Shades Crest Road Historical District

Indian, Wagon Trail, now Shades Crest Road, led to popular chalybeate springs. Summit, now Bluff Park, was a resort known for its view, cool air and healing mineral water. In 1899 school / church was built. In 1909 Bluff Park ...

Karl Jansky Radio Astronomy Monument

At this location in 1931, Karl Jansky, a Bell Laboratories physicist and radio researcher, recorded for the first time radio signals from beyond the Earth. The source of these signals—radio noise at a wavelength of 14.6 meters—was the center of ...

Old Post Road

This road on the right

was established in 1736 by

Gen. James Oglethorpe.

First postal route south of

Savannah Stage Coach Road

and line of march

of Revolutionary Soldiers.

Saint John's Parish Chapter

Daughters of the American Colonists

March 3, 1950

Marker is on South Coastal Hwy (U.S. 17) ...

Pierce Memorial Methodist Church

One of the early Methodist Churches in this section, Pierce Memorial was first called Rocks Church, then Pierce Chapel for Bishop George F. Pierce, leading Georgia Methodist. The first building was erected across the road by slave labor soon after ...

Lake Durant

Lake Durant

Named in Honor Of

William West Durant

1850 - 1934

Who Devoted Much of his Life To

Developing the Adirondacks And

Making Known their Beauties

Marker can be reached from New York Route 30.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Indian Trading Post

Near the site

of the

First Indian

Trading Post

in

Monroe

Marker is on West Elm 0.1 miles west of Godfroy Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Christmas (Noel) Dagenet

[Marker Front]:

Born December 25, 1799 near Terre Haute; baptised by Father Rivet, missionary at Vincennes. Son of French fur trader Ambrose Dagenet and Mechinquamesha, sister of Wea chief Jacco. Served Wea nation and U.S. government at Treaty of St. Mary's ...

“The Sundial”

The oldest known device for the measurement of time,

a sundial indicates time by the position of the shadow

of a gnomon cast by the sun on the face of a dial

marked in hours. The gnonon is a flat piece of metal ...

Midway Congregational Church

Erected 1792

Organized in 1754 by the descendants

of an English Colony which came first

to Massachusetts 1630

to Connecticut 1635

to South Carolina 1695

and to Georgia 1752

Built on the same spot as the church

which was burned by the British in 1778

This Church ...

The Archibald Howell Home

Here, in the spring of 1865, Gen. Henry M. Judah had his headquarters and saw evidence which helped him make a decision of much importance to local people. Since no crops had been grown here on the battlefields and, as ...