103rd Medical Battalion and Regiment

103rd Medical

Battalion and Regiment

28th Infantry Division

Marker is on Boalsburg Pike 0.1 miles north of Boal Avenue (U.S. 322), on the right when traveling south.

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Slave Market

From 1605 to 1765

there stood on this site

a guard house

and watch tower

Under British rule

it became the market and

place of public auction

ever since called

the slave marketThis tablet authorized by the following committee appointed ...

The Home of Benjamin R. Hanby

Here Hanby composed the famous ballad “Darling Nellie Gray.” Visitors welcome.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

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Barry

This agricultural community was named for Corsicana businessman Bryan T. Barry, who developed the land deeded for the townsite by early settlers Dave and Effie Wright. The Barry Post Office was established in 1886, the same year the St. Louis, ...

Early Medical Discoveries

Death and disease stalked the colony year-round. Over the first 18 years, six of seven residents of Jamestown perished – over 6,000 deaths.

Dr. Lawrence Bohun arrived at Jamestown in June of 1610, and stayed until the spring of 1611. Colonists ...

Honor the Immortal Dead

In the grave-yard adjoining this church are buried

Commodore John Barry

Father of the American Navy.

He was chosen by the Continental Congress to

command the first warship owned by the

colonies and he fought the last naval

battle of ...

King's Bridge

Dec. 1864. After a 300 mile march which had left a wide belt of destruction from "Atlanta to the Sea," Gen. Sherman's army (USA) of about 60,000 men was nearing Savannah. During he first weeks of his campaign, his four ...

The Hardwood Harvest

By the 1600s, hardwood lumber was scarce in England. Early exports of the colony were potash, used in the manufacture of glass, and soap ash, which yields liquid soap.

The ashes of hardwood logs were mixed with water, strained, and heated ...

Stoner House

The Stoner House, built circa 1862 on a natural spring thought to have medicinal properties, served as an inn, tavern, and spa, and as a hiding place for runaway slaves. George Stoner, owner and operator, drove the stagecoach from Columbus ...

“The Place You Tread is Holy Ground-”

In this church

on the 4th of July 1779 was held the first

public - religious commemoration of the

Declaration of Independence.

Attendance at the Holy Mass, then sung, was

The Continental Congress, The President

and official head of the ...