<p>The Devils Kitchen Picnic Shelter in Colorado National Monument was designed by Harvey H. Cornell, Jerome C. Miller and Kenneth M. Saunders of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Design in 1940. It was built by workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration in 1941, in the National Park Service Rustic style. The shelter features three sandstone fireplaces, as well as toilets and service facilities.</p><br>
<p>Construction was carried out by craftsmen, known as LEM&#39;s (Local Experienced Men), with suitable skills, reputedly stonemasons of Italian descent. Much of the material came from Rim Rock Drive construction. The picnic shelter was built by the men of CCC camp NM-2-C.</p><br>
<p>The shelter is unusual due to its large size and diversified function.</p><br>
<p>The Colorado National Monument Visitor Center Complex is a group of structures in Colorado National Monument in Mesa County, Colorado, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The structures are an example of the park services facilities designed and built as part of the Mission 66 program. The complex includes the visitor center, designed by National Park Service architect Cecil J. Doty, the Bookcliff Shelter, designed by NPS architect Phil Romigh, and the Canyon Rim Trail, designed by NPS landscape architects Babbitt Hughes, and built between 1963 and 1965. The structures follow the precedent set by earlier park structures by using native sandstone laid in a random ashlar pattern.</p><br>
<p>The Serpents Trail, also known as the Trail of the Serpents and the Serpentine Trail, is a trail within the Colorado National Monument in Mesa County, Colorado, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The trail was built by the visionary John Otto, who began the campaign to establish the national monument. The trail was, in fact, a road from Grand Junction through No Thoroughfare Canyon to the rimrock near Cold Shivers Point, with an elevation gain of nearly 1,100 ft over 2.5 mi. From Cold Shivers Point the road proceeded at a gentler grade for 4 mi to Glade Park. Otto began his survey in 1911 with the help of civil engineer J.F. Sleeper. Otto&#39;s grand plan was to link Grand Junction to Moab, Utah by a scenic road to be part of a transcontinental road system. Construction began in 1912 and continued sporadically to 1921, when Mesa County took the project over. Engineer J.B. Claybaugh completed the project in 1924.</p><br>
<p>The construction of the Rim Rock Drive destroyed portions of the Serpents Trail. A 1.6 mi portion has been preserved as a hiking trail. During the 1930s the Park Service considered upgrading the trail to a higher standard of road, but dropped the project. Only the relatively gentle upper section of the trail was incorporated into Rim Rock Drive in 1939–40.</p><br>
<p>The trail was added to the National Register of Historic Places April 21, 1994</p><br>
<p>The Saddlehorn Utility Area Historic District in Colorado National Monument comprises a complex of park service buildings, designed by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs in the National Park Service Rustic style. The primary designer was National Park Service architect Kenneth M. Saunders, who employed the local red sandstone in the buildings, which included shops, fuel shed, repair and storage buildings. The buildings were constructed in 1941 by Public Works Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps labor.</p><br>
<p>The utility area is located at the intersection of Rim Rock Drive and the Saddle horn Loop, named after a distinctive nearby rock formation. It is separated from the caretakers house by a low hill. Construction was carried out by craftsmen, known as LEMs (Local Experienced Men), with suitable skills, reputedly stonemasons of Italian descent. Much of the material came from Rim Rock Drive construction.</p><br>
<p>The three Saddlehorn National Register properties were nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as a multiple property submission on the basis of their related design and history. The utility area was built by CCC camp NM-2-C.</p><br>
<p>The Darling House Museum is a historic house museum at 1907 Litchfield Turnpike in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and is owned and operated by the Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society. The house is open by appointment and during special events.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1770s, Thomas Darling hired Abiel Gray of West Hartford, Connecticut, to build a new home in Amity Parish, outside of New Haven. Gray took two years (1772–1774) to finish the project. The house has a gambrel roof, is built on a central hall plan and has some unusual features. Paneling and woodwork in the hallway and front rooms are richly detailed under 9-foot, 3-inch ceilings. The influence of 18th-century New York is suggested by the imported tiles of Biblical scenes over one fireplace.</p><br>
<p>Much of the furniture and many items in the home were owned by the Darling family, which owned the house and surrounding land until 1973, when the property was sold to the town of Woodbridge and the Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society began caring for the structure. The property includes a large 18th-century barn, a 19th-century horse barn, a carriage shed, a chicken coop, a pig house, and a 19th-century privy.</p><br>
<p>The town maintains several fields near the house, and some easy walking trails skirt the base of West Rock.</p><br>
<p>The Society has a large collection of farm implements on display in the horse barn. Quilts, linens, and period clothing are also displayed in the house.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s by-the-sea Protestant Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church located in Ocean City, Worcester County, Maryland. It is noted for its historic Carpenter Gothic parish church, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Episcopal services were held from 1878 at Congress Hall, with a mission church built nearby in 1881. In 1898, John Waggaman of Washington D.C. donated two lots "up the beach" at Baltimore Avenue and Third Street to the congregation. The cornerstone for the new church was laid on June 6, 1900, and the first service was held the following year. In 1924, it was elevated to parochial status.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church is a frame church with a wood-shingled exterior. There is a corner bell tower and entrance with pointed-arch openings.</p><br>
<p>The altar, made of quartered oak, was presented to the church in 1903 by the Women&#39;s Auxiliary of the Diocese of Easton. The Italian marble baptismal font was an 1893 gift of Josephine L. Massey, proprietor of the Hamilton Hotel.</p><br>
<p>Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was established by immigrants from England, Scotland, and Ulster. Makemie Memorial is generally regarded as being the first church in America to issue a call to a pastor, although others say that the call was actually issued through an Anglican, William Stevens, and that Rev. Francis Makemie (1658 – 1708) actually first preached near Stevens&#39; home parish, Coventry Parish further south in Rehoboth and established Rehobeth Presbyterian Church before this community.</p><br>
<p>The original church building was a log structure located within a block of the Pocomoke River, which in 1683 was the main means of travel in the area given the vast wet-lands in Worcester County. The second structure was a frame building built on the current property on West Market Street, but it was built close to the center of the grave yard on the top of the little rise. That building burned and was replaced by a brick structure on the same spot. That building served for a number of years until it too was damaged by fire. In 1883, for the 200th anniversary of the organization of the church, it was resolved to build a Makemie Memorial Church in honor of Reverend Makemie.</p><br>
<p>The present building designed by noted Philadelphia architect Isaac Pursell. It was started in 1887 and dedicated on June 29, 1890. Two other churches with similar names were established around the same time in Accomac, Virginia near where Rev. Makemie spent his final years and died.</p><br>
