Snow’s Island: Den of the Swamp Fox

Perhaps no place is more closely associated with Francis Marion’s Revolutionary War career than his legendary camp on Snow’s Island, the large, thickly forested landmass in front of you across the Great Pee Dee River.

With plenty of high, dry ground ...

Netherlands Memorial

On the 22nd of April 1625 the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company decreed the establishment of Fort Amsterdam and the creation of ten adjoining farms. The purchase of the Island of Manhattan was accomplished in 1626. Thus was ...

Netherlands Monument

Preserving History

This monumental flagstaff commemorates the Dutch establishment of New Amsterdam and the seventeenth century European settlement that launched the modern metropolis of New York City. Designed by Dutch sculptor H.A. van den Eijnde (1869-1939), the monument was dedicated in ...

The Maryland Inn

In 1712, Philemon Lloyd of a prominent family of the Maryland Eastern Shore, had a lot surveyed for him which was to be used by the drummer of the town. The drummer, an alternative to the town crier, was unique ...

Landing of Oglethorpe and the Colonists

James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, landed with the original colonists, about 114 in number, at the foot of this bluff on February 1 (February 12, new style), 1733. The site where he pitched his tent is marked by ...

Landsford / Landsford In The Revolution

[Front Side]

Located about 4 mi. E., this ford, an early Indian crossing, was probably named for Thomas Land who received a nearby land grant from the Crown in 1775. Used by Patriot and British armies during the American Revolution. ...

The Land on Which the Battle of Paoli was Fought

The land on which the Battle of Paoli was fought has been farmland and woodland since the mid-18th century. Ezekiel Bowen, a farmer of Welsh descent, purchased this land in 1764. County records note that he sold it to Richard ...

The Bayland Guards

On April 27, 1861, Dr. Ashbel Smith organized a group of volunteers from Bayland (now Baytown) and Cedar Bayou in Harris County, and Barbers Hill in Chambers County. The group, known as the Bayland Guards, drilled on Smith’s Evergreen Plantation ...

400th Anniversary of the Landing of Panfilo de Narvaez

Commemorating the

400th anniversary of

the landing of

Panfilo de Narvaez,

intreped [sic] Spanish Explorer

and his four hundred brave companions

The first white men

to set foot upon the

shores of Tampa Bay

April 15, 1528.

Erected

April 15, 1928

in honor of the

Spanish citizenry of Tampa.

Marker can be reached ...

Northern Highland

Sugarbush Hill which you see across the valley is one of the highest points in the northern highland geological province. This province, which includes some 15,000 square miles in northern Wisconsin, is underlain by the crystalline rock on an ancient ...