William Penn's New Town

Newtown Heritage Walk No. 14

On March 4, 1681, Charles II granted William Penn a vast tract of land in the New World as payment for the debt the King owed Penn's father. The tract awarded to Penn included all ...

American Encampment

~ Totowa Heights ~

October 9 – November 27, 1780,

the patriot army extend-

ed along this site which had

also been used in July.

Washington came from his

headquarters in Preakness

to Totowa and visited the

Van Houtens.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Blvd (County Route ...

William Moore McCullough / Civil Rights Movement in Piqua

Side A: William Moore McCulloch

William McCulloch was born in Holmes County where he was educated in a one-room schoolhouse before moving to Wooster to attend high school and the College of Wooster. He attained prominence as Ohio's Speaker ...

The Capture of Alexandria

Oxon Cove Park

“It was indeed a day and night of horrors, the fleet … lay directly before our house.”

Mary DeButts, writing to her sister Millicent on March 18, 1815.

From this farm, Mary DeButts saw a small fleet ...

Bridging the Past with the Present

Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Park and Visitor Center

1600s: Woodlands, Marshes and the Great Bridge

The rich forests and fields south of the Elizabeth River and in northeastern North Carolina gave the early settlers in the late 1600s bountiful yields of ...

The Peacemaker

“Let them surrender and go home, they will not take up arms again. Let them all go, officers and all, let them have their horses to plow with, and, if you like, their guns to shoot crows. Treat them liberally ...

Purple Heart Memorial

Combat Wounded Veterans

Dedicated to all men and women wounded in all our wars.

"My stone is red for

the blood they shed.

The medal I bear

is my country's way

to show they care.

If I could be seen

Elvis Presley and the Blues

Marker Front:

Elvis Presley revolutionized popular music by blending the blues he first heard as a youth in Tupelo with country, pop, and gospel.

Many of the first songs Elvis recorded for the Sun label in Memphis were covers of earlier blues ...

The Potomac Highway

Oxon Cove Park

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Potomac River was a highway. Roads were bumpy, narrow, winding routes, littered with stumps and fallen trees. They led from tobacco barns and small villages down to the real thoroughfare – ...

Pace College

On this site from 1766 to 1856 stood the Brick Presbyterian Church used during the American Revolution as both a prison and hospital for American prisoners. This present structure was built by the New York Times beginning with a building ...