Campaign Office

This small building buzzed with activity during the 1880 presidential campaign. Garfield changed this library into the headquarters for his political supporters and a meeting room for the press who covered the election campaign that summer and fall.

With telegraph wire ...

President Hayes Memorial

This tablet marks the birthplace

of

Rutherford B. Hayes

Nineteenth President of

The United States

Born October 4th, 1822

Marker is on East Williams Street (U.S. 36) east of North Sandusky Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Philip Porcher House

Built about 1765 by Philip Porcher, loyalist. Confiscated during the Revolution, his property afterwards was returned and he was allowed to remain in this country because of his "Universal" good character.

Marker is on Archdale Street near Magazine Street, on the ...

Clark's Ferry Bridge Company

William Jennings - President

Christian W. Lynch - Vice-president

William Wills - Secretary

Patrick F. Duncan - Treasurer

Frank M. Masters - Chief Engineer

Ralph Modjeski - Consulting Engineer

Paul P. Cret - Consulting Architect

The Vang Const. Co. - Contractors

(Around relief artwork of the original bridge)

The ...

Pennsylvania Canal

Susquehanna Division

Built 1823-31; operated until 1901. It extended from Duncan's Island to Northumberland. In its 41-mile course, the Division embraced 13 locks, 7 aqueducts, old Shamokin Dam, and West Branch Towpath Bridge. Traces of the Canal can be seen at ...

Front Porch Campaign

From July to November 1880, Republican candidate James A. Garfield staged his presidential campaign from his home. Using this porch as his rostrum, Garfield delivered dozens of speeches - some more than two hours long - to more than 15,000 ...

Pennsylvania Canal

This State-owned artificial water-way system, built 1826-1834, was designed to connect points like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie in a vast inland trade. It embraced six chief canal divisions and two railroads. Here the Susquehanna, Juniata, and Eastern Divisions joined at ...

Island Ownership

In 1647, Giles Brent established the first English settlement in this area along Aquia Creek. Nearly 50 years later, George Brent, Giles Brent’s nephew, became the island’s first documented owner. George purchased “…a small tongue or neck or Island of ...

Temporary Tombs

Oak Ridge Cemetery's public vault, located at the base of the hill behind the Lincoln tomb, received the bodies of Abraham Lincoln and his son William on May 4, 1865. It would be some time before a permanent burial place ...

Abraham P. Ackerman House

Built circa 1802 by Abraham P. Ackerman who added stone kitchen wing soon after. Later, son William built frame unit. His son Abraham W., owner in 1875, remodeled house and added mansard roofs. The farmhouse remained in the Ackerman family ...