First Meeting of the Methodist Church

Dedicated in honor of

First Meeting of the

Methodist Church

October 8, 1854

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Athens First Settlement - 1797

In the spring of 1797, Rufus Putnam sent eleven “substantial men ... possessing firmness of character, courage, and discretion” to found a settlement on the bank of the Hockhocking River. In 1800 the territorial legislature named the community Athens and ...

Federal Troops Burn Guntersville During Civil War

January 15, 1865 was perhaps the darkest day in the history of Guntersville. At noon, Forty Federal marines from the gunboat U.S.S. General Grant were sent to burn the town. After the mission was completed, only seven buildings remained standing ...

From This Point

From this point on May 23, 1774, a group of Chestertown citizens, undisguised and in broad daylight boarded the brigantine Geddes and threw its cargo of tea into the Chester River.

Marker is at the intersection of Cross Street (Maryland Route ...

A Fort Evolves

Fort Mississauga

The Tower

By 1813, the British were planning to build "a tower in small redoubt to command the entrance of the River...at Mississauga Point." Begun in the Spring of 1814, this tower rests on the remains of the first Capital ...

Hillforest

Thomas Gaff House

Originally called Forest Hill, Hillforest was completed in 1855 for local industrialist and steamboat owner Thomas Gaff and his family. Emigrants from Scotland in 1811, the six Gaff children moved with their mother to Aurora in the 1840s ...

Sites of Forts in this Area

1. Joseph Berry's Fort - West Bath; 2. Col. Noble's Fort - Pleasant Cove, built in 1734, a stockade with a guard house at each corner and another within the enclosure. "Without its protection the farmers did not dare work ...

George Parker Swift I

George Parker Swift, I, pioneer cotton manufacturer of Georgia, was born Sept. 1, 1815, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He moved to Georgia in the early 1840’s and started the Tribune Mills at Waymanville, Upson County, first making cotton thread and yarn, ...

Maryland’s First Women Voters

In the village of Still Pond, twelve years before the 19th Amendment established women’s suffrage, Mary Jane Clark Howard, Anne Baker Maxwell and Lillie Deringer Kelley cast their ballots in the municipal election of 1908. That year, an act for ...

Grand Army of the Republic Memorial

Tombstone, Arizona

Dedicated May 30, 1887

In Memory of

the Comrades of

Burnside Post

G.A.R.

Marker can be reached from West Allen Street.

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