"From Here They Served"

Historic Sites

Old White House Chapter D.A.R. Est. 1928

State Chapter #51

National #1782

Marker is on New Jersey Route 22, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

In the Council Chamber of Elizabeth Battell's Golden Fleece Tave

On this site, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. December 7, 1787.We, the deputies of the people of the Delaware state, in Convention met, having taken in our serious consideration the Federal Constitution ...

The Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company/Rebirth of the Elgin & Be

Upper:

The Elgin & Belvidere Electric Company

The Elgin & Belvidere interurban line carried passengers and freight between its named endpoints for more than two decades, until growth in private auto ownership, better roads, and the Depression drove the ...

To the Defenders of Fort Moultrie

[Front of Monument:]

[Upper Plaque:]

Second

South Carolina

Regiment

Army of the

Revolution

Organized

June 17, 1775

[Lower Plaque:]

“To the

Defenders

Of

Fort Moultrie

June The 28th

1776”

[Engraved in Base:]

“No men ever did and it is impossible

Site of the Home of Juan Antonio Padilla

A native of Nacogdoches.

Land Commissioner, 1829.

Vice-Governor of the State of

Coahuila and Texas.

Active in the Texas Revolution.

Died in Houston in July, 1859.

His wife, Maria Montes del Padilla,

Died here, August 14, 1846.

Marker is at the intersection of North Street and Powers Street, ...

The Elms Plantation

Ralph Izard inherited The Elms after his father's death in 1749. During the Revolution he provided financial support to the Patriot cause. He also served as a foreign diplomat, advisor to George Washington, and US senator. The Elms, which remained ...

The Elms

Side A

The Elms, an inland rice plantation on the headwaters of Goose Creek, was owned by the Izard family for more than 150 years. In 1704 Ralph Izard (d. 1711), member of the Commons House of Assembly, bought ...

The Freedom Trail

Neighborhood of Revolution

“Paul Revere . . . started on a ride which, in a way has never ended.” - Esther Forbes, author of the classic study, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

In the course of just two ...

Site of the Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

A Spanish outpost founded in 1716 by the pioneer Franciscan Antonio Margil de Jesus as a means of civilizing the Nacogdoches Indians. Abandoned temporarily due to the French incursions from Louisiana in 1719. Restored by the Marquis of Aguayo in ...

The Father of Rock ’N’ Roll / Sam Phillips in Florence

Side A

Sam Phillips fell in love with the miracle of sound and the unifying power of music. Moving to Memphis, Tennessee, he embraced the beauty of the blues with his early recordings of Howlin Wolf, B.B. King and other delta ...