Lawton Memorial

St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church

This building was constructed in 1897-98 as a memorial to General Alexander R. Lawton (1818-96)and his daughter, Corinne (1844-77). It was used as a public space for cultural, educational and civic purposes until the 1930s. After ...

Lincoln and The Law

During his twenty years on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Abraham Lincoln tried numerous cases in the DeWitt County courthouses, including a slander case involving William Dungey. Dungey, “a dark skinned man of Portuguese descent,” married Joseph Spencer’s sister. The brothers-in-law ...

Law West of the Pecos

Judge Roy Bean lived a life in which fiction became so intermingled with fact that he became a legend within his lifetime. Basis for his renown were the decisions which he reached in this building as the Law West of ...

Lawyers Row

Historical Landmark

Lawyer’s Row – built 1855 by Anderson & Mills – Many lawyers here through the years

Stars & Stripes paper pub. here 1867 to 1880’s by Hart Fellows

Community Project

Marker is at the intersection of Commercial Street and Court Street on ...

Site of Woodlawn Camp Meeting

Established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1871, the camp was a popular center of religious and social life. Political candidates and vacationers attended the two-week meetings in August. Its forty-two year era ended in 1913.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Battle of Dunlawton Plantation

During the 2nd Seminole War, 1836, the Mosquito Roarers, a company of Florida militia under Major Benjamin Putnam, engaged a large band of Seminoles pillaging Dunlawton, a sugar plantation on the Halifax River. Heavy fighting ensued, but the militiamen were ...

Jackson's Law Office

Andrew Jackson settled in Nashville in 1788 and served as Atty. Gen. until 1796. Lawyer John Overton owned a building here (1791-96) and shared office space with his friend Jackson. Jackson was Tennessee's first Rep. to Congress (1796) and state ...

Blaw-Knox Antenna

In 1922, during the infancy of broadcast radio, the call letters WLW were assigned to the station begun by Cincinnatian Powell Crosley Jr. The station moved its transmitting operations to Mason in 1928, and by April 17, 1934, WLW had ...

2nd Delaware

Delaware

2nd Delaware Volunteers

Capt. David L. Stricker

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps

This regiment of Richardson's reserve

brigade crossed Antietam Creek, advanced

with division and came under heavy

artillery fire while holding position

immediately beyond crest of this ridge.

It moved to right and helped repulse

counterattack in ...

Fort Delaware / Narrowsburg’s History

Upper Delaware Scenic Byway

The present day Fort, a replica of the frontier “lower fort” of the Cushetunk settlement of 1755-1785, was originally located six miles up river near Milanville, Pennsylvania. Another fort was situated further up river in the Cushetunk ...