Centerville Cemetery

Main Marker:

Burials here date back to the early 1860’s but it was 1900 before the first cemetery association purchased the land from Theodore Willrich and started keeping records. In 1958 a few residents re-formed the organization which had lapsed into ...

Centerville School

Erected in 1894 by C.H. Hintz this building was used continuously for school purposes until 1966 when due to unification, pupils were bussed into Chico. The first teacher was Miss Ada Woods. Cost of building was $600.Purchased by Centerville Recreation ...

Centerville

Town was center point for Swift Sure Stagecoach Line running on the Old York Road between Philadelphia and New York in mid 1700's.

Marker is at the intersection of Old York Road and Pleasant Run Road, on the right when traveling ...

Kings River - Centerville

Gabriel Moraga of the Spanish Army, on Jan. 6, 1806 camped near here on the banks of a river never before seen by white men. The day was Epiphany, commemorating the visit of the three kings of the East to ...

Centerville Veterans Memorial

In

honor of those

who served

in war and peace

to protect the

United States

of

America

American Revolution 1776-1783

War of 1812 1812-1814

Mexican War 1846-1848

Civil War 1861-1865

Spanish-American War 1898

World War I 1917-1918

World War II 1941-1945

Korea 1950-1955

Vietnam 1961-1975

Persian Gulf War 1991

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Centerville United Methodist Church

Side 1:

Ben Johnson and his wife, "Miss Ellie," attended the DuBose Methodist Church located six miles away until they were caught in a rainstorm that frightened

their horse. In an attempt to get a church nearer home, Ben Johnson and Dick ...

Hot Water / Centerville

Royal Governor William Berkeley, owner of nearby Green Spring Plantation, purchased the land here by 1652, then known as Hot Water. After Berkeley's death, the Hot Water tract passed to the Ludwell and Lee families. William Ludwell Lee inherited the ...

Centerville

Beallsville - 4

Centerville

Central stopping point between Washington and Uniontown for stagecoaches.

Founded 1821

Marker is on Old National Pike, on the right when traveling west.

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Center Village or Centerville

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Two miles Northeast of here is the site of old Center Village, or Centerville, settled about 1800 and for many years an important trading center. To this village came the inhabitants of Ware, Pierce, Clinch, Coffee and ...