Clarence Boal Hoover / Charles Potter Hoover

CLARENCE BOAL HOOVER

First employed by city

September 1, 1904

Appointed Chief Engineer

May 1, 1920

Appointed Superintendent of Water

December 1, 1921

Deceased

November 5, 1949

CHARLES POTTER HOOVER

First employed by city

July 20, 1908

Appointed Chief Chemist

October 23, 1911

Appointed Superintendent of Water

December 1, 1949

Deceased November 14, 1950

Marker is on ...

Fair Hope Presbyterian Church

This church was organized in 1872 by Harmony Presbytery with Capt. Joseph Commander (1800-1883) as its first elder. This sanctuary, built on land donated by Commander, was moved here and remodeled about 1909. Fair Hope, a founding member of the ...

First Baptist Church

1682 - 1982

Established September 25, 1682

Kittery, Maine

Moved to this site, 1699

This building dedicated January, 1822

Designed by Robert Mills

Time Capsule placed, 1983

to be opened, 2083

"To God be the Glory"

Marker is on Church Street, on the left when traveling north.

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John Ringo

The remains of this noted gunman and outlaw lie here. A teamster traveling from West Turkey Creek found the body sitting in the fork of a nearby oak tree with a bullet hole in the right temple.

A coroner's jury reported ...

Laurie M. Lawson

Birthplace of L. M. Lawson (1873-1943), attorney, farmer, Methodist layman. Served in SC House 1905-10, SC Senate 1911-14, Pres. Darlington Agricultural Soc. 1938-39.

Marker is on East Seven Pines Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Old Fort Marker

1633 - 1933

On the brow of the hill overlooking the meadow

stood the Old Stone Fort or Stoughton House. It was

in two portions, one stone, probably the older, and one wood. At the north end was a door of heavy oak

timbers ...

Soldiers Hole

During the Chiricahua Apache Campaign (1861-1886) cavalry troops on maneuvers camped here at a permanent source of water known as Soldiers Hole.

W. C. Sanderson and Ambrose Lyall struck artesian water nearby in 1883.

In 1892 a twelve-battery stamp mill was ...

Claiborne

During the westward expansion of the United States in the early 1800’s, those whose destination was the new Mississippi Territory took a right fork off the Federal Road which led to the Alabama River ferry at Claiborne. After the land ...

Spring House or Dairy - c. 1812

The Baltimore Museum of Art

The spring house or dairy, originally situated over a small spring, was designed to keep perishables such as milk cool in interior troughs of spring water. It was located at Oakland, the country estate of ...

William Andrew Dowling

Born in Darlington County in 1859, William Dowling was a descendant of Robert Dowling, who had settled in S.C. in the Parish of St. David by 1773. William served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1899-1900, ...