Birthplace Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Birthplace

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

1832-1919

Medal of Honor

For Service in the Civil War

Marker is on Bunker Hill Road 1.1 miles north of Tug Hill Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Anna Easter Brown

1879-1957

A founder in 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha,

nation’s oldest sorority for African Americans;

history teacher. Her grave is ¼ mile east.

Marker is on East Grand Avenue (North Carolina Route 43) near Holly Street, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Tolchester Beach Amusement Park

Opened on this site in 1877 by the Tolchester Steamboat Company, in an era when the steamboat was a primary mode of social and commercial transportation in the Tidewater region, and in response to the rising popularity of resorts and ...

Pitt Street Merchants

By the middle of the 20th Century, the residents of the old village shopped on Pitt Street. This area included grocery, hardware, and department stores; a dress shop, doctors’ offices, the pharmacy, barber shop, post office, and Mount Pleasant Academy. ...

Hazelmore

Land originally granted to Phillip Calvert, Chancellor of Maryland, and wife, Anne, in 1658. Richard Low, gentleman of Virginia, purchased tract known as "Hazelmore" and adjacent land "The Grove" in 1665. Bought by Abraham Wild, trader and mariner of England, ...

Friendship A.M.E. Church

(Front text)

This church, founded during Reconstruction, has been at the same site since 1890. The first sanctuary serving this congregation was located on Hibben Street and built on a lot leased by the Town of Mount Pleasant in 1877. ...

William Bartram Trail

1739 ~ 1823

The great Quaker naturalist of Philadelphia made a long journey through the southeastern states in the 1770's collecting botanical specimens. In May, 1774, he visited the Seminole Chief, Cowkeeper, at the Indian village of Cuscowilla located near ...

Original Survey of Aiken

The town of Aiken, on land donated by Mr. Beverly M. Rodgers to the S.C. Rail Road in 1834, was laid out around a core of 27 city blocks bounded by Edgefield and Park Aves. and Newberry and Williamsburg Sts. ...

Edward Rutledge Charity

This building was built in 1917 in memory of Edward Rutledge.

Mr. Rutledge was born in northern Ireland on March 6, 1834. As a child he moved with his parents to South Mountain, Ontario, Canada where they farmed. At age ...

University of Alabama

Endowed by Congress 1819

Ordained by State constitution 1819

And established by

General Assembly 1820

Instruction Begun 1831

Unofficial Training School

Confederate Officers 1861-65

Destroyed by Federal Army

April 4, 1865, Rebuilding Begun 1867

and Reopened 1868.

Marker can be reached from University Boulevard west of 6th Avenue, on the ...