<p>It is a Gothic Revival structure built of red brick with red sandstone trim. There are five beautiful memorial windows in the sanctuary and the vaulted ceiling is supported by hand-hewn, exposed wooded arches. It has two unequal tall towers. There is an adjacent graveyard to the church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>John Rankin Franklin (1820–1878), USA Representative and member of the Maryland House of Delegates</p><br>
<p>John P. Moore (1856–1918), member of the Maryland Senate and mayor of Snow Hill</p><br>
<p>John Walter Smith (1845–1925), Governor of Maryland</p><br>
<p>George M. Upshur (1847–1924), Maryland delegate, mayor of Ocean City, Maryland</p><br>
<p>Ephraim King Wilson (1771–1834), USA Representative from Maryland</p><br>
<p>Ephraim King Wilson II (1821–1891), USA Senator from Maryland</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Christ Church is the parish church of Great Choptank Parish, founded in 1692 as one of the List of original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large Gothic Revival stone structure of green serpentinite stone on a cruciform plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several USA Congressmen, where most are buried.</p><br>
<p>Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<h3>Maryland governors</h3><br>
<p>John Henry (1797–98)</p><br>
<p>Charles Goldsborough (1819)</p><br>
<p>Henry Lloyd (1885–88)</p><br>
<p>Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1912–16)</p><br>
<p>Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).</p><br>
<h3>Other</h3><br>
<p>Robert Goldsborough – delegate to the Continental Congress.</p><br>
<p>William A. Sulivane – State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James Sulivane.</p><br>
<p>Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry</p><br>
<p>The Grace Episcopal Church Complex is a historic Episcopal church located at Taylors Island, Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of three frame structures: a schoolhouse, chapel of ease, and Grace Episcopal Church. The chapel of ease dates from the first quarter of the 19th century and is a 20 foot by 30 foot frame structure in the Carpenter Gothic style. The school building was moved to its present site by the Grace Foundation in 1955, and was the first school house in Dorchester County and was built and used on Taylors Island. Grace Episcopal Church is a frame structure built in the late 19th century in the Victorian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>Grace Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>St. Bartholomew&#39;s Episcopal Church, also known as Green Hill Church, is a historic Episcopal church located near Quantico in Wicomico County, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stepney Parish, as it was originally named, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland. It was built originally to serve the needs of Green Hill Town, a port of entry created as part of an Act of Provincial Assembly in 1706. However, the town never succeeded, although nearby Salisbury, Maryland, founded three decades later, for much of the 19th century became Maryland&#39;s second busiest port, known for its export of seafood as well as agricultural products. This original Stepney parish church was renamed after the apostle St. Bartholomew in the mid-19th century as chapels were built nearby.</p><br>
<p>The current Stepney parish church is St. Marys Tyaskin, Maryland, about the same mid-19th century age and style and distance from this historic church as St. Philips Episcopal Church in Quantico (deriving from a Native American word for "place of dancing"). Since Stepney parish extended up the Wicomico river watershed up the Delmarva Peninsula into what became Sussex County, Delaware, Stepney Parish helped found several other parishes, most of which began as chapels of ease. These included Spring Hill Church on Route 50 (built in 1776 and which arson recently burned down) in nearby Hebron, St. Peters in Salisbury (founded 1758, burned down in 1860 and rebuilt), as well as Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware) (built in 1772, in wood but the same style as this building) and St. Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church (Seaford, Delaware) (built in 1843, incorporating St. Mary&#39;s congregation founded in 1704 but disestablished in the American Revolution).</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The single-story, Flemish bond gable-front brick church was built in 1733, as is shown in the restored brickwork on the end facing the water. The interior is spare, with box pews and several memorial plaques to long-serving rectors, as well as William Murray Stone who became Episcopal Bishop of Maryland. Adjacent to the church are several marked burials with 18th and 19th century stones, as well as agricultural fields and a golf course.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The church no longer holds regular services. It is opened at least once a year in August for a St. Bartholomew&#39;s Day worship service held by several local Episcopal churches. It is located on private property, with signs indicating CCTV monitoring the premises.</p><br>
<p>Rosedale Park is a historic district located in Detroit, Michigan. It is roughly bounded by Lyndon, Outer Drive, Grand River Avenue, Southfield Freeway, Glastonbury Avenue, Lyndon Street and Westwood Drive.</p><br>
<p>The district contains primarily brick houses, and was largely developed from the late 1920s through the 1940s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which Rosedale Park sits was originally deeded in 1835 to Otis C. Freeman and George Bellamy as two 80-acre (32 ha) parcels. Over time, these parcels were subdivided until in 1916 the Rosedale Park Land Development Company purchased and platted a large portion of what was to become the Rosedale Park Historic District. This development company platted other projects in addition to Rosedale Park, most notably the North Rosedale Park neighborhood directly across Grand River Avenue. The company considered the location amenable to development because of its proximity to Grand River Avenue, a direct link to downtown Detroit, and the contemporaneous construction of Outer Drive.</p><br>
<p>Interest in the new subdivision was immediate, and in 1917, the Rosedale Park Land Development Company platted an addition to the original area. However, the actual construction in the neighborhood was slow—from 1917 until the end of World War I, only 15 houses had been constructed. However, construction soon blossomed, and in 1921 a third addition was platted. The city of Detroit annexed the subdivision in 1926, bringing water and sewer to the neighborhood and making the area more attractive.</p><br>
<p>Compared with other contemporary neighborhoods, such as Palmer Woods and the Grosse Pointes, Rosedale Park has more modest house and lot sizes reflecting the solidly middle- and upper-middle class status of the original homeowners. Many of these original homeowners were professionals, such as doctors and dentists, and accountants, or had white-collar jobs in the booming automobile industry.</p><br>
<p>With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, building in the area slowed, but in 1934, as the FHA made credit more available, construction again resumed, and another growth spurt in the neighborhood occurred in the late 1930s and early 1940s. By the 1950s, there was a house on nearly every lot in the neighborhood. In the later part of the century, as the population in Detroit declined, Rosedale Park has remained a desirable neighborhood due to its high grade housing stock, charming setting and active neighborhood association.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rosedale Park Historic District is residential in character. Primary streets run north-south, and major stone piers mark the primary entrances into the neighborhood. Traffic islands are placed in the center of many of the streets. Oak and maple trees, some planted in the 1910s and 1920s, line the streets.</p><br>
