Delaplane

(Formerly Piedmont Station)

On July 19, 1861 Stonewall Jackson’s brigade of General Joseph E. Johnston’s corps marched to this station from Winchester. They crowded into freight and cattle cars and travelled to the 1st Battle of Manassas. The use of a ...

William Henry Harrison's Encampment

During the War of 1812, Northwestern Army Commander General William Henry Harrison led troops through northwest Ohio on the way to Detroit and Ft. Malden in Michigan. After the decimation of General James Winchester's division at Frenchtown (Monroe, Michigan) by ...

Cedar Creek

Strategic Crossing

Just west of modern route 11 is the Daniel Stickley Farm. The ruins of the Stickley Mills are located beside the creek just below the house. During the war, the Valley Turnpike ran past the brick Stickley house and ...

Lake Greenwood

A Changing Landscape

A Lake is Formed

The Great Depression of the 1930s altered the economy and landscape of Greenwood County. Farmers were impoverished, land values declined, and local textile mills struggled to survive. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs offered ...

Drake Well Park

On this site "Col." Edwin Drake struck oil Aug. 27, 1859; the birth of the petroleum industry.

Administered by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Marker is on Drake Well Road (Pennsylvania Route 1011).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Trenches On Hupp’s Hill

These trenches were constructed by Sheridan in the autumn of 1864 while campaigning against Early.

Marker is on Valley Pike (U.S. 11) 0.1 miles south of Signal Knob Drive, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Labor Temple

The San José Labor Temple, located at 72 North Second Street, was a hub of the city’s turn of the century labor movement. It was established informally between 1901 and 1903 by Harry Ryan, an early San José labor leader, ...

Rasey House

Cobblestone House built in 1850

Home to first President of Beloit

College 1850-1851

Now the Chapter House of

Beloit Chapter

National Society, Daughters of the

American Revolution

Marker is at the intersection of Prospect Street and Bushnell Street, on the left when traveling south on Prospect Street. ...

Whitehouse

Whitehouse Road marks the south boundary of land settled about 1842 by James Gibbons under the Armed Occupation Act. The first Fort Dade Post Office was established there in 1845. In that year, Gibbons' widow, Mary, wed William Kendrick, Captain ...

Convention on Ratification

South Carolina voted to ratify the Federal Constitution in this building on May 23, 1788. Among the 100 members of the Convention on Ratification were Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and John Rutledge, three of the four South Carolinians who ...