Thorogood Plantation / Mount Holly Plantation

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Thorogood Plantation

In 1682 the Lords Proprietors granted 3,000 acres here, on a branch of the Back River, to Joseph Thorogood (d. 1684). Though Thorogood only owned the plantation two years and his widow Jane sold it after ...

An Upper-Class Neighborhood 1630s-1699

From the 1630s to the end of the 17th century, this area along Backstreete boasted some of the finest dwellings in Jamestown. Governors, councilmen, burgesses, and lawyers all made this neighborhood home.

Richard Kemp, an ardent supporter of Governor Harvey, secretary ...

Midway Congregational Church 1872 - Present

Dorchester Academy

The Old Midway Congregational Church, two

miles east on U.S. Highway 17, was formed

by whites (Puritans & Congregationalists )

when they settled in Liberty County. They

were driven to church by their black slaves

who were allowed to sit in the ...

St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1835

The Parish of St. Vincent de Paul is the direct successor of the many and often interrupted endeavors in the Niagara area since 1626. At first concerned with native peoples, later French and then English-speaking priests came as chaplains for ...

Campaign for Atlanta: Johnston's Review

On April 19, 1864, General Joseph E. Johnston reviewed the Confederate Army of Tennessee on this ridge. After his appointment in December 1863, Johnston rebuilt a defeated and demoralized army following Confederate General Braxton Bragg's defeat at the Battle of ...

First State Fair

October 1-2, 1851

Thirteen counties were represented here at the first state fair sponsored by the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Entries included horses, cattle, sheep, swine, farming implements, dairy products, flour and corn meal, domestic manufactures, needle work, fruits, vegetables and ...

Hopkins Farm

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This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins' widow, ...

Memorial to Arizona Confederate Troops

Memorial to

Arizona Confederate Troops

1861 - 1865

United Daughters of the Confederacy

1961

"A Nation That Forgets its Past has no Future"

Marker can be reached from Adams Street 0.1 miles west of 15th Avenue and Adams.

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A Diverse Jamestown Household 1620-1640

By 1624, William Peirce, a “beloved friend” of governor Francis Wyatt, built a house – “one of the fairest in Virginia” – on this lot. Peirce, captain of the governor’s guard and the colony’s cape merchant, also served as lieutenant ...

World War and All War Memorial

1917 - 1919

In Grateful Memory of Our

Veterans of

All American Wars

Marker is on Walnut Street near 4th Street (U.S. 73), on the left when traveling east.

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