<p>Private architects were only rarely engaged in Rosedale Park construction. Instead, buyers gained inspiration from mass-produced pattern books and house plans, or worked with construction companies to choose plans from their standard offerings. Between 1917 and 1955, houses were built in a multitude of styles, including English Tudor Revival, Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial, American Foursquare, Prairie, French Renaissance, Ranch, Garrison Colonial, Cape Cod and International style. However, an English country esthetic seems to have been encouraged (although not mandated) by the developers, and this seems to have influenced the renaming of many of the subdivision&#39;s streets, such as Glastonbury and Warwick, to names reflective of Merry Old England. Later houses built in the less prosperous late 1930s and early 1940s are less elaborate Colonial and Ranch styles, but even these tend to have Tudor Revival elements.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Residents are zoned to Detroit Public Schools,</p><br>
<p>For elementary school most areas are zoned to Gompers K-8 School in Brightmoor while some are zoned to Cooke Elementary School. All residents are zoned to Gompers K-8 for middle school and Frank Cody High School for high school.</p><br>
<p>The current Gompers Elementary-Middle School, serving Grades PreK-8, opened in 2011. The two story, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified facility replaced the Gompers, Harding, and Vetal schools and was built on the Harding site for $21.4 million. It has an elementary wing and a middle school wing. The central administration suite, gymnasium, and multi-purpose room are between the two wings.</p><br>
<p>Previously Vetal K-8 served portions of Rosedale Park for elementary school, and Vetal and Murphy served portions of Rosedale Park for middle school. At one time residents of Rosedale Park were zoned to Redford High School.</p><br>
<p>The Rial Chew Ranch Historic District comprises a ranching operation in what is now Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado, that existed from 1900 to 1949. The Rial Chew family established the ranch in 1900, operating it as a park inholding after the national monument was established in 1919. The district includes a house, a cabin, root cellar, corrals and several storage buildings. The cabin may have been built at Blue Mountain by Harry Chew, and moved to the present site by Jack Chew, Rial&#39;s father. The ranch was occupied by the Chew family until their special use permit expired in the early 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Hornbek House, also known as the Adaline Hornbek Homestead, in Florissant, Colorado was built in 1878 for Adaline Hornbek, who established a ranch in the area to the west of Pike&#39;s Peak in the 1870s. The log house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of an early homestead. It is an excellent example of homestead-era log construction, with unusual Greek Revival window trim on one wing. The property includes a number of outbuildings which were relocated to the site. The property was sold to the National Park Service in 1973 and is included in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.</p><br>
<p>Adaline Hornbek was an early homesteader who established a substantial ranch in an area that had seen only subsistence farming.</p><br>
<p>Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, known now as Asbury United Methodist Church, is a historic church located at Allen, Wicomico County, Maryland. It is a rectangular, gable-front frame structure, with the entrance located in a square bell tower centered on the front. The main block of the building was constructed in 1848 and the tower was added in 1883.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Spring Hill Church, also known as Old Spring Hill and St. Pauls Episcopal Church, was a historic Episcopal church located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was located eight miles north on the Wicomico River from Green Hill Church, which it strongly resembled. The white frame structure, two bays wide and four deep and set on a Flemish bond brick foundation, was constructed as St. Pauls Episcopal Church in 1773. The interior featured a barrel-vault ceiling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Fire destroyed the historic wooden church on July 22, 2014, months after it celebrated its 240th anniversary. Nearly 100 firefighters from numerous fire departments, including Wicomico County as well as Sussex County, Delaware responded to the fire, which investigators said quickly escalated to three alarms.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church, also known as the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is an historic rectangular-shaped Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church located at 5610 Dogwood Road in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland. Designed by the Baltimore architectural firm of Dixon and Carson, it was built in 1873. Its steeply pitched gable roof, board and batten siding, lancet windows and arched side entry way are all typical features of Carpenter Gothic churches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas&#39; Episcopal Church is a parish of the Episcopal Church in Owings Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland, part of the Diocese of Maryland. It is noted for its historic parish church, built in 1743.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction was authorized in 1742 by the Province of Maryland to provide a "Chapel of Ease" for early inhabitants of the Garrison Forest. Rev. Thomas Craddock was appointed first minister on January 14, 1745.</p><br>
<p>On April 13, 1782, The Rev. John Andrews returned to Maryland from York, Pennsylvania to become rector of the church, known at the time as St. Thomas Church in Garrison Forest, a position he held until 1784. Early members included Christopher Gist, John Eager Howard (for whom the nearby Howard County is named), Sequoyah, and his mother, Wut-teh.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original building, built in 1743 of salmon red brick, was a 56 x 36 foot (17 x 11m) rectangle. Eight windows with round arch tops lighted the building, four on each of the long walls. These retain much of their original 1743 glass. There were also three similar windows on the short liturgical west wall and a small window near the peak of the roof. (The building sits on an angle, so that liturgical west is actually southwest.) The entrance was in the liturgical south wall. It had a wide, brick paved, center aisle and white box pews, both of which remain.Photo on</p><br>
<p>In the late 19th century, the door in the south wall was removed and an entrance created by removing the center window from the west wall. In 1891 transepts and a small, barrel shaped, chancel were added, changing the simple rectangle into a cruciform. There are lancet windows in the east end, one created by John LaFarge depicting the Ascension. A Tiffany window was added later. The transepts have rose windows in yellow, brown, green and colourless glass.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, a major restoration of the church was accomplished. This included the addition of a narthex to the liturgical west, providing access both to the church and to a new basement.</p><br>
<h2>Historical credentials</h2><br>
<p>A roadside plaque was erected 1936 by Maryland State Roads Commission. Inscription reads "A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as “a Chapel of Ease for the Forest Inhabitants” of Saint Paul&#39;s Parish (Baltimore). Reverend Thomas Craddock inducted as first minister January 14, 1745."</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1979, reference number 79001117.</p><br>
<h2>Graveyard</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery contains the graves of many of the area&#39;s prominent people. Many date back to the 18th century, although most of the older markers are unreadable.</p><br>
<h3>Notable burials</h3><br>
