The Lucille Ryals Thompson Colonial Chapel
Inspired by Bruton Parish Church of Williamsburg, Virginia, it was named to honor Lucille Ryals Thompson. The Chapel was built in thanksgiving for Gods blessings on America, and to honor the gift . . . — — Map (db m101505) HM
The purpose of this monument is to forever stand as a tribute to our nation's Founding Fathers who created the two most important documents that laid the foundation of our country: the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. This . . . — — Map (db m67581) HM
The first ferry crossing of the Connecticut River was tended by John Bissell in 1641. This road leads to the landing place where succeeding generations of Bissells, and finally the Town, kept this Ferry in continuous operation until 1917. Main . . . — — Map (db m114003) HM
This is the home of the famous mineral springs where the Indians met to drink the iron and sulphur waters to make them lively and to which the future President John Adams came for his health in 1771. Later the elite of the Nation gathered here for . . . — — Map (db m111917) HM
English settlers in southeastern Connecticut aided the Mohegan Tribe many times during the 17th century Pequot and Narragansett Wars. In 1645 Thomas Leffingwell and others helped lift a Narragansett siege of the Mohegans' Fort Shantok on the . . . — — Map (db m268167) HM
German-Americans Fight for Independence
John Adams letter of 6 July 1775 to James Warren provides a most vivid image of one of thousands of German-Americans willing and anxious to fight for American independence: A . . . — — Map (db m154644) HM
The Rosedale farmhouse is said to be the oldest house surviving in Washington, DC. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The farmhouse is a private home.
Please do not enter farmhouse grounds.
. . . — — Map (db m112385) HM
You are standing at what has been the crossroads of Georgetown since Colonial times. George Town was laid out on the bluffs above the harbor on either side of Wisconsin Avenue. The avenue then was called Frederick Town Rolling Road because it was . . . — — Map (db m113647) HM
Old North was the University's main building from 1795 until the completion of the Healy building in 1879. During this period, it was not uncommon for the President of the United States to visit the University for commencement exercises, or for . . . — — Map (db m255242) HM
A bronze likeness of Chief Justice John Marshall, visible on your way to the next Heritage Trail sign, keeps watch over John Marshall Park to your right. Marshall is remembered for molding the U.S. Supreme Court into today's authoritative body. . . . — — Map (db m56495) HM
Site of the residence of John Marshall Chief Justice of the United States Plaque erected under the auspices of the Columbia Historical Society and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
[Inscription on wall below the marker . . . — — Map (db m58625) HM
In Congress, July 4, 1776.Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,
we . . . — — Map (db m137039) HM
Americas oldest navy and marine installations are just blocks from where you are standing.
This is the northern edge of a Capitol Hill community shaped by the presence of the U.S. military. Eighth Street is its commercial center. The . . . — — Map (db m130729) HM
If you are hearing the ringing tones of band music, one of the ensembles of the world-famous United States Marine Band may be practicing inside the Marine Barracks.
John Philip Sousa, the neighborhoods most famous son, spent 19 years . . . — — Map (db m130738) HM
The Navy Department Library was established by President Adams on 31 March 1800. On that date he wrote to the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddart, requesting the gathering
“ of all the best writing in Dutch, Spanish, French, . . . — — Map (db m51068) HM
In 1766 Richard Oswald acquired 20,000 acres of land along the Halifax and Tomoka rivers from the British government. On this grant was established Mount Oswald Plantation which was located on this site, and produced indigo, rice, timber, molasses, . . . — — Map (db m21331) HM
(Panel one)
British Military Force Threatens the United States In the early years of the 19th century, the United States was a fledgling nation with
a population of 7,700,000, a standing army
of 6,700, and a navy of only 12 ships. . . . — — Map (db m25014) HM
"This is no time to talk of moderation; in the
present instance it ceases to be a virtue."
