Lambertville Music Circus

From 1949 Until 1971 Many Famous Film And Stage Stars

Got Their Start In One Of The Country’s First Tent Theaters Located First In Lambertville And Then Here In West Amwell.

Marker is at the intersection of New Jersey Route 179 ...

Dr. Lyman Hall

Dr. Lyman Hall was a Georgia signer of The Declaration Of Independence. He represented Saint John's Parish in the Continental Congress, and was a delegate from Georgia to the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia.

He was a founder of Sunbury ...

Lambertville

1726, Coates' Ferry; 1733, Coryell's Ferry. Used by Washington, who stayed here three times. First bridge and new name, 1812.

Marker is on New Jersey Route 179, on the right when traveling south.

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Lane Park

In 1822 William Pullen, Revolutionary War veteran, acquired this land from the Federal Government for farming. In 1889 his heirs sold the land to the City of Birmingham for use as the New Southside Cemetery which operated from 1889 to ...

U.S. Shot Furnace

This structure is a hot shot furnace for heating cannon balls to be shot at wooden vessels and to set them on fire. It is part of the water battery built by the U.S. (1842-44) when this side of the ...

Jefferson County Courthouse Site

The county seat of Jefferson County was moved from Elyton to Birmingham in 1873. On this site stood the first Courthouse in the City of Birmingham. The Italianate style structure was designed by architect W. K. Ball. Completed in 1875, ...

Working

The Dunlawton Plantation was no leisure spot. As a frontier agricultural and processing site, it demanded hard, physical, un-glamorous work. Without the labor of African-American slaves and hired free workers, this nineteenth-century venture would not have been possible.

In 1850 John ...

The Great Sea Island Storm

( Front text )

On the night of August 27, 1893, a

huge "tropical cyclone," the largest

and most powerful storm to hit S.C.

until Hurricane Hugo in 1989, made

landfall just E of Savannah, Ga.

With gusts as high as 120 mph and a

storm surge ...

The Roof

Dunlawton's new metal roof is meant to protect stonework and machinery. But it also makes an important point. Though not an exact replica of the wooden roof that protected it, this shelter reminds us that a large, enclosed factory once ...

Independent Presbyterian Church

Founded 1915

The church was founded when the Rev. Henry M. Edmonds and many members of a Southern Presbyterian congregation withdrew from the local Presbytery. During the first seven years it met in Temple Emanu-El synagogue and held evening services in ...