<p>Hetty Cary, best remembered for making the first three battle flags of the Confederacy (along with her sister and cousin).</p><br>
<p>Samuel Owings, who is buried there, was a successful miller for whom Owings Mills was named.</p><br>
<p>Edgar Allan Poe (1871–1961), Attorney General of Maryland and quarterback of Princeton Tigers</p><br>
<p>Sam Shoemaker, born in the parish and who helped found Alcoholics Anonymous.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Brewster U.S Senator from Maryland.</p><br>
<p>St. James Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Monkton, Baltimore County, Maryland, US.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1713, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, gave 10,000 acres to his (fourth) wife Margaret, which ultimately became the My Ladys Manor historic district (in 1978). Settlement intensified later in the 18th century, with the development of the Monkton grist mill along the Gunpowder River. A chapel of ease was constructed, and, clergy from St. Johns Parish in Joppatown visited periodically.</p><br>
<p>Marylands legislature recognized St. James as a separate parish from St. Johns (also called Copley Parish) in 1770. In 1773, Baltimore and Harford Counties split, with the Gunpowder River becoming the dividing line. Thus, both counties received parts of My Ladys Manor, with the port of Joppatowne securely in Harford County and thriving until silting of the Gunpowder River and development of larger ocean-going vessels made Baltimore the regions major port. The My Ladys Manor land was owned by descendants of scandal-plagued Thomas Brerewood, whose son had married (secretly) the daughter of the fourth Lord Baltimore, who had inherited it in 1731 and soon after emigrated to Maryland with her husband, who developed the land grant. Marylands legislature confiscated the My Lady&#39;s Manor property during the American Revolutionary War and stored gunpowder in the church building (which remained standing). In 1782 the new state of Maryland sold the adjoining lands to tenant farmers, many of whose families still remain in the area. By 1795, the parish had approximately 1600 baptized members.</p><br>
<p>Monkton Road had been a major north-south route for Native Americans, as well as through the Revolutionary War. However, construction of a road between Baltimore and York, Pennsylvania in 1803, and westward migration inhibited development in this specific area, which remained rural. Still, the nearby town of Monkton became a station on the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad, which later merged into the Northern Central Railway and became a division of the Pennsylvania Railroad until the line was abandoned and ultimately converted into a bicycle and walking path, the Northern Central Railroad Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Construction of a 60x30 foot brick chapel, a Maryland vernacular interpretation of Georgian ecclesiastical architecture, was initially finished in 1755. Extensions were added in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, with the most recent renovation (of the interior, including box pews) completed in 2005. The bell tower dates from 1884. A cemetery surrounds the church, enclosed by a stone wall.</p><br>
<p>A school was constructed adjacent to the church in 1821, but its buildings physically dismantled in 1884 and the bricks reused in the new bell tower. The parish hall was built in 1904 and expanded in 1950, and the St. James Academy refounded in 1957, with a major refurbishment in 1994-1999. That 89 acre property includes playing fields and a parking lot on the side furthest from Monkton Road.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Charles B. Bosley (died 1959), Maryland state delegate and lawyer</p><br>
<p>The Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen Township, Pennsylvania, United States, is a former residence of the author Zane Grey and is now maintained as a museum and operated by the National Park Service . It is located on the upper Delaware River and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It contains many photographs, artworks, books, furnishings, and other objects of interest associated with Grey and his family.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in two sections, both from designs by Grey. The first was in 1905 by Zane Grey&#39;s brother, Romer Carl "Reddy" Grey; the second seven years later by a neighbor, to serve as a writing studio and library after the success of Riders of the Purple Sage. Grey and his wife moved to California so he could work on screenplays in 1918, but Lackawaxen and the house remained one of his favorite places for the rest of his life. It was added to the Register in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is along Scenic Drive, a short road along the Delaware River north of Roeblings Delaware Aqueduct, an early suspension bridge which still carries vehicle and foot traffic across the river between Pennsylvania and New York. Along the riverfront to the north, it is 300 ft to the Delawares confluence with the Lackawaxen River, the largest tributary of the Upper Delaware in Pennsylvania, resulting in slightly choppier water in front of the house. The grassy, maintained ground slopes gently from Pennsylvania Route 590 to the west toward the river, giving the house&#39;s east (front) a view across to undeveloped woods on the New York side in Minisink Ford.</p><br>
<p>In front of the house, the slope exposes the northern corner more than the southern one. There is a small unpaved parking lot, sign for the museum and state historical marker as well. The house is to the north of a cluster of other buildings in the neighborhood, most notably the former D&H Canal Co. Office, now a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>The two-story clapboard-sided frame structure rises from an exposed bluestone foundation. It is three bays long by six wide, in an L-shaped plan. The older, east–west–oriented block of the house has a square hipped roof with two large pedimented dormer windows with dentilled lintels on the east and south sides, with a smaller jerkin-roofed dormer complementing the eastern one. The newer wing designed by Grey and built by his brother has a rectangular hipped roof of gentler pitch with three small jerkined dormers. Both roofs are surfaced with diamond-shaped shingles of white asbestos cement and pierced by a single brick chimney per wing.</p><br>
<p>A single wraparound porch with flat roof, balustrade and bracketed columns runs the length of the south and east elevations, combining two previously separate porches, one of which had lost its original roof in the floods of 1955. White wooden posts mark the house&#39;s corners, and the second-story windows have awnings.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the floor plans reflect the two sections&#39; separate construction. The earlier one has a square plan, the later one a rectangular. Many original finishes and decorations remain. Opposite the original front door at the southeast corner is a brick fireplace trimmed with unglazed terra cotta, including egg-and-dart molding. A T-plan staircase has its original decorative balustrade and newel posts.</p><br>
<p>The northeast door is the main entrance to the newer wing. It opens onto a living space that runs the length and half the width of the addition. Opposite the door is its fireplace, likewise of brick and topped with a beveled mirror to a height of 7 ft. Behind it the library includes many original trim, particularly a 2 ft deep painted frieze depicting kachina dolls, reflecting Greys interests in the Southwest. These rooms, and Greys upstairs studio, house most of the museum exhibits and visitor interest today.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Grey had established a dental practice in New York City in 1896 but soon grew dissatisfied with the field. He dabbled in semi-professional baseball and wrote his first stories and novels. They were not successful, but by 1905 he had decided to leave dentistry for writing. They had begun the process of building the first part of the house, the southern wing, after seeing the site on a fishing trip that year, and later they moved their families into it.</p><br>
