Mt. Zion Methodist Church

[Front]

This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1 ¾ acre tract to build a “Negro Schoolhouse” sponsored by the ...

James Screven and Daniel Stewart

[North Face]:

1750 1778

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier General

James Screven

who fell, covered with wounds, at

Sunbury, near this spot, on the 22nd

day of November, 1778. He died

on the 24th day of November, 1778,

from the effects of his wounds.

[South Face]:

1759 1829

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier ...

Mt. Zion Rosenwald School

[Front]

This school, built in 1925, was the first public school for African American students in the Mars Bluff community. One of more than 5000 schools in the South funded in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation, it features a ...

God Save the King!

A battalion of loyal Americans stood battle-ready on the spine of Kings Mountain above you. Lord Cornwallis' powerful army had ground its way north from Charleston with an unbroken string of British victories. Throughout the summer of 1780, His Majesty's ...

United States Army Tank Corps

This spot marks the site of Camp Colt, the birthplace of the Tank Corps of the United States Army in the spring of 1918. Behind this marker stands a tree planted in soil from each of the 48 States and ...

Confederate Camp

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Confederate Infantry Camp Stephens, named for Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of Confederacy, was about ½ mile from here on McIntosh Road. Nearly all troops in the Confederate Army from Georgia were mobilized here and at the Cavalry Camp Milner, located ...

Ellicott's Mound

Ellicott`s Mound, 5 miles north, at the head of the St. Marys River, was erected February 27, 1800, to mark the boundry between the United States and Spanish Florida, as set fourth in the Treaty of 1795 with Spain. Major ...

Bethlehem Methodist Church

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Bethlehem Methodist Church, second oldest Methodist Church in Georgia and formerly known as Thompson’s Meeting House, sponsored the First Methodist Annual Conference in Georgia, on April 9, 1788. Bishop Asbury and his party, delayed by weather and illness, held the ...

The Philadelphia Contributionship

for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire

Oldest fire insurance company in America. Founded in 1752 by Benjamin Franklin and his friends.

Marker is on S. 4th Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

President Washington's Last Visit - 1794

Center Plaque

On October 16, 1794, President George Washington arrived in Cumberland to review about 5,000 troops of the Maryland and Virginia militia gathered here during th Whiskey Rebellion. A few days later, this militia army assembled upon the parade ground ...