A Drop to Drink

Pemberton Plantation Historic Trail

In the colonial period, the safety of drinking water was uncertain, so people drank cider, wine, and distilled spirits instead. Each plantation made its own beverages. A cider press extracted juice from fruit. The cider could be ...

Lt. Robert Maynard

Of the Royal Navy. Sent

by Gov. Spotswood of

Virginia, in the sloop

"Ranger," killed the pirate

Blackbeard off shore, 1718.

Marker is on Irvin Garrish Highway (State Highway 12) west of Water Plant Road, on the left when traveling west.

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Bluffton United Methodist Church

The Methodist Society, organized in Bluffton,

built the first church and parsonage on

Boundry Street in 1853. During the Civil War,

two confederate soldiers saved the

church from being burned. In 1875 the church

sold the building to the AME ...

Colonel Richard W. Thompson

Colonel Richard W. Thompson

June 9, 1809 - - Feb. 9, 1900

Orator - Statesman

Partiot - Friend

Marker can be reached from South 3rd Street south of Cherry Street.

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The 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

This tree and anchor dedicated to the City of Victoria celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy by HMCS Malahat 21 April 1985.

Rededicated on 3 May 1998 in celebration of the Naval Reserves’s 75th Anniversary

This historic Admiralty pattern ...

Old Victoria Custom House

Ancien Édifice de la Douane de Victoria

(English)

Completed in 1875 in the Second Empire style, Victoria’s original Custom House is a distinguished example of the buildings erected by the new Federal Government after Confederation. It regulated the trade of the West ...

San Domingo School Community & Cultural Center

The first school at this location, built around 1875, was a single story, one-room plan frame building that served the Sharptown District for over forty years. Built in 1919 to replace the first school, this two-story, hip roofed frame structure ...

B&O Railroad Station

Keep Supplies Moving

One of the first railroads in the country, constructed in 1830 of wooden rails that carried horse-drawn cars, extended from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills. This station was built the next year, and soon steel rails replaced wooden ...

The Old Corner Saloon

In the 1860’s Copperopolis had a population of 10,000 and was the principal mine in the west. The mine closed in 1945.

This building has housed a saloon since it was built in 1862. Twice it survived raging fires which destroyed ...

100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

Prior to 1910. the Royal Navy provided maritime defence of British North America and for the Dominion of Canada from 1867. With World War I brewing in Europe early in the 20th century, Great Britain redistributed the British fleet and ...