First Village

(Reconstruction)

The original frontier settlement of the 15 single brothers who arrived from Bethlehem, PA on November 17, 1753

They travelled on the nearby Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.

Marker can be reached from Bethabara Road.

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Site of What Cheer House

This is the site of the famous What Cheer House, a unique hotel opened in 1852 by R. B. Woodward and destroyed by the fire of 1906. The What Cheer House catered to men only, permitted no liquor on the ...

“The Whole Art, Secret and Mystery of Manufacturing Sturgeon”

For several thousand years the waters of the Delaware River supplied fish to Native Americans living along the riverbank. Colonial Immigrants and modern Americans followed suit, catching fish for their own local consumption and for sale in domestic and overseas ...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

1759–1805

Classical German Poet of Enlightenment

Dramatist, Philosopher, and Historian

Rededicated July 4, 1991

The United German Singing Societies of Central Ohio

Columbus Maennerchor & Damenchor •

Columbus Sachsenchor

Newark Maennerchor & Damenchor •

Germania Maennerchor & Damenchor

Helvetia Maennerchor & Edelweiss Damenchor •

Harmony Glee Club

The ...

142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Mustered into service September 1, 1862, mustered out May 29, 1865

The 142nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Robert Parson Cummins, former Somerset County Sheriff, enrolled 935 officers and men in 1862. Companies C, D & F were raised in ...

Trail of Tears

Drane/Hood Overland Route

In May 1838 soldiers, under the command of U.S. Army General Winfield Scott, began rounding up Cherokee Indians in this area who had refused to move to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. About 16,000 Cherokees were placed in ...

Lodge of Amity No. 5 Free and Accepted Masons

The Lodge of Amity, one of the six founding lodges of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, was chartered on June 24, 1805, and first met in the Benoni Pierce Hotel at the northeast corner of Main and Fifth Streets, Zanesville. ...

First General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ

In the Bonnet School House,

on this site, the first

General Conference of

the Church of the United

Brethren in Christ

was held A.D. 1815.

Marker is on Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 31), on the left when traveling west.

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William Frank Henderson

(1853-1935)

Student 1872-1873

College Physician 1891-1920

Consulting Physician 1920-1935

During more than half of his life, Dr. William F. Henderson treated thousands of cadets at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech). Efficient and kindly, he also chaperoned dances and ...

Frederick Dewey Durham

(1899-1998)

Student, 1917-1920, 1921-1922

Six years after graduating from VPI, Fred Durham bought the C. Lee Cook Company, which merged with three other companies in 1955 to form Dover Corp., today a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. As president and chairman for 16 ...