A Riot, the Massacre, and the Tea Party

From 1769-1776 Boston was the flashpoint for events leading up to the American Revolution. On February 22, 1770, a crowd gathered around the house and shop of a Tory sympathizer and customs agent, Ebenezer Richardson. When they started pelting the ...

St. John's Methodist Church

The origin of this congregation can be traced to the organization of “Johnson’s Society” in the 1830’s. Meetings were held in private homes and the local school. On July 3, 1852, trustees were elected to supervise the building of the ...

John B. Denton

Born in Tennessee July 26, 1806, came to Texas in January, 1836. As a Methodist circuit rider killed in the Village Creek Indian fight May 24, 1841 in what is now Tarrant County. Named for Gen. Edward H. Tarrant who ...

Gladys Taylor’s Inn

Town of Warwick

Notable Inn, 1942 - 1968, of the Greenwood Lake Forest Farms Colony.

Vacation residence of African-American cultural leaders including Langston Hughes.

Marker is on Nelson Rd 1.2 miles from Lakes Rd (County Route 5), on the right.

The Bombardment of Lewes

In March of 1813, the Royal Navy established a blockade of the Delaware Bay and River. The British squadron, under the command of Commodore John P. Beresford, RN, took up stations off Lewes and the Delaware Capes, and began to ...

Locust Dell Academy

1834~1843

On this site Nicholas Marcellus Hentz conducted a girls school,

Native of Metz, France.

Hentz was a painter, entomologist, author, and was once a professor at University of North Alabama. Experimenting with silkworms, he planted groves of mulberry trees around this ...

The De Vries Monument

Commemorates the establishment of the

first permanent European presence on

the Delaware Bay

1631

In 1631, a group of settlers under David

Pietersz de Vries landed near this spot

to form a whale hunting station and

agricultural settlement. The settlers

of ...

The Trustees' Garden

At this site was located the first public agricultural experimental garden in America. From this garden was disseminated the upland cotton which later comprised the greater part of the world`s cotton commerce. Here were propagated and from this garden distributed, ...

Dividends for the Future

I propose to create a civilian conservation corps…confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical value, not only ...

53rd Ohio Infantry

Hildebrand's Brigade -- Sherman's Division

U.S.

Army of the Tennessee.

53d Ohio Infantry,

Hildebrand's (3d) Brigade,

Sherman's (5th) Division.

This regiment, attached temporarily to Col. Marsh's command, was engaged here at 10 A.M. April 7, 1860.

Marker can be reached from Cavalry Road 0.2 miles west of ...