The Precambrian Rocks

From here you can see Precambrian rocks exposed along the river below the dam. Although mostly covered by a dark gray coating of carbon, their fresh pinkish gray colors show where they have been scoured off by floodwaters. We are ...

The Rock School

The Rock School

1779

Originally located in front of its large namesake boulder across the road, it was moved to its present location in 1971.

Used from 1779 until 1911, it had several different names as school districts were added to the ...

"Rockets on the Hill"

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

We found three rockets on our hill evidently pointed at our house but fortunately did not reach it” Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815

Samuel and Mary DeButts were lucky ...

The Rocky Shore

This rocky outcrop is sometimes eroded by waves powerful enough to tear a hole in them. Colonies of small marine animals living on the shore, however, can withstand these forces. Some withdraw into narrow crevices, others attach themselves permanently to ...

The Father of Rock ’N’ Roll / Sam Phillips in Florence

Side A

Sam Phillips fell in love with the miracle of sound and the unifying power of music. Moving to Memphis, Tennessee, he embraced the beauty of the blues with his early recordings of Howlin Wolf, B.B. King and other delta ...

Mother Seton's Rock

1809 - 1821

Here on Sunday afternoons Mother Seton "seated on a rock known as Hers," taught Christian Doctrine to the children of The Mountain Parish.

"They that instruct many to Justice shall Shine as the Stars for all Eternity." - Daniel ...

The Bloody Rock

On the night of July 3, 1778, after the Battle of Wyoming, fourteen or more captive American soldiers were murdered here by a maul wielded by a revengeful Indian woman, traditionally but not certainly identified as "Queen Esther."

Marker is on ...

The Foot of the Rocks

In this neighborhood “The Foot of the Rocks” Henry Wellington, a commissioned officer of the War of 1812-14, and his wife Eliza Teele, natives of this town, made their home in 1819; in honor of his parents, and ancestors, this ...

The Foot of the Rocks

In this neighborhood “The Foot of the Rocks” Henry Wellington, a commissioned officer of the War of 1812-14, and his wife Eliza Teele, natives of this town, made their home in 1819; in honor of his parents, and ancestors, this ...

The Rock House

This 18th Century stone dwelling is the only surviving house associated with the Colonial Wrightsboro Settlement (1768). Its builder, Thomas Ansley, used weathered granite, quarried in its natural form from the nearby geographical fall line, as building material. The granite, ...