Building 98, Fort D.A. Russell

Constructed in 1920, Building 98 housed the officers club and bachelor officers quarters for Fort D.A.Russell. During the latter years of the World War II, from 1943 to 1945, German prisoners of war from Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps ...

Old Franklin County Jail

Of Georgian design, this jail was built in 1818 and was in continuous use for 152 years. The third oldest building in the borough, it survived the burning of Chambersburg by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

Marker is at the ...

Revolutionary War Memorial

In Memory Of

The Soldiers and Sailors

And All Others Who

Rendered Aid to the Cause

Of American Independence

During the Revolutionary War

Erected by

Lucy Knox Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

Of Gloucester

June 17, 1913

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Western Avenue (Massachusetts ...

Cat Swamp Hijacking and Murder

In this area, on Cat Swamp Hill in Byram Township, at about 6:00 a.m. on June 14, 1921, the Sussex Print Silk truck was hijacked. Albert Koster drove onto the scene on his motorcycle, was mistaken for a state trooper, ...

Fischer-Hanlon House

In 1849, Joseph Fischer, a Swiss immigrant, came to Benicia. After joining a butcher partnership, Fischer purchased this lot on July 1, 1858. The house, reputed to be an old hotel was relocated here. The converted building is an outstanding ...

Joseph Winters

(c.1816-1916)

African American inventor who secured a U.S. patent for the first fire escape ladder and hose conductor in 1878. In 1879 Winters was issued a second U.S. patent for improvements to the original invention. Winters was active in the Underground ...

Dr. Meta L.Christy

Side A:

Meta L. Christy, DO, is recognized by the American Osteopathic Association as the first black osteopath. Dr. Christy graduated in 1921 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as its first black graduate. The College gives an annual award ...

Stage Fort Fisherman's Field

Stage Fort Fisherman's Field

Oldest Defenses in the Mass. Bay Colony. Thrown up in 1625 by Capt. John Hewest. Occupied in King Philips War 1675 and in King Georges War 1743. Companies under Capt. John McCaw and Capt. John Lane stationed ...

Greenwood County Confederate Monument

South Side:

Our

Confederate

Soldiers

East Side:

1861 - 1865

Patriots

Who animated by the same faith, actuated by the same love of country, beset with the same trials and dangers, enduring with the same fortitude and fought as heroically to maintain local self government as did ...

Nathaniel Warner Company Monument

[ upper plaque ]

In Memory of those who fought in the Revolutionary War with the Nathaniel Warner Company and those men and women who helped make this a free and independent nation.

Placed by the reactivated

Nathaniel Warner Company May ...