Saint Joseph’s Villa

Saint Joseph’s Villa, founded 25 Nov. 1834 and incorporated 3 Oct. 1868, is one of the oldest-operating children’s institutions in the United States. For 143 years administered by the Catholic Daughters of Charity as an orphanage and girls’ school, it ...

Joseph Pulitizer

Near this spot stood

The New York World Building

whose publisher

Joseph Pulitizer

upheld the highest traditions

of American journalism.

* * *

An immigrant,

he rose to fame and fortune

and never in the process

lost the common touch.

1954

Marker is on Centre Street, on the right when traveling ...

Joseph W. Summers Memorial Bridge

Built in 1917, this Neo-Classical, reinforced concrete arch bridge was designed by nationally prominent landscape architect, George Kessler. In 1991 the bridge was named in honor of State Representative Joseph Summers, who served with distinction as a bridge between diverse ...

Josephine City

To improve the lives of former slaves, Ellen McCormick, widow of Edward McCormick of Clermont, established this African American community of 31 one-acre lots early in the 1870s. The lots, laid out on either side of the 16-foot-wide street that ...

Joseph Early Home

One mile west was the home of Joseph Early, Revolutionary soldier. Washington, in going west and returning, stopped at Early’s overnight. His diary for October 2, 1884, shows that he spent the night before at “Widow Early’s.”

Marker is at the ...

Fort St. Joseph

Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Designed to bar English ...

Fort St. Joseph

Built near here in 1686 by the French explorer Duluth, this fort was the second white settlement in lower Michigan. This post guarded the upper end of the vital waterway joining Lake Erie and Lake Huron. Designed to bar English ...

Joseph Ridgway Grundy

(1863 - 1961)

Widely regarded as a key figure in state and national Republican Party politics, he advocated pro-business, low tax, and high tariff policies. An influential industrialist, publisher, banker, lobbyist, and politician, he founded the Pa. Manufacturers Association, 1909, ...

The Charleston Museum's Joseph Manigault House

Planters commonly maintained homes in the city and on their plantations. Joseph Manigault - planter,

buisnessman, slave-owner and legislator - built this elegant townhouse in 1803.

  At that time this neighborhood (Wraggborough) was concidered the "country," a suburb beyond the ...

Saint Joseph Church

The cradle of African-American Catholicism in Delaware, St. Joseph Church was organized in 1889 by Father John A. DeRuyter of the Josephites. Services were first held in the basement of St. Mary’s Church on 6th and Pine Streets. Incorporated as ...