Hopewell Historic District

A borough from 1853 to 1914, Hopewell was a laboratory for progressive farming, milling, and educational practices. Samuel Dickey (1769-1835) was an agricultural innovator, and the Dickeys pioneered in establishing area schools. The family, spurred by available water power, developed ...

County Courthouse

1868

The Alameda County Courthouse stood here between 1856 and 1868. In 1853 Alameda County was carved out of Contra Costa and Santa Clara Counties. New Haven was its first county seat. The 1854 legislative session moved the county seat to ...

Civil War Union Burials

(Front):

One each side of this marker lie the remains of approximately 2300 Union soldiers who died as prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade, between September 1864 and February 1865. The Stockade was located across Cemetery Street on Stockade Road. Burials ...

Hopewell Bell Tower

This bell tower was constructed from components saved from the demolition of what was last known as the Hopewell Elementary School and was previously the Oxford High School. The building was designed by W.L. Plack of Philadelphia and constructed in ...

Joseph William Burke

1835-1900

Lawyer, Industrialist, Patriot

Brigadier General, U.S.A.

Gen. Burke helped rebuild

Alabama’s mining & manufacturing

interests after the Civil War.

He helped establish the Catholic

Church at Jacksonville.

His home, “Bellevue,”

occupied the present site of

Jacksonville State College.

Marker is on University Circle west of ...

Florence Stockade Monument

This boulder was placed here

by the United Daughters of

the Confederacy of

Florence, S.C. January 27, 1947

To record the fact that

directly south of this spot

was situated a stockade where

6,500 Federal prisoners

were confined

1864 ~ 1865

and

To ...

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt

Denuded Ouachita Rock Belt In highway cuts toward the east are excellent exposures of almost vertical rocks layers--part of the Ouachita Fold Belt, a northeasterly trending folded and faulted mountainous range which was uplifted about 275 to 290 million years ...

Poinsett Bridge

This bridge

on the

state road

from

Greenville to Asheville

was built

in

1820

by

Abram Landing,

Acting Commissioner,

Board of Public Works.

Joel R. Poinsett, President.

Marker is on Callahan Mountain Road (State Highway S23-42).

Courtesy hmdb.org

Florence M. E. Church

Holiness Unto The Lord

Florence

M. E. Church

Founded A. D. 1839

First church built 1854

This church erected 1881

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street and West Second Street, on the right when traveling south on Broad Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

World War Memorial

North Side:

Erected November 11, 1929

by the Greenwood Post No. 20

of the American Legion

the Legion Auxiliary and the

Citizens of Greenwood County

in honor of the brave men who

sacrificed their lives so

that liberty and justice might

reign throughout the world.

West Side:

Dedicated to the memory ...