The Auburn Joss House

Auburn’s original joss house (dedicated February 1909) was located directly across Sacramento Street. After the August 25, 1921 fire that destroyed most of Chinatown, a building was erected here that later became home to the Ling Ying Association. By 1930, ...

Chattanooga Daily Rebel

Established on this site, Aug. 2, 1862, by Franc M. Paul, it was published in three states, five towns and, for several months, in a boxcar traveling with Confederate armies. Later editors were Henry Watterson and Albert Roberts. Usually, it ...

The Coblentz-Long Building

Circa 1800

Given its location, the Coblentz-Long Building has associations with the growth and development of the National Pike and with the Civil War. In 1768 Conrad Crone platted the lots of the entire block 2-14 West Main, known as Smithfield, ...

Bracht House

Adolph L. Bracht (1872-1961) was born in Rockport and worked at lumber and grocery stores before establishing his own wholesale and retail grocery in 1899. He was a charter member of the Intracoastal Canal Association and active in the Chamber ...

Derby Wharf

The wharf in front of you was Salem’s longest, and was once one of the busiest in the nation. During the War of Independence, American privateers sailed from here to prey on British ships on the high seas. After the ...

Old Slave Block

From 1800 to 1865 this

stone was used as a

slave auction block.

It has been a famous

landmark at this

original location

for over 150 years.

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street / Shepherdstown Pike (State Highway 34) and North Church Street (State ...

Lower King and Queen Baptist Church

Elders Robert Ware and John Waller, who founded Lower King and Queen (Wares) Baptist Church on 17 Oct. 1772, were imprisoned in 1771 and 1774 for preaching without the licenses required of ministers dissenting from the Church of England. Ware, ...

The Tybrisa Pavilion II

Walter Parker Pier and Pavilion at Tybee Island

The Tybrisa Pavilion II

The Tybrisa Pavilion stood for three-quarters of a century as a landmark on the South Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1891 by the Central of Georgia Railroad, it became a well ...

Becker School

Hermann Becker (1857-1933) operated a successful downtown café, and he bought part of the historic Bouldin homestead in south Austin in 1891. His son H.E. Becker and son-in-law P.A. Wilde, proprietors of the Becker Lumber Company, donated three acres of ...

First Hebrew Congregation

Robeson County’s first Hebrew congregation was established on this site circa 1908.

Marker is on Water Street north of Elizabethtown Road, on the right when traveling north.

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