Urban Center Historic District

Encompasses a 13 ~ block area

comprised of over 100

significant structures.

Meridian was state's largest

urban area at the turn

of the 20th century.

Listed in the National Register

of Historic Places.

Marker is on 25th Avenue near 6th Street, ...

The Shiloh Baptist Church

The Shiloh Baptist Church was constituted on March 27, 1852. Shortly thereafter, a house of worship was erected on what is now the present church site. The earliest marked grave in the church cemetery bears the date of 1854. A ...

Amity Reformed Church

Founded in 1802

Present Building

Erected in 1888

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

1905 Courthouse Annex

Washington at Church Street

Built in 1905

Listed in the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Jackson Avenue and West Mill Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Memorial United Methodist Church

Methodism first came to Amelia Island in 1822 when the south Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church appointed the Reverend Elijah Sinclair as the first minister to East Florida. Sinclair arrived within months of Florida being ceded to the ...

Connellsville Memorial Bridge

Dedicated to the memory of the men and women who served their country during the Revolutionary and all succeeding wars.

Marker is at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard (U.S. 119) and West Murphy Avenue, on the right when traveling south on ...

Penn-Craft

This experimental community for coal miners unemployed during the Depression was developed, 1937-43, by the American Friends Service Committee. On the 200-acre tract, fifty families built their stone houses, a cooperative store, and a knitting factory. A model for other ...

Washington's Canal

This will become the great avenue into the Western Country. - George Washington

The stone wall you see nearby is not just any stone wall; it was built here in the late 1700s as part of George Washington's Patowmack Canal. The ...

Meason House

The Georgian manor on the hill was built 1802 by Isaac Meason. Veteran of the Revolution, Meason was a pioneer ironmaster. In 1817 at Plumsock he built one of the first rolling mills.

Marker is on University Drive (U.S. 119) 0.2 ...

Crossing the Potomac at Rowser's Ford

J.E.B. Stuart's Most Difficult Achievement

Late afternoon on June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. J.E.B. Stuart began assembling his cavalry brigades at Dranesville. To avoid the Union Army of the Potomac (90,000-strong) then crossing the Potomac upstream at Edwards Ferry, Stuart ordered ...