Schaefferstown Water Company

One of North America's oldest documented public water systems. Alexander Schaeffer built a hotel on the square in 1744, and construction of the water system began here shortly after. On July 16, 1763, he and his wife Anna Engle deeded ...

Hurricane Hugo

On the night of September 21, 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck the South Carolina Lowcountry. During that night winds reached 125 miles per hour and a storm surge of 15 feet swept over nearby McClellanville. The eye of Hugo passed over ...

W. Kerr Scott

Governor, 1949 - 1953; United States Senator, 1954 - 1958; N.C. Commissioner of Agriculture, 1937 - 1948. Birthplace is nearby.

Marker is on State Highway 119 just south of Jim Minor Road, on the right.

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USS Pringle (DD-477)

Launched at Charleston, S.C. on May 2, 1942

Lost to Enemy Action off Okinawa on April 16,1945

In Memoriam

Vella Lavella - August 21, 1943

John Villani • Ernest F. Whitehead

Mindoro - December 30, 1944

James F. Bennett ...

Saint Luke Lutheran Church

This site marks the colonial meeting place of the region's earliest Christian congregation, dating to the 1730s. Under Pastor Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, the congregation joined the Lutheran Synod in 1771. As an army hospital during the Revolutionary War, this ...

Rock-House

Rock-House

Where Peter Young took

his wife for safety when

attacked by Indians

during the Revolution

Marker is on Hubb Shutts Road (County Route 37), on the right when traveling west.

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Carp for sale

Live carp were kept in holding pens and fed corn, then sold when market conditions were favorable. Shipped live--sometimes 30,000 pounds at a time--by truck and railroad to fish markets in Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and New York, carp ...

Too many carp

From 1881 to 1896, the state Fish Commission stocked about 100,000 common carp in 67 Wisconsin counties. Other states also introduced carp, but the fish thrived in the slow, shallow, weedy lakes of Dane County. Carp quickly became so abundant ...

William Gilmore Simms

William Gilmore Simms

1806 - 1879

Author, Journalist, Historian

Marker is on South Battery Street near East Battery Street.

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How to catch 30,000 carp

Large carp populations provided constant work for Fish Camp crews. While the camp supervisor arranged carp sales to local businesses and commercial markets, the foreman and crewmembers seined fish in Dane County lakes. Lakes Kegonsa and Waubesa were the main ...