Bank of Chester County

National Register Of Historic Places

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places

Marker is on North High Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Turk’s Head Tavern

1769 – 1964

This Bank occupies the site on which John Hoopes erected the Turk’s Head Tavern in 1769. Much of West Chester’s early history is associated with The Turk’s Head. For nearly 200 years, as tavern and hotel, it ...

William Darlington M.D.

Eminent Botanist

Member of Congress

Born in Birmingham Chester County 1792

Died

West Chester 1863

Began a service of thirty three years as President of The Bank of Chester County in this building – 1830

Marker is on North High ...

Virginia City National Historic Landmark District

The spectacular gold discovery in Alder Gulch on May 26, 1863, led to the rapid growth of this colorful and legendary gold camp town. Thousands of fortune-seekers rushed to the area, and by 1864 the Virginia City area boasted 30,000 ...

Site of Paoli Massacre

Site of Paoli Massacre

MALVERN

Sept. 20, 1777

Marker is at the intersection of S. Warren Road and Paoli Pike, on the right when traveling north on S. Warren Road.

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Advent Christian Church

On October 10, 1910, the original church, known as the Second Advent Church of Eau Gallie, was formally organized by the Rev. H. V. Skipper. Early meetings were held in neighborhood homes and in the Riverside Hotel, owned by John ...

Battle of Normanskill

Fought north of the creek

Schenectady Militia with

40 Rhode Island troops

dispersed large group of

Tories on August 11, 1777

Marker is on New York Route 146 0.1 miles east of Ostrander Road, on the right when traveling ...

301-309 North Buckeye Avenue

Built 1881

This property is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Buckeye Avenue (Kansas Route 15) and 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north on Buckeye Avenue.

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Thomas Anderson Veblen and Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead / History

Thomas Anderson Veblen and

Kari Bunde Veblen Farmstead

From 1866 to 1893 this farmstead was the home of the Veblen family one of the most prominent Norwegian immigrant families of the nineteenth century.

The most distinguishing trait of the Veblen family was its ...

Old Bethel Methodist Church

(Front text)

This church, built in 1797 in the meeting-house form, was dedicated in 1798 and completed

in 1809. It is the oldest Methodist church standing in Charleston. Originally at the corner of Pitt and Calhoun

Streets, Bethel Methodist Church ...