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Buliod-Perry House

c. 1750

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of

Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Touro Street and Touro Ct., on the right when traveling east on Touro Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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The Village of Germantown

On October 4th, 1814, a clerk dipped his pen into an inkstand, and made a boldly scripted entry in the Records of Montgomery County.

His entry showed that one Philip Gunckel had filed a plat plan for the Village of Germantown.

It ...

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Capt. Robert Kirkwood (1756-1791)

At the start of the American Revolution, Robert Kirkwood served as a lieutenant in Hazlet’s Delaware Regiment and in 1777 was promoted to captain and company commander in the 1st Delaware Continental Regiment. In the Battle of Camden (Aug. 16, ...

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Pegleg Crossing on the San Saba

Hourglass-shaped pass through the hills were McDougal Creek joins San Saba River. For years a favored Indian campground, it entered written history, 1732, as site of Spanish-Apache battle.

Saw passage of adventurers, mustang hunters, Indian fighters, German settlers, gold-seekers.

Probably named by ...

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The Wayne Trace

General Anthony Wayne and the Legion of the United States passed this way on October 30, 1794, in route from Fort Wayne to Fort Greenville, ending the western campaign against the Indian Confederacy. The Legion spent the previous night camped ...

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The Church of the Epiphany

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Carpets, cushions, and hymnbooks were packed away ... ambulances began to stop ... lastly come the surgeons....”

Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington.

Church spires dominated the skyline of the city of Washington at the time of the ...

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Keauhou - Kahalu'u Heritage Corridor

Moku (island districts) were traditionally subdivided into smaller land wedges called ahupua'a. Generally, these ahupua'a extend from the mountain to the sea and contain all the resources needed for sustainable living. Mauka (upland) field systems were cultivated for crops and ...

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David Brainerd

The log house occupied by the Presbyterian missioner to the Indians in 1744 was a short distance away on the side road. It was here the youthful zealot wrote part of his famed journal.

Marker is at the intersection of South ...

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William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

Blue Sink

Visited by William Bartram, America's first naturalist, in 1774.

Erected by Newberry Garden Club in cooperation with Dist. V. FFGC National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

Fla. Dept. of Transportation

Marker is on ...

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William Bartram's Plantation

In 1766 on the banks of the St. Johns River at Little Florence Cove, William Bartram attempted to farm a 500-acre land grant. Bartram had spent much of the previous year exploring the new British Colony of East Florida with ...

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