Harkey’s Chapel United Methodist Church Founded Circa 1829-1830

Original log house of worship built St. Clair

Co. near Broken Arrow Creek, six miles from

Coosa River. Named Harkey’s Chapel for first

Minister, the Rev. David Harkey of Cahawba Circuit.

Present church built 1903-04 by A. I. Abels with

Community helpers. Preserved by ...

Planters Path to their Landing Place

1630 - 1930

The old planters, Roger

Conant, John Woodbery and

John Balch used this path

from their homesteads to the

cove at the head of Bass river.

Marker is on McKay Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Land Between The Rivers

Surveyors’ maps of 1824 and 1846 of Tipton County marked the Indian Portage Trails through Tipton, the junction between the Indiana water ways.

[[ Maps on Left Side of Plaque ]]

To Wabash River Waters

Kokomo Trail - - - (Northwest)

Peru Trail - ...

Col. William Ledyard

On this spot

Col. William Ledyard

fell by his own sword in the hands

of a British officer to whom he had

surrendered in the massacre of

Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Park Avenue and Monument Street, on ...

North Canaan

“ . . . a green and pleasant land where the

mountain laurel blooms.” – WILBUR L. CROSS

North Canaan was once part of the Town of Canaan, established in 1738. Settlers, whose families were of Dutch and English origin, had ...

Trail of Tears

?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 stockades in Tennessee ...

Sahuaro Ranch

National Register of Historic Places

Listed March 7, 1980

United States Department of the Interior

Sahuaro Ranch was one of the first farms in the Glendale area and a reminder of Glendale’s agricultural beginnings. Started by wealthy Illinois businessman William H. Bartlett in ...

Fort Augusta

This stone marks the site

of the

Colonial Fort Augusta,

built by order of General Oglethorpe

and the trustees

in 1736;

and known,

during the Revolution as

Fort Cornwallis.

St. Paul Church was built

in 1750,

under the curtain of ...

The Midnight Riders

Minute Man National Historical Park, Mass

In September of 1774, Patriot leaders initiated a system of alarms and express riders to warn all towns whenever British troops marched out of Boston.

On April 18th, at about 10:00 in the evening, two riders ...

First Home of Winthrop College

The South Carolina College for Women

[Left Top]:

This Chapel of the Columbia Theological

Seminary, at Columbia, South Carolina,

was occupied by the Winthrop Training

School as a classroom for one year.

1886-1887.

The Winthrop Training School was organ-

ized in 1886 by D.B. Johnson, superintend-

ent of the ...