Early Settlers of the Pleasant River

American Revolution Bicentennial 1776-1976

Early Settlers of the Pleasant River Known to Have Been in Action Against the British During the Revolution of 1775 to 1783

[Honor Roll of Veterans]

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and the Pleasant River, on ...

In grateful memory of the early settlers.

In grateful memory of the early settlers.

Who by courage industry and endurance transformed a wilderness into a land of order peace and plenty.

Marker is on S. Buchanan Street (Illinois Route 157), on the right when traveling south.

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The Town of Courtland / Early Settlers

1819

Side A

Federal lands in this area were first sold in 1818 and quickly purchased by settlers and speculators. A group of investors calling themselves the “Courtland Land Company” and consisting of William H. Whitaker, James M. Camp, William F. Broadnax, ...

Early Settlers / Potatoe Ferry

Early Settlers

Among the first settlers of Williamsburg County, members of the Witherspoon family sailed from Belfast to Charleston in 1734, arriving about December 1. With a year's provisions, they embarked on an open-boat voyage. Traveling up the Black River, the ...

Unknown Early Settlers

Originally buried in Cleveland's first cemetery whose remains now rest in this lot.

Public reburial October 12, 1939 by Western Reserve Early Settlers Association.

Marker is on East 9th Street.

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Early Settlers

Stephen Holstein (Holston), coming here before 1748, gave his name to the river and valley. James Davis settled on this place, “Davis’ Fancy,” in 1748 and his home became a neighborhood fort.

Marker is on Lee Highway (U.S. 11) near Exit ...

Early Settlers & Allen R. Foley

Site of a log hut where the Hutchinson and Messenger Families were the first to winter in Norwich in 1765.

Erected by the Norwich Historical Society in memory of Professor Allen Rich Foley, Vermont Legislator and Historian 1898-1978.

Marker can ...

Early Dutch Settlers

In 1847 Reverend Pieter Zonne led a group of Netherlanders, originally from the Gelderland Province, to this area where a few other Dutch immigrant families had recently settled. Enticed by Zonne's energetic advertisements that "there is plenty of everything and ...

In Memory of Early Settlers

To the glory of God and in grateful memory of those early settlers, the founders of this Nation who died at Jamestown during the first perilous years of the colony.

Their bodies lie along the ridge beyond this cross, in the ...