William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

Blue Sink

Visited by William Bartram, America's first naturalist, in 1774.

Erected by Newberry Garden Club in cooperation with Dist. V. FFGC National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.

Fla. Dept. of Transportation

Marker is on ...

William Bartram's Plantation

In 1766 on the banks of the St. Johns River at Little Florence Cove, William Bartram attempted to farm a 500-acre land grant. Bartram had spent much of the previous year exploring the new British Colony of East Florida with ...

7th Day Baptist Churches of Hopkinton and Westerly

Here for more than a century was the religious, business and civil center of Westerly. Near by in private homes, the people met in town meetings. Here crossed paths from what is now Hopkinton, Richmond and Westerly. Here were the ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773 - 1777

In 1774, William Bartram visited Salt Springs, his six-mile springs, and proclaimed it a "Paradise of Fish"

Marker is on State Highway 19 ¼ mile south of County Road 316 (County Road 316), on the right ...

Blythe Ferry

One of the worst acts of "man's inhumanity" took place when an entire race of peoples were driven from their lands in 1838. It was here at Blythe Ferry that approx. 9000 Cherokees and Creeks camped while waiting to cross ...

Birthplace Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

Birthplace

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

1832-1919

Medal of Honor

For Service in the Civil War

Marker is on Bunker Hill Road 1.1 miles north of Tug Hill Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Anna Easter Brown

1879-1957

A founder in 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha,

nation’s oldest sorority for African Americans;

history teacher. Her grave is ¼ mile east.

Marker is on East Grand Avenue (North Carolina Route 43) near Holly Street, on the left when traveling south.

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Tolchester Beach Amusement Park

Opened on this site in 1877 by the Tolchester Steamboat Company, in an era when the steamboat was a primary mode of social and commercial transportation in the Tidewater region, and in response to the rising popularity of resorts and ...

William Bartram Trail

1739 ~ 1823

The great Quaker naturalist of Philadelphia made a long journey through the southeastern states in the 1770's collecting botanical specimens. In May, 1774, he visited the Seminole Chief, Cowkeeper, at the Indian village of Cuscowilla located near ...

Columbiad Cannon – 1850

Last on duty at Fort Point on San Francisco Bay. Grass Valley Women’s Improvement Club arranged with the U.S. War Department for donation to be placed in City Square, now Dow Alexander Park. Transferred from Benicia Arsenal to here in ...