Alder Cabin

Oldest Dwelling in Madison County

Jonathan Alder (1773-1849), first white settler in Madison County, was captured by Indians in Virginia in 1781. He was adopted and lived as a Mingo Indian; then re-united with his family in 1805. This cabin, built ...

Searight’s Tollhouse

Erected by Pennsylvania, 1835, to collect tolls on the old National Road. Administered by The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Marker is on National Pike (U.S. 40) west of Dearth Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hotchkiss-Fyler House

Given for the use of the Torrington

Historical Society by Gertrude Fyler

Hotchkiss in memory of her parents

Orsamus R. Fyler and Mary E. Fyler,

and her husband Edward H. Hotchkiss

Sept. 17, 1956

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Church Street, on ...

Flatboats

Flatboats were designed to carry cargo downstream, floating with the current. With flat bottoms, they were easily built to any size desired. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they were a major method of transportation for settlers traveling west ...

Old Brunswick Courthouse

Here the first courthouse of Brunswick County was built about 1732. In 1746, when the county was divided, the county seat was moved east near Thomasburg. In 1783, after Greensville County had been formed, the courthouse was moved to Lawrenceville.

Marker ...

Washington and Jefferson College

Chartered history begins with the founding of Washington Academy in 1787. Section of the Administration Building erected, 1793. Washington College (1806) and Jefferson College (1802) united in March, 1865.

Marker is on East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136) 0.1 miles ...

Fort Christanna

Nearby to the south stood Fort Christanna, a wooden structure built in 1714 under the auspices of Alexander Spotswood and the Virginia Indian Company. Members of the Meiponsky, Occaneechi, Saponi, Stuckenock, and Tutelo Indian tribes lived within the fort and ...

Gamma Chapter of Beta Theta Pi

This plaza is the gift of Gamma Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, the oldest chapter in continuous existence and the first chapter of a college social fraternity in Pennsylvania, to mark the 125th Anniversary of its founding in 1842 at ...

The Holden House / The Shipman House

The Holden House

408 Front Street

Built in 1852, this house is located on Ministerial land leased to Edwin Putnam in 1809.

The house was built for Joseph Holden, born in Massachusetts, in Dec. of 1767. It was later owned by ...

LeMoyne House

Built, 1812, by Dr. John LeMoyne. For many years, home of his son Dr. Francis LeMoyne, noted abolitionist, and builder of first crematory in U.S. Now the home of the Washington County Historical Society.

Marker is on East Maiden Street (U.S. ...