Old Court House

“Widow Piper’s Tavern,” used for Cumberland County court-sessions, 1750-1751, until a court house was erected at Carlisle, the county seat. The house is now the home of the Shippensburg Civil Club.

Marker is on East King Street (U.S. 11) near Queen ...

Tamassee DAR School

[Marker Front] Tamassee DAR School, founded by the S.C. Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1919, was established in an area described as “remote but accessible where the need was greatest.” It has long met the ...

Joseph De Rivera St. Jurgo, 1813-1889

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Joseph (José) de Rivera was born in Barcelona, Spain, and built an import business in New York City. In 1854, he bought six Lake Erie Islands and had South Bass Island surveyed and subdivided into ten-acre lots. ...

Thomas Sully Residence

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance commemorating the history of the United States of America.

1980

Marker is on Spruce Street, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Third Ward Fire

1892

On the evening of October 28, 1892, an exploding oil barrel started a small fire in the Union Oil and Paint company warehouse, which was located at 323 N. Water Street. Another fire broke out in a nearby factory ...

Old Philadelphia Congregations

It was in Philadelphia, alone of America's colonial cities, that Quakers, Jews, Catholics and Protestants "experienced the difficulties and discovered the possibilities of fruitful coexistence that American democracy was to offer." Philadelphia is a city that not only tolerated but ...

To the Glory of God

This original stone which formed one of the four

Pillars of the first building of Tyger Baptist

Church, the first in this area of South Carolina

near the head of Tyger River, about the year 1800.

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my ...

Sinking of the Lady Elgin

The loss of the sidewheel steamship Lady Elgin was one of Lake Michigan’s most tragic maritime disasters. On September 8th, 1860, the ship, returning to Milwaukee from Chicago, sank following a collision nine miles off Winnetka, Illinois. Milwaukee’s Irish Union ...

Mary Potter Academy

Founded by G.C. Shaw 1889 to educate African Americans. Named for a Presbyterian benefactor. Later a public school. Operated one block east.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street (U.S. 15) and East McClanahan Street, on the right when traveling ...

Wilmington & Western Railroad

The Wilmington and Western Railroad. A 20-mile track between Wilmington and Landenberg (PA) was built in 1872 to furnish passenger and freight service to the communities and industry along the red clay valley. In 1883, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ...