Major General George G. Meade Memorial

MEADE

The Commonwealth

of Pennsylvania

to Major General

George Gordon Meade

who commanded

the Union forces

at Gettysburg

Marker is at the intersection of Constitution Avenue, NW and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, on the right when traveling west on Constitution ...

Oxford

Originally part of Derby, Oxford was settled by people pushing inland from Derby, Stratford, and New Haven. Land was acquired in five purchases from the Paugussett and Pootatuck Indians. The first grant of settlement appears in Derby records of 1678. ...

Rebecca Nurse Homestead

1678

In 1636 Francis Weston was granted this land upon which he laid out a farm. This property was purchased by Governor John Endicott in 1648, and in 1678 Francis and Rebecca Nurse moved here and built a house. In March, ...

Goodsprings Mining District 1856 - 1957

Ore deposits readily recognized in the faulted and folded limestone deposits of this district remained unworked until 1856, when the Mormons developed a single lead mine at Potosi—probably the oldest lode mine in Nevada.

Named for cattleman Joseph Good, the open ...

The Church in Salem Village

1630 – 1930

To this church, rent by the witchcraft frenzy, came in 1697 the Reverend Joseph Green, aged twenty-two. He induced the mischief makers to confess, reconciled the factions, established the first public school, and became noted for his skill ...

Our Hero Dead World War II

Our Hero Dead

World War II

Sgt. David S. Miles • Pvt. Albert Vaivoda • Capt. Kenyon S Congdon • 1st Lieut. Cornella A. Wyckoff, M.D. • P.F.C. Edwin H. Cassidy • P.F.C. S. Robert O’Donovan • Pvt. Alvin H. Treat • ...

Albert Pike Monument

[pedestal, north face:]

Albert Pike

Vixit

Laborum Ejus Supersites Sunt Fructus

Author - Poet

[pedestal, west face:]

Scholar - Soldier

[pedestal, south face:]

Erected 1901 by the Supreme Council of

the A. A. S. R. of Freemasonry

for the S. ...

The 1681 Salem Village Parsonage

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In February, 1681, the Salem village inhabitants voted, "We will build a house for the Ministry and provid convenient Land for that end. The Dementions of the House are as ...

Salem Village Parsonage

1681

In 1681 the Salem village inhabitants built a home for their minister at this site. Ministers residing here were George Burroughs (1681-83), Accused in 1692 of being a witch and hanged; Deodat Lawson (1684-88), Author of the first volume about ...

Good's Spring

This small spring, first used by Anasazi and Paiute people, also sustained the caravan that pioneered a pack route now known as the Old Spanish Trail. En route to Los Angeles from Santa Fe, trader Antonio Armijo, 60 men and ...