Site of Walborn & Riker Co.

This company was known world wide for quality pony pleasure vehicles, 1881 - 1914

Marker is on Springfield Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Barr's Tavern Site

On the morning of May 27, 1791, President George Washington had breakfast near here at Nathan Barr's Tavern, which was located about a mile and a half north of the present Lancaster Courthouse. According to local tradition, Washington paid for ...

The Barnes-Brinton House

Welcome to the Barnes-Brinton House, built in 1714 by William Barnes for use as a tavern and private home. The Chadds Ford Historical Society purchased this handsome brick building in 1969, and has authentically restored it and furnished it as ...

Bolivar Heights Trail

Union and Confederate soldiers transformed these fields into campgrounds full of dingy tents, smoky campfires and boiling kettles during the Civil War. Shouting officers drilled their troops until Bolivar's grass was trampled into precision parade grounds. Cannon shells shrieked during ...

Bethel Methodist Church

This church was organized in 1835 in what was then rural Richland District. The first sanctuary here, built soon afterwards, burned in a forest fire in 1867; the cemetery dates from as early as 1862. The second sanctuary, built in ...

Elmer Holmes Bobst

His generosity interest in human welfare and love for Lititz, his boyhood home, made possible the restoration and development of this park.

Established in 1843 by the Moravian Congregation, the park was given to the community of Lititz in 1956.

Marker can ...

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson

[West Side]

Erected to the memory of Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. Mother of Andrew Jackson seventh President of the United States.

[South Side]

It was her zeal for accomplishment that made handicaps seem to resolve themselves in her favor which enabled ...

Amon B. King

In the early morning of March 14,1836, twenty eight Texans under Captain Amon B. King separated from Col. William Ward's command in the mission church and late that day in a wood on the west bank of Mission River a ...

Hiram Bingham

A Centennial Memorial of Hiram Bingham. Born in Bennington, Vt., Oct. 30, 1789. Died in New Haven, Ct., Nov. 11, 1869, Aged 80 Years.

This slab is placed here in grateful remembrance of a pioneer Missionary by descendants of Hawaiians (aided ...

Richland Presbyterian Church

(Front text)

This church building was dedicated in May 1884 by Dr. John L. Girardeau. The congregation of 11 members, including 2 elders and 1 deacon, was organized on the Sabbath Day, November 16, 1883 by the Charleston Presbytery. In ...