Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse

A temporary light was established on the south end of the recently completed National Harbor of Refuge Breakwater on January 1, 1902. It was replaced in 1908 by a three-story frame lighthouse. A series of storms damaged the structure, resulting ...

Christian Frederick Martin

Founder in 1833 of C.F. Martin & Co. (The Martin Guitar Company), one of the world's oldest musical instrument manufacturers. Its innovations in acoustic guitar design-- including the x-braced flat-top guitar and Dreadnought guitar-- were to exert a formative influence ...

Unknown Sailors' Cemetery

Lewes has been a Port-of-Call and a Harbor-of-Refuge since the 17th century. For generations during the ages of sail, a public burial ground in this immediate locality became the final resting place for hundred of sailors who lost their lives ...

15 Bank Street

Lawrence Hall

Built in the neoclassical style for

Joseph Lawrence, head of a prominent

New London whaling family,

as a hall for lectures and exhibits.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

City of New London, Maritime Heritage Park ...

Paul Vories McNutt

1891 - 1955

Paul Vories McNutt came to Morgan County as child; graduated Martinsville High School 1909; Indiana University 1913; L.L.B. Harvard University.

Practiced law in Martinsville with Father as McNutt & McNutt. Served W.W. I as Colonel; 1925 became Dean ...

2 State Street

1844

Built as a warehouse and ships chandlery

for the whaling firm of Perkins & Smith.

In 1889, became the Winthrop Hotel to

recognize the city’s founder,

John Winthrop Jr.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

City of New ...

7th Wisconsin Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 28, 1862

7:00 p.m.

4th Brigade (Gibbon), First Division (King)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

7th Wisconsin Infantry

Col. William W. Robinson

"We soon found that we had to deal with General Ewell's whole division of picked men. We advanced ...

Perrysburg / Perrysburg Plat Map

[West Side of Marker] : "Perrysburg"

Following the War of 1812, settlers reestablished the 1810 Maumee River town, Port Miami of Lake Erie, on the land below the deserted Fort Meigs. The inhabitants nicknamed the new town "Orleans of the North" ...

The United States Treasury

Civil War to Civil Rights

Billions for the war, and a bunker for the president

The grand, pillared United States Treasury building that stands before you, its first section designed by Robert Mills in 1836, was the financial command center ...

35 Water Street

Union Railroad Station

By Henry Hobson Richardson, initiator

of Romanesque revival in America and

architect of Trinity Church in Boston

and Harvard University’s Sever Hall.

Historic Waterfront District Heritage Trail

New London Main Street 2006

Funded by City Center District &

Frank Loomis Palmer Fund

Marker is at the ...