Mt. Pleasant Church

In 1835 St. Bartholomew Lutheran Church

moved here from about 1 mi. south and

changed its name to Mt. Pleasant.

It is generally accepted that this

congregation was organized ca. 1750

and that John George Bamberg

preached there shortly after 1798.

In 1873 the S.C. Lutheran ...

Williams Grove

This railroad junction became the site of the Great Grangers' Interstate Picnic Exhibition, founded 1874 by R. H. Thomas of the State Grange. The annual event drew an estimated 100,000 or more people in a week by the 1890's. The ...

First State Bank of Girard

First Brick Bldg.

in Crawford Co.

Erected by Franklin Playter

1870

Owned by

state's first woman banker

Sarah A. Haldeman

1905 - 1915

First home of

Mr. and Mrs. E Haldeman-Julius

1915 - 1918

Marker is on Prairie Street near Summit Street (Kansas Route 7), on the right when traveling east. ...

Columbia United Methodist Church

This congregation traces its history to early Methodist missionary activity during Texas' years as a republic in 1839. The Rev. Isaac L. G. Strickland was assigned to the Brazoria Circuit and organized a Methodist Church in Columbia (now West Columbia), ...

In Honor of the Students of

Wellford-Lyman-Tucapau High School

Who served in the Armed Forces

of there Country in World War II

and in loving memory of those who gave their lives

1941-1945

In Memoriam

James Redmond Barry • Lethco Augustus Groce, Jr.•

Lee Earl Brown Daniel Carey Morgan

Ellis Perry Bruce • Thomas ...

John A. Haring House

Built c. 1805

An early 19th century example of Dutch Colonial architecture erected by John A. Haring. Small wing added c. 1808; rear stone section built by a Haring about the time of the Revolutionary War.

Inherited in 1854 by son Nicholas ...

The Builders were Human

In 1682, a new engineer found that this bastion had been built 3 feet too low! By 1686, such mistakes were corrected. Labor for the fort included 100 Indians and Spaniards, plus a few convicts and slaves. Indian laborers got ...

Abraham A. Haring House

Built c. 1758

Erected on a 200 acre farm by Abraham A. Haring, a captain in the Bergen County Militia. During the Revolutionary War, Haring was captured by the British and imprisoned in New York City where he died. In 1805 ...

Silver Spring Presbyterian Church

Founder 1734 on land of James Silver by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, earliest settlers of the Cumberland Valley. Present church built in 1783, restored in 1928 to its original style, and still used for worship.

Marker is on Silver Spring Road 0.1 miles ...

Simpson Ferry Road

Built about 1792. It extended from Michael Simpson's ferry on the Susquehanna to Carlisle, following, at this point, a course later known as Simpson St. Used by many persons traveling to western part of state.

Marker is at the intersection of ...