Speech to Provincial Congress, June 5, 1776 Foremost among Georgia's Revolutionary patriots stood Archibald Bulloch whose remains rest in this . . . — — Map (db m5335) HM
This was the summer home of Joseph Habersham of Savannah (1751-1815), Georgia patriot, Revolutionary War hero, and political leader. He was a Colonel in the Continental Army, a member of Continental Congress, and of the Georgia Convention that . . . — — Map (db m43697) HM
A few thoughts about democracy:
Democracy is "government of the people, by the people, for the people"
-Abraham Lincoln
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy . . . — — Map (db m304936) HM
The original homestead of John Quincy Adams was located in the center of this block. The home was built in the late 1800s and demolished in January, 1943. John Quincy Adams was a descent of the second and sixth presidents of the United States. The . . . — — Map (db m284805) HM
Theodore Roosevelt Letter On Cuba
On January 22, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Secretary of War William Howard Taft rejecting the idea of a protectorate over Cuba and expressing his determination that the United States should . . . — — Map (db m169581) HM
Miami Chief Mishikinakwa or Me-she-kin-no-quah, known to the Euro-Americans as Little Turtle, born circa 1747, played a significant role in the settlement of the area surrounding the confluence of the Three Rivers. He was the most successful Native . . . — — Map (db m197057) HM
Chief Little Turtle was one of the most feared and respected leaders during the frontier wars of the 1780s and 1790s when Fort Wayne was born. Known to his people as Meshekinnoquah, Little Turtle is thought to have been born in 1752 in a village . . . — — Map (db m21503) HM
On July 4, 1800, the western part of the
Northwest Territory became the Indiana Territory.
It covered land that would eventually be included
in the present states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Vincennes, on the . . . — — Map (db m23266) HM
February 22, 1797: At the Presidential Mansion in Philadelphia, President George Washington formally presented Irish-born John Barry with Commission Number One in the newly formed United States Navy. With the commission, backdated to the . . . — — Map (db m114812) HM
1784
Peace Treaty Ratified[Captions:]
Governor William Paca's Proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. Treaty of Paris Broadside Collection [MSA SC 5785]
The last page of the Treaty of Paris, . . . — — Map (db m114555) HM
Dedicated in reverent tribute to those patriots from the Brooklyn, Curtis Bay, Fairfield area who gloriously served our beloved America in her tragic wars.
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present . . . — — Map (db m212964) WM
In the late 1760s, the Mount Clare mansion was built by Charles Carroll, Barrister and his wife, Margaret Tilghman, as their summer home. The mansion was located on the grounds of the original plantation, Georgia, and included an orangery, . . . — — Map (db m2533) HM
"This tree dedicated to Colonel James McHenry Secretary of War under Presidents Washington and John Adams and for whom Fort McHenry was named in 1798 when it was offered to the Federal Government." — — Map (db m145548) HM
The Declaration of Independence
On June 7, 1776, forty-four-year-old Richard Henry Lee, Senior Member of the Virginia Delegation, submitted a resolution to the Continental Congress:
Resolved, that these United Colonies . . . — — Map (db m145903) HM
James Otis Jr.
The Patriot
West Barnstable
1725 — 1783
Advocate Orator Statesman
President John Adams Said In Part
Of Otiss Famous Writs Of Assistance
Speech In Boston February 1761
“American Independence . . . — — Map (db m142330) HM
Adams Overlook: A Town Tied to the Mountain
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Adams Overlook faces east, looking over the town of Adams to the Hoosac Range, a branch of the Berkshire Mountains. Named after Revolutionary War hero John . . . — — Map (db m85154) HM
Improve your understanding for acquiring useful knowledge and virtue, such as will render you an ornament to society, an Honour to your Country, and a Blessing to Your parents. Abigail Adams in a letter to her . . . — — Map (db m299843) HM
Farmer Lawyer Patriot Diplomat First Vice President Second President of the United States Side of Monument: There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public . . . — — Map (db m18052) HM
National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior [ Back of marker ] “It is but the farm of a Patriot” John Adams, 1788 — — Map (db m40652) HM
John Adams was born in 1735 in the house at the rear of the lot. John Quincy Adams was born in 1767 in the house at today's street corner. Here, Abigail Adams managed house and farm for several years during the Revolution. Here, John Adams drafted . . . — — Map (db m299842) HM
