Anderson County Fire Fighters Memorial

Remembering those that gave

their lives protecting people

and property

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"...We are the defenders from fire, of the art which has beautified the world, the product of the genius of man and the means of refinement of mankind. But, above all, our proudest ...

In Commemoration of Black Pioneers

[Front]:

Business Tenure

Dr. N.H. Jenkins, M.D.

1907 1920

Dr. Moses Jenkins, Pharmacist

1907 1920

Stewart Anderson, Merchant

1913 1925

E.J. Thomas, Tailor

1918 1977

W.I. Peek, Mortician

1919 1941

Arfelton Adger, Taxicab

1946 1977

East Church Street

Anderson S.C.

What Was Once Can Never

Be Again; Records Will

Show We Were Here

1907-1980

[Reverse]:

City of Anderson, S.C.

Mayor

Darwin H. Wright

City ...

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 460

1914

The "E6" Class:

The introduction of steel passenger trains on the Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century created a need for a more powerful passenger locomotive. While most roads had begun building larger Pacific (4-6-2) type locomotives for this ...

G. Ross Anderson Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthou

Entered on the National Register

of Historic Places

December 13, 1971

Federal Building

U.S. Courthouse

Federal Postal Station

Anderson, South Carolina

Thomas Harlan Ellett

Architect 1938

This property significantly contributes to the Nation's cultural heritage.

Commemorated June 1976

Gerald R. Ford

President of the United States

Jack Eckerd

Administrator of General Services

Marker is at ...

Orange Vietnam Monument

Dedicated

to the veterans of

Orange

who bravely served

with honor and distinction

during the Vietnam conflict

1958 to 1975

William R. Burton, Jr. Sgt – AR

Anthony De Riggi SP4 – AR

Thomas R. Devlin SP4 – AR

Franklin C. Eucker PFC – MC

Ernest D. Funicelli, Jr. Cpl – ...

DL&W Coal Hoppers

Hopper cars like these carried the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's heaviest and most profitable freight - anthracite coal.

With increases in coal production came the need to increase hauling capacity. In the decades before 1900, the DL&W progressed from ...

Long Island Railroad #193 Rotary Snow Plow

This rotary snow plow (built in 1898) worked the Long Island Railroad for sixty-nine years, until its retirement in 1967.

The Long Island #193 was a Canadian-invented plow designed to reduce the cost of snow removal. Much like a modern ...

Anniversary of the Victory at Yorktown

This tablet is dedicated

to the advancement of

the peoples of the Earth

in the arts of civilization

and to the abolishment of war

on the

148th Anniversary of

the Victory at Yorktown

by

Essex Chapter, D.A.R.

Orange Mountain Chapter, D.A.R.

Hannah Arnett Chapter, D.A.R.

Mistress Mary Williams Chapter, D.A.R.

Orange Chapter, D.R.

Janice ...

Claremont & Concord Snow Plow #60

Coupled in front of the locomotive, this type of wedge-shaped plow simply pushed snow to the side. Because of their reliance on a locomotive's momentum, plows were often operated at high speeds - a practice fraught with danger. Nonetheless, snow ...

Bullard Company #2

This oil-burning steam engine was designed to be operated by a single engineer-fireman and was among the smallest standard-gauge locomotives ever built.

Locomotive #2 operated up and down the railroad sidings and loading tracks outside the Bullard Company's Bridgeport, Connecticut, machine ...