Portland Head Light Bell (1942)

This historic Coast Guard Bell from Portland Head Light is being loaned to the City of Rockland (a Coast Guard City) for their outstanding support of the men and women of the United States Coast Guard

Marker is on Park Drive ...

The Pelton Wheel

According to legend, Lester Pelton got his idea for a more powerful waterwheel from seeing a cow stick its nose into a stream of water. Patented in 1878, the divided metal cups of Pelton's wheel worked much the same way ...

Chillicothe

Side A:

On rolling land above the Grand, and between Thompson River and Medicine Creek, Chillicothe was laid out in 1837 as seat of newly organized Livingston County. The name is for Edward Livingston, U. S. Secy. of State, and the ...

Battle of Hickory Point

In September, 1856, a band of Proslavery men sacked Grasshopper Falls (Valley Falls) and terrorized the vicinity. On the 13th, the Free-State leader James H. Lane with a small company besieged a party of raiders in log buildings at Hickory ...

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Construction of this 4,300-foot long breakwater began in April 1881. Eighteen years, $750,000 and over 732,277 tons of granite later, it was completed on November 24, 1899. The lighthouse dates from 1902 and was placed on the National Register of ...

Marina Isle

Marina Isle was designated by the City of Sanford in 1964 to improve the boat basin created by Memorial Park and the Palmetto Avenue Jetty. The 13 acre, $2 million dollar island was built with fill pumped from the bottom ...

Rollins College

Florida's Oldest Institution of Higher Education

Was on

28 April 1885

Incorporated, organized and named in the Lyman Bank Bldg.,

southwest corner of Park and First Streets here in

Sanford

by

Rev. E. P. Hooker D. D.

Rev. J. A. ...

A Perfect Gibraltar

After the repulse of the Union Navy on May 15, 1862, Drewry’s Bluff became famous as a tangible symbol of Confederate resistance. Work crews made up of impressed slave labor continued construction of the fort, eventually completing a four-sided, enclosed ...

Camp Beall

“Drewry’s Bluff, at least for the present, is the headquarters of the Corps, and I may consequently reasonably expect to stay here for some time at least.”

Henry Lea Graves, 1862

From 1862 to 1865, the training of Confederate Marines took place ...

Harmony Hill Camp Meeting

1846

A two-week camp meeting was organized here as early as 1846 by North Iredell Protestants.

It continues today on the second Sunday in October as a one-day event.

Harmony School is built on the original site.

Marker is at the intersection of Little ...