St. Peter's (Meetze's) Lutheran Church

This church, organized in 1780, held services in German and English until 1874. In 1835 it aligned with the Tennessee Synod and remained in it until 1922, when St. Peter's reunited with the South Carolina Synod. This 1953 sanctuary is ...

1st Regiment Delaware Volunteers

Advance skirmish line

of

1st Reg. Del. Vol's.

July 2nd and 3rd 1863.

Marker can be reached from Long Lane, on the left when traveling west.

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German Settlement

Since 1851

Nicholas and Hely Schwalen were among the first farmers in St. Croix County. They emigrated from Honsfeld, Prussia, in present day German-speaking Belgium. The brothers arrived in Racine, Wisconsin in 1848 and steadfastly worked their way to St. Paul ...

Newport News

1607 - 1957

This area was blessed with abundant springs famous to mariners for centuries after the great sea captain Christopher Newport visited here enroute to Jamestown in May 1607 in command of the first permanent English settlers of the New ...

Wethersfield Elm

1748 1953

Here Stood

The Wethersfield Elm

Largest Of Its Kind

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and Elm Street, on the left when traveling south on Broad Street.

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Dr. J. Marion Sims

This tablet marks the site of the office and infirmary of

DR. J. MARION SIMS

Here, in 1845, he performed the first closure of a vesico-vaginal fistula with wire suture, using a pewter spoon as speculum. This operation made him famous throughout ...

Pilgrimage

In July 1896, members of the National League of Colored Women traveled here from Washington, D.C. and posed for their picture in front of John Brown’s Fort. The women came to pay homage to Brown and his raiders, establishing a ...

Wyandot Mission Church

Built with Government funds in 1824

Used by the Wyandot Indians till 1843

First American Methodist Mission

Designated as a Shrine

by the

1960 Methodist General Conference

Marker is at the intersection of East Church Street and North 4th Street, on the left when traveling east ...

2nd Battery New Jersey Light Artillery

Artillery Brigade - Third Corps

Army of the Potomac

Third Corps

Artillery Brigade

New Jersey Light Artillery

2nd Battery

Six 10 pounder Parrotts

Captain A. Judson Clark Commanding

July 2 Engaged in the action in a field near the Peach Orchard retired to the rear about 6.30 p.m. ...

Charles Dickenson

Born here on Wiltshire Manor in Caroline County in 1780. Moved to Foxley Hall, Easton on 1795. He read law under Judge Marshall. He met Andrew Jackson traveling across the Eastern Shore to the United States congress. He moved to ...