Cherry Mine Disaster

Just north of town are remnants of the Cherry Coal Mine, where 259 miners lost their lives in one of the worst mine disasters in United States history.

The St. Paul Coal Company began mining coal at Cherry in 1905 and ...

Cherry Hill Black Cemetery

A colonial & early American cemetery for Blacks, free and slave, lies up to the rear of the church.

Marker is on Readington Road, on the right when traveling west.

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San Leandro – Cherry Festivals

West side of marker:

San Leandro’s farmers expected a bumper crop of cherries in 1909. Why not celebrate and promote the city and one of its wonderful crops? The first cherry festival took place that spring. The Oakland Enquirer reported that ...

Cherry Grove Christian Church

This African-American church, a congregation of the Disciples of Christ, was founded in 1855 by members of Three Mile Creek Christian Church. A Rev. Ervin was its first pastor, and it met in a brush arbor before building its first ...

The Axe and the Cherry Tree

The landscape design of Mt. Vernon Place has changed quite a bit since its creation in 1828. Originally, the area was known as Howard's woods but when Col. John Eager Howard donated part of his property for Mt. Vernon Place, ...

The First Japanese Cherry Trees

The first Japanese Cherry Trees, presented to the City of Washington as a gesture of friendship and good will by the City of Tokyo, were planted on this site, March 27, 1912.

Marker is on Independence Avenue east of West ...

James Milton Cherry House

[Front]:

The home of James Milton Cherry (1856-1920) stood here until 1974. Cherry was a businessman, public servant, agriculturalist, and real estate developer in Rock Hill for 50 years. He helped found the Young Men’s Loan & Trust Co., one of ...

Cherryville Veterans Memorial

World War I

Dourus Dalton Beam •

Guyser Canipe •

John Q. Homesley •

Alfonso L. Mauney •

Clarence leonard Waters •

Phillip S. HulletWorld War II

H. Clinton Adams •

David Alferd Baxter •

Francis Wayne Baxter •

Thomas Quay Baxter ...

Cherry Hill

Part of the city but green as a suburb, Cherry Hill is a distinctive African American planned community. Cherry Hill was established to provide housing for blacks who moved to Baltimore to work in industries during World War II. Originally ...

Cherry Grove Estate

Here was born James McDowell, Governor of Virginia, 1843-46.

Marker is on North Lee Highway (U.S. 11), on the right when traveling south.

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