<p>Grey continued to write westerns, and took two extended research trips to the Southwest over the next several years. He worked, at the time, in a bungalow near the house that is no longer extant. These resulted in Heritage of the Desert in 1911 and Riders of the Purple Sage the following year, his bestselling novel. With the proceeds from the latter work, he designed the study wing. It was built by a neighbor, Gottlieb Kuhn, in 1912.</p><br>
<p>He continued writing novels there for six more years until the nascent film industry beckoned. He and his wife moved to Altadena, California, where they eventually purchased an estate as he became even more commercially successful as a film producer as well. He remained in California until his 1939 death, but retained the Lackawaxen house for visits east. Both he and his wife are buried in Union Cemetery, not far from the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1945, Grey&#39;s widow sold the house to a friend, who operated it as an inn for 25 years. During that time, in 1955, the building suffered some serious flood damage, tearing off the roof of the first front porch. In 1973, they converted it into the museum, which they sold to the Park Service in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Flooding in June 2006 left 6 to 8 ft of water in the basement. The Park Service was able to get the collection to safety, but it was necessary to thoroughly dehumidify the space before reopening the museum.</p><br>
<p>Beaudley is a historic home located at Tyaskin, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1795, and consists of a -story, side-hall, Flemish bond brick-ended frame house with a gable roof. A single-story hyphen joins a slightly taller single-story early-19th-century kitchen to the main house. Attached to the house is a two-story, one-room frame addition erected around 1850. Also on the property are several small outbuildings and a Walter family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Beaudley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Bennett&#39;s Adventure is a historic home located three miles west of Allen, on the north bank of Wicomico Creek in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story gambrel-roofed brick house, laid in English bond. It has a traditional two-room plan with central hall. It still has original paneling in the west room and central hall. There were later twentieth-century additions to the house, of a -story wing and connecting hyphen. The creek side has a long screened porch.</p><br>
<p>The property is also significant for its associations with Richard Bennett, Puritan governor of the Virginia colony from 1652 to 1655, during the reign of Oliver Cromwell. He had a plantation in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, as well as other properties. Also involved in the colony of Maryland, in 1665 Bennett patented 2500 acres on the north side of Wicomico Creek. His grant was large enough to be classified under the Maryland system as a manor.</p><br>
<p>The property was bought in 1721 by George Dashiell (1690–1748) from one of Bennett&#39;s grandchildren; he patented 1740 acres after a re-survey. A wealthy planter, Dashiell is believed to have built the house that currently stands on the property. He served in the Lower House of the Assembly in 1724, 1745, and 1746. He attained the rank of Colonel in the Maryland militia by 1736. His family retained the property until 1791.</p><br>
<p>Bennett&#39;s Adventure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Gillis-Grier House is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Queen Anne style frame house built in 1887 by James Cannon. The house has gable-front elevations on three sides, a three-story octagonal tower, and a shorter -story service wing. Also on the property is a frame -story stable, now used as a garage. It is one of the dwellings that define Salisbury&#39;s Newtown neighborhood and named after the two inter-related families that held title to the property between 1896 and 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Gillis-Grier House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>Honeysuckle Lodge is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story eclectic frame dwelling built in stages during the first half of the 20th century. The home has a Colonial Revival style. Also on the property is a 1-story, frame guest house built around 1940. The asbestos-shingled frame structure is supported by a continuous brick foundation, and the medium-sloped gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles. The yard is planted with mature trees and shrubs.</p><br>
<p>Honeysuckle Lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Long Hill is a historic home overlooking Wetipquin Creek in Wetipquin, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1767 and is a five bay wide wood panelled and brick house set on a brick foundation laid in Flemish bond. It is an essentially untouched Maryland dwelling, dating from the second half of the 18th century. The house is associated with the Dashiell family, several of whom took an active part in the affairs of the colony.</p><br>
<p>Long Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Pemberton Hall is a historic home located at Pemberton Park in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, three-bay, Flemish bond brick house with a gambrel roof. The construction date of "1741" is scratched in a brick above the side door.</p><br>
<p>Pemberton Hall was built by Col. Isaac Handy (d. 1762).</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the Hall was the home of Allison Parsons, a Southern sympathizer. Despite the Federal troops encamped in Salisbury, Parsons insisted on firing a cannon upon the receipt of news of each Confederate victory. After Parsons ignored orders to cease the firings, USA Army soldiers raided Pemberton Hall intent on silencing the cannon. Their efforts were thwarted by Parsons, who had buried the cannon before their arrival. "In addition to the cannon firing which provoked the raid, Parsons used Pemberton Hall as a rendezvous for Eastern Shore Confederate sympathizers.".</p><br>
<p>In 1868, the Governor of Maryland, Elihu E. Jackson (1837–1907), purchased Pemberton Hall with James Cannon at a trustee&#39;s sale.</p><br>
<p>Seth Taylor owned Pemberton Hall from 1931 to 1963, at which time the Pemberton Hall Foundation took it over and restored the house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Perry-Cooper House is a historic home located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story frame dwelling topped with a French mansard roof that was built about 1880. It features a central tower, with a bowed entrance on the first floor and a nine-foot-high Palladian window on the second. It was the residence of one of Salisbury&#39;s well-known civic leaders, Thomas Perry, whose family occupied the house from 1897 until 1950.</p><br>
<p>The Perry-Cooper House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Midtown Woodward Historic District is a historic district located along Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. Structures in the district are located between 2951 and 3424 Woodward Avenue, and include structures on the corner of Charlotte Street  and Peterboro Street . The district was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The district spans two blocks along Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit. Significant structures in the district include a number of architect-designed buildings. Some of these are:</p><br>
<h3>Addison Hotel</h3><br>
<p>The Addison Hotel, currently known as the Addison Apartments, is located at 14 Charlotte. The structure, designed by Albert Kahn, was built in 1905 and originally featured 50 luxury apartments that were later changed in the 1920s to accommodate 113 hotel rooms. The hotel originally had a large open penthouse used for gambling and serving liquor during the Prohibition, as well as a hidden tunnel leading to three adjacent store on Woodward Avenue used by the hotel owners as an escape tunnel during the Prohibition. The structure is currently being restored to feature 40 apartments.</p><br>
