Commissary Storehouse (113)

Built in 1889 to replace a smaller adobe structure, the Commissary Storehouse served as the Fort's food storage and distribution point until its closure in 1922. A solid building, the storehouse includes a stone cellar that extends three-fourth of the ...

Collis Memorial

Bt. Maj. Gen.

Chas. H. T. Collis. U.S.V.

Col. 114 Reg't Penn'a Vol. Infty.

Collis Zouaves

Born Feb. 4, 1838 Died May 11, 1902

Erected by the

Survivors of his regiment

and his friends.

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when ...

Hilltop Enclosure

Hopewell Indians constructed this hilltop enclosure and probably used it for social gatherings and religious observances. No evidence of Hopewell occupation is present within the 100+ acre enclosure. Hopewell domestic areas abound on the plateau outside the enclosure itself.

Once constructed, ...

Cannon Street Hospital / McClennan Banks Memorial Hospital

Cannon Street Hospital

Cannon Street Hospital, established here in 1897, served the African-American community of Charleston until 1959. Officially the Hospital and Training School for Nurses, it occupied a three-story brick building constructed ca. 1800. Dr. Alonzo C. McClennan (1855-1912), ...

Fort Ancient Prehistoric Indian Earthworks

You are standing inside an earthworks built by prehistoric Hopewell Indians nearly 2000 years ago. Early settlers in this area thought these walls were constructed as a fort. Today, archaeologists believe the site was used primarily as a religious and ...

T.R. School Teachers' Quarters (112)

This house was constructed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs around 1930 to house Theodore Roosevelt School teachers and families. It deviates in style, though not in size, from the typical Officers' Row quarters.

Initially the house had a flat roof ...

Kentucky Memorial

Kentucky honors her son, Abraham Lincoln, who delivered his immortal address at the site now marked by the soldiers' monument.

Marker can be reached from Taneytown Road (State Highway 134), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Black Horse Inn

In 1783 the Black Horse Inn stood on this site and the Bull's Head Tavern adjoined it. Here General George Washington began his triumphal march into the city upon its evacuation by the British November 25, 1783. The Citizens Savings ...

Pine Grove Rosenwald School

(Front text)

This school, built in 1923 at a cost of $2,500, is one of 500 African-American schools in S.C. funded

in part by the Julius Rosenwald Foundation from 1917 to 1932. It is a two-room school typical of smaller ...

Soldier's National Monument

(Front):Gettysburg

July 1.2.3.

1863

———

(Back):

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ...