Berkeley

Berkeley, one of Virginia's earliest Georgian-style plantation homes, is the ancestral home of Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his son U.S. President William Henry Harrison. On December 14, 1619 Captain John Woodlief arrived ...

Berkeley Hotel

Railroad Raids Survivor

This is one of the last surviving antebellum buildings in the area. It was constructed shortly after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Martinsburg in 1842. The adjacent railroad yards twice were Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s ...

Berkeley Pit

The Berkeley Pit is a terminal sink, the remains of an Anaconda Company open pit copper mine that ceased operations in 1982. The pit began as a silver mine in 1880. Its Irish immigrant owner Marcus Daly soon discovered copper ...

BERKELEY (Ferry)

Built in 1898, BERKELEY is the oldest essentially unmodified passenger and car ferry in the United States, and is the best example of the 3 surviving propeller-driven ferries of the double-ended type, the best known American ferry type. In her ...

Dixie Training School / Berkeley Training High School

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Berkeley Training High School, first called Dixie Training School, stood here from 1920 until the 1980s. The first public school for blacks in Moncks Corner was founded in 1880. It held classes in local churches until its first school ...

Berkeley Municipal Rose Garden

City of Berkeley Landmark - Designated in 1995

The Rose Garden was a joint creation of the City of Berkeley and the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), whose public works provided employment during the Depression. Vernon M. Dean, the City's landscape ...

Berkeley Plantation or Harrison's Landing

A short distance south, it was first settled in 1619, when the first Thanksgiving was held here. The present mansion, built in 1726, was the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President William Henry Harrison. ...

Berkeley Municipal Pier

Berkeley History

Berkeley's original shoreline was about where Second Street and the eastern side of Aquatic Park are located today. In 1853 a private wharf was built at the foot of what is now Delaware Street, and a working waterfront with ...

Berkeley City Club

The Berkeley City Club, organized in 1927, was one of the area’s earliest attempts by women to social, civic and cultural progress. The building, constructed in 1929, is one of the outstanding works of noted California architect Julia Morgan, whose ...

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

City of Berkeley Landmark

Designated in 2001

North Branch Berkeley Public Library

James W. Plachek, Architect, 1936

North Branch Library is one of Berkeley’s many civic buildings by James Plachek, including the Central Library (1930), the Claremont Branch Library (1924), ...