<h3>Fine Arts Theatre</h3><br>
<p>The Fine Arts Theatre is located at 2952 Woodward. The theatre, with 582 seats, was designed by C. Howard Crane. It opened in 1914 as the Addison, and closed in 1980.</p><br>
<h3>Crystal Ballroom</h3><br>
<p>The Crystal Ballroom is located at 3100 Woodward; the building is currently known as the Crystal Lofts and the current ground-floor tenant is Zacarro&#39;s Market. The ballroom was built in 1919. The facade of the original building was altered (likely in 1936 when Woodward Avenue was widened) to add the Art Deco elements apparent on the front.</p><br>
<h3>Kahn Print Shop</h3><br>
<p>Albert Kahn designed this structure at 3408-3414 Woodward Avenue in 1912; it was built in 1919 as a print shop. After sitting vacant for decades, it has been redeveloped into retail space.</p><br>
<h3>Bonstelle Theatre</h3><br>
<p>Wayne State Universitys Bonstelle Theatre is located at 3424 Woodward at the north end of the district; it was originally the Temple Beth El. At the turn of the 20th century, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin of Detroits Temple Beth El led the push for the construction of a new temple building. He hired architect Albert Kahn, a member of the congregation, to design the building. Groundbreaking began on November 25, 1901, with the ceremonial cornerstone laid on April 23, 1902. The first services were held in the chapel on January 24, 1903, and the formal dedication was held on September 18–19 of the same year.</p><br>
<h3>Detroit Historical Museum</h3><br>
<p>The museum is located at 5401 Woodward Avenue. It records the history of the Detroit area including the cobblestone streets, 19th Century stores, auto assembly line, toy trains, fur trading from the 18th Century, and more. In 2023, the Museum began hosting Black History Month events. The goal of the event was to inform the public about the accomplishments of Detroit&#39;s black entrepreneurs.</p><br>
<p>The Superintendent&#39;s Residence at Great Sand Dunes National Monument was designed in 1940 by Kenneth R. Saunders and Jerome C. Miller of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs. Built the same year by the Works Progress Administration, the house is in the Territorial Revival style, deemed a suitable local adaptation of the National Park Service Rustic style. The national monument is now Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. The building is located adjacent to the entrance gate house of the park.</p><br>
<p>Western Fields is a historic home located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a Greek Revival-style three-part frame "telescope" dwelling started about 1790 and expanded in the mid-19th century. The main block was constructed in 1845. The property also includes an early-20th century frame tenant house and corn crib, and a small family cemetery. In 1997, the Maple Leaf Farm Potato House was moved to Western Fields. Since 1825, the property was owned by the Phillips family, prominent Wicomico County planters during the 19th and 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Western Fields was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Maple Leaf Farm Potato House is a historic agricultural storage building located on the property of Western Fields at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was originally located on the north side of USA Route 50, southeast of the intersection with White Lowe Road, and moved to its present site within Western Fields in July 1997. It is a common bond brick structure measuring 40 feet by 24 feet, built between 1920 and 1928, and used for the storage of sweet potatoes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Moraine Park Museum and Amphitheater, also known as the Moraine Park Lodge and the Moraine Park Visitor Center, are located in Moraine Park, a glaciated meadow between two moraines in Rocky Mountain National Park.</p><br>
<p>The two structures were built to serve visitors to the park, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum was built in 1923 by Imogene Green MacPherson as the center of her private tourist development, and was then known as the Moraine Park Lodge. The National Park Service purchased the property in 1931 and demolished the surrounding cabins in following years. The amphitheater was designed and built in 1935, with the design by the NPS Branch of Plans and Designs and the construction by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The lodge was reworked in 1934-35. Both structures adhere to the National Park Service Rustic design ethic of the time, with stone and log construction.</p><br>
<p>Imogene Green MacPherson first homesteaded the site in Moraine Park in 1903, naming the land "Hillcrest". In 1905, newly married, she expanded with a lodge, dining hall, stable and some cabins for guests. Paying guest began to arrive in 1910. Mrs. MacPherson continued to operate the resort after the death of her husband in 1919, and was involved in the campaign for the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. After her death in 1928, her family continued to run the lodge until its purchase by the Park Service.</p><br>
<p>The amphitheater is built about one hundred feet from the lodge, with seating interspersed with trees. A projection booth and screen once existed, but were removed. An elaborate arrangement of stone gutters and culverts provides drainage.</p><br>
<p>The Moraine Park Lodge adjoins the William Allen White Cabins historic district.</p><br>
<p>The museum features interactive natural history exhibits, with themes including geologic processes, glaciation, weather and climate, ecosystems, and human impact. The park offers environmental education programs based on similar themes. The lodge building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1976. The listing was expanded to include the amphitheater on June 15, 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Moraine Park meadows</h2><br>
<p>The valley of Moraine Park was formed when an ancient glacial lake silted up and drained, forming a flat meadow. The soil is too moist to support most trees but supports grasses, willows, and aspens. The Big Thompson River flows through this valley after coming down glacier-carved Forest Canyon. This habitat area is characterized by ponderosa pine, aspen, and douglas-fir forests, as well as a few large and small meadows. Moraine Park is also a popular place to watch elk, because many elk congregate here for the fall rut.</p><br>
<p>The Willow Park Patrol Cabin, also known as the Willow Park Ranger Station and the Willow Park Cook and Mess Hall, was built in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1923 to the design of members of the National Park Service Landscape Engineering Division under the supervision of Daniel Ray Hull. The cabin is an early example of the National Park Service Rustic style that was gaining favor with the Park Service. The cabin, along with the Willow Park Stable, originally accommodated maintenance crews on the Fall River Road.</p><br>
<p>The Shadow Mountain Lookout, also known as the Shadow Mountain Patrol Cabin, was built in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1932, to the design of the National Park Service San Francisco Landscape Architecture Division. It was regarded as one of the best National Park Service Rustic buildings in the national park system. It is now the only fire lookout surviving in Rocky Mountain National Park. Three other lookouts, now gone, were located at Twin Sisters Peak, the north fork of the Thompson River and near Long&#39;s Peak. The lookout was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor.</p><br>
<p>Situated at an elevation of 9923 feet, the lookout is a three-story structure, with the first two stories in stone masonry, appearing to grow from a rock outcropping. The frame third story is topped by a pyramidal roof. The structure is near the summit of Shadow Mountain, looking over Grand Lake. The first floor has been used for visitor contact, while the second floor has been used as employee accommodation, usually for a married couple who would keep watch and deal with the public. The last summer season for use was 1978.</p><br>
