Floralcroft Historic District

Platted 1928

This district is listed in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

Listed

April 6, 2006

Flora Mae Statler, the daughter of Glendale pioneer Elder Charles E. Gillett, was born in 1890. As a young woman, she worked ...

Task System

Managing Labor

Many crops were grown on the plantation, but sea island cotton produced the highest profit. Grossing and processing it required a complex work structure.

The task system was used to manage the many specialized requirements of sea island cotton production. ...

And Then There Was War

"We were just boys, mere boys, and then there was war and half of us were dead or wounded."

Marker can be reached from Old Greenville Highway (South Carolina Route 93).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Johnson's Ranch

The first settlement reached in California by emigrant trains using the Emigrant (“Donner”) Trail. It was an original part of the 1844 Don Pablo Gutierrez Land Grant. It was sold at auction to William Johnson in 1854. In 1849 part ...

St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church

Established 1883

In thanksgiving for a prayer answered, Judge Edmund F. Dunne began the Catholic Colony of San Antonio in 1882 and built its first church the following year at this site. Reminiscent of what he saw in Europe, the church ...

Pettibone Creek Mills

In 1846 Major F. Lockwood built a dam and sawmill on Pettibone Creek northeast of Livingston and Harvey Lake Roads. This sawmill supplied lumber to Highland's earliest settlers until it burned in 1863. In 1867 Chester Chatfield build a cider ...

Babe’s Dream

George Herman “Babe” Ruth, Baltimorean. Feb. 6, 1895 – Aug. 16, 1948.

Marker is at the intersection of W. Camden Street and S. Eutaw Street, on the right when traveling east on W. Camden Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Christ Episcopal Church, Florence South Carolina

Marker front:

First organized as a chapel in 1843 by the Rev. N.P. Tillinghast of Trinity Church, Society Hill, this church was formally established as Christ Church, Mars Bluff, in 1856. The Rev. Augustus Moore, who took over the chapel ...

Plantation Slavery

The Many Faces of Slavery

The exploitation of enslaved people differed throughout the Americas. However, the bottom line was profit for the owner, while for the slave it was loss of freedom.

Slaves were possessions. They were viewed as a valuable commodity ...

O.C. Hansen Glove and Mitten Mfg. Co.

Historic Third Ward

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

O.C. Hansen Glove and Mitten Mfg. Co.

Designed by

Ferry and Clas

Tour Site 8

1911

Marker is at the intersection of North Milwaukee Street ...