Ritz Theater

The Ritz Theater opened its doors on this site

September 14, 1936, and for more than fifty (50) years prided itself as the “Hub of the Brewton

Community.” Between its first feature, “YOURS

FOR THE ASKING” and its last, “CROCODILE ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

You are looking into the bowels of this building from near the attic downward to the second, first, and basement levels. You see a massive, rubble-stone structure with stone walls approximately 2’8” thick at the basement level which taper slightly ...

St. John's United Methodist Church

Built 1917

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

St. John’s

United Methodist Church

Built 1917

Constructed of locally quarried tufa stone, this is the second building constructed for the Methodist congregation, Kingman's oldest organized ...

Rock Garden

The disastrous fire of 1980 destroyed the roof and interior wood components of the building which caused the huge stone walls to collapse mostly into the interior. Approximately 4,700 cubic feet of stone waIls were a part of the rubble. ...

Tavern Park

You are standing within Lot Number One of the Old town of Petersburg, as laid out for Abraham Jones, Jr., in December of 1783. The first owner was William Byrd II of Westover. William Pride purchased the lot in 1745, ...

Fort Meigs

1813

[Marker Front]:

Fort Meigs

1813

[Marker Reverse]:

In recognition of the services of the gallant men who defended their country on this spot.

Marker is at the intersection of West Indiana Avenue (State Road 65) and Fort Meigs Road, on the right when traveling south ...

Sumter Institute

1867-1901

(Front text)

A boarding school for girls located on the northeast corner of Washington and Calhoun Sts. Founded by Laura Fraser Browne and Eliza E. Cooper in 1867. Incorporated in 1888. H. Frank Wilson, president, 1892- 96.

(Reverse text)

This school ...

Concrete Bunker

This monument stone sits on a 10’ deep concrete bunker that was discovered during construction, together with portions of an abandoned railroad track. The bunker was used to store coal for the furnaces in the large buildings which once stood ...

Gateway to Discovery

Annapolis

Look around the harbor. Imagine what the first colonists saw more than 350 years ago when they first viewed this Chesapeake Bay peninsula: a pristine, abundant natural site with deep, protected harbors that had experienced little human settlement.

"...heaven and earth ...

Peter Jones Trading Station

The building before you was built as part of a trading station set up during the middle of the 17th century by Peter Jones I and his father-in-law Major General Abraham Wood. The building is known variously as Peter Jones ...