Robert Coleman

1749 - 1825

Associate Judge of Lancaster County

Member of Legislature

Delegate to State Convention which

Ratified the Constitution of

the United States

Ironmaster of Lancaster County

Warden and Vestryman of St. James Church

Father of Ann - Buried second memorial to right

Ann was beloved of James Buchanan

15th ...

The Temperance Movement Battled Madison's Breweries

The Madison Heritage Series

Owning a State Street beer establishment wasn’t easy in the early 1900s. As the temperance movement gathered momentum throughout the country, increasing numbers of Americans wanted alcohol consumption outlawed.

Founded in 1863, Hausmann’s Capital Brewery flourished on the ...

Captain Stephen Chambers

1753 - 1789

Officer in Revolutionary War

Delegate to the State Convention

which ratified the Constitution

of the United States

trustee of Franklin College

Worshipful Master of Lancaster

Lodge No. 43 F. and AM

Member of Lancaster Bar and

Vestryman of St. James Church

Marker can be reached from Orange ...

Second Baptist Church

Side A:

This site has long served the religious, education, and public interests of the residents of Mechanicsburg. A local Methodist congregation built its first church here in 1820, and the townspeople also used the structure as its village school. The ...

Symbols of Steel Sculpture Garden

The wrought iron Phoenix Columns here in the Symbols of Steel Sculpture Garden once supported the floors of the Stegmaier Brewery, a Wilkes-Barre, PA, landmark. The Romanesque style brewery building was constructed in the late 19th century and continued ...

Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church

The Mechanicsburg United Methodist congregation was founded in the early nineteenth century and met first in open-air camp meetings before moving into a small log school building. In 1820 the congregation built a wood framed church on East Sandusky Street ...

Beall-Dawson House

100 West Montgomery Avenue

Upton Beall, wealthy landowner and Clerk of Court, owned 25 slaves when he died in 1827. After Upton Beall died, his family did not purchase additional slaves, however, by 1860 the Beall family owned 52 slaves.

Bowling Green Fence

Landmarks of New York

Erected by the Common Council in 1771, this fence surrounds New York’s earliest park. The park was leased in 1733 for use as a bowling green at a rental of one peppercorn a year. Patriots, who in ...

The Battle of Hartsville

December 7, 1862

After marching 24 miles in four inches of snow and crossing the icy Cumberland River, Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 1,300 men attacked the Federal 39th Brigade under the command of Colonel Absalom B. Moore. Although greatly outnumbered, ...

The Blowing Engine Room

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark

The blast furnace required a tremendous amount of air - about two tons for every ton of iron produced. These three rooms, known collectively as the blower building, house the equipment used to pump air to ...