Cat Swamp Hijacking and Murder

In this area, on Cat Swamp Hill in Byram Township, at about 6:00 a.m. on June 14, 1921, the Sussex Print Silk truck was hijacked. Albert Koster drove onto the scene on his motorcycle, was mistaken for a state trooper, ...

Greenwood County Confederate Monument

South Side:

Our

Confederate

Soldiers

East Side:

1861 - 1865

Patriots

Who animated by the same faith, actuated by the same love of country, beset with the same trials and dangers, enduring with the same fortitude and fought as heroically to maintain local self government as did ...

Nathaniel Warner Company Monument

[ upper plaque ]

In Memory of those who fought in the Revolutionary War with the Nathaniel Warner Company and those men and women who helped make this a free and independent nation.

Placed by the reactivated

Nathaniel Warner Company May ...

St. Thomas Commemorates

1734. License July 31, to Charles Campbell, 200 acres. No survey. At the head of a spring which runs thro John MacFarlans tract.

1734. License July 31, to James Campbell, 200 acres. No survey. joining to his brother Charles Campbell.

1738. Election ...

Col. Robert Patterson

1753 - 1827

Explorer, surveyor, patriot, statesman, farmer, manufacturer, a leader in education, religion, good government, industry and transportation. Served in the Revolutionary War, the Indian Wars and War of 1812. Founded Lexington, Ky., and built its first house in 1776. ...

Potawatomi Emigration

Trail of Death

Indiana to Kansas 1838

On Oct. 11, 1838, 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Spring near Palmyra on the forced removal from Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas. They passed through Palmyra at 10 o'clock October 12. That night they ...

Mathews Mill Veterans Monument

West Side:

Forever Honour'd Forever Mourn'd

This tablet is reverently dedicated to the memory of

Thomas L. Hitt

Carl Henry Holder

who gave their lives for their country in the Korean Conflict

South Side:

Erected 1947

by

Employees and Management of

Mathews Mill

East Side:

In Memoriam

Here in enduring bronze are

recorded the ...

Watervliet Shaker Community

Side A:

A Shaker village called Watervliet, Ohio, was located here from 1806-1900. The Shakers, originally called the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, were followers of Mother Ann Lee who came from Manchester, England in 1774 and established ...

This Stone Marks the Site of the Fort at McDowell's Mill

Erected by John McDowell before 1754. It was used as a base of supplies and as a magazine until the erection of Fort Loudon in 1756. The military road from Pennsylvania, connecting with the Braddock Road at Turkey Foot, was ...

Dedicated to the Memory of Pony Express Riders

1860 The Knights of the Saddle 1861

William Hamilton, the first Pony Express rider to reach Benicia on the final relay. Carrying the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri to California. Arrived in this city April 23, 1860, at 7 a.m. Thomas ...