You Are Remembered – Rest In Peace

This marker has been dedicated in memory of more than six hundred persons of Japanese ancestry reinterred here in 1956 with several thousand others, whose remains were removed from New Helvetia Cemetery, the present site of Sutter Middle School ...

Benjamin D. Tillar, Jr.

Benjamin Donaldson Tillar, Jr. (1853-1887), a Greensville County native, president of the Atlantic and Danville Railroad, and member of the House of Delegates, is known as "the man who named Emporia." Two villages, Hicksford and Belfield, merged in 1887 to ...

Elizabeth Lyles Blackwell Fountain

This fountain is dedicated to

Elizabeth Lyles Blackwell

First Lady of Furman University

1965 to 1976

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Gravestone Art: Skulls, Wings, and Other Symbols

Most of the gravestones in Copp’s Hill Burying Ground are upright stone markers placed before 1825. The quality and complexity of the carving depended on the skill of the carver and the budget of the person buying the memorial. The ...

The Alpha Building

The Alpha Saloon and Hall occupied this site until the fire of 1855. After the fire, another wood frame building was erected and a store and barbershop occupied it until the fire of 1862 which destroyed the new building. Using ...

Bouse Homesite

Thomas Bouse was born in Mendecino County, California and came here about 1889 as a prospector and built the first two rooms of his home. He ran a small store here. He brought his wife, Katherine, and infant daughter here ...

Confederate Burial Trench

(Stone monument)

To the Confederate Dead

in the Trenches

Erected by the U.D.C.

A.D. 1917

(Metal Tablet)

Burial Place

Confederate Soldiers

Shiloh

1862

(Bronze marker)

Unknown Soldier

Confederate States Army

Marker is on Loop road to Confederate Burial Trench 0.1 miles west of Sherman Road, on the right when traveling south.

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Harold A. Rogers, O.C., O.B.E.

1899 - 1994

The founder of Kinsmen & Kinette Clubs of Canada was born and raised at 324 Dundas Street, directly across from the armouries. Seeking the camaraderie he had experienced in the army during the First World War, “Hal” Rogers ...

Harriet Barber House

The Harriet Barber House, the home of

Reverend Samuel Barber and his wife

Harriet McPherson Barber, is significant

for its association with the South Carolina

Land Commission during the late nineteenth

century. Samuel Barber purchased a 42.5

acre of land ...

Daniel Webster Memorial

Danial Webster

"Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable."

Expounder and Defender of the Constitution

Born at Salisbury, N.H., Jan 18, 1772

Died at Marshfield, Mass., Oct 24, 1852

"Our Country, Our Whole Country,

and nothing but Our Country!"

(Given by Stilson Hutchins, a ...