Dunlawton's Building Blocks

coquina up close

The ruins here include chimneys and other structures made of coquina, Spanish for "tiny shell." Quarried locally (and elsewhere in the Southeast), this native stone contains mollusk shell fragments and quartz sand, bound together by calcium carbonate. Centuries ...

The Dunlawton Sugar Factory

Great Expectations:

These are the ruins of people's dreams, left by successive landowners, free workers, and slaves. Hoping to make sugar in the nineteenth century, they faced isolation, hurricanes, and dispossessed Seminoles. Some lost money in their ventures, and others lost ...

Woodlawn Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Organized 1869. Original building ¼ mile west. Rev. Thomas Benton Wood, first Pastor. Land Given by Martha Kidd Vaughn, lumber by A.P. Presley.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 12 and Woodlawn Road on State Highway 12.

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Delaware Crossing and the Grinter Ferry

Just east of this marker, at a point where an old Indian trail led to the water's edge, Moses Grinter established the first ferry on the Kansas River. The year was 1831, and Grinter became the earliest permanent white ...

Delaware Avenue & Columbus Circle, NE

Historical Information

Designed in the Beaux-Arts style, this was the world's largest train station when it opened - the station and terminal zone originally covered approximately 200 acres and included 75 miles of tracks. For over half a century its ...

Delaware And Raritan Canal

Begun in 1832, canal follows Delaware River to Trenton then New Brunswick. Built by Irish immigrants, canal fell into disuse with advent of railroads in 1850.

Marker is on New Jersey Route 29, on the right when traveling south.

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Centre Bridge / Delaware and Raritan Canal Feeder

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Centre Bridge

The Center Bridge Company was incorporated to construct a toll bridge across the Delaware River here in 1812, completely reconstructed in 1830, and substantially repaired in 1841 after a damaging flood. The bridge, a covered timber structure, was ...

Camp Lawton

Site of Camp Lawton

A Confederate Military Prison

built in 1864 to relieve the

overcrowded condition at

Andersonville Prison in Macon

County. Lawton Prison was a

stockade, enclosing 42 acres.

1398 feet by 1329 feet considered

to be the largest in the world.

It was occupied October 10, ...

1st Regiment Delaware Volunteers

Advance skirmish line

of

1st Reg. Del. Vol's.

July 2nd and 3rd 1863.

Marker can be reached from Long Lane, on the left when traveling west.

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Lawtonville Church

This Baptist Church, constituted

in March 1775, was first situated

on Pipe Creek in upper St. Peter's

Parish near the Savannah River.

Prior to 1836 it was moved to

Lawtonville, where its building

was used as a hospital by Union

Forces in 1865. Pipe Creek Church

became Lawtonville ...