Spermaceti Cove Lifeboat Station

In 1848, eight lifeboat stations were built along the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor. You are looking at the only surviving structure of the original eight. It was moved here from its Sandy Hook location ...

Tarrant County Criminal Courts Building

Built in 1917-18, this structure is located on land upon which old Camp Worth was constructed in 1849. The noted Fort Worth architectural firm of Sanguinet and Staats designed the building, incorporating elements of the Beaux Arts and Classical Revival ...

Kidd's Mill Covered Bridge

Built in 1868, spanning the Shenango River. The only remaining bridge in Pennsylvania with an all-wooden truss design patented by Robert Smith of Tippecanoe City, Ohio. The last historic covered bridge in Mercer County, extending 120 feet in length and ...

Wrightsboro Methodist Church

The Wrightsboro Methodist Church of the Thomson Circuit, on the site of the now dead town of Wrightsboro, has been an active organization for over 125 years. In its historic churchyard are buried several veterans of the Revolutionary War and ...

St. Albans Raid

The Civil War entered Vermont, October 19, 1864, when 22 Confederates spread terror from the north, robbed three banks and shot up the town. Stealing horses, they fled back into Canada. There, after trial, they were freed and the banks ...

Birthplace of Commodore Stephen Decatur

United States Navy, born January 5, 1779, mortally wounded in duel at Bladensburg, Md., March 22, 1820.

Marker can be reached from Tripoli Road 0.1 miles from US 113, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wrightsboro

On this site in 1754, Edmund Grey, a pretending Quaker, founded the town of Brandon, named for one of its leaders. In Dec. 1768, Joseph Mattock and Jonathan Sell, Quakers, obtained a grant of 40,000 acres from the Royal Governor, ...

Welcome to Cowpens National Battlefield

A Revolutionary War Site

This park commemorates a decisive battle that helped turn the tide of war in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.

Marker is on Piedmont Road south of Chesnee Highway (South Carolina Highway 11), on the right when ...

Faber Park and Pool

4.25 Acres

Faber Park and Pool is located on what was once the north shore home of the Faber family. Their lead pencil manufacturing company was begun by Caspar Faber in Stein, Germany in 1761. A century later, his descendant Eberhard ...

First Baptist Church / Village Cemetery

First Baptist Church

Founded in 1823 as Edgefield Baptist Church, with Basil Manly, Sr., Pastor, Matthew Mims, Clerk, and Arthur Simkins, Moderator, this church led in the establishment here in 1826 of Furman Academy and Theological Institution. William Bullein Johnson, pastor ...