Silver Bridge Eye-Bar

This eye-bar is similar to one that fractured causing the collapse of the Silver Bridge on December 15, 1967. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the cause of the bridge collapse was the cleavage fracture in the lower limb ...

Paleo and Archaic Indians

Evidence of Native Americans in the lower Ohio Valley includes the Paleo Indians, who lived in this area near the end of the last Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago. Often called Big Game Hunters, they were efficient, nomadic, hunters, ...

The Irish Connection to Fort Adams

Problem . . . Insufficient workforce to build a Fortress.

The solution would come from Ireland. Five hundred families came to not only escape famine and economic hardship, but here they obtained the freedoms they so longed for in their homeland.

Fort ...

The Silver Bridge Disaster

On December 15, 1967, about one mile downstream from this historic marker, a national tragedy occured. Forty-six interstate travelers lost their lives when the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River during five o'clock rush hour traffic. The 2,235 foot ...

Murderkill/Motherkiln Friends Meeting

Quakers were gathering for worship in this area by 1712, when members of the Religious Society of Friends met "at the widow Needham's at Murderkill Creek." Established as Motherkiln Preparative Meeting (under the care of Duck Creek Meeting), the group ...

Portland Cement

This industry was born in the Lehigh Valley. David O. Saylor first made portland cement at Coplay in 1871. Here also was the first use of the rotary kiln process commercially Nov. 8, 1889. This region has continued to lead ...

Jenkins Orphanage

In 1891 the Reverend Daniel J. Jenkins established a home and school for poor, black orphans and for children of poor, distressed and disabled parents. It was his desire "to train the minds and hands of young, black boys and ...

Ceres War Memorial

Remember those who

Remembered us.

The Living – The Dead

The POW – The MIA

They Will Not Be Forgotten.

Dedicated November 11. 1989

Founder Glen R. Perales Vietnam Vet

W.W. I

Sterling Pack • H. Barker • Harold Johnson • Oscar Snover • Cecil Thompson • Edgar ...

Riverbank Historical Museum

This building was constructed in 1921 by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and served as a public library. In 1996 it was placed into the National Registry of Historic Places. The history of our community is preserved in this museum by ...

75mm. Howitzer

Captured with its gun crew 16th August 1944 by

the 8th Naval Beach Battallion and the 540th Army

Engineers at St. Raphael on the French Riveria.

This howitzer, set in a strong casemated position at the left flank of one of the assault ...