Delaware Breakwater Quarantine Station

1884-1926

Many of the European immigrants who came to this country at the end of the nineteenth century brought with them a variety of epidemic diseases including cholera, typhus, smallpox and bubonic plague. This posed a serious threat to urban areas ...

Crenshaw Hotel

Site of the First Melbourne Hospital

This is the original building erected by Harry Crenshaw in 1926 and opened as a hotel and apartments in April of that year.

On February 2, 1928, the hotel became the Melbourne Hospital, operated ...

Quarantine Station

Lewes * Maritime History Trail

In 1880, the fear that foreigners were bringing epidemic diseases to the United States led the federal government to create the National Quarantine System. Around the country, from stations like the one that was here, doctors ...

Free-Town Church

Built in 1846 by freed slaves of William Howard, who gave them 400 acres on which to build homes, known since then as Free-Town. Albert Martin gave them the land for the church. No replacements of the original building material ...

Emmett Forest Branch

31st Governor of Indiana

Emmett Forest Branch

1874 - 1932

Lifetime resident Martinsville; Graduated Martinsville High School 1891; L.L.B. Indiana University 1896; Practiced law in Martinsville; Lieutenant, Company K Spanish-American War; Colonel Indiana’s 152nd Infantry W.W. I; State Representative; Speaker of House; Lt. ...

Riversville / Battle of Secessionville

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Riversville

Riversville, an antebellum village of fourteen acres, with seven lots on Savannah (later Secessionville) Creek, was established here in 1851 by Constant H. Rivers (1829-1910), who believed that the sandy soils and marsh breezes of James Island ...

Federal Expedition on John's Island / Battle of Burden's Causewa

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Federal Expedition on John's Island

The Battle of Burden’s Causeway was the climax of a Federal expedition against John’s Island, July 2-9, 1864. 5000 Federals under Brig. Gen. John P. Hatch crossed the Stono River and advanced along ...

German Submarine at Cape Henlopen

The Surrender of U-858

On May 14, 1945, the officers and crew of the German submarine, U-858 gave themselves up to U.S. Marines after hearing of Germany's surrender to Allied troops. They and their vessel were escorted here to the Fort ...

Three Stamp Mill from the Red Ledge Mine

This three stamp mill was donated to the City of Grass Valley by Mrs. Stella Tracy, owner of the famous Red Ledge Mine near Washington, Nevada County, where this mill crushed tons of gold bearing ore for many years.

It is ...

The Charlie Tayler Waterwheel

Charlie Tayler used this waterwheel to power a stamp mill at his gold mining operations on Ute Creek. Tayler, who attributed his good health to the fact that he never kissed woman or took baths, built the waterwheel in 1893. ...