Elinor Slack Campbell

Dedicated in memory of

Elinor Slack Campbell

A Founding Member Of The Newtown

Township Historical Architectural Review Board.

A Life Member And Historian Of

The Presbyterian Church.

History was her passion

Preservation her primary concern

Born: November 8, 1920

Bellefonte

Laid out by James Dunlop and James Harris, 1795. Named by Talleyrand for "beautiful fountain". Early center of the iron industry. One-time home of five of Pennsylvania's governors.

Marker is on Willowbank Street (State Highway 550), on the right when traveling ...

Farmers and Exchange Bank

has been designated a

National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America

1980

Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service

United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on East Bay Street.

Bedford Courthouse Square Historic District

Courthouse square, part of original 1825 plat, surrounded by nineteenth and early twentieth century commercial buildings in various architectural styles. Limestone facing quarried and milled by local industry. Listed in National Register of Historic Places 1995.

Marker is on I Street ...

One Broad Street

This building is one of America's finest crafted Italianate structures.

First opened in 1853 as State Bank of South Carolina, it has survived Bombardment, Hurricanes and a Major Earthquake, and Twice been restored along its original plans - First ...

Randall Double House

1893

Erected by James Randall

(Randall Carriage Works)

for his employees

Builder: Garrett Girton

Sycamore Street Extension

Newtown Historical District

Marker is at the intersection of Sycamore Street and Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north on Sycamore Street.

Col. Othneil Beale's House

99 - 101 East Bay

Othneil Beale, sea Captain from New England, Colonel of Provincial Troops, Engineer, Successful merchant, built this house about 1740, with ground floors for mercantile use, and living rooms above Finely Cypress Paneled.

The previous owners, ...

Acquacknonk Bridge

American troops encamped

between the Hackensack and

Passaic Rivers, were ordered

by Washington, Nov. 21, 1776,

to cross the Passaic here.

After dismantling the bridge,

they marched across Jersey.

The Tap House often

was used as a headquarters.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue and Prospect Street, ...

Robert Carlton Downs

1828 – 1905

Associate of Leland Stanford, Pioneer, Miner, Legislator, Businessman. Sailed around Cape Horn on clipper ship Tahamaroo in 1849. Established the first deep quartz mine, The Union, with E.B. McIntyre, S. Hanford & N. Drew in 1851. Became Superintendent ...

Why Build a Canal Here?

The Waterways

A Safer, Faster Route was Needed

Prior to the Revolutionary War, the most direct routes to transport goods to Norfolk and points north from North Carolina were, either the very slow overland route through the village of Great Bridge, or ...