Captain James Morehead

1778-81. 1800

To

Captain James Morehead

of the 10th Regiment,

N.C. Continental Line.

Battle of Stong

June 20, 1778

• • • • • •

Elizabethton July 1781

Born 1750 Died 1815

Marker is on New Garden Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Finlayson Point

Named after Roderick Finlayson Chief – Factor Hudson’s Bay Company at Victoria 1844 – 1872.

Before the arrival of white men this was the sit of an ancient fortified Indian Village.

A battery of two 64 pound wrought iron rifled guns stood ...

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 ...

Empress Hotel

L’Hotel Empress

[English]

This hotel was built between 1904 and 1908, and has since been enlarged twice. The architect, Francis M. Rattenbury, followed the practice of the Canadian Pacific Railway in employing the Chateau style, identifiable by the steep slate roof and ...

St. Paul's United Methodist Church

A Methodist circuit rider, with the aid of early settlers in Eau Gallie, erected a small mission cut out of logs on the north bank of Horse Creek. It was finished with a puncheon floor. Travel to the services was ...

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 ...

Old Eau Gallie Post Office and Surrounding Area

This building was the Eau Gallie Post Office circa 1900-1925. Before the advent of automobiles, old-timers recall tying their horses and buggies to the big oak tree in the back.

The building just south of the Post Office was Eau ...

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 6755

1930

The "Mountain" Class:

The "Mountain" type of locomotive (4-8-2) first appeared on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in 1911. These locomotives excelled at hauling heavy freight trains at high speeds. The Pennsylvania Railroad adopted the M1 design in 1923 with the ...

In Commemoration of Black Pioneers

[Front]:

Business Tenure

Dr. N.H. Jenkins, M.D.

1907 1920

Dr. Moses Jenkins, Pharmacist

1907 1920

Stewart Anderson, Merchant

1913 1925

E.J. Thomas, Tailor

1918 1977

W.I. Peek, Mortician

1919 1941

Arfelton Adger, Taxicab

1946 1977

East Church Street

Anderson S.C.

What Was Once Can Never

Be Again; Records Will

Show We Were Here

1907-1980

[Reverse]:

City of Anderson, S.C.

Mayor

Darwin H. Wright

City ...

Pennsylvania Railroad No. 460

1914

The "E6" Class:

The introduction of steel passenger trains on the Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century created a need for a more powerful passenger locomotive. While most roads had begun building larger Pacific (4-6-2) type locomotives for this ...