Children's Hospital

Here stood the first Children's Hospital of Washington, DC. Opened as a rented rowhouse in 1871, the hospital had a capacity of 12 beds and had only four doctors on staff. Now internationally recognized, Children's National Medical Center is proud ...

Cast Iron Whipple Truss Bridge, 1869

This bridge was designed and built by Squire Whipple (1804-1887), a Union college graduate, class of 1830. Originally erected over the Erie Canal at Fultonville in Montgomery County, the bridge was moved after the canal closed in 1917 to the ...

Abbott Baptist Church

Organized in 1876 as the Liberty Grove Baptist Church by 13 founding members, this congregation met in the Liberty Grove Schoolhouse 2 miles south of here. Renamed the Abbott Baptist Church in 1879, the church moved to Abbott in 1885. ...

Little Texas Tabernacle and Campground

The "Little Texas" Methodist Tabernacle and Campground site of Camp meetings since the 1850's. The Tabernacle-a place of worship-was built by black and white settlers of the area.

The original structure was made of hand-hewn timbers, wooden pegs, handsplit shingles ...

YMCA of Corsicana

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Corsicana was organized in 1884 and was one of only two YMCAs in the state at that time. E. W. (Wiley) Johnson served as first president of the organization that met in a ...

Urban Center Historic District

Encompasses a 13 ~ block area

comprised of over 100

significant structures.

Meridian was state's largest

urban area at the turn

of the 20th century.

Listed in the National Register

of Historic Places.

Marker is on 25th Avenue near 6th Street, ...

The Shiloh Baptist Church

The Shiloh Baptist Church was constituted on March 27, 1852. Shortly thereafter, a house of worship was erected on what is now the present church site. The earliest marked grave in the church cemetery bears the date of 1854. A ...

Amity Reformed Church

Founded in 1802

Present Building

Erected in 1888

Marker is on Riverview Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

1905 Courthouse Annex

Washington at Church Street

Built in 1905

Listed in the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker can be reached from the intersection of North Jackson Avenue and West Mill Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Memorial United Methodist Church

Methodism first came to Amelia Island in 1822 when the south Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church appointed the Reverend Elijah Sinclair as the first minister to East Florida. Sinclair arrived within months of Florida being ceded to the ...