Old Court House

“Widow Piper’s Tavern,” used for Cumberland County court-sessions, 1750-1751, until a court house was erected at Carlisle, the county seat. The house is now the home of the Shippensburg Civil Club.

Marker is on East King Street (U.S. 11) near Queen ...

Tamassee DAR School

[Marker Front] Tamassee DAR School, founded by the S.C. Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1919, was established in an area described as “remote but accessible where the need was greatest.” It has long met the ...

John Vallance - Engraver

Built

C.1792

Home of

John Vallance

Engraver

Born in Scotland

Died in Philadelphia

1823

Early Bank Notes

Bear his name

Marker is on Spruce Street, on the right when traveling west.

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Crisscross Lodge

1913

The home of Cecil and Laura Davis Elliott was designed in 1913 by architect Bayard Snowden Cairnes of the Memphis firm Hanker and Cairnes. Cairnes, who was trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, used a unique hexagonal ...

Joseph De Rivera St. Jurgo, 1813-1889

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Joseph (José) de Rivera was born in Barcelona, Spain, and built an import business in New York City. In 1854, he bought six Lake Erie Islands and had South Bass Island surveyed and subdivided into ten-acre lots. ...

Radeau Warship

Land Tortoise, built by Colonial and British troops, near this site in 1758. Lies 2 miles north in 107 feet of water.

Marker is on Beach Road ½ mile east of County Route 9L, on the right when traveling east.

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Thomas Sully Residence

Has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance commemorating the history of the United States of America.

1980

Marker is on Spruce Street, on the left when traveling west.

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Riceborough

Near the old North Newport Bridge, a short distance East of here, the Court House Square for Liberty County was laid out by Act of February 1, 1797. Riceborough was then the Seat of justice for Liberty County, and a ...

Third Ward Fire

1892

On the evening of October 28, 1892, an exploding oil barrel started a small fire in the Union Oil and Paint company warehouse, which was located at 323 N. Water Street. Another fire broke out in a nearby factory ...

Old Philadelphia Congregations

It was in Philadelphia, alone of America's colonial cities, that Quakers, Jews, Catholics and Protestants "experienced the difficulties and discovered the possibilities of fruitful coexistence that American democracy was to offer." Philadelphia is a city that not only tolerated but ...