Shiloh Methodist Church

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Shiloh Methodist Church, the outgrowth of the earliest known Methodist place of worship in this community, has had a church building on this site for over 125 years. Originally, services started by a local hermit "who lived by a spring," ...

The Dunlawton Sugar Factory

Great Expectations:

These are the ruins of people's dreams, left by successive landowners, free workers, and slaves. Hoping to make sugar in the nineteenth century, they faced isolation, hurricanes, and dispossessed Seminoles. Some lost money in their ventures, and others lost ...

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)—writer, poet, and

critic—was born in Boston, Mass. Orphaned at a

young age, Poe was raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond. He attended schools in

England and Richmond before enrolling at the University of Virginia on 14 Feb. ...

Tracks into History

The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad

The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. ...

Relay

Created in 1830 as a change point, or "relay," for horses hauling the first scheduled railroad cars in the U.S. The first rail link to nation's capital began here. Thomas Viaduct carries the track across Patapsco gorge; completed in 1835, ...

British Quarters

During the American Revolution, St. Augustine was a base for British military activity in the South. The English added second floors in this and other rooms to make more space for storage and quarters.

Marker is on South Castillo Drive (State ...

The Red Brick Schoolhouse

This former one room

Schoolhouse was the

original Ridgewood Grove

School Number 44. Built

in 1846 it was used

until 1894 by Ridgewood

Township. In 1894 the

proposed closing of this

school resulted in the

incorporation of the

Borough of ...

Miami Legend of the Sandhill Crane

Long before settlers appeared on the scene, the American Indian people here used the sandhill crane as a symbol for their tribe. Early British and American officials referred to the people we know as Miami as “Twightwees” in various spellings ...

Indian Prisoners

The fort was a prison for several hundred Plains Indians in 1875-78 (Comanche, Kiowa, Arapahoes, and Cheyenne) and in 1886-87 (Chiricahua Apaches). Originally confined in these casemates, they were soon moved to the terreplein to live in wooden structures or ...

First Baptist Church in Georgia

Kiokee Church, the first Baptist Church to be constituted in Georgia, was organized in the Spring of 1772, by the Rev. Daniel Marshall, one of the founders of the Baptist denomination in Georgia. A meeting house was built, and the ...