First Assembly of Abington Friends Meeting

The first religious meeting hereabout, now known as Abington Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) was held here in 1683. This was the home of Richard and Joan Wall who came from Hasfield near Cheltenham England in 1682. Their ...

Patriotic Work of the National Woman's Relief Corps

This Tablet is Erected in Commemoration

of the patriotic work of the Women's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, in the preservation and improvement of this historic site, comprising 87 acres, of which 72.5 acres were acquired ...

Cherokee Chief Doublehead's village around 1800

About 1800 Doublehead located his village at this site, where his brother-in-law Tahonteeskee had previously lived. Doublehead's log house was built along the same style of those of the white settlers. Chief Doublehead had previously led raids against Tennessee settlers ...

First Presbyterian Church

(1818)

The Presbyterians organized the first church in Florence and purchased this property from the Cypress Land Company in 1818. A sanctuary was erected here in 1824. James L. Sloss, an early Alabama Territory missionary, was installed as the church's ...

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Cobb's Artillery Battalion

Fifth Company Battalion Washington Artillery

Four 12-PDR. Napoleons, Two James Rifles

Capt. Robert Cobb's Artillery Battalion.

Breckinridge's (Bate's) Div. Breckinridge's Corps.

Capt. C.H. Slocomb, Commanding,

1st Lieut. W.C.D. Vaught, 2d Lieut. A.J. Leverich.

1st Lieut. J.A. Chalaron, 2d Lieut. C.G. Johnsen.

Nov. 25th, 1863, 4 ...

First Baptist Church 1888

On May 27, 1888, this church was established in the courthouse after a commencement sermon at the State Normal College delivered by the Rev. W. H. Smith. Its initial name was First Missionary Baptist, but in 1910 it became First ...

Ordinance of Secession

This Building

stands on the site formerly occupied

by S.C. Institute Hall

where, on December 20, 1860,

was signed and ratified the

Ordinance of Secession

Which withdrew the state of South Carolina

from the Union and led to the formation of

the Confederate States of America and to ...

U.S. Railway Post Office Car

Government regulations required Railway Post Office cars in 1910. The RF&P owned five. American Car & Foundry built this one in 1916. Some of the first steel cars were postal cars. They were important revenue sources for the railroad. The ...

Site of Hanna Log Cabin

Built near this spring in 1810 by Benjamin and Rachael Dixon Hanna whose family were first settlers in this community in 1801 and 1802.

They were the grandparents of Marcus Alonzo Hanna United States Senator from 1897 to 1904

Marker is on ...

Harvey S. Firestone

Inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist, Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868-1938) was born on a nearby farm in 1868 and attended school in Columbiana. He founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1900 and soon after developed a method for mass-producing tires ...