Former Site of ILC Dover

Makers of the Apollo Moonsuit

In 1947 the International Latex Corporation established a specialty products division and chose this site for its location. The company’s rise to prominence as a supplier of aeronautic and aerospace equipment began in 1952 when it ...

Randolph Cemetery

[Front]:

Randolph Cemetery, founded in 1871, was one of the first black cemeteries in Columbia. It was named for Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1837-1868), a black state senator assassinated in 1868 near Hodges, in Abbeville County. Randolph, a native of Kentucky and ...

Radisson-Groseilliers Fort

A crude structure of boughs of trees “layed acrosse, one upon an other” was erected near here by Pierre Radisson and Medart Groseilliers in 1659. The two French traders came to Chequamegon Bay from Montreal and Radisson's account of their ...

Dover

County seat since 1680. William Penn in 1683 ordered Town site laid out and named Dover. Plotted in 1717. Temporary capitol in 1777 and permanent capitol since 1779. Federal Constitution ratified here in 1787, making Delaware first State in Union. ...

Carter Jackson Monument

East side

This pillar is erected to the memory of William Jackson of Virginia, who was murdered upon this spot by ship captain Thomas Carter of Newport, Rhode Island who, having been ship-wrecked and rendered penniless thereby, and being overtaken by ...

Collins Road Bridge Span

This bridge was originally one of five spans that carried Collins Road over the Manitowoc River in the Town of Rockland. Built in 1911, it was replaced in 2001 and moved to Pinecrest Historical Village. This span is preserved to ...

City Market

Here was erected between

1788 and 1804 a public market on

land ceded to City Council by

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Et Al...work of filling in low

ground and creek completed

in 1807; and six blocks of buildings

constucted extending from

George Washington Baines House

Built in the 1860s, this house was the residence of the Rev. George Washington Baines (1809-83) from 1870 to 1883. A pioneer Baptist preacher, missionary, editor, and educator, the Rev. Baines was the great-grandfather of United States President Lyndon Baines ...

Home of Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson

This house was

built 1856-1860 by

Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson

1820-1879

Texas pioneer, patriot, soldier and jurist, and one of the founders of Salado College.

Marker can be reached from Interstate 35 Frontage Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Freimann Hotel Building

In 1896, Michael Freimann built a large three story hotel building on what had previously been a vacant lot. The building first served as the O'Neil Hotel but was soon renamed the New Freimann Hotel in 1898. The building typically ...