IX Miles to Springfield Courthouse

Believed to be one of the mileposts erected by Elijah Bates “From Springfield Court House to Chester Factories,” this marker stood at 80 Main Street for about 150 years. Lawyer Bates, principal owner of the Eighth Mass. Turnpike, built 1800-1805 ...

Fairfield County Courthouse

This courthouse was built in 1822 by Wm. McCreight under the supervision of Robert Mills, South Carolina architect, then serving as Supt. of Public Works. Alterations and additions were made in 1844. It was renovated in 1939 with the addition ...

Field House

1051 Harrison Street

Built & occupied in 1891 by Zibeon O. Field, a carpenter from Maine.

A particularly fine example of architectural style this fancy wedding cake Victorian has a decorative carved pediment and bargeboard, shingle facing, carved balustrade and lattice work ...

Richfield Courthouse

Built in 1882, this is British Columbia’s oldest surviving courthouse, replacing one which stood here from 1862-1882. By 1918, declining population in Richfield led to the building’s closure. Designated a Provincial historic object in 1945, it was restored by the ...

The Burnt House Field

A mile and a half to the north is the Burnt House Field, a Lee family graveyard in which were buried Richard Lee of “Machotick,” Thomas Lee of “Stratford,” Richard Henry Lee of “Chantilly,” their wives, and others. These burials ...

Notre Dame Fieldhouse

[Main Marker]

Site of

Notre Dame Fieldhouse

where varsity and intramural athletes shook down the thunder for seventy years 1898-1968.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a special University convocation in the Fieldhouse December 9, 1935.

The building was razed in 1983.

[Adjacent Marker]

- The Old Fieldhouse ...

Springfield Baptist Church Birthplace of Morehouse College

This building, which was erected in 1801 by Augusta`s first Methodist Society, was moved to this location in 1844 to

become the home of the Springfield Baptist Church.

Organized in 1787 by Jesse Peters, the Springfield Baptist Church is the oldest ...

Mansfield Block House

(Within This Park)

Built during War of 1812 in Central Park - a refuge in time of Indian alarms. Rebuilt for Mansfield Centennial in 1908. Now used as a Boy Scout meeting place.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Avenue West ...

Stone House – Battlefield Landmark

This building links today’s landscape to the battlefield scene. The roadbeds have not changed; thousands of soldiers noticed the Stone House as they marched through this strategic intersection.

During both battles Federals turned the former tavern into a field hospital. Bloody ...

James A. Fields House

Up from Slavery

James Apostles Fields was born into slavery in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1844. During the Civil War, Fields and his brother George escaped to Hampton, where in 1862 they found refuge as “contrabands of war” at Fort Monroe. ...