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Mary Locher Cabin, Route 65 (Hagerstown Pike), Sharpsburg, Washington ...

Significance: This abandoned farm dwelling is historically significant as part of a farmstead that existed before and during the Battle of Antietam, and as a surviving structure in the West Woods landscape, nor... More

Washington Cotton Mill, on Mill Creek near State Highway 212, Washingt...

Significance: This was the largest factory west of the Mississippi when built, significant during the period of colonization of the southwestern part of the state. Unprocessed Field note material exists for th... More

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, Allenport Works, Boiler House, ...

Survey number: HAER PA-411-A Public domain photograph of quarry, mining industry, miners, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Herman Farm, Wash House, North side of Showalter Road, East of I-81, H...

Significance: This wash house - smoke house combination is the only remaining period outbuilding in this well documented mid-nineteenth century farm complex. As a domestic outbuilding it reflects the rural bui... More

Maple Street Bridge, Spanning former St. Louis & San Francisco Railroa...

Significance: Constructed in 1936 to replace a timber bridge at this site, Maple Street Overpass was built through the cooperative efforts of private, federal, state and local agencies. It is significant for i... More

Topographical map of the county of Washington, Maine.

Westerly Station, 14 Railroad Street, Westerly, Washington County, RI

Significance: Built in 1913, Westerly Station is a focal downtown Westerly landmark and an important component of the Westerly Downtown National Register Historic District. The station is a large, ornate examp... More

New Shoreham Bridge, Spanning Harbor Pond at Beach Road, New Shoreham,...

Significance: The New Shoreham Bridge is the earliest intact example of a reinforced concrete T-beam bridge in Rhode Island. Built under the adverse conditions of isolated location, material scarcity due to Wo... More

Zion National Park Historic Trails System, West Rim Trail, Springdale,...

Significance: Built of native stone and associated with the "National Park Service-Rustic" architectural style, the West Rim Trail possesses architectural integrity. Rock used in the masonry switchback walls w... More

Tolson's Chapel, 111 East High Street, Sharpsburg, Washington County, ...

Significance: Tolson's Chapel served as a church and a Freedman's Bureau school for black residents of Sharpsburg in the years following the American Civil War. Establishing religious and educational instituti... More

Tolson's Chapel, 111 East High Street, Sharpsburg, Washington County, ...

Significance: Tolson's Chapel served as a church and a Freedman's Bureau school for black residents of Sharpsburg in the years following the American Civil War. Establishing religious and educational instituti... More

Pine Creek Historic Complex, Two Stall Garage, Springdale, Washington ...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Utah, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Oct 1899. 11 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Oct 1899. 11 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

First Christian Church, 553 Fallowfield Avenue, Charleroi, Washington ...

Significance: The first Christian Church in Charleroi, PA is a Romanesque Revival structure built in 1901. It is in an area of Charleroi Borough determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Histo... More

A winter view in Eastport showing people waving from the top of a snow...

Maine stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assemb... More

Fort Knox, Bucksport, Me. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fort tower, stone walls, fortification, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Congregational Church interior. [Castine, Hancock Co., Maine].

Maine stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assemb... More

Monument to the pioneers. Santa Clara, Utah. General caption

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shipyard. Washington County, Maine. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

Picryl description: Public domain image of the back of stereograph card, stereoscopic view, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Fort Knox, Bucksport, Me. Maine, Stereoscope Card, NYPL.

Maine stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assemb... More

Strs. [steamboats] "Katahdin" and "C.B. Sanford" in the ice. Below Buc...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Jul 1889. 9 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability.... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Jul 1889. 9 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability.... More

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Antietam Creek Aqueduct, 69.4 miles above tid...

Public domain scan of settlement or building architecture plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Nov 1894. 10 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Taylor Run-Yorty Run Schoolhouse, Legislative Routes 62175 (PA Highway...

Significance: Although much altered in this century, the Taylor Run-Yorty Run School House still serves as an example of the vernacular public architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century. With be... More

Taylor Run-Yorty Run Schoolhouse, Legislative Routes 62175 (PA Highway...

Significance: Although much altered in this century, the Taylor Run-Yorty Run School House still serves as an example of the vernacular public architecture of the middle third of the nineteenth century. With be... More

U.S. Army Garrison Fort Ritchie, Lower Lake Dam, Fort Ritchie Military...

Significance: This dam is the lower unit of a two part-water control system at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Both dams are locally important structures used to maintain the recreational-use lakes at Fort Ritchie. A... More

William Woods House, Caledonia, Washington County, MO

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-168 Survey number: HABS MO-1718 Building/structure dates: 1818 Initial Construction

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Dec 1909. 16 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Herman Farm, Barn, North side of Showalter Road, East of I-81, Hagerst...

Significance: The Hermans Farm barn is dated on a cornerstone, May, 1856, as is a well documented and intact example of a prevalent barn type of south central Pennsylvania and mid-Maryland throughout the 19th c... More

Hollenberg Pony Express Station, Route 243, 6.9 miles south of Nebrask...