Within this church are the tombs of two Presidents of the United States and their wives John Adams – Second President 1735 1826 Abigail Adams 1744 1818 their son John Quincy Adams – Sixth President 1767 1848 Louisa Catherine Adams 1775 . . . — — Map (db m18051) HM
Neighborhood of Revolution Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended. - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In In the course of just two pivotal days April 18 and . . . — — Map (db m191830) HM
From 1769-1776 Boston was the flashpoint for events leading up to the American Revolution. On February 22, 1770, a crowd gathered around the house and shop of a Tory sympathizer and customs agent, Ebenezer Richardson. When they started pelting the . . . — — Map (db m18766) HM
Neighborhood of Revolution Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended. - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In In the course of just two pivotal days April 18 and . . . — — Map (db m191828) HM
Three hundred years ago this location did not have ideal conditions for a graveyard. There were many underground springs which made it soggy and damp. Tomb owners routinely found their tombs filled with water, with caskets and bodies floating about. . . . — — Map (db m18770) HM
The Salutation Tavern Opened in 1662, stood on the north east corner of Salutation and North Streets adjoining this Mall It was the meeting place of The Committee of Safety and in it was planned The Boston Tea Party Here Samuel . . . — — Map (db m76625) HM
War
Since recorded history, one of the tragedies of man's existence is war. Wars are started by leaders and finished by citizens of the country they represent - and always at a terrible cost in human lives.
These memorials will help you . . . — — Map (db m73566) WM
Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, third president of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia - voiced the aspirations of a new America as no other individual of his . . . — — Map (db m179400) HM
“Ye English soldiers came . . . They took two mares from me . . . and while the army was passing they came in and took our bread, pie, milk, cheese, meat dishes, cups, spoons, and then took shirts, sheets, blankets, coverleds, stodking, . . . — — Map (db m89743) HM
Preacher “One of the most useful qualifications of a good minister is that he have a lively sense of religion upon his own heart.” John Witherspoon Born in Gifford, Scotland, in 1723, Witherspoon was educated at the . . . — — Map (db m44842) HM
1790 — Trenton named capital of New Jersey.
John Fitchs steamboat makes Trenton–Philadelphia trips three days a week.
1792 — State House opens.
Assembly meets in State House for first time.
1799 — President . . . — — Map (db m3985) HM
Following the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly independent United States were faced with establishing a national capital. Up to this point the Continental Congress had met in several places, most often in Philadelphia and New York City. Congress . . . — — Map (db m166108) HM
Settlement begun about 1680 by Dutch and English received from George II city charter as New Brunswick in 1730. This highway was an Indian trail to the falls of the Delaware and the Minisink Trail to Navesink crossed it here. It became the Great . . . — — Map (db m62691) HM
This piece of land has always been called the Bluff, meaning a hill with a broad, steep face. This sites history suggests another meaning for bluff – to hoodwink. It was here that a delaying tactic permitted an escape, that a fugitive found . . . — — Map (db m25112) HM
Built by and for Christopher Billopp about 1680, this house was long a center of colonial hospitality. It is known also as Conference House because Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge met here with Lord Howe at his request on . . . — — Map (db m287877) HM
In September 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward Rutledge met here with British Lord Howe in an unsuccessful negotiation for peace. — — Map (db m8727) HM
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Long known as “The Billopp House” built before 1700 In this house on September 11, 1776 after the Battle of Long Island a Peace Conference was held between Lord Howe, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Edward . . . — — Map (db m7889) HM
In Memoriam William Hooper and John Penn delegates from North Carolina 1776 to the Continental Congress and signers of the Declaration of Independence. Their remains were reinterred here 1894. Hewes grave is lost. He was the third signer. . . . — — Map (db m34883) HM
Israel Donalson, member of the First Constitutional Convention of Ohio.
