Millbrook

Home of John Wayles Eppes

Approximately 2 miles east stood Millbrook (1811-1866), home of U.S. Senator John Wayles Eppes (1773-1823). He attended the University of Pennsylvania, was graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, and was admitted to the Bar in 1794. He married ...

Buttermilk Falls

At the foot of this lane

at Buttermilk Falls, was

the Headquarters of General

Israel Putnam, Commander

in the Highlands 1779

Marker is at the intersection of West Point Hwy and Webb Lane, on the right when traveling north on ...

Columbia Bible College

Columbia Bible School classes began in 1923 in the towered building which once stood on this site (originally as Columbia Female College, later as the Colonia Hotel). Under the leadership of its first president, Robert C. McQuilkin, the school grew ...

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church / Lowther's Hill Cemetery

Marker Front:

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, organized by 1785, first met in a nearby school. It built a sanctuary here in 1791; that year Cashaway Baptist Church merged with it. In 1818 the congregation moved about 2 mi. ...

San Bernardino Ranch

Has been designated a

National

Historic Landmark

This site possesses National significance

in commemorating the history of the

United States of America

1964

Marker can be reached from the intersection of East San Bernardino Road and Slaughter Ranch Road, on the right.

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Bing Kong Tong Society Building

This building dates from 1927 when it was rebuilt after a fire in 1926. The upper floor served the Chinese population as a center for religious and social activities.

The Toy family operated a store two doors west called The ...

Reuben Deming

Deming was born in Vermont in 1789 and came to the Village of Southport, later renamed Kenosha, in 1836. Deming was a Methodist preacher and a staunch supporter of the anti-slavery movement. For Methodists, slavery was considered the worst of ...

Mormon Battalion

LDS Church

San Bernardino

Ranch

Rest Camp

Dec 5 1846

Marker is on Geronimo Trail, on the right when traveling east.

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Gilbert M. Simmons Memorial Library

Dedicated May 30, 1900

This library building a gift of Zalmon G. Simmons to the citizens of Kenosha as a memorial to his son Gilbert M. Simmons (1852-1890)

His vision and generosity were appreciated by the pioneer town he believed in and ...

Mormon Battalion

LDS Church

Longest infantry

march on record

Dec 6, 1846

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