John Williams, Howell Hoggett, William Atkinson, Daniel Hornsby

To John Williams and Howell Gaggett. Killed by Indians in May, 1836 while detailed from Captain John J. Tumlinson’s company of Rangers to help protect the families of the Hornsby’s settlement on returning from the “Run Away Scrape”.

To William Atkinson. ...

Greenwood Cemetery Wall

1871

The wall was built primarily because of the controversy between Council Grove and Parkerville and their fight to secure the permanent location for the county seat.

Jobs were created by both towns and workers were imported to swell the number of ...

Terwilliger Home / Trail Days House

1861

With its foundation in Kansas Territory, this house was established here, along the Santa Fe Trail as Kansas became the thirty fourth state.

History Comes Alive Here!

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 56) and Adams Street, on the ...

Old Slave Cemetery

Founded 1672

Rededicated May 17, 1964

Restored by the Boy Scouts of Bergenfield.

Marker is on Cedar Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hotel Del Rio and Casino

This hotel, the oldest operating in Isleton, opened in 1949. During construction it was discovered that his site was an old Indian burial ground. Manuel Valine was the first owner of this building that operated as a casino. Soon after ...

Demarest Railroad Station

Built 1872 at “Demarests Station” on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey. Designed by noted architect J. Cleveland Cady, it was considered the “handsomest on the line.” The depot was built of Palisades stone quarried on the Demarest farm. The ...

In Memory of the Underhills

In memory of the Underhills

who lived, worshiped, and died near here.

They were the descendants of Nathanial

son of Captain John Underhill

who arrived at Boston in 1630.

Marker can be reached from S Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Giant Ground Sloth

On this site in 1975 was found the best preserved and most complete giant ground sloth ever found in North America.

The sloth weighed three to five tons, stood thirteen feet tall and was a vegetarian.

An estimated fifty species of animals ...

Derick Banta House

This example of Dutch Colonial architecture was built between 1780-1790 by Derick Banta, soldier in the American Revolution, after his birthplace here was burned by Tories. Owned by the Quackenbush family from 1792, it was sold to Isaac Dixon in ...

The Old Mansion

Home of thirty-three Governors during their terms of office and scene of elaborate political and social functions, 1797 to 1914. Thomas Metcalfe, who laid the stone foundation in 1797, later occupied the mansion as the tenth Kentucky Governor, 1828-32. Not ...