The Stearns Homestead

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This 48-acre farm is the last remnant of an agricultural way of life that characterized Parma Township well into the 20th century. The farmhouse, built circa 1855 by Western Reserve settler Lyman Stearns, is representative of the Greek ...

Witherspoon’s Ferry: Francis Marion Takes Command

Late in the summer of 1780, Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates led a Continental army toward South Carolina to attempt to roll back the British conquest of the province. As Gates prepared to meet the British at Camden, he sent Col. ...

Tidewater Lock View

In 1860, 244,273 tons of goods were transported along the James River and Kanawha canal.

Visible from this spot is one of two locks that remain from Richmond's original canals. It was the last in a series of five stone locks ...

Oscar D. Boggess Homestead / Boggess Quarry

Side A: Oscar D. Boggess Homestead

Oscar D. Boggess (1832-1907) was born in Virginia, the son of a slave and her master. He and his family were granted freedom in the will of his father and master. The will was contested ...

Forest Glen Estates Historic District

Youngstown's earliest automobile suburb, Forest Glen Estates was developed in the 1920s during a period of change in urban transportation patterns and rapid expansion in the regional steel economy. A composite of design work by leading northeastern Ohio landscape and ...

Indiantown Presbyterian Church: “Disarm in the Most Rigid Manner

After Francis Marion’s initial victories in August and early September 1780, British military authorities in South Carolina moved to eliminate the threat of an insurgency in Williamsburg District. Lord Cornwallis ordered Maj. James Wemyss to sweep through the area with ...

Mary McLeod Bethune

1875–1955 Let her works praise her.

I leave you love. • I leave you hope. • I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. • I leave you a thirst for education. • I leave you a ...

Haxall Headgates

One of Richmond's early canals began as a millrace, built by David Ross in 1789.

When the Ross Mill was acquired by the Haxall family in 1809, the race became known as the Haxall Canal.

Before the American Revolution, Samuel Overton built ...

United Negro College Fund

Dr. Frederick D. Patterson founded the United Negro College Fund in 1944. He and the presidents of the member colleges of the Fund began meeting in 1946 at Holly Knoll, the retirement home of the late Robert Russa Moton. Patterson ...

Tuscarora (Clinton) Sand

This miniature anticline or upfold (Huntersville Arch) in the Tuscarora Sandstone shows the features of the larger structures which produce oil and gas. The "Tuscarora Sand" produces some gas although it is largely unexplored in West Virginia.

Marker is on State ...