Flat Rock African Methodist Episcopal Church

Today’s Flat Rock AME Church originated in 1854 as a place of worship for slaves on nearby Spears Plantation, and it is believed to be the oldest African-American congregation in Fayette County. Originally known as Rocky Mount, the church moved ...

William Trent of Trent’s Town

By the end of the 17th century William Trent, a native of Inverness Scotland, had established himself as a prominent Philadelphia merchant trading in flour, tobacco, rum and molasses, slaves and indentured servants. His shipping interests extended throughout the Middle ...

Rudolf Kremli?ka

In Czech:

V tomto dom? pracoval ?eský malí? Rudolf Kremli?ka

Translated, the marker reads: In this house worked the Czech painter Rudolf Kremlicka.

Marker is at the intersection of Pa?ížcká and Široka, on the right when traveling north on Pa?ížcká.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Quakers Lead the Settlement of West Jersey

In the 1670s and 1680s, most of the proprietors of the Province of West Jersey were Quakers. Quakers were attracted to the new colony by the promise of economic prosperity and religious freedom as well as the opportunity to raise ...

Holly Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church

This church was organized in 1897 near the banks of Camp Creek in an unincorporated area of western Fayette County. Until the first sanctuary was constructed here on land and with building materials donated by Flem Arnall, services were held ...

Europeans at the Falls of the Delaware

The lands adjoining the Falls of the Delaware River were a natural location for early European settlement, just as they had been a focus of native American occupation. The Falls were little more than a stretch of fast-running shallow water ...

Western Laurens Volunteer Fire Department

The land for this building is donated to Western Laurens County Fire District by Joseph Edwin and Francis P. O'Dell as a memorial to their son Simuel Dennis O'Dell, one of the original Western Laurens County firemen.

Born August 31, 1951 ...

Oxford Furnace

Just south across Little Beaver Creek stand the ruins of the last of three Oxford Iron Works furnaces built in the vicinity. Virginia and Pennsylvania investors began the ironworks nearby between 1768 and 1772 as a small bloomery forge. According ...

Francis Marion

Acording to family information, Francis Marion, brigadier general of the S.C. Militia during the American Revolution, was born near here on Goatfield Plantation. He was a member of the First Provincial Congress, fought in the battles of Parker's Ferry and ...

People of the Mountains

The Nuwa Tribe

In this village scene from before contact with the white man, women weave baskets and grind foodstuffs in bedrock mortars. Children play games, as the men make tools and weave rabbit pelt blankets. The border shows more recent ...