Jekyll Island Boat House Site , Shipshape for the Season

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There is very little photo documentation of

exactly what the Boathouse looked like during

the Club era. Club members rarely would have

been found in this area, It was typically used

by year-round employees.

The only visible evidence of the ...

Headquarters of Fort Fisher

Here stood the Headquarters of Fort Fisher. The construction of the fort began in the summer of 1862 under the direction of Colonel William Lamb Commandant, who with General W.H.C. Whiting and Major James Reilly served until the fort was ...

Fort Fisher

State Historical Site

Largest earthen coastal fortification in the Confederacy. Original construction commenced May, 1861 and continued until December, 1864, when the fort came under Federal assault. Fort Fisher kept Wilmington open to blockade runners, providing a “life-line” of critical supplies ...

Fort Fisher

State Historical Site

Largest earthen coastal fortification in the Confederacy. Original construction commenced May, 1861 and continued until December, 1864, when the fort came under Federal assault. Fort Fisher kept Wilmington open to blockade runners, providing a “life-line” of critical supplies ...

Fighting at Hessian Lake

Fighting at Hessian Lake

You are walking part of the 1777 historic trail that retraces as nearly as possible the routes taken by the British army during the Revolutionary War.

On October 6, 1777, Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton landed ...

Aiken County Farmer's Market

The Aiken County Farmers’ Market, founded in 1951, was originally an open air market sponsored by the Edisto Grange. This building, which opened on May 21, 1954, was designed by Woodrow Jackson and built by the Aiken County chain gang. ...

Forks of The River Cemetery Park

Established in 1976 as a community bicentennial project, this park is significant because it is both the final resting place for several early settlers and decision makers and it is one of the last undeveloped areas that was part of ...

Theodore Roosevelt / William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

Former President Theodore Roosevelt

addressed a large crowd from

these steps on May 16, 1912.

He was introduced by C. B. De Weese.

William Howard Taft

President William Howard Taft

was the first sitting President to

visit Sidney. He spoke from this

location on May 23, 1912.

Taft ...

Frances Rappaport Horwich

Side A:

Frances Rappaport Horwich was born in Ottawa on July 16, 1907, the daughter of Sam Rappaport, an Austrian immigrant who operated a general store, and Rosa Gratz Rappaport, a Russian immigrant. The youngest of six children, she attended the ...

Site of Old Swan Tavern

Site of old Swan Tavern where lived and died Jack Jouett, whose heroic ride saved Mr. Jefferson, the Governor, and the Virginia Assembly from capture by Tarleton June 1781.

Marker is on Park Street north of Jefferson Street, on the right ...