Friends Meeting

Established in 1759, the first

Meeting House was built in 1762

The present Meeting House dates

from 1814, with the newest

addition completed in 1984.

1847-1997

Marker is on Union Street east of Cherry Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Rocketts Landing

East

1607-1707

Native Settlements and Early Colonization

May 24, 1607: days after landing at Jamestown, Christopher Newport left his fellow English colonists to explore the James River. Accompanied by “five gentlemen, four marines and 14 sailors,” Newport boarded their ...

Old Pennsylvania Railroad Station

Harrisburg grew from its earliest days due to its strategic location as a gateway to western expansion, becoming one of the most important inland centers of U.S. transportation and trade. The development of rail lines along the same routes as ...

Old City Hall and Courthouse, 1850

When Norfolk became an independent city in 1845, space was needed to accommodate municipal functions. The Classic Revival building was begun in 1847 and completed in 1850 as Norfolk's city Hall and Courthouse. The architect was William Singleton, a Portsmouth ...

A House of Untold Stories

Every brick in this building is a testament to the enslaved African Americans who once lived on this plantation. The 1860 census lists Harriet Bratton owning eighty slaves and twenty slave houses. Of those houses this cabin is the lone ...

Site Where Lt. John Rodgers Meigs Was Killed

This is the approximate site where Union Lt. John Rodgers Meigs was killed in a fight with three Confederate scouts on October 3, 1864. In retaliation, General Philip H. Sheridan ordered that buildings over a large area, including the town ...

Lawrence Tennant Ballard

In loving memory of

Lawrence Tennant Ballard

Who gave his life in the World War

October 1, 1918

At the final breaking of "The Hindenburg Line"

Remember that the greatest glory

God can accord to man, is the

Glory incomparable of

Saving his country

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Second World War Memorial

Dedicated to the Glory of God and to the memory of these brave young men who gave their lives in the Second World War and whose names are here inscribed for all generations to read and remember. They died with ...

The Methodist Cemetery

Burials are thought to have

started here in the 1820’s.

The earliest legible date is

1836. Old area family names

include Braddock, Prickett,

Riley, Kirby and Stackhouse.

Marker is at the intersection of Branch Street and Filbert Street, on the right when traveling east on Branch ...

Battleship Wisconsin: Quad 40 Mount

A primary antiaircraft weapon used by Allied forces during the violent air and sea battles of World War II was the Mark 2 quadruple mounted 40 millimeter gun mount, or "Quad 40." Each individual Quad 40 gun was capable of ...