1992 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express Station still standing on its original site with its original dimensions intact. It s... More

Plat book of Washington County, Minnesota : showing township plats, ci...

Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotations in pencil and colored pencil on some maps. Map of east Oakdale Township (28 cm.) taped on t.p. verso. Vendo... More

Plat book of Washington County, Minnesota : showing township plats, ci...

Includes index. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotations in pencil and colored pencil on some maps. Map of east Oakdale Township (28 cm.) taped on t.p. verso. Vendo... More

Mumma Farm, Smoketown Road, Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD

Significance: The Mumma Farm has evolved as changes in farming practices, world events, and the commemoration of such events left their mark on the property. Though fundamental changes have occurred, the landsc... More

Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, Co-op Creek Bridge, Spanning Co-op Creek, S...

Significance: The Co-op Creek Bridge was constructed by the Bureau of Public Roads as part of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway. The development of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway is significant to the development of th... More

Zion-Mount Carmel Highway, Co-op Creek Bridge, Spanning Co-op Creek, S...

Significance: The Co-op Creek Bridge was constructed by the Bureau of Public Roads as part of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway. The development of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway is significant to the development of th... More

General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...

Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More

General Cyrus French House, Kingstown Road (State Route 138) & College...

Significance: At the time of the HABS documentation (1940), the two and one-half story, clapboard and shingled house was in very poor condition and unoccupied. There was a fire the following year. The Federal... More

Western Maryland Railway, Cumberland Extension, Pearre to North Branch...

Significance: The westward expansion of the Western Maryland Railway, beginning with the Cumberland Extension, was one of the last new mainlines constructed during the U.S. railroads' period of extensive growth... More

Soil map, Alabama, Washington County sheet /

Shows distribution of soil types by colors and symbols. In lower margin: A. Hoen & Co., Lith. Baltimore, Md. Gift; A. Hoen & Co.; Mar. 10, 1928. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Issac Hammer House, Johnson City, Washington County, TN

Significance: 1793 log single-dwelling with first floor of stone and two floors of logs. Interior slightly altered. Survey number: HABS TN-40

Part of the counties of Charlotte and Albany, in the Province of New Y...

Joseph Poffenberger Farm, Wash House, 17834 Mansfield Avenue, Sharpsbu...

Significance: It is a 1-room outbuilding, which was built in 2 phases. The western section of the building, thought to be earlier, was built of horizontal hewn log construction, with a large exterior fieldstone... More

Chi Omega Greek Theater, Dickson Street, Fayetteville, Washington Coun...

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Chi Omega Greek Theater on the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is constructed as a gift to the university for commemorating the founding of Chi Ome... More

St. George Tabernacle, Main Street and Tabernacle Streets, Saint Georg...

Significance: This is probably the finest remaining pioneer Tabernacle in the state, immaculately maintained, located in the central city of the Southern Utah Cotton Mission. Unprocessed Field note material e... More

Colonel William W. Browning House, Farm Roads 1155 & 1371, Chappell Hi...

Significance: William Wescott Browning came to Texas in the 1850s from South Carolina. In 1857 the 49-year-old Browning agreed to purchase 1070 acres from the Anna Doughtry estate. He and his wife, Elizabeth Le... More

Ritter Log Cabin, 118 West Johnson Avenue, Springdale, Washington Coun...

This structure was moved from Highway 112 near Elm Springs in 1979. 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Ritter Log Cabin dates back to the 1850's through a study performed by David Stahle, d... More

Philip Pry Farm, House, Boonsboro Pike (SR 34), Sharpsburg, Washington...

Significance: The Pry House derives its significance from both the historical implications of its role in the Civil War Battle of Antietam, and from the architectural significance of its mid-nineteenth century ... More

Naegle Winery, Spring Street (State Route 15), Toquerville, Washington...

Significance: This is probably the only remnant of southern Utah's flourishing wine industry of the late 1860's and 70's. Survey number: HABS UT-65 Building/structure dates: ca. 1868 Initial Construction

Campbell Hotel, County Route 18A at Poultney River, Hampton, Washingto...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N419 Survey number: HABS NY-6349

Wells, Fargo & Company Express Building, Main Street, Silver Reef, Was...

Significance: This is one of two original buildings still standing in an old mining town which reached population of 1500 in the late 1870's. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-35 ... More

Bank of Fayetteville, 100 West Center Street, Fayetteville, Washington...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commerce, shopping, main street, city downtown, early 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Glens Falls Feeder, Sluice, Along south side of Glens Falls Feeder bet...

Significance: The Glens Falls Feeder: Sluice is considered significant for two reasons. The central, stone arch component of this resource represents a unique engineering structure, relative to other lock bypa... More

Glens Falls Feeder, Sluice, Along south side of Glens Falls Feeder bet...

Significance: The Glens Falls Feeder: Sluice is considered significant for two reasons. The central, stone arch component of this resource represents a unique engineering structure, relative to other lock bypa... More

Bridge over Conococheague River, Old National Trail, Hagerstown, Washi...

