Southport Wharves

From The Wharves

Of

Southport

Went Out Men Who Fought

Under

John Paul Jones

Isaac Hull

And

John Barry

Marker is at the intersection of Harbor Road and Center Street, on the left when traveling south on Harbor Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Belvidere School Site

In 1898 Charleston County School District No. 11 bought this land from J. S. Hart and built a public school on the site soon after. School closed in the early 1920s.

Marker is at the intersection of Chisolm Road (State ...

Historic Ship Anchor

(Admiralty Style)

Recovered from the Savannah River on February 27, 1994 during Georgia Department of Transportation construction work for the U.S. 17 Alt./ Talmadge Bridge in Savannah, Georgia, this 1200 pound anchor would have been used on large ocean going or ...

Old Waterworks

As early as 1754, water was pumped from a spring to a water tower, that stood east of here, through hollowed trunks of trees. It then flowed by gravity to five cisterns or reservoirs. Original engine house stands about 60 ...

The Hocking Valley Coal Strike

1884-1885

Side A:

Following a wage reduction from 70 to 60 cents per ton after many Hocking Valley coal mines consolidated in 1883, the Ohio Miners' Amalgamated Association struck on June 23, 1884. The operators responded by offering an even smaller tonnage ...

Mission San Francisco De Los Tejas

First Spanish Mission in East Texas. Established in 1690 by Franciscan friars to convert the Tejas Indians. "Tejas", a Spanish rendition of the Indian word for "friend", was in time adopted as the state name.

The founding party was led ...

Aunt Betty's Story

Battleground to Community

Elizabeth Proctor Thomas (1821-1917), a free Black woman whose image appears on each Brightwood Heritage Trail sign, once owned 11 acres in this area. Known, respectfully in her old age as "Aunt Betty," Thomas and her husband ...

Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek

July 22, 1730 - May 7, 1796

Near this spot was the home of Daniel Carroll, member of the Second Continental Congress and of the Federal Constitutional Convention. He was a Representative from Maryland in the first United States Congress and ...

Santo Domingo Redoubt

Cartography of the Presidio de San Agustin de la Florida

Historians and archaeologists consulted Colonial and Territorial Period documents to locate the site of the Santo Domingo Redoubt, which was also referred to at various times as the Tolomato Redoubt.

Archeological excavations ...

Churches in Tubac

Several Tubac churches have stood on this site. The first, a shelter built by Jesuit missionaries in the early 1700's, was administered from Tumacacori. About 1760 Captain De Anza built a chapel for presidio soldiers. A later church was visited ...