site

John Sebastian Helmcken arrived in Fort Victoria in 1850 to work as a physician for the Hudson’s Bay Company.

He remained here for the rest of his life, marrying Cecilia Douglas, the eldest daughter of Governor James Douglas. The young couple ...

New York Marble Cemetery

Incorporated 1831

Enclosed within this block is the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in the city. Descendants of the 19th century owners may still be buried here. The 156 solid marble vaults were built completely underground as a health precaution. Though ...

Yeck Family Portage Path North Terminus Memorial

Preserving the Trail of the Portage Path

The Portage Path is now marked for all time in bronze to honor and memorialize the American Indian who for untold centuries preserved and cared for this land and its waterways.

During the 1990's, the ...

Norfolk World War I Monument

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1917 The World War 1918

In honor of those who gave and those

who offered their lives for liberty

the people of Norfolk have built

this monument and crowned it with

The Liberty Bell

in the faith that it will ring the

knell of ...