Early White Settlement / The Massacre of Jacob Hite

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Early White Settlement

By 1768 Indian traders and land speculators Richard Pearis (d. 1794) and Jacob Hite of Virginia acquired large tracts from the Cherokees in present-day Greenville County. Though royal authorities disputed the validity of these titles, Pearis and ...

Lattimer Massacre

September 10, 1897

"It was not a battle because they were not aggressive, nor were they on the defensive because they had no weapons of any kind and were simply shot down like so many worthless objects; each of the licensed ...

The Sugarloaf Massacre

Near this spot occurred

The Sugarloaf Massacre

On September 11, 1780 a detachment of Captain John van Etten's Company, Northampton County Militia, resting at the spring was surprised by a band of Indians and Tories led by the Senece Chief Roland Montour.

Those ...

Sugarloaf Massacre

After an unsuccessful attack on Fort Augusta, Indians and Tories surprise a detachment of Northumberland Co. militia on Sept. 11, 1780. The site of the massacre is just beyond the town.

Marker is at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 93 and ...

Lattimer Massacre

Here on September 10, 1897, nearly 400 immigrant coal miners on strike were met and fired upon by sheriff's deputies. Unarmed, they were marching from Harwood to Lattimer in support of higher wages and more equitable working conditions. Nineteen of ...

The Thirty Third Massachusetts Infantry

Detached from the Second Brigade, Second Division, Eleventh Corps, on July Second 1863. After supporting the batteries in action on Cemetery Hill, while in position in a line extending westward from near this spot, withstood and assisted in repulsing a ...

Massacre Site / Concordia

Side A: Massacre Site

On August 22, 1861, "State Guard" troops under Col. Edwin W. Price plundered this community taking household goods, farm animals and merchandise from Brockhoff's Store.

Sunday, Oct. 5, 1862, sixty drunken "Bushwhackers" captured eleven men, and at this ...

Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum

Dedicated

September 9, 1977

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

“LEARNING FOR LIVING”

Marker is at the intersection of Front Street and L Street, on the right when traveling south on Front Street.

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The (John) Penn's Creek Massacre

In commemoration of The (John) Penn's Creek Massacre, which occurred along this stream on October 16, 1755 when the settlers were attacked by the Indians and about 26 were killed, wounded or carried into captivity. This was the first Indian ...

Buford's Massacre

May 29, 1780

On this site, Col. Abraham Buford's force of about 350 American patriots, while returning to Hillsborough, N.C., following the fall of Charles Town, were overtaken by British troops commanded by Col. Banastre Tarelton, it is historically told that ...