Greenwich Tea Burning Monument

Monument front:

In honor of the Patriots of Cumberland Co., NJ who—on the evening of December 22, 1774—burned British tea near this site.

List of Patriots on Marker:

Tea Burners

Ebenezer Elmer

Timothy Elmer

James Ewing

Thomas Ewing

Joel Fithian

Philip V. Fithian

Lewis Howell

Richard Howell

James B. Hunt

John Hunt

Andrew Hunter, ...

“Sweet Daddy” Grace

Midcity at the Crossroads

Along this block is the world headquarters of the United House of Prayer for All People. Founded in 1919 in Massachusetts by Charles M. “Sweet Daddy” Grace, the church moved its headquarters to Washington in 1926. ...

Site of Town of Strickling

Once a busy rural community. Named for Mrs. Martha (Webster) Strickling, who settled here in 1853 with husband Marmaduke. As child, she survived killing of some 30 settlers in infamous Webster Massacre near Leander, and months of Indian captivity.

Post office ...

Old Stone Church / Old Stone Church Graveyard

Old Stone Church

This church was built in 1797 for Hopewell (Keowee) Presbyterian congregation by John Rusk on land given by John Miller. Andrew Pickens and Robert Anderson of Revolutionary War fame were elders at its organization. The Reverend Thomas Reese, ...

Gilead Cemetery

Those Resting Here

Who Gave Military Service

In the Revolutionary War

Enoch Crosby • Jos Coldwell • Wm. Colwell, Capt. • Wm. Drew • Seth Foster • John Frost • Jacob Ganong • Reuben Ganong • Caleb Hazen • Caleb ...

Cornhill & Fleet Streets

The oldest surviving map of Annapolis, drawn by James Stoddert in 1718, shows that the area now occupied by Corhill and Fleet Streets, had been set aside for Governor Francis Nocholson for use as a garden, summer house and vineyard. ...

Indian Trading Post

Site of early

Indian Trading Post

Tablets placed

By the Women

of the

Civic Improvement

Society

Of Monroe

Marker is on East Elm Street west of Tremont Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

National Negro Opera Company

Here at the Cardwell School of Music, this first national Black opera company was founded in 1941 by Mary Cardwell Dawson. Noted for its musical genius, it performed for 21 years in Pittsburgh, Washington, New York, and other cities.

Marker is ...

The Rainey Plantation

July 18, 1864. The marching columns of the Army of the Tenn. (US), having diverged 5.5 mi. N.W., rejoined here when Dodge's 16th A.C. moved E. from Old Cross Keys to Rainey's. Blair's 17th A.C. moved 1.75 mi. S. on ...

Troop Encampment Site

Company “G” One Hundred Third, Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry, camped on this corner in January and February of 1866.

Marker is on West Hill Street (U.S. 84) 0 miles west of North Patterson Street (U.S. 41), on the right when ...