Florida's First Confederate Monument

Shortly after the Civil War, the women of Walton County organized a "Ladies' Memorial Association," with Jeannett I. McKinnon as president, to erect a marble monument honoring Walton County's Confederate dead. The Association raised $250, and the monument was first ...

The Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood

The original Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 on Lake Chautauqua in western New York state as a vacation school for Sunday school teachers. The idea of providing a retreat for improving religious and secular education for the general public ...

John Street Methodist Church

Landmarks of New York

The oldest Methodist Society in America organized in 1766 by Philip Embury and Barbara Heck constructed here in 1768 Wesley Chapel, the first Methodist meeting house in America. The present church, the third on this site, ...

Florida Education Association: The Beginning

Florida teachers and administrators numbering 700 met here in Chautauqua Hall for a "teachers institute" called the Florida Chautauqua. The meeting was called to order by J.A. Graham, City Superintendent of Schools, Key West, at 12:30 p.m., on Thursday March ...

Walton-DeFuniak Library

The Walton-DeFuniak Library opened during the first decade of the existence of the town of DeFuniak Springs. This community originated in the early 1880's as a station on the new Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad. The town was named for Frederick ...

Delaware Technical and Community College

Site of the first community college in the State of

Delaware. Formerly William C. Jason High School,

this college was created by the Delaware General

Assembly in 1966 and opened the doors to students

in September 1967. Because of its ...

Hartwood Presbyterian Church

The Writing on the Wall

This is Hartwood Presbyterian Church, which Federal troops occupied during the Civil War. They removed and burned all the woodwork, leaving only the bare plaster walls. On November 24, 1862, Capt. George Johnson, 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, ...

Ford's Chapel United Methodist Church

(organized 1808)

The Western Conference, Oct. 1-7, 1808 in Williamson County, Tenn., sent James Gwinn to the "great bend" of the Tenn. River. Gwinn organized at the home of Richard and Betsy Ford, the first Methodist Society of the six in ...

Wesley United Methodist

This congregation’s beginnings can be traced

to a visit from Methodist pioneer Francis Asbury

to a gathering of farm families at the home of

Abraham Harris on September 24, 1779. A prominent

local landowner, Mr. Harris later conveyed a

substantial ...

Star Cemetery / Borland Cemetery Veterans Memorial

In Grateful Memory of All

Those Who Served Their Country.

Star Cemetery

Fred Fry • William Druit • Pete Bond

James Geddes • James Huntsinger

John Marietta • Joe Marietta

Dalla Creekmore • Julian Englebright

Charles Stout • Thorvald K. Johnson

John Watson • Charles Dewey

Ben Callihan • ...