Swansea, Massachusetts.
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1917 Roll of Honor The World War 1918 This Tablet Is Erected By the Town of Swansea In Honor of its Citizens Who Served Their Country in the World War
(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
1917 Roll of Honor The World War 1918 This Tablet Is Erected By the Town of Swansea In Honor of its Citizens Who Served Their Country in the World War(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Marked by an antique arch, the Holly Pond Cemetery encompasses 10 acres and a chapel built in 1975. The site was chosen to replace the burial ground in the center of town and make room for the town to grow. The first acre . . . 
In Loving Memory of Raymond R. Carter RD2 US Navy And Those Swansea Veterans that Served at Sea
You have entered the land of the Río Bravo del Norte, the northernmost outpost of sixteenth century Spain. To the Spanish people, the San Luis Valley was a wild and unexplored place known only to the Native people. Amidst . . . 
Indian Trail and Seaman's Neck Path through tract purchased from Massapequa Indians, 1664, by Captian John Seaman; became public highway, 1762
In memory of World War Veterans
The site of the fort was set aside as a public park in 1823 by the Village of Defiance. Enter and follow the series of in-ground bronze plaques that highlight the fort's 1794-96 storyline and features. The Glaize The . . . 
Garrison's food preparation area fireplace located in corner.
Twenty-two foot square structure two levels with corner fireplace.
On January 27, 1807, U.S. Army Lt. Zebulon Pike and nine soldiers (affectionally called "Dam'd Set of Rascals" by Pike) crossed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains over Medano Pass to enter the territory of New Spain. On orders . . . 
Dedicated to All area Veterans All gave some some gave all
A trench sixteen feet wide by eight feet deep was dug on three sides of the fort. Earth removed from the trench was used to form a six-foot high earthen parapet next to the fort's wall of pickets and exterior sides of the . . . 
Completed in 1886, the State Printing Building is the second oldest structure built by the State within the Capitol Complex. Architects Morrill J. Curtis and Seymore Pixley, designed the Italianate structure to compliment . . . 
The funeral train pulled into the Chicago & Alton Railroad station on Jefferson Street, at 8:40 A.M. on May 3, 1865. Vast crowds had already poured into Springfield over the night of May 2, 1865, and more people were still . . . 
Political parties in 1860 often served as social clubs, as well as electoral organizations. One such group established to support Abraham Lincoln was the "Wide Awakes" - a chapter of which was formed in Atlanta, Illinois on . . . 
This collection of small museums in Neo-Italian Renaissance style resembles a special ensemble of turn-of-the-century Beaux Arts planning. The complex is the only one of its kind in New York City. Charles Pratt Huntington . . . 
On August 9, 1794, General Anthony Wayne ordered Major Henry Burbeck to erect a garrison at the confluence. Though it was constructed in only six days using crude implements and materials that were on hand, it was the . . . 
Anthony Wayne defeated the Indian Confederation at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794. The retreating Indians were locked out of Fort Miamis by their British allies. Wayne noted the artillery mounted at the . . . 
As Anthony Wayne marched up the Maumee River to Kekionga (Fort Wayne, Indiana), another Native American stronghold, he placed Major Thomas Hunt in command of the garrison. Major Thomas Cushing was second in command of the . . . 
Officers stayed in their own log structure. It may have been divided into four rooms. Enlisted men were quartered within the four log blockhouses. All structures had fireplaces.
