St. John The Baptist Episcopal Church

With expansion of settlement away from coastal areas in the early 18th century, there was a growing need for houses of worship to be located nearer to the homes of the settlers. In the spring of 1728, a frame chapel ...

Colonel John Stuart House

circa 1767

National Historic Landmark

Born 1718, Inverness, Stuart was related to Scottish

Royality. Educated in London, he circumnavigated

the globe aboard Centurion, Adm. Lord Anson

commanding, capturing the Spanish treasure galleon,

De Cavodonga, in 1743; he arrived in Charleston

Absalom Jones

1746-1818

Born near this place on a plantation known as “Cedar Town”, Jones moved to Philadelphia in 1762 and in 1784 purchased his freedom. He helped to establish the Free African Society in 1787. A leader of the independent African-American church ...

The Civil War in St. Joseph

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

On April 3, 1860, the Pony Express started from this neighborhood on its historic run to the West. Eight months after the Pony Express joined East and West, the country split North to ...

Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Baron von Steuben

Erected by the

National German

American Alliance, 1915

Marker is on Valley Forge Park Road (Pennsylvania Route 23), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Samuel Jordan of Jordan's Journey

Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New ...

New Jersey Brigade

Continental Army

Erected by

The State of New Jersey

upon the site occupied by the

New Jersey Brigade

Infantry – Line – Continental Army

Brigadier General William Maxwell

First Regiment Col. Mathias Ogden

Second Regiment Col. Israel Shreve

Third Regiment Col. Elias Dayton

Fourth Regiment Col. Ephraim Martin

December 19 1777 ...

James Innes

ca. 1700–1759

Commanded N.C. troops at Cartagena, 1740; led colonial forces, 1754–56, in French and Indian War. Grave 4 miles west.

Marker is at the intersection of Castle Hayne Road (U.S. 117) and Holly Shelter Road, on the right when traveling north ...

James Otis

Here lies buried

James Otis

Orator and Patriot of the Revolution

Famous for his argument

against Writs of Assistance

Born 1725 – Died 1783

Massachusetts Society – Sons of the Revolution

1808

Marker is on Tremont Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

David H. and Jerusha Dyches McFadin House

Built 1850 by David H. and Jerusha Dyches McFadin, born in Tennessee, came to Texas 1828; fought in Battle of San Jacinto. House has 27” native stone walls. By its cool, perpetual spring, Confederates camped on way to Civil War.

Marker ...