Mergenthaler House

From 1894 to 1899, this house was the residence of Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant who revolutionized the art of printing with his invention of the Linotype. Previously a typesetter searched for a single character, then placed it in a ...

The Haley House

In 1786, John & Phebe Haley built this home on the Petersburg (Va) to Salisbury (NC) Road, a major trade route. At that time, the Haleys owned 368 acres of land around this site. John Haley was a blacksmith by ...

Kunte Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial

The Memorial commemorates the arrival in Annapolis of Kunte Kinte, Alex Haley’s ancestor, as told in his book, Roots. That arrival was not a voluntary one. Kunte Kinte was one among one hundred-forty Africans forced into the hold of the ...

Nathan Hale

[ front ]

Nathan Hale

1755 – 1776

Class of 1773

[ back ]

A Gift to Yale College

By Graduates and Friends

Anno Domini MCMXIV

[ inscribed around the bronze base of the statue ]

I Only Regret That I Have But One Life To Lose ...

Haley House

Built 1786 by John Haley,

blacksmith & sheriff, on

the Petersburg-Salisbury

Road. Later a tavern; now

preserved as a museum.

Marker is at the intersection of E Lexington Avenue and McGuinn Drive, on the left when traveling east on E Lexington Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Devonian Shale

The carbonaceous shale exposed in the quarry is the Marcellus brown and black shale of the driller. it yields large amounts of natural gas in southern West Virginia.

Marker is on U.S. 220, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Nathan Hale

[ east side ]

Nathan Hale

1755 – 1776

The Connecticut Patriot

Whose Last Words Were

I Only Regret That I

Have But One Life To Lose

For My Country

[ south side ]

Erected in Memory Of

Henry G. Bartley 1922-1944

Edward L. Froehlich 1921-1944

Dudley S. Ingraham ...

Kunte Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial

To commemorate the arrival in this harbor of Kunte Kinte, immortalized by Alex Haley in Roots, and all others who came to these shores in bondage and who by their toil, character and ceaseless struggle for freedom have helped to ...

Nathan Hale

City Hall Park

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”

This graceful, 13-foot standing bronze figure, sculpted by Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937), directly faces City Hall and honors the last moments of the 21-year-old American Revolution ...

James Hale Steinman, A.B., LL. B., LL.D.

October 22, 1886 - December 31, 1962

Graduate of the Yeates School, The Hotchkiss School, Yale University

University of Pennsylvania School of Law

President and publisher of Lancaster newspapers

Chairman of the board, Intelligencer Printing Company

Co-founder of WGAL, Inc., and WGAL Television, Inc.

Treasurer, American ...