The Golden Fleece Tavern

Birthplace of the First State

This was the site of the Golden Fleece Tavern, scene of some of the most important and dramatic events in Delaware history. Built in the 1730s, the Golden Fleece was a center for community and government ...

In the Council Chamber of Elizabeth Battell's Golden Fleece Tave

On this site, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. December 7, 1787.We, the deputies of the people of the Delaware state, in Convention met, having taken in our serious consideration the Federal Constitution ...

Gold Mines

This was the most notable gold-mining region in the country before the California gold rush in 1849. The Morrow Mine here, opened before 1835, was one of the earliest gold mines in which underground mining was employed. Profitably worked for ...

The Goldsmith Building

Built in 1907 as

The Crane Building

Is part of the Pioneer Square Historic District

Which was entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on ...

"Ton of Gold"

Historical Point of Interest

The famous “Ton of Gold” that started the Alaska Gold Rush was unloaded here in 1897. The SS Portland landed the valuable cargo at this pier then known as Scwabacher Dock.

Ereceted National Maritime Day 1957

Battle of Goldsborough Bridge

December 17, 1862

Nearly 15,000 men clashed on these fields December 17, 1862. At stake was the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad bridge which spanned the Neuse River here. Confederate troops, outnumbered five to one, fought bravely to defend the bridge, ...

Battle of Goldsboro Bridge

End of Foster’s Raid

(Preface):

Late in 1862. Union Gen. John G. Foster’s garrison was well entrenched in New Bern and made several incursions into the countryside. On December 11, Foster led a raid from New Bern to burn the ...

The Golden Thirteen

In March, 1944, the first African-American naval officers in U.S. history were commissioned at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. Twelve ensigns and one warrant officer made American military history, and went on to serve with distinction in World War II. ...

Golden Ball Tavern

Here stood a dwelling house, constructed about 1764 by prosperous tobacco merchant, Richard Hanson, who, as a fervent Loyalist, fled Virginia in 1776. During the latter part of the Revolution, the structure became known as the Golden Ball Tavern. According ...

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor, who studied the biology of many seas and here founded a laboratory for research for the Carnegie Institution directing it for XVIII years with conspicuous success, brilliant versatile courageous utterly forgetful of self. He was the beloved ...