Defenders of Fort Griswold • Sept • 6th 1781

British Officer - “Who commands this fort ”

Colonel Ledyard – “I did sir, but you do now ”

Killed – Lieut. Col. William Ledyard, Commanding

Capt. Elijah Avery • Capt. Elisha Avery • Lieut. Ebenezer Avery • Ensign Daniel ...

Palmer Memorial Institute

Preparatory school for blacks founded 1902 by Charlotte Hawkins Brown. Named for Alice Freeman Palmer. Closed in 1971. Now state historic site.

Marker is on U.S. 70, on the right when traveling east.

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First Mining of Pittsburgh Coal

This State's bituminous coal industry was born about 1760 on Coal Hill, now Mt. Washington. Here the Pittsburgh coal bed was mined to supply Fort Pitt. This was eventually to be judged the most valuable individual mineral deposit in the ...

Barratt's Chapel

In 1778 a Methodist Society was organized in this area by Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the group constructed a brick “preaching house” at his location in 1780. The site was provided by Society member Phillip Barratt, ...

Pontiac

Pontiac organizer of the conspiracy which bears his name, was born on the Maumee River in what is now Ohio, in 1720. As Chief, he led the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians at Braddocks defeat July 9, 1755. When France surrendered ...

Barratt's Chapel

In 1778 a Methodist Society was organized in this area by Freeborn Garrettson. Desiring a permanent place of worship, the group constructed a brick “preaching house” at his location in 1780. The site was provided by Society member Phillip Barratt, ...

Glenn "Jeep" Davis

To honor your many accomplishments as a teacher, coach, and athlete, and to thank you for setting a great example for your peers and the youth of the Magic City.

Athletic Accomplishments

Selected.....All Ohio Football-1954

Track Coach & Teacher.....Barberton High School

Selected.....Barberton Sports Hall ...

Captain Jonathan Caldwell

This farm, formerly known as Burberry's Berry, was home of Captain Jonathan Caldwell of Colonel Haslet's Regiment in Revolution. Tradition says Delaware soldiers received name "Blue Hen's Chickens" from Caldwell's men having with tem game chickens, celebrated in Kent County ...

Geographic Center of Delaware

In 1989, a curious seventh grader from the Caesar Rodney School District asked where the center of Delaware was located. With the help of his teacher and the Kent County Department of Planning, it was determined that the geographic center ...

The State Capitol

Completed in 1888

Has been placed

on the

National

Register of

Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the

Interior

Marker can be reached from the intersection of S. 2nd Street and E. Capitol Street.

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