Veterans Memorial

In memory of the men from Newark

who gave their lives in World War II

and in honor of those who served

in the great wars

Ralph E. Adams • Woodrow W. Gravenor • Harold N. Sheaffer

Robert G. Allen ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

(bottom panel)

Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...

Dr. Robert Semple

In Memory of

President First Constitutional

Convention September 4, 1849.

A member of the Bear Flag Party

June, 1846. One of the founders

of Colusa 1850. Died Oct. 1854.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Zumwalt Road, and Crawford Road, on the right when ...

Vietnam Honor Roll

War drew us from our homeland

in the sunlit springtime of our youth.

Those who did not come back alive

remain in perpetual springtime —

forever young — and a part of us

is with them always.

Donald Harrison

Ronald Kraus

James Middleton ...

Montgomery’s Slave Markets / First Emancipation Observance - 186

Side A

The city’s slave market was at the Artesian Basin (Court Square). Slaves of all ages were auctioned, along with land and livestock, standing in line to be inspected. Public posters advertised sales and included gender, approximate age, first name ...

Greenhill Community / Greenhill Farming

Greenhill Community

In 1870, freedman Hardy Green purchased 30 acres of land along

Mathis Ferry Road. The area was called Spark Hill, but was later named Greenhill by the Moultrie School

District. Children walked several miles to Laing School, then ...

Oriental Lodge #12, I.O.O.F.

The origins of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows can be traced to the creation of beneficial trade societies in England. Composed of craftsmen who practiced a variety of different or "odd" occupations, the purpose of these organizations was to ...

Newark United Methodist Church

By 1799 a small group of Methodists was organized and meeting in the homes of its members in the Newark area. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the congregation built the town's first church building on land that was provided ...

The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, 1880

This is the only remaining original redwood frame Southern Pacific R.R. Station in Arizona. It is also the only known, original, on site, passenger depot still extant on the Southern – Trans – Continental Railroad route, between Los Angeles and ...

Maybank Green / Hobcaw Plantation

Maybank GreenIn 1697 David Maybank II (1660-1713) acquired 200 acres along Hobcaw Creek from the Lords Proprietors. Maybank, a carpenter, built a house on this site which he named Hobcaw Plantation. The plantation passed to his daughter Susannah (1700-1746) ...