Every Building Tells a Story

The adjacent Mitchell and Mackie Buildings were commissioned by local tycoon, Alexander Mitchell. The Mitchell Building (16 above), one of America's finest examples of French Second Empire architecture, was built in 1876 on the site of pioneer Solomon Juneau's ...

Joe Cavalli – Historical Site

Historical Site

1883 – 1924

Adjacent to this site stood “Cavalli’s Blacksmith Shop” which served the truck farmers in the area.

Joe Cavalli

1883 – 1946

Joe was the first and last sheriff of Lawndale (1924 – 1942) and the first Chief of Police of ...

Arizona and Utah / Western Arizona Railway

Originally built in 1899 as the Arizona and Utah Railway, this short-line reached almost twenty five miles from the siding at McConnico on the Sante Fe to the White Hills. In 1904, a storm washed out much of the route. ...

Dixie Training School / Berkeley Training High School

[Front]

Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. It held classes in local churches until its first school ...

Toomer- Purse House

c. 1796

Anthony Toomer, a master builder, Revolutionary Patriot, member of the South Carolina General Assembly and Officer in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, built this two story frame house and afterwards left it to his daughter, Mrs. Daniel Remousin. ...

Sheridan's Division

Granger's Corps.

No. 6...........................................................................U.

Sheridan's Division - Granger's Corps.

Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan.

Nov. 25, 1863, P.M.

1st Brigade - Col. Francis T. Sherman.

2d Brigade - Brig. Gen. George D. Wagner.

3d Brigade - Col. Charles G. Harker.

On the morning of Nov. 25th Gen. Sheridan ...

Mulberry Plantation

Originally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679. Acquired in 1712 by Thomas Broughton, who erected the present mansion, said to be modeled after Seaton Hall in England, in 1714. Thomas Broughton was speaker of the Commons House of Assembly ...

Beatrice's Own - Civil War and the Spanish-American War

We Answered the Call

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter, South Carolina was fired on by Rebel forces. On the 18th of May, Nebraska Territory Governor Alvin Saunders issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to either answer the call from President Lincoln ...

Eleven - Inch Dahlgren Gun

This gun was salvaged from the wreck of the U.S.S. Keokuk. The Keokuk was part of a squadron of Federal ironclad ships that attacked Fort Sumter on

April 7, 1863.

Marker can be reached from East Battery Street near ...

Boyhood Home of Warren G. Harding

(1872 - 1881)

In a Caledonia printing shop owned by his father, Dr. George T. Harding, Warren learned the fundamentals of the printing trade which inspired his interest in a journalism career.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and South ...