In May 1800, Congress passed an act building the Northwest
Territory, with the western division becoming Indiana
Territory and the eastern called the Territory of the . . . — — Map (db m136539) HM
Served in the Continental Army under the command of General Washington. Appointed as Accountant of the War Department by Washington and served under Presidents Adams, Jefferson and Madison. For his services in the Continental Army, received a land . . . — — Map (db m227846) HM
In 1800, President John Adams granted 4,000 acres in the Walhonding Valley to William Simmons for his service to the United States of America as a Colonel during the Revolution, and for being one of five men appointed by President George Washington . . . — — Map (db m157850) HM
Life at North Bend
As the War of 1812 concluded, William Henry Harrison resigned his post, content to make public appearances and live a settled life with his family here in North Bend.
Though his presidential campaign would . . . — — Map (db m167277) HM
Governor Charles Willing Byrd
was the son of Colonel William Byrd of
Virginia. In 1792 President John Adams
appointed him secretary of the Northwest
Territory and in 1802 he became acting
governor of the territory. He was a
delegate to the . . . — — Map (db m121877) HM
[Left Historical Marker]:
This Land Office was established by Congress
on May 10, 1800.
President John Adams appointed David Hoge
as Land and Title Registrar, which position
he held for forty years.
In 1801 Mr. Hoge bought the . . . — — Map (db m46886) HM
Side A: Johnstown Cemetery
In 1810, Dr. Oliver Bigelow from Cayuga County, New York, purchased a 4,000-acre tract of land in Monroe Township from John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, for the sum of $10,000. President John Adams had . . . — — Map (db m16711) HM
U.S. Service Members: 217,000
Battle Deaths: 4,435
"Posterity! You will
never know how much
it cost the present
generation to preserve
your freedom! I hope
you will make a good
use of it. If you do not,
I shall repent in . . . — — Map (db m300411) WM
Labor leader, workers' advocate. Arrested and jailed in Homestead for speaking to striking steelworkers, 1919. When a judge asked who gave her a permit to speak publicly, she replied, "Patrick Henry. Thomas Jefferson. John Adams!" — — Map (db m44869) HM
[Chronology]
Revolutionary War · 1775-1783
April 19, 1775
"Shot Heard Around the World," the American Revolution begins
November 10, 1775
Continental Congress authorized the first two Continental Marine Battalions
March . . . — — Map (db m143969) HM WM
Site of early challenge to federal government's authority. This armed resistance by Pennsylvania-German farmers to the 1798 federal house tax was suppressed by soldiers. Leader John Fries was arrested for treason, condemned to death, and pardoned . . . — — Map (db m26846) HM
Entering this gateway to Dickinson College, you can see the statue of the college's founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). The bronze statue, which was erected in 2004, is a replica of a statue unveiled 100 years earlier at the Navy's Bureau of . . . — — Map (db m82795) HM
Indian wigwams, a hickory tree, and a spring - that was old center square "Hickory Town" prior to 1730. In that year, however, significant changes occurred as Andrew and James Hamilton laid out Lancaster Townstead with an open square. Streets . . . — — Map (db m5151) HM
They have carried the mechanical Arts to greater Perfection here than in any Place which I have seen.
John Adams to Abigail Adams
April, 1777
Early Industrial History
By 1745, only four years after they founded Bethlehem (1741), . . . — — Map (db m26917) HM
“They have a Sett of Pumps which go by Water, which force the water up through leaden Pipes, from the River to the Top of the Hill, near an hundred feet.”
John Adams to Abigail Adams
1777
A bountiful spring supplied . . . — — Map (db m27191) HM
Before and during the American Revolution many noted patriots worshiped here, including George Washington, Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Count Casimir Pulaski and the Marquis de Lafayette.
In 1792 . . . — — Map (db m27189) HM
Archeology
Archeology is the study of the past through the material remains of everyday objects that people lost or discarded in the places they inhabited and the spaces through which they moved. Wherever people live or work or play, they . . . — — Map (db m306966) HM
Caught between his private doubts about slavery and his public responsibilities as president, George Washington navigated a nation deeply divided over slavery. Privately, George Washington often expressed discomfort with the institution and a . . . — — Map (db m306989) HM
Frankford
this road was marked out in 1675 as
The King's Highway
and improved by the order of the Provincial Council in 1862.
William Penn traversed this road in going to his home of Pennsbury.
