The Metcalf Grove
This grove is given to the State of California for the pre...
Fort Hunter
Stockaded blockhouse, built 1755-56, on the site of presen...
African American Sailors in the Battle of Lake Erie
These skilled seamen were among those who enabled Oliver H...
Payne Institute
Erected by
The Allen University Alumni
Club of...
Neck of Land
near "James Citty"
This area, like a peninsula and b...
Cambridge Springs
Between 1884 and 1915, this was a major health resort, fou...
Binion House
1942
Colorful Horseshoe Club owner Benny Binion and ...
Mississinewa Battlefield
On Dec. 17, 1812, Lt. Colonel John B. Campbell with 600 mo...
Crawford County
This County created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 9 & 23...
Real Estate
Early records tell of a land sale in 1636 being these 500 ...
The Metcalf Grove
This grove is given to the State of California for the preservation of these ancient trees by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf of Rhode Island.
Marker is on Howland Hill Road, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
Fort Hunter
Stockaded blockhouse, built 1755-56, on the site of present Fort Hunter Museum. Used to protect the frontier and as a supply base in building Fort Augusta. Abandoned and fell to ruins after 1763.
Marker is at the intersection of North Front ...
African American Sailors in the Battle of Lake Erie
These skilled seamen were among those who enabled Oliver Hazard Perry to defeat & capture a British Squadron, Sept. 10, 1813. Their participation - critical to victory - secured a place for African Americans in the region's history.
Marker can be ...
Payne Institute
Erected by
The Allen University Alumni
Club of Greenville County
November 1970
In Honor of
Payne Institute
Established in 1870 by
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Moved to Columbia, South Carolina in 1860
And Renamed Allen University
Marker is on Allen University Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
Neck of Land
near "James Citty"
This area, like a peninsula and bounded on three sides by a marsh, is just across Back River from Jamestown Island. In 1625 there were a number of houses and 25 people living here. The settlement had close ...
Cambridge Springs
Between 1884 and 1915, this was a major health resort, founded upon the various mineral springs here. Dr. John H. Gray, who had discovered spring water on his farm, began prescribing and marketing it in 1884. By the early 1900s, ...
Binion House
1942
Colorful Horseshoe Club owner Benny Binion and his family lived here from 1947 to 1989.
Originally built in 1942 by service station owner C.A. Morehouse, the home was one of the largest in Las Vegas with three bedrooms, several baths, a ...
Mississinewa Battlefield
On Dec. 17, 1812, Lt. Colonel John B. Campbell with 600 mounted troops arrived at this site under orders to destroy the Miami Indian Villages along the Mississinewa River from here to the present site of Peru.
The destruction of the ...
Crawford County
This County created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 9 & 23, 1822, is named for William H. Crawford, Georgia statesman who was Secretary of the Treasury at the time the County was established. At the County Site, Knoxville, lived ...
Real Estate
Early records tell of a land sale in 1636 being these 500 acres with “all howses...gardens, orchards, tenements.” The property passed from Thomas Crompe “of the Neck of Land” to Gershon Buck son of the Reverend Richard Buck who ministered ...