A Riot, the Massacre, and the Tea Party

From 1769-1776 Boston was the flashpoint for events leading up to the American Revolution. On February 22, 1770, a crowd gathered around the house and shop of a Tory sympathizer and customs agent, Ebenezer Richardson. When they started pelting the ...

St. Georges Chapel

Indian River Hundred

Original Building - 1719

Present Building 1794

Remodeled 1893

This Marker presented by the

Daughters of the American

Colonists • 1962

Marker is on Beaver Dam Road (County Road 285), on the right when traveling south.

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Fort Pickens - South Carolina

This stone

marks the place

where, in 1767,

Gen. Andrew Pickens

built a

Block House

as a place of refuge

against the Indians.

It was used as a fort

during the

Revolutionary War

and was known as

Fort Pickens.

Marker ...

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

In 1680, the Justices of the County petitioned Governor Edmond Andros for the right to grant lands. Under this authority, a lot of ground at this location was reserved for “publick use.” Many of the settlers who came to this ...

St. John The Baptist Episcopal Church

With expansion of settlement away from coastal areas in the early 18th century, there was a growing need for houses of worship to be located nearer to the homes of the settlers. In the spring of 1728, a frame chapel ...

CCC Camp Site

This is the site of the former camp of two Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) companies and a Works Progress Administration (WPA) work force of 300 men who constructed the recreation area along Swift Creek from the spring of 1935 to ...

The Civil War in St. Joseph

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

On April 3, 1860, the Pony Express started from this neighborhood on its historic run to the West. Eight months after the Pony Express joined East and West, the country split North to ...

Koloa, Birthplace of the Hawaiian Sugar Industry

The Beginning. Near this site, on September 12, 1835, William Hooper began clearing 12 acres of land to plant sugar cane. The land was part of 980 acres leased by Hooper’s employer, Ladd & Co. of Honolulu. The land was ...

The Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois Indians

Fort Wyoming

Mobilization Camp

of Sullivan's Army

June 23 - July 31

1779

Marker is on River Street near South Street.

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Perimeter of the Fort

You stand upon historic ground within the north wall of Fort Cumberland. Your location (X) is shown on the diagram. Lines of barracks (I), parallel with the street, were to your front and in the rear along the line of ...