[permalink] [id link]
McConkey's Ferry Inn, the tavern that Washington and his crew visited prior to crossing the river
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
McConkey's and Ferry
The lower park includes 13 historic buildings including McConkey's Ferry Inn, where General George Washington and his aides ate dinner and made plans prior to the crossing.
Ferry and Inn
The Ferry Inn was largely destroyed in a Second World War bombing raid by the German Luftwaffe on 26 April 1941, during which 15 bombs are believed to have been dropped on Horning and the surrounding area by a single aircraft.
Sometime around June 1737 Turpin boarded at the Ferry Inn at Brough, under the alias of John Palmer ( or Parmen ).
The High Street is home to many bars and restaurants, such as the Ferry Tap, Anchor Inn, Stagshead Hotel ( The Stag ), Orocco Pier ( formerly Queensferry Arms ), Boathouse and The Two Bridges.
That at Harty is below the Ferry House Inn ( the landlord owns the ferry rights ), while seeing the one at Elmley requires a walk of about a mile and a half from the RSPB car park.
An attempt to start a small hovercraft service between the Harty Ferry Inn and Oare Creek near Faversham in 1970 by the then landlord, Ben Fowler, failed after a few days.
The northern boundary of West Bridgford is the River Trent, spanned by two road bridges, Trent Bridge and Lady Bay Bridge, and two pedestrianised bridges consisting of a suspension bridge and a toll bridge near the Ferry Inn linking nearby Wilford village with the Meadows area of Nottingham city.
There is a small cluster of houses and a pub, the " Ferry Boat Inn " ( originally the Duke of Norfolk ), and a passenger ferry to Eastney in Portsmouth.
She sang with the Humphrey Lyttelton band and with Freddy Randall at London jazz venues such as the Cook's Ferry Inn.
Apart from housing, Saltash Passage is home to two pubs: the Royal Albert Bridge Inn ( known locally as the ' RABI ', pronounced ' rabbi ') and the Ferry House Inn.
The Original Dolphin Inn used to stand on the River Trent, at the end of Ferry Lane ( originally Dolphin Street )
A punt, first built, owned and operated by David Scott Targett, licensee of the " Ferry Inn ", once crossed the Manning River between Tinonee and Taree Estate.
*" The Ferry Boat Inn " ( Heaton / Rotheray )-appeared on the Naomi Bedford album, Weeping Willow ( 2011 )
Some of the originals are Rockhaven ( the Ferry Inn ), Fairlie Lodge, Beach House, Allanbank, Fairlie Cottage and part of Brookside.
Sometime around June 1737 Turpin boarded at the Ferry Inn at Brough, under the alias of John Palmer ( or Parmen ).
Ferry and tavern
The tavern owned by Singleton and his wife sat at the intersection of what was once known as Mecklenburg Road, now named Church Street, and McCallum Ferry Road, now known as Main Street.
Irby subsequently established a general store and tavern at the northwest corner of the Peachtree / Roswell / Paces Ferry intersection.
Ferry and Washington
While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
The Washington State Ferry terminal in Sidney provides ferry service to Friday Harbor, Orcas Island, and ultimately Anacortes, Washington.
An international vehicle ferry crosses the Strait from Port Angeles, Washington to Victoria, British Columbia several times each day, as do passenger ferries of the Washington State Ferry system, a seasonal private ferry connecting Port Angeles with Victoria and a private high-speed ferry between Victoria and Seattle.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Harpers Ferry was a fashionable resort for vacationers traveling by train from Washington, D. C., and Baltimore.
On July 21, 1780, Washington sent Wayne with two Pennsylvania brigades and four cannons to destroy a blockhouse at Bulls Ferry opposite New York City.
Kitsap County is connected to the eastern shore of Puget Sound by Washington State Ferries routes, including the Seattle-Bremerton Ferry, Southworth to West Seattle via Vashon Island, Bainbridge Island to Downtown Seattle, and from Kingston to Edmonds, Washington.
George Washington spent much of his childhood in the lower part of the county on his family's home, Ferry Farm, along the Rappahannock River across from Fredericksburg.
The sites chosen were the Elisha Sharp House ( also known as the Sharp-Wasson-Worth House, c. 1825 ), the Stewart House ( 1830 ), the R. H. Johnson Stable, the Mount Zion church and Cemetery ( 1830 ), Zeigler's Mill ( 1850, previously Gettys Mill ), the Washington Ferry ( 1808 ), the Pisah Church ( 1818 ), the old gymnasium ( c. 1822 ), the old Meigs County Courthouse ( 1904 ), the old Volunteer Electric Cooperative BUilding ( 1935 ), the Ashley House ( 1885 ), and the Sam Eaves Store ( c. 1861 ).
The new Route 6 would share the alignment of Route 5 from Paterson to west of Hackensack, where it would turn southeast onto a new alignment to Little Ferry, then run with Route 5 again to east of Ridgefield and split onto its own alignment to the George Washington Bridge.
Located in central Washington and based in Yakima, the Grand Columbia Council serves the Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, Okanogan, Yakima and portions of Adams, Benton, Ferry and Klickitat Counties.
The town is about 55 miles northwest of downtown Washington, D. C. and 10 miles southeast of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Inchelium is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Ferry County, Washington, United States on the Colville Indian Reservation.
0.997 seconds.