Beards Creek Church

The Beards Creek Church was orderly constituted on December 29, 1804, by the Rev. John Gooldwire, the Rev. John Standford, the Rev. Isham Peacock, and the Rev. David Hennesy, all orderly Baptist ministers. Jacob Dees and Moses Westberry were that ...

Love's Chapel Primative Baptist Church

This church was constituted and its first sanctuary built in 1888 on `Love`s Old Field,` land donated by G.M. Love. Charter members were the J.J. Kicklighters, the Dennis Lynns, Allen Lynn, and D.B. Smith, the church`s first clerk. Elders on ...

Portuguese Navigators Monument

“This monument is a gift to the people of the United States of America, from the Rhode Island General Assembly in conjunction with the National Committee of the Commemorations of the Discoveries of Portugal and commissioned under the auspices ...

Barnwell Army Airfield

Barnwell Army Airfield was built to

serve as a satellite base to the

Columbia Army Air Base during WWII.

Construction of the Barnwell base

began in September, 1942, with the

first plane landing three weeks

later. The base was completed in

April, 1943.

B-25 Bomber Crews ...

Huguenots, Women, and Tories

In the 17th century, religious persecution led to the immigration of large numbers of French Protestants (known as Huguenots) to Massachusetts. Gravestones of the Cazneau, Johonnat, Revere, and Sigourney families can be found throughout Granary. Today, Paul Revere and Peter ...

Oak Grove Crownstone

Charged with marking the long-disputed boundaries of the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania (including the “Three Lower Counties” of Delaware), English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon landed in America on November 15, 1763. The following June they traveled to ...

Darlington Borough

Formerly Greersburg 1804-1830. Second Borough in County 1820. First Presby. Church 1797. First Free Presby. Church 1847. First Greersburg Academy 1802. First lighted Polo Field in United States 1938. Important relay and supply station in stagecoach era.

Marker is on Market ...

Oradell

Home of Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., USN, the first Jerseyman to orbit the Earth, Oct 3, 1962.

Marker is at the intersection of Kindermack Road and Oradell Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Kindermack Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Concord United Methodist Church

On August 24, 1804, the trustees of the Concord Methodist Meeting House purchased this site from Robert Boyce and his wife Nancy. Part of a larger tract known as "New Ireland," the land consisted of approximately three-eighths of an acre ...

1st and 2nd Rhode Island Regiments

Dedicated to

Major General Nathanael Greene

Brigadier General James Mirchell Varnum

Colonel Christopher Greene

Colonel Israel Angell

and to other officers and men

of 1st and 2nd Rhode Island Regiments

encamped at Valley Forge in 1777-1778.

- Let Our Name Stand Fair -

Marker is on Valley Forge Park ...