First Baptist Church

(Front text)

Organized in 1813 with 13 members, this branch of Stateburg's High Hills of Santee Baptist Church (founded before 1772) became an independent congregation on September 24, 1820. It became known as Sumterville Baptist Church, and among early ministers ...

Old Wells Fargo Office

1854

Situated 150 feet south of here was

The original

Hornitos Office

of

Wells Fargo & Co.

This plaque is dedicated to the

Pioneers of California

by

Yosemite Parlor No. 24. N.S.G.W.

of Merced

Marker is on Bear Valley Road (County Road J16), on the left when traveling south.

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Chicora Wood

[Marker Front]

This plantation, with its origins in several grants to John Allson in 1732, 1734, and later, was in the hands of his grandson Benjamin, Jr., of Brookgreen, by 1806. The property passed first to Benjamin's widow Charlotte and then ...

The Trolley Line & Hocker Grove Amusement Park

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

A few years after the closure of Merriam Park, Richard Weaver Hocker developed the second largest amusement park in Merriam. Named Hocker Grove after its founder, the park was established in 1907 and remained in ...

Hiram Walker

1816 - 1899

Massachusetts born, Hiram Walker had by the 1850s become a successful general merchant, distiller and grain dealer in Detroit. After Michigan adopted prohibition in 1855 he acquired land across the river in Canada where he established a distillery ...

The Footlight Players Workshop

20 Queen Street

The building at 20 Queen Street was built circa 1840 for use as a cotton warehouse. It is considered a notable example of vernacular warehouse architecture in Charleston, influenced by Roman Revival and West Indian architecture. In ...

Johnson's Row

22-28 Queen Street

These notable stuccoed brick tenements were constructed as rental property in 1803 by the William Johnson family.

William Johnson, Sr., originally from New York, was a blacksmith and planter revered at his death as a patriot having ...

Brockman Park

Upper Plaque:

Dedicated to the memory

of

Dr. William Thomas Brockman

A distinguished Surgeon

-- Humanitarian --

Churchman

Citizen and Commissioner of the City of

Greenville, South Carolina

1881 ---- 1968

Lower Plaque:

Brockman Park

In honor of Dr. Thomas Brockman

for his many contributions

as alderman for the city of

Greenville, S.C.

Marker is at ...

Memorial to Jane McCrea

Memorial

to

Jane McCrea

massacred near this spot

by the Indians

July 27, 1777.

Erected by the

Jane McCrea Chapter, D.A.R.

1901

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 4) and Case Street, on the right when traveling south on Broadway.

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Elvis Presley Fight Scene

On this site, the corner of Hwy 51 and East Washington Avenue around 1 am, on June 24th, 1977, Elvis Presley was riding in the 2nd of two limousines which had stopped for a red light. He was coming from ...