The Dole House

Built by Eldridge Dole c. 1879

Renovation completed April 2004

Renovation

Greater Bay Development Corp.

Walnut Creek

Architect

Johnson Lyman Architects

Walnut Creek

Contractor

Guilkey Construction, Inc.

Dedicated to His Glory

Twenty Fourth Day of May

Two Thousand and Four

Walnut Creek Historical Society

Site No. 10

Marker is on Mt. Diablo Boulevard west of ...

Christ Church- Philadelphia

Whereas the honorable Continental Congress have resolved to declare the American Colonies to be free and independent states ... it will be proper to omit those petitions from the liturgy wherein the King of Great Britain is prayed for ...

First Division War Memorial

[Inscriptions on the original memorial (1924)]

First Division, United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces, June 1917 - September 1919.

Erected by the memorial association of the First Division and patriotic friends to the memory of the dead of the division ...

First Light of Freedom

The Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island

[obverse:]First Light of Freedom

Former slaves give thanks by the creek’s edge

at the sight of the island - “If you can cross the

creek to Roanoke Island, you will find ‘safe haven’.”

[rendering of Edwin Forbes' ...

The Freedom Tree

With the vision of universal freedom

for all mankind

this tree is dedicated to

Terry L. Reynolds

and all

Prisoners of War

and

Missing in Action

Courtesy hmdb.org

Andrew Hamilton

In honor of

Andrew Hamilton

1665 - 1741

"The Philadelphia Lawyer"

Marker can be reached from 2nd Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Resting Place of Seven Signers of the Declaration of Independenc

In the Burial Ground of this Church

rest the remains of Seven Signers of the

Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin             Benjamin Rush MD

Obit 1796                     ...

Formation of the Southern Methodist Church

One block west stood the Union Street Methodist Church, completed in 1820. There was held the first general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, May 1-23, 1846. At this meeting the Southern Methodist Church, which had separated from the ...

Old Moat

Remains of

Old Moat

part of outworks

Fort Edward

1755

Marker is on Old Fort Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mount Horeb Lodge

Chartered Jan. 21, 1854; met in log schoolhouse.

Erected own lodge hall 1856 on land given by Grand Master Sam Mather and B. K. Stewart. First floor used as church and school. A fire in 1915 razed hall. Lodge rebuilt here ...