Pittsburgh and Lake Erie No. 508

1950

The Little Giant:

The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, established in 1875, connected the steel centers of Conellsville, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown, Ohio. Only 120 miles long, the P&LE served most of the major industries in the region, providing it the most ...

Colonel Robert Elliott Holcombe

Statesman - Financier - Philanthropist

Founder and First Intendant (Mayor) of Easley, originally known as Holcombe Town, Jan, 1874. Near this site a Depot was built by him and given to the Railroad. He was the first Depot Agent and Telegraph ...

Beacon Hill

Death, life and happiness are in the story of Beacon Hill.

On these headlands, where an ancient race once buried their dead, early settlers erected beacons to guide mariners past dangerous Brotchie Ledge.

Here, too, ever since Victoria was founded in ...

Good Hope Presbyterian Church

Organized 1789

This marker designated the third site of this

church. Since 1909, the new church, built at

Iva, S.C., has continued to carry on the

faithful witness of our Lord.

Pastors

Rev. John Simpson 1790-1807

Rev. David Humphreys 1821-1869

Rev. John S. Young 4 years

Rev. R. ...

Beacon Hill Park

When Victoria was settled in 1840, this area was a natural park. It was reserved in 1858 for a park by Sir James Douglas, Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island and given in trust to Victoria by the Province ...

Miss Marilyn Bell

This cairn commemorates the feat of Miss Marilyn Bell who landed in this bay 23rd August 1956 to become the first woman and first Canadian to swim Juan de Fuca Strait from Port Angeles, U.S.A. to Victoria, Canada

Marker can be ...

Birthplace of Earle B. Combs

Centerfielder for Yankees, 1924-35, and coach, 1936-43, Combs helped New York win 11 pennants and 9 World Series. Lifetime batting average .325. This Pebworth native (1899-1976) was elected to the Ky. Athletic Hall of Fame in 1963 and to the ...

Boone’s Station

Near this spot, Daniel Boone and party camped in 1780-1781. Camp called Boone’s Station until Owsley County was organized in 1843, then named Boonesville. Records show that Boone’s family owned land here until it moved to Missouri.

Marker is on Main ...

Good Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery

[Front]:

This cemetery, dating from the early 19th century, is at the third site of Good Hope Presbyterian Church, founded in 1789. A frame sanctuary was built here in 1856 during the tenure of Rev. David Humphreys (d. 1869), who preached ...

Port Bolivar

Surveyor Samuel D. Parr claimed a

league of land extending 5 miles

eastward from Point Bolivar and in

1838 became the area's first

permanent settler. That year

developers Archibald Wynn and

William Lawrence purchased about

1000 acres of Parr's land ...