Engagement at Davis Bridge

October 5, 1862

By late spring 1862, United States forces in the West threatened to cut the Confederacy in two, having captured both New Orleans and Memphis on the Mississippi River, and the vital railroad hub at Corinth, Mississippi, thereby severing ...

Big Flat – Big Bar

This plaque is between the two sites first mined in ’49. The rush came in 1850, when John Weaver & Co. ditched water from Lil’ Weaver Creek, now Big Bar Creek taking out $100,000 in gold at Big Flat. Elizabeth ...

Blackwater Draw

Blackwater Draw consists of several important archaeological sites that have yielded much information about the big-game hunting way of life. Some of the animals that were hunted, like the mammoth, are long extinct. Eastern New Mexico University's Blackwater Draw Museum ...

Dedham Boat Club

Founded April 25, 1874

"For promoting the boating interests of the town"

Incorporated October 29th 1874

First boathouse built on Ames Street site in 1875.

Destroyed by lightning in July 1882.

Second boathouse built on this site in 1883,

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Site of Original First Congregational Church Meetinghouse

Site of Original First Congregational Church Meetinghouse

1740-1775

Congregation founded 1739

Marker is at the intersection of North Granby Road and Salmon Brook Street (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north on North Granby Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trinity Congregational Church

Established 1875

Erected 1891

Marker is on Main Street (California Route 3 / 229), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The National Monument to our Forefathers

Was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Parks Service, the Department of the Interior in September 1974. The monument, designed by Hammet Billings of Boston, was erected by the the Pilgrim Society in 1889. It ...

Non-Repatriated Soldiers' Monument

(South face)

Erected by the State of Connecticut and Citizens of the Town. In memory of Winchester Volunteers, who died or were killed in the War of the Rebellion, and whose bodies were not brought home for burial.

(East face)

Inscribed with the ...

Weaverville Chinatown

Chinatown business district was centered in this area. On September 10, 1874, fire destroyed everything from the corner of Highway 3 & Main Street to the Pacific Brewery, except four adobe buildings. Again, on September 30, 1905, fire destroyed all ...

Old Weaverville Fire Station

This building, with its rammed earth wall was constructed by early Chinese settlers.

On January 17, 1910, it was purchased by the Weaverville Fire District and was their fire station until 1949.

In 1979, the local fire district, with funding from the ...