Site of Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba

Founded among the Lipan Apache Indians by Franciscan Missionaries in 1757 through the financial aid of the Count of Regla. - Sacked and left in ruins by the Comanches in 1758. - - Here perished Padres Alonso Giraldo de Terreros ...

The National Building Museum

Civil War to Civil Rights

“It’s too bad the damn thing is fire proof,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.

The nation’s only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one ...

F.Q. Story Addition

Land that was to become the Story Neighborhood (bounded by McDowell Road, Roosevelt Street, 7th Avenue, and Grand Avenue) was purchased in 1887 and 1906 by Francis Q. Story, a horticulturist known as the "father of the Sunkist Orange." Serious ...

The Old Brick Capitol

[Old Capitol Prison]

The Old Brick Capitol

July 4, 1815

The cornerstone of the Old Brick Capitol

built by Washington citizens

to house the Congress

was laid on this site.

The Congress met here from December 13, 1815

through March ...

Moses Tunda Tatamy

(ca. 1695 - ca. 1760)

A Delaware Indian of the Munsee branch, he exemplified the spirit of reconciliation. He lived on 315 acres northeast of here, patented to him by the Penns, 1738. Tatamy was the first Native American baptized by ...

Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D. / Patterson Hospital

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Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.

April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930

Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1890. He practiced in Lumpkin four years before moving to ...

St. Paul Camp Ground

(Front text)

This Methodist camp ground, one of four in Dorchester County, was established in 1880. African-American freedmen in this area held services in a brush arbor at the "Old Prayer Ground" nearby as early as 1869. By 1873 they ...

Paso de la Santa Cruz

Spot where in 1753 Juan Galvan, Spanish explorer, put up a huge cross, to show his choice of site for Mission San Saba. Indians gathered at the cross, remaining to participate in the first known Christian worship service in this ...

Famous Tree / Indian Creek Church

[Front]

Famous Tree

In 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1-1/2miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to cut it. A four-foot log from the ...

Menhaden Fishing Industry

The Atlantic Menhaden is a small herring-like fish found in the coastal waters of the Eastern United States. Used by Native Americans to fertilize crops, these oily fish were also used by European settlers to produce fuel for lamps. In ...