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Dellingers Mill, Bakersville, seasonally operational, water powered, 1867; Emmett Isaacs Mill, Surry County; Gwynn Valley Mill, Brevard; Linneys Mill, Alexander County, 1902; Mingus Mill, Cherokee; Old Mill of Guilford, Oak Ridge. Fully operational water-powered grist mill. Founded in 1767, moved 500 feet downstream to current location in 1819.
The Tri-States Monument (also known as Tri-State Rock) is a granite monument that marks the tripoint of the state boundaries of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.It is at the northwestern end of the boundary between New Jersey and New York, the northern end of the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the eastern end of the boundary between New York and Pennsylvania.
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]
The mid-1700s Grovers Mill barn- located at the intersection around which the hamlet is centered. On October 30, 1938, Grovers Mill was made famous in Orson Welles' adaptation of The War of the Worlds for his CBS radio program The Mercury Theatre on the Air, in which the community was depicted as the initial landing site for a Martian invasion of Earth. [6]
The following is a list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers since it began the program in 1964. The designation is granted to projects, structures, and sites in the United States (National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks) and the rest of the world (International Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks).
Wars of America is a colossal bronze sculpture by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his assistant Luigi Del Bianco containing "forty-two humans and two horses", [3] located in Military Park in Newark, New Jersey. The sculpture sets on a base of granite from Stone Mountain.
Peter Francisco Monument (1976) is a granite obelisk set on a shorter square granite base with two inscriptions: "In honor of Peter Francisco The Hercules of American Independence" and "Erected by the Portugues Community June 27, 1976".
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