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Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River

Highland River Access

• Type: Place

The Highland River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Minisink Ford, in between Lackawaxen, PA and Barryville, NY. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Glen Haven General Store

• Type: Place

There was only one place in the late 19th century and 20th century that provided the necessities for life-meat, produce, fabrics, communication and tools: the General Store. It was the hub of D.H. Day's company. The lumbermen and dock workers were paid in company "scrip" so they could only shop at this store. At different times in its history, the store served as a post office, ticket and freight office for steamers, telegraph station, lumber salesroom, and more.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Inn Garages

• Type: Place

Six years after Day's death, his daughter Marion and her husband Louis Warnes began running Dunesmobile rides out of Glen Haven. It started with a 1934 Ford which took four people out to the crest of the dunes and back. It was a thrilling 35-minute ride that took passengers to the crest of the dunes and back for 25 cents each. By the time the rides ended in 1978, there were 13 dunes wagons each carrying 14 passengers on a 12 mile, 35-minute excursion.

Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River

Skinners Falls River Access

• Type: Place

The Skinners Falls River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Milanville, PA adjacent to the Skinners Falls Bridge. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only. Please note the Skinners Falls Bridge is closed to all traffic at this time.

Commissary Storehouse

• Type: Place

Commissary Storehouse (1884)

• Type: Place

Hampton National Historic Site

Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard

• Type: Person

Sophia Gough Ridgely Howard went against the norms of her time and took a silent stand against the institution of slavery the best way she knew how. According to several historical accounts, she helped influence her father, Charles Carnan Ridgely, to manumit (free) many of those he enslaved. She championed what she thought was right, a stand that led to a rift in the family, though she never lived to see the impact of her actions. Pushing for social change.

Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River

Damascus River Access

• Type: Place

The Damascus River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Damascus, PA adjacent to the Cochecton-Damascus Bridge. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats.

Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River

Darbytown River Access

• Type: Place

The Darbytown River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Narrowsburg, NY across the river in Darbytown, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.

Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River

Zane Grey (Lackawaxen) River Access

• Type: Place

The Zane Grey River Access, also known as the Lackawaxen River Access, is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Lackawaxen, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.

Boston National Historical Park

Jasper Clarence McCartney

• Type: Person

Jasper McCartney spent most of his life at sea, enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1930 at age 20. In the 1930s, he served on three destroyers, including the USS West Virginia where he worked as a fireman and watertender. In 1940, McCartney joined the crew of the USS Arkansas and was promoted to chief watertender. He was assigned to the USS Cassin Young a few days after its commissioning in December, 1943. McCartney was killed in action during a kamikaze attack on the destroyer.

Henry Knox

• Type: Person

Henry Knox, a key figure in the American Revolutionary War, was known for his military science expertise and crucial roles in battles like the Siege of Boston and the Battle of Yorktown. A close ally of George Washington, he contributed significantly to shaping the young nation's defense system as its first Secretary of War and was instrumental in founding West Point Military Academy.

Thomas Mifflin

• Type: Person

Mifflin’s role in America’s founding was important, including his work in politics and as a military leader. Mifflin was elected to state legislature and to the Continental Congress prior to the war. He went on to serve as quartermaster general during the Revolutionary War, providing necessary supplies to the Continental Army. After the war, Mifflin served in the Constitutional Convention and then as the first governor of Pennsylvania.

Artemas Ward

• Type: Person

Artemas Ward was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. His military service began during the French and Indian. Following this, he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. During the early period of the Revolutionary War, Ward commanded the entire Continental Army. Even after he resigned this position to George Washington, he continued to serve as an officer in the Revolutionary War. Ward later served in the Continental Congress and the US Congress.

Joseph Reed

• Type: Person

Joseph Reed, a successful lawyer, played a pivotal role in the American Revolution as George Washington's secretary and a key figure in military and civil politics. Born in 1741, Reed's commitment to public service led him to decline a British imperial position, later becoming deeply involved in the American Revolution, where he formed a close yet eventually strained relationship with Washington.

Fire Island National Seashore

Fire Island Light Station Fresnel Lens Building

• Type: Place

An exciting piece of history, this building houses the original first order Fresnel Lens which once illuminated the Fire Island Lighthouse

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Maritime Museum

• Type: Place

The National Lakeshore's Maritime Museum is housed in the Sleeping Bear Point U.S. Life-Saving Service Station. Walk through the boathouse next to the museum and see the life-saving equipment used during the early 1900's.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Harriet Colfax

• Type: Person

Born along the St. Lawrence River, determined Harriet Colfax found herself far upstream along the treacherous coast of Southern Lake Michigan after moving to a young Michigan City in 1853. For 43 careful years she watched the rough frontier city blossom to a Duneland metropolis; she fearlessly maintained the harbor beacon as lighthouse keeper while enduring the ensuing hardships with her lifelong companion Ann Hartwell.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Hatteras Light Station Restoration Update- September 2024

• Type: Article

During the last months of summer 2024, paint removal of the daymark was begun and completed, oil house restoration was begun, and further investigation into some of the metal features was completed.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

The Little Rock Nine

• Type: Person

In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.