John Adams & other . . . — — Map (db m269620) HM
Great soldier of freedom
who participated in the three greatest political upheavals of his time: the struggle for Independence in the United States, the French Revolution and the emancipation of Latin America.
The elite of Philadelphia built this tavern to drink, dine, and danceamong their own.
Business and politics were on the menu and deals were often sealed with drinks. Delegates to the Continental Congress dined here, and in 1787, members of . . . — — Map (db m227599) HM
This bronze sculpture replicates John Trumbulls famous painting Declaration of Independence that is displayed in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol. It depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to the . . . — — Map (db m106148) HM
George Washington died on Dec. 14, 1799. Congress set Dec. 26 as a day of formal mourning in Philadelphia, the nation's capital from 1790 to 1800. The national funeral was in Zion Lutheran Church--located at this site, 1766-1870-- and among those . . . — — Map (db m43006) HM
The City Tavern in Philadelphia was erected at a great expense by a voluntary subscription of the principal gentlemen of the city or the convenience of the public, and is much the largest and most elegant house occupied in that way . . . — — Map (db m51219) HM
Duffield's sermon urged citizens to "break free of Crown rule" Four months before the Declaration of Independence was signed, he preached a sermon to members of the Continental Congress and several militias urging them to support the cause of . . . — — Map (db m214054) HM
Old St. Mary's church was the most important Catholic church during the American Revolution and the early years of the nation. Built in 1763, when St. Joseph's became too small to accommodate the Catholic population of the city, the church was . . . — — Map (db m9111) HM
He was the enemy of all exorbitants Powers and a sincere Friend to the Liberties of his Country. To all this was added a Taste for Science, for the Fine Arts and for all the Improvements of Civil Life.
Epitaph of Samuel Powel, Christ Church . . . — — Map (db m137816) HM
On January 27, 1777, Deborah Norris wrote to her friend Sally Wister of a "shocking sight." Large pits are dug in the negroes burying ground (Washington Square), and forty or fifty (soldiers) coffins are put in the same hole.
Throughout that . . . — — Map (db m9047) HM
Abigail wrote to her sister in May of 1798 expressing her fears as the political debate heated up over President Adams' policies towards France. Over one thousand men marched in support of Adams on the street outside her window, while rumors . . . — — Map (db m102222) HM
Founding Mother and Patriot
The second first lady of the United States, Abigail Adams, is best remembered for her intelligence and devoted support of her husband, John Adams. Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Abigail Smith was the daughter . . . — — Map (db m306922) HM
"It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illumionations from one End of . . . — — Map (db m306738) HM
Founder and Patriot
John Adams was the second president of the United States. He was also a fierce proponent of American independence, the first American ambassador to Great Britain, and the nations first vice president. Born in Braintree, . . . — — Map (db m306921) HM
Old City Hall
Used by the U.S. Supreme Court
Independence Hall
Built as the Pennsylvania State House
Congress Hall
Built as the County Court House
1737 ❦ Construction . . . — — Map (db m210950) HM
"The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected " . . . — — Map (db m306765) HM
These plaques commemorate the 56 members of the Continental Congress who risked their lives, reputations and fortunes by signing the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and 1777.
George Clymer, Merchant, Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin, . . . — — Map (db m227601) HM
"He shall from time to time give to Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient " Article II, Section 3
On June 26, 1798, three weeks before Congress passed the Sedition Act, President Adams greeted dinner guests at the President's House. Two blocks away, Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin and editor of the Aurora, was . . . — — Map (db m102250) HM
"[H]e shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers "
Article II, Section 3
The Constitution gives the president the important diplomatic and ceremonial responsibility to meet with foreign ambassadors and . . . — — Map (db m306962) HM
A New Nation:
A New Form of Government
The federal government moved from New York City to Philadelphia in 1790. Years of contentious debate over where to locate the nation's capital contributed to the divide between North and South. . . . — — Map (db m102254) HM
A Brief Timeline of Freedom and Slavery at this Site
Before For hundreds of years, Algonquian-speaking peoples lived here.
1682 The city of Philadelphia was founded.
1767 The house was built by Mary Lawrence Masters, a slaveholder . . . — — Map (db m102465) HM
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