Pony Express Ferry "Oakland"

Dedicated April 23, 1999

Jack London Square

By Port of Oakland, William Campbell Family, Dreyers Grand Ice Cream, Alameda/Oakland Ferry Service, Waterfront Plaza Hotel & Jacks, Sportsman's Hall - Pollock Pines Pony Express Home Station, Pony Express Trail Association

Sponsors: Walter R. Harmon ...

Lewisfield Plantation

This land, part of Fairlawn Barony and known as Little Landing, was bought in 1767 by Sedgwick Lewis. His daughter Sarah married Keating Simons. They acquired the land in 1774 and are presumed to have built the present plantation house. ...

Toomer- Purse House

c. 1796

Anthony Toomer, a master builder, Revolutionary Patriot, member of the South Carolina General Assembly and Officer in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, built this two story frame house and afterwards left it to his daughter, Mrs. Daniel Remousin. ...

Mulberry Plantation

Originally granted to Sir Peter Colleton in 1679. Acquired in 1712 by Thomas Broughton, who erected the present mansion, said to be modeled after Seaton Hall in England, in 1714. Thomas Broughton was speaker of the Commons House of Assembly ...

Beatrice's Own - Civil War and the Spanish-American War

We Answered the Call

April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter, South Carolina was fired on by Rebel forces. On the 18th of May, Nebraska Territory Governor Alvin Saunders issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to either answer the call from President Lincoln ...

The Ice King, the Castle Captain, and the She-Merchant

Located against the back fence of the burying ground is the Tudor family tomb, marked by a gravestone for John Tudor, Esquire (1709-1795),. The Tudor family legacy began with John Tudor, a baker and deacon of Second Church, who chronicled ...

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

(First Panel):

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is the story of...

Industrial Development and the production of weapons at the Harpers Ferry armory.

John Brown's Raid and his attempt to end slavery.

The Civil War with Union and Confederate armies fighting over this border ...

Site of Pierce Academy

Site of

Pierce Academy

In 1792 Sarah Pierce

Opened First Academy

For Girls in America

Marker is at the intersection of North Street (Connecticut Route 63) and Westwood Lane, on the left when traveling north on North Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

A Union Predicament

"Do all you can to annoy the rebels should they advance on you...You will not abandon Harpers Ferry without defending it to the last extremity."

Maj. Gen. John G. Wool, USA

Telegraph message to Col. Dixon S. Miles, USA

September 7, 1862

The first ...

Claridon Prairie

This grass land, extending one mile east between the road and the railway, is one of the few surviving remnants of the once extensive prairies that were part of pioneer Marion County. This strip, preserved by chance when the railway ...