Here Lieth the Body of Sarah M. Crittenden

Wife of

Doct. John Crittenden

Who died 14th July 1835,

Aged 37.

She occupies the first

grave opened in this consecrated ground.

Leaving an affectionate

husband with six

weeping children.

Her infant Sarah M.

died on the 17th and lies

entombed in the 2nd grave

Aged 8 months and 17 days.

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This grave ...

The Middlebury Fire House

On this site in 1949 the volunteers of the Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department, using donated and salvaged materials, built a fire station on land donated by the Vaszauskas family.

Pictured are the original 1941 Ford LaFrance, 1947 International tanker and ...

Cherokee Foothills

National Scenic Byway

This location (Greenville/Spartanburg County Line) marks the eastern boundary between the Cherokee Nation and the Province of South Carolina from the end of the Cherokee War (1761) until 1777. The local community, Gowensville, is named for John "Buck" ...

Four C Mill

R.M. Keith, agent for Central Coal & Coke., Kansas City, Mo., in Oct. 1899., began purchasing the virgin pine timberlands of this region. Lumber for construction of a new mill was cut by a small sawmill bought by Keith, Jan. ...

Fort Argyle

Near here, on the West bank of the Ogeechee River, Fort Argyle was built in 1733, to command one of the main passes by which enemy Indians had recently invaded South Carolina, and to give protection to the settlers of ...

Birthplace of John Carroll

Born 1735 — Died 1815

First archbishop in United States, 1808. At request of Congress he accompanied Benj. Franklin, Saml. Chase and Chas. Carroll of Carrollton to Quebec in an effort to have Canada unite with the thirteen colonies in the ...

Site of First Church Building in Cuthbert, Georgia

The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their ...

Huffman Prairie

1904 - 1905

The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. -Henry David Thoreau

After their first successful flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, the ...

Montgolfier Brothers

1783

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph and Etíenne de Montgolfier, brothers living in France in the ...

Timothy Ford's House

circa 1800

Timothy Ford, a native of Morristown, New Jersey, Princeton educated attorney who as a youth served in the American Revolution, built this fine Charleston single house in the Adamesque style. Ford entertained the Marquis de Lafayette here on ...