<p>St. Giles is a historic home located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story frame Federal period farmhouse, with a 20th-century hyphen and wing. Also on the property are several outbuildings, including a well house, wood house, tenant house, barn, garage, and pool house. The landscaped grounds include a garden which is thought to retain its original early-19th-century layout.</p><br>
<p>St. Giles was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>San Domingo School, also known as Sharptown Colored School and Prince Hall Masons Unity Lodge No. 73, is a historic Rosenwald School building located at Sharptown, Wicomico County, Maryland. It was built in 1919, and is a two-story, rectangular frame building with a hipped roof. It is one of four surviving Rosenwald schools in Wicomico County. The school had only four teachers and remained in use as a school until 1957.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<h3>The San Domingo Community</h3><br>
<p>The community of San Domingo first appeared in the 1820 census record from Somerset County. At this time, the community had no name; it was only represented by 106 undivided households headed by freed black people. San Domingo is believed to be named after Santo Domingo, a location in the Dominican Republic where the first successful slave revolt took place. The intention of choosing the name San Domingo is unknown, one possibility is that it was meant to act as a warning to those who would wish to harm its members. The community itself was built on land owned by its members, something that was rare in a time when most freed black people lived and worked on land owned by others. San Domingo had its own businesses, church, and school that the members ran making it a self-sufficient community.</p><br>
<h3>Funding</h3><br>
<p>The Black community all over Maryland&#39;s Eastern Shore wasn’t given the resources to have an equitable access to education until 1872 when it was legally implemented, even though Freedman’s Bureau was making efforts before this to provide them with some education. The San Domingo school was one of many schools created during the time of Julius Rosenwald’s Fund he created after becoming a partial owner of the Sears, Roebuck Co. With Booker T. Washington. The funding came from the local Black community, Rosenwald, and The Salisbury High school contributing to creating the school in San Domingo.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<h3>Funding</h3><br>
<p>It wasn&#39;t until 2002 when the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that all remaining Rosenwald schools are on its list of most endangered historic places. Local donations were also accepted. Some organizations include The American Muslim Mission, Most Worship Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Mardela Middle and High School. Some individuals who donated are John Quinton descendent Alma Hackett, Harold and Ilse Henson, and Keith Nicholas (see photo). A plaque is hung in the main room of the Cultural Center to show those who donated to help keep this historical building alive.</p><br>
<p>Union Station is a historic railway station located at Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1913–14, near the junction where the New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad intersected with the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railroad  in the center of Salisbury. Both railroads became part of the Pennsylvania Railroad . It has a -story, Flemish bond brick main block covered by a medium-pitched hip roof sheathed in slate, with single-story wings. From the 1920s to the 1950s, the PRR ran several passenger trains a day, including the Del-Mar-Va Express, through the station, north–south from Philadelphia to Cape Charles, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The PRR terminated passenger service in 1958. It was converted from a passenger station into a freight facility, and since 1986 the station used for other commercial purposes. The building has characteristics of the Colonial Revival style and was the most elaborate passenger facility to survive on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.</p><br>
<p>Union Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Passenger service</h2><br>
<p>Until the mid-1950s the Pennsylvania Railroad ran the day train, the Del-Mar-Va Express from Philadelphia in the north, through Salisbury to Cape Charles, Virginia to the southern end of the Delmarva Peninsula. The PRR in the same period operated a night train, the Cavalier on the route.</p><br>
<p>Into the 1930s the Baltimore and Eastern Railroad operated passenger service from Love Point on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay through Salisbury to Ocean City, Maryland. Into the 1920s that company&#39;s predecessor, the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway was running trains from Claiborne on the eastern Chesapeake shore to Easton, Salisbury and Ocean City.</p><br>
<p>Whitehaven Hotel is a historic hotel located at Whitehaven, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. It is a three-story, U-shaped, steeply pitches mansard-roofed Second Empire-style frame structure. The center core of the hotel is a Federal side hall / parlor dwelling, erected around 1810–1815. The hotel interior retains much of its early and later 19th century woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The Whitehaven Hotel is located at the site of the Whitehaven Ferry which has crossed the Wicomico River at this location since 1687. The hotel is operating as a Bed and Breakfast with eight rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Whitehaven Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Whitehaven Historic District is a national historic district in Whitehaven, Wicomico County, Maryland. It is located at the end of Whitehaven Road  on the north bank of the Wicomico River. The Whitehaven Ferry that crosses the river here has been in continuous operation since 1688 or earlier. The district encompasses a late-19th century village, consisting of the Whitehaven Hotel, church, school, marine railway, and 24 houses dating from the 19th century, two 20th century and one 18th century dwellings. It is one of the oldest towns in this part of Maryland, authorized by the General Assembly in the late 17th century.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Housatonic River Railroad Bridge is a historic bridge carrying Metro-North Railroad&#39;s New Haven Line trackage across the lower Housatonic River in the USA state of Connecticut. The bridge is also used by Amtrak for its Northeast Corridor services. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, which also refers to the bridge as the Devon Bridge. It is also referred to as the Devon Railroad Bridge by the state Department of Environmental Protection.</p><br>
<p>It is a "Scherzer Rolling Lift Bascule"-type bascule bridge. It has a steel superstructure and block stone piers. The moveable span is a Warren through truss span.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current bridge is the fourth railroad span in the same location, originally known as Naugatuck Junction. The original bridge was the first railroad bridge over the Housatonic river, built by the New York and New Haven Railroad, and was a single-track wooden covered Howe truss, 1,293 ft in length and a draw of 134 ft, built in 1848. It was the longest covered bridge ever built in the state of Connecticut. The second bridge was a double-track cast iron Whipple truss, 1,091 ft in length and a draw of 206 ft, built in 1872 by the Keystone Bridge Company for the New York and New Haven Railroad. The third bridge was a double-track wrought iron Pratt truss, 1,091 ft in length and a draw of 206 ft, built in 1884 by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The current bridge, a four-track steel with Warren through truss spans, Scherzer Bascule bridge, 1,072 ft in length and a draw of 110 ft, was completed in 1906 by the American Bridge Company for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Its completion finished the quadruple-tracking of the New Haven mainline from Woodlawn Junction to New Haven.</p><br>
