Harriet Lee Hammond Library

This redwood paneled craftsman style building was constructed in 1916. The architect was no less than the nephew of Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. Members of the community donated time and money to build the library. Most notable of the donators was ...

Nicholas Ridgely

In this churchyard lie the remains of Nicholas Ridgely, Statesman and Jurist. Born in Dover, 1762, eldest son of Dr. Charles Greenbury Ridgely and Mary Wynkoop Ridgely. Member of State Convention which ratified the Federal Constitution, December 7, 1787. Repeatedly ...

Veterans of the 1914-1918 World War I

This gun is a memorial to the Veterans of the 1914-1918 World War I

A captured Imperial German Army 150 mm field artillary cannon manufactured by Kkupp Works in 1917

Many thousands of Americans and Allied young men gave their lives in ...

Site of Dover's First Methodist Church

In 1778, a Methodist Society was organized in Dover by Reverend Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, members acquired a one-half acre lot at this location from Vincent Loockerman in 1782. Future Delaware Governor Richard Bassett contributed toward ...

Booker T. Washington School

On November 13, 1922, 210 children and 6 teachers marched from two old school buildings located on Slaughter Street and Division Street to a new school for African- American students in Dover. Funding for the building was provided by the ...

St. Phillip A.M.E. Church

This church, organized by 1835, met first in a brush arbor 1 ½ mi. N., then constructed a sanctuary on this site shortly thereafter. Its first pastor was Rev. Anderson Burns, and its original trustees were Joseph and Robert Collins, ...

Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy

William Daniel Leahy was born in Iowa in 1875 and his family soon moved to Wisconsin. He graduated from Ashland High School in 1892 and for the rest of his life considered Ashland his home town.

Leahy graduated from the Naval ...

Birthplace of Cardiac Transplantation

This site commemorates the pioneering basic, clinical and translational research that laid the foundation for successful cardiac transplantation. On this campus, Dr. Richard Lower performed the first heart transplant in Virginia on May 25, 1968. Modern-day research in transplantation medicine ...

Northland College

North Wisconsin Academy, founded in 1892 by the Congregational Churches, provided the first high school education available to young people of the small, isolated lumber camp, sawmill and farm communities in the area known as the Great Lakes Pinery, but ...

The Virginia Convention of 1788

The Virginia Convention of 1788 met in the Richmond Academy near this spot and ratified the United States Constitution.

Placed by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1907.

Marker is at the intersection of East Broad Street and College Street, ...