Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel Company

Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel Company

1742-1971

Standing together we have withstood the test of time

Oldest Iron and Steel Company in the United States

First Manganese Steel in the United States

TISCO Shells

Armaments for All Wars

Machinery for Construction of the Panama Canal

Marker is on ...

Mendota

The Yahara chain of lakes resulted from glacial action about 40,000 years ago. A massive ice sheet, ¼ mile thick at Madison, gouged hills and widened valleys as it moved inexorably westward. Changing climate caused the glacier to retreat leaving ...

Hilton Harrisburg and Towers

When it opened amidst regalia and fanfare in the fall of 1990, the Hilton Harrisburg and Towers reclaimed Harrisburg's traditional role as Central Pennsylvania's primary destination for the lodging and conference industry. Although plans for a major new hotel were ...

Mitchell’s Ford

Confederate Strongpoint

Here on the south bank of Bull Run, Confederate forces constructed log-and-earth trenches to defend Mitchell’s Ford, a strategically important crossing point. On July 17, 1861, as Union Gen. Irvin McDowell’s army approached Centreville, Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s forces ...

Summer Rusticators, the Tourist Trade and the Waukeag House Hote

With the help of steamship & train travel in the late 1800s, summer tourism peaked. But within a few short decades, the age of the auto and better roads to Bar Harbor - plus closing mines and quarries - led ...

William Sydney Thayer, M.D.

1864-1932

Much decorated Chief Medical Consultant to American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. President of the American Medical Association. Fourth Johns Hopkins University Professor of Medicine.

Marker is on Eutaw Place, on the right when traveling south.

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WB&A Electric Railroad

1908-1935

WB&A Road was constructed on the right-of-way of the main line of the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad. Using the most advanced technology of the time, the high-speed line provided passenger and freight service between Baltimore and Washington ...

Trinity United Methodist Church

This African - American church, was established in

1866, built its first sanctuary 4 blocks SE in 1870.

Construction began on this sanctuary in 1928 and

was completed in 1944. Trinty, headquarters for the

Orangeburg Movement during the 1960s, hosted

Hardin Taliaferro

1811-1875

Humorist, minister, and editor. Wrote Fisher's River Scenes (1859), a collection of folk tales with local settings. He was born 2 miles N.W.

Marker is at the intersection of Pine Street (Route 89) and Pine Ridge Road, on the right when ...

Butterfield Trail

Stagecoaches of the Butterfield Overland Mail Co. began carrying passengers and mail from St. Louis to San Francisco, across southern New Mexico, in 1858. The 2,795-mile journey took 21-22 days. In 1861 the service was re-routed through Salt Lake City. ...