Poplar Lawn

Poplar Lawn is now known as Central Park. Here the Petersburg Volunteers camped in October 1812, before leaving for the Canadian border. Here Lafayette was greeted with music and speeches in 1824. The place was bought by the city in ...

Delaware Canal / Pennsylvania Canal

Delaware Canal

Here is Lock No. 12 in a series of 23 lift locks, numbered from Bristol to Easton. Just above here is one of the nine aquaducts by which the canal and its traffic crossed courses of small streams.

Coloma’s Law Offices

Site of

In the 1850s, the law offices of Thomas Robertson and the firm of Sanderson and Hews were at this site. The town alcalde also had his office here. Borrowed from Mexican government, the position of alcalde combined the roles ...

Historic Oaklawn Cemetery

This hallowed ground set aside as a town burial site in 1850 "for whites & slaves alike" is the resting place for many of Tampa's founding fathers, mayors, and county officers.

A governor of Florida, two Supreme Court Judges, framers ...

Ocean View Delaware

Birthplace of the Commercial Broiler Industry

In 1923, Cecile Long Steele started a flock of

500 chicks. At 16 weeks, they weighted 2 and

¼ pounds and sold for 62 cents a pound. By

1989, growers produce birds of twice the ...

Historic Woodlawn Cemetery

Ohio Historical Marker

Founded in 1876 by a group of Toledo businessmen, Woodlawn Cemetery was designed in the tradition of the country's "rural cemetery" movement, which was first popularized in Europe in the 1830s. This movement reflects the change in American ...

Destruction of Dunlawton Plantation

In January 1836, during the second Indian War, the Indians burned Dunlawton Plantation. Only the brick walls, the chimneys and the heavy iron machinery were left. The Plantation was not rebuilt until the 1840's.

The war cost the United States ...

Delaware Township Veterans

In Honor of those from Delaware Township who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

Erected by Sergeantsville Memorial Post 8390

Veterans of Foreign Wars

1992

Marker is at the intersection of Rosemont - Ringoes Road and Sergeantsville - Flemington ...

Telling Dunlawton's Stories

How do we know what we know about Dunlawton? The information sources range from period documents to objects in the ground. Questions remain, but researchers have made a start at uncovering the plantation's key stories.

Among the written sources, land records ...

Delaware & Raritan Canal

In memory of those who lost their lives during construction of the Delaware & Raritan Canal.

From 1830 to 1834, an army of ditch diggers, carpenters and masons - many of whom were Irish immigrants - built the canal. Large ...