Major Amos Stoddard

1762 - 1813

Wounded May 1, 1813, on the opening day of the siege of Fort Meigs. Died May 11 of tetanus; buried May 12 in front of the "Grand Battery" on the spot where he received the wound that caused ...

Watermen and Working Harbor

More than a dozen oyster houses ringed the waterfront by the 1870s, some built out into the harbor on pilings. Throughout the winter, local watermen harvested shellfish from the Bay and sold their catch to the packing houses. Shuckers, many ...

Steamboats Give Way to the New Bay Bridge

"There was a wharf where the steamboats came in. Right down at the foot of Prince George Street...The Tolchester boat used to come in and they'd pick up one thing or another, an dbring them all up Prince George Street. ...

Little Red Schoolhouse

Built 1896

This building has been placed on

The National Register of

Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior.

Little Red Schoolhouse

Built 1896

Noteworthy for its age and integrity, the "Little Red Schoolhouse" is the only ...

Field Hospitals - Eleventh Corps

Medical Department

Army of the Potomac

Medical Department

Field Hospitals

Eleventh corps

The Division Field Hospitals of the Eleventh Corps were established July 1st at the Spangler House two hundred and thirty yards west of this point. Many of the wounded of this Corps were ...

Jackson's Headquarters

John B. White House

(Preface): On January 1, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson led four brigades west from Winchester, Va., to secure Romney in the fertile South Branch Valley on the North Western Turnpike. He attacked and occupied Bath ...

Paducah Coca-Cola Bottling Company

Paducah Coca-Cola Bottling Company was founded in 1903 by Luther F. Carson. The business moved into this landmark building at 32nd and Broadway in 1939. The building was designed by Lester Daley of Metropolis, Illinois. The lighted dome colorfully graced ...

Milford Station

Lee Avoids A Trap

Unable to crack Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s strongly fortified lines at Spotsylvania Court House, Union Gen. Grant ordered Gen. Winfield Hancock’s Second Corps to cross the Mattaponi River here at Milford Station and threaten the Confederate ...

DeWitt Williams Bridge

Named in honor

of

St. Stephen Native

Teacher and Principal

For Over 30 Years

Member

St. Stephen Town Council

1970-1979

Mayor Pro Tem

1974-1979

9th District member

S.C. Highway Commission

1972-1982

Member

House of Representatives

1983- (1996)

Dedicated in 1983

Marker is on State Road 45, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Great Friends Meeting House

In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport’s European settlers ...