<p>Repairs were planned for six months starting April 25, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Amtrak was awarded up to $246 million in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds in November 2023 for design of a replacement for the span. Amtrak will contribute an additional $16 million, while the state of Connecticut will provide $45 million. Up to an additional $119 million was awarded for interim repairs to the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Beverly is a historic home located in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, Georgian-style Flemish bond brick house built about 1770. The house faces the Pocomoke River. An original circular ice house survives on the property.</p><br>
<p>Beverly was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Littleton Dennis, great great grandson of John Dennis of Beverly England, died in 1774 before the house was finished but work went on and was completed by his widow Susanna Upshur Dennis and their children and their descendants lived in the house for nearly 150 years.</p><br>
<p>Calebs Discovery is a historic home located two miles west of Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. The house consists of two sections, the -story kitchen wing, dating from the early 18th century, and the -story living room wing, dating from about 1820. It is a good illustration of the incorporation of an early house into a later structure without the loss of the earlier buildings identity.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Fassitt House is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story Flemish bond brick house erected about 1669 on property bordering Sinepuxent Bay. The main side features a carefully laid decorative checkerboard brick pattern. The interior features fine examples of Georgian raised-panel woodwork finish in the first-floor rooms. The property includes two historic outbuildings, a shingled frame smokehouse and a log corncrib, and a modern one-story guest house.</p><br>
<p>Fassitt House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Henry&#39;s Grove is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It was built in 1792, and is a -story gable-roofed brick house with all walls laid in Flemish bond. The house retains virtually all of its original interior detailing. Also on the property are a 20th-century frame tenant house and four frame outbuildings. It was built for a planter, John Fassitt, whose initials and the date 1792 are inscribed on a plaque in a gable end.</p><br>
<p>Henry&#39;s Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Williams Grove is a historic home located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, three-part house built in three principal stages. The construction sequence began about 1810 with a two-story, two-bay frame house with a single-story wing, that forms the center of the house. The house was expanded first during the mid 19th century and in the early 1970s, a two-story kitchen and garage wing was added. The exterior is covered with cypress shingles.</p><br>
<p>Williams Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Simpson&#39;s Grove, also known as Hudson Farm, is a historic home located at Ironshire, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1800 and is a two-story, five bay, double pile Federal-style frame house. A brick dairy stands on the property. The exterior is sided in cypress.</p><br>
<p>Simpson&#39;s Grove was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Merry Sherwood is a historic plantation house located at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, United States. It is a massive, three-story, five-bay, double-pile, frame dwelling, built about 1859 in the Italianate style. The house is topped by a flat roof, projecting cornice, and a large cupola. The roof of the cupola is capped with a pointed wooden spire. It is current operated as wedding and special event venue.</p><br>
<p>Merry Sherwood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Old Friendship United Methodist Church is a historic United Methodist church located in West Post Office, Worcester County, Maryland. It is a one-story, gable-front, frame building erected in 1866. It received improvements through the 1920s and reflects rural interpretations of the Italianate and Greek Revival styles. Surrounding the church is a small churchyard containing several hundred 19th and 20th century grave markers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Mar-Va Theater is a historic theater located in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1927 and is a two-story, three-bay building of brick laid in stretcher bond. The interior reflects an extensive Art Deco style redecoration carried out in 1937 including narrow silver columns on either side of the stage and embellishments on the side walls. It is currently operated as a performing arts center.</p><br>
<p>One of the few remaining links to Pocomoke&#39;s past is the Mar-Va Theater. Its name is representative of its location, since the theater is located in Maryland, only a short distance from the Virginia state line. With originally 720 seats, the Mar-Va is the largest theater south of Wilmington, Delaware, which has never been altered. Once used as a vaudeville theater complete with stage facilities, dressing rooms and orchestra pits, the Mar-Va was played by many performers, which included some old-time cowboys such as Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, William Boyd and Smiley Burnette.</p><br>
<p>Mr. & Mrs. Frank Barlett of Berlin, Maryland built the Mar-Va Theater in 1927. It has been estimated that it would probably cost around $250,000 to build by present economic standards.</p><br>
<p>The Mar-Va Theater is one of the few theaters on the shore to boast of a draw drape. The sidewalls have the original gold embossed paneling and the projectors, which were added around 1943, are of the carbon arc variety. The balcony was once used for segregation purposes. It had its own entrance, concession area, box office and bathroom. The seats in the balcony were considered the best in the theater.</p><br>
<p>The theater opened on December 1, 1927 with John & Lester Fox managing the theater while J. Dawson Clarke played the piano for the old silent movies. In 1949, after the death of John Fox, J. Dawson Clarke and Orville Mason bought the theater and, in 1967, the ownership went to Dawson and his wife Hattie.</p><br>
<p>When the theater originally opened, ticket prices were 10 cents. At the time of its closing in 1993, a ticket cost $3.50. Soda pop, sold in the soda parlor next door, once cost 10 cents and popcorn was always sold for 10 cents a bag.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Pocomoke City Historic District is a national historic district in Pocomoke City, Worcester County, Maryland. The historic district includes the central business district  and surrounding residential area of Pocomoke City. The CBD is defined by an important collection of late-19th century and early-20th century commercial and public architecture. It includes a significant array of Victorian, Colonial Revival, and Beaux-Arts influenced structures. The majority of the housing dates from 1870 to 1940. It is an example of a type of prosperous river town that characterized the region during the period, which retains an exceptional collection of 19th and 20th century building forms.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Berlin Commercial District is a historic district in Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. It consists of a collection of approximately 47 late-19th-century commercial buildings. They are small-scaled, one-to-three-story buildings that occupy both sides of the main thoroughfare and its secondary arterials. The buildings form a visually cohesive and pleasing streetscape, the majority of which are constructed in the row fashion with party or common walls.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
