Campbell Fire Station

The Campbell Volunteer Fire Department officially began in 1912. Keeping track of ladders was a problem and the need for a fire station became apparent. An ad placed in the newspaper urged "all parties to leave ladders belonging to fire ...

Bank of Campbell (Farley Building)

Campbell Historical Location

Campbell’s first bank operated here from 1895 – 1911. Purchased by Guy Farley in 1923. Campbell Avenue’s oldest commercial building.

Marker is on East Campbell Avenue, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

"Jingle Bells"

James L. Pierpont (1822-1893), composer of "Jingle Bells", served as music director of this church in the 1850s when it was a Unitarian Church located on Oglethorpe Square. Son of the noted Boston reformer, Rev. John Pierpont, he was the ...

Belle Isle

During the winter of 1863-1864, the island visible from this spot held up to 8,000 Union army prisoners.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, prisoners poured into Richmond. Camps built only as transport stations soon became permanent. Over the ...

St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Bell

Cast in Sheffield by Naylor Vickers and Co. -1859 – E. Riepe’s Patent no 1027, arrived in Boston 1862 then shipped around the Horn to San Francisco via boat to Sacramento and by six horse team to Forest Hill. Miners ...

Bell Station

A toll road was built over Pacheco Pass in 1857 by Andrew D. Firebaugh. Later in that same year he built a tavern near this site, which became a Butterfield transcontinental stage stop. In 1859 the Pacific and Atlantic Company ...

Site of Bellanca Airfield

An airfield, aircraft plant, and service hangar were built here in 1928 by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca and Henry B. duPont. An aviation pioneer, Bellanca immigrated from Italy in 1912. His plane Columbia was Charles Lindbergh's choice for a Trans-Atlantic crossing, ...

Wilk School Bell

This bell originally hung in the tower of Wilk School, which stood at this location and was named after the school's first teacher, Mr. W. Wilk. Built in 1887 by St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation, Wilk School was primarily for upper ...

J. P. Campbell and Company Building

This property has been

placed on the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Delaware Street and 4th Street, on the left when traveling south on Delaware ...

Big Duke Fire Alarm Bell Memorial

( Front)

Chatham County Firefighters

Memorial

Last Alarm

Firefighters who have died in the line of duty

John Butler Fireman 1865 SFD

Charles Schreck Fireman 1871 SFD

George Puder Fireman 1873 SFD

William L. Harroid Hoseman 1887 SFD

John Weihrs Fireman 1889 SFD

Henry B. Goodman Fireman 1889 SFD

Frank ...