Survey number: HABS MD-139-A Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge, Spanning Missouri River on Highway 30...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Mar 1915. 19 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Mar 1915. 19 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont...

Mar 1915. 19 Sheet(s). Vermont fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Mad River Glen, Single Chair Ski Lift, 62 Mad River Glen Resort Road, ...

Significance: Mad River Glen is the home of the Single Chair Ski Lift, the longest and oldest operating single chair ski lift in its original location in North America - a historical treasure for the ski indust... More

Potomac Edison Company, Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Bridge, Spanning C & O...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lift Bridge is significant as a rare surviving example of a short-span railroad vertical lift bridge, for its unusual design elements to allow unimpeded passage of cana... More

Antietam National Cemetery, Lodge House, Shepherdstown Pike (State Rou...

Significance: The cemetery's significance lies primarily in the events of the Civil War Battle of Antietam which led to its creation. Architecturally, its elaborate entrance gate and gothic-inspired lodge hous... More

Joseph Poffenberger Farm, House, 17834 Mansfield Avenue, Sharpsburg, W...

Public domain photograph of attic, house frame, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rufus Putnam to Nathan Dane, Samuel Phillips, and Nathaniel Wells, 9 S...

Samuel Phillips to Nathan Dane, 9 September 1785

George Downs to George Coffin, 31 July 1820

Plat of that part of the Washington & Rockville Turnpike Road lying wi...

Covers the presentday Georgia Avenue N.W. between Florida Avenue and the District line. At upper edge: Aug't 5, 1820. Title from verso. Alternate title at head of text: District of Columbia, Washington County, ... More

George Downes to George Coffin, 18 December 1822

George Downes to George Coffin, 24 January 1824

Joseph Whitney to George Coffin, 15 September 1825

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, First Culvert Between Locks 55 & 56

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

John Barnard to George Coffin, 18 May 1826

George Downes to George Coffin, 29 March 1826

Solomon Thayer to George Coffin, 6 December 1828

Leonard Shaw to George Coffin, 27 March 1830

J.A. Lowell to George Coffin, 24 November 183

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Aqueduct 4

Picryl description: Public domain image of an arch bridge, stone structure, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Farmstead View, Antietam National Battlefield

A view towards the buildings on the Miller Farmstead from Cornfield Avenue show the high integrity of the landscape. The property and adjacent lands remain agrarian in nature and unobstructed by modern intrusio... More

Map of the position at Turner's Gap. South Mountain.

Shows the area between Turner's Gap and Boonsboro, Md., on September 14, 1862, as the Confederate forces advanced on Harper's Ferry and the Union Army moved to head them off at South Mountain.

Objects, furniture, andirons, Helme house, Kingston, RI

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Saunderstown, Rhode Island, interior detail, fireplace and panelling, ...

Public domain photograph of New England house, building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kingston, Rhode Island, Luke Aldrich house

Public domain photograph of New England house, building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, "Hazard Castle"

Public domain photograph of New England house, building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plat of survey of land conveyed by Wm. D.C. Murdock to his daughters b...

Cadastral survey map of single land tract, location unclear. "May 9th 1873." Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Fold-lined and mounted on cloth backing. Includes table of survey data. Available also through the Librar... More

map from "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with biographica...

This image has been taken from scan 000206 from "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men ... Illustrated. [With a map.]". The title and s... More

map from "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with biographica...

This image has been taken from scan 000241 from "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men ... Illustrated. [With a map.]". The title and s... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon

May 1884. 1 Sheet(s). Oregon fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. ... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Greenleaf, Washington County, Kansas

Aug 1886. 1 Sheet(s). Kansas fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability. ... More

Sacco-Vanzetti Case Records, 1920-1928. Defense Papers. Petition to ad...

Bulk of the material pertains to the defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchists who were tried and executed for murder, and includes "office testimony" not included in the published transcript.... More

Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island : 1888 - Vintage map, Norman B. Levent...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

War Department Tablet, Antietam National Battlefield

In 1890, Congress passed legislation to preserve and mark the lines of the Civil War battle on Antietam Battlefield. Many of the monuments and markers that were erected, signifying battle positions or fallen so... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Salem, Washington County, New York

Sept 1891. 1 Sheet(s). New York fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabilit... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Fort Ann, Washington County, New York

Apr 1895. 1 Sheet(s). New York fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liability... More

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Leland, Washington County, Mississippi

Jul 1898. 1 Sheet(s). Mississippi fire insurance map. Sanborn fire insurance maps are detailed maps of cities and towns produced by the Sanborn Map Company for the purpose of assessing fire insurance liabil... More

13th New Jersey Infantry Marker (10:20am Position) 2 of 3

Commemorative monument erected to honor those who served & died during the Battle of Antietam on Sept 17, 1862. Dedicated to 13th NJ Batt. Series of 3 markers delineates movements of the troops during action.

New Jersey State Monument, Antietam National Battlefield

Commemorative monument erected to honor those who served & died during the Battle of Antietam on Sept 17, 1862. Dedicated to NJ units which served in the Battle.