Reverend John Simpson

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In Memory of

The Reverend John Simpson

1740-1808

Wife

Mary Remer

1743-1812

Minister

Educator

Soldier

Patriot

Married 1765- New Jersey

Graduated Princeton College with high honors 1768

Studied Divinity two years under private minister

Licensed to preach by ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson Monument

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"I was born in So Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about one mile from the Carolina Road X of the Waxhaw Creek" Andrew Jackson to J.H. Witherspoon, August 11, 1824.

Jackson said ...

James Edward Oglethorpe

(1696-1785)

The monument in this Square to James Edward Oglethorpe - the great soldier-philanthropist who founded the colony of Georgia - was erected by the State of Georgia, the City of Savannah and various Patriotic Societies. Impressive ceremonies marked its unveiling ...

Maj. James D. Savage

Member of Fremont’s Battalion during Mexican War. Established Indian trading posts throughout Central San Joaquin Valley. Leader of the first expedition of the Mariposa Battalion into Yosemite Valley, 1851

Dr. Lewis Leach described Savage as man of great intelligence ••• magnetic ...

Summer Home of Joseph Habersham

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This was the summer home of Joseph Habersham of Savannah (1751-1815), Georgia patriot, Revolutionary War hero, and political leader. He was a Colonel in the Continental Army, a member of Continental Congress, and of the Georgia Convention that ratified the ...

Memorial Projectile

Erected in honor of the

Soldiers and Sailors of the

Spanish American War

This projectile was fired

from one of the guns of

the fleet of the U.S. Navy

at Santiago Cuba

June. 23. 1898.

Marker is on 11th Avenue near 12th Street, on the left when traveling ...

Jackson Comes Home

Andrew Jackson, champion of the common, is a larger-than-life hero. He has been memorialized throughout American history. The idea of commemorating Jackson with a statue in the land of his birth was conceived by Perry Belle Hough of the Lancaster ...

The Auburn Joss House

Auburn’s original joss house (dedicated February 1909) was located directly across Sacramento Street. After the August 25, 1921 fire that destroyed most of Chinatown, a building was erected here that later became home to the Ling Ying Association. By 1930, ...

Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the ...

Major Crawford's Home

Near this site was the home of Major Robert Crawford, where President George Washington spent his last night in South Carolina on his Southern tour, May 27, 1791. Here Washington was met by a delegation of the Chiefs of the ...