Hampton Baptist Church

In 1791 Grafton Baptist Church, in York County, founded a mission in Hampton, Hampton Baptist Church, which called its first pastor, Richard Hurst, in 1806. After the War of 1812, the church began to grow so that it had 185 ...

Historic Hampton

The Native American village of Kecoughtan stood across the Hampton River in 1607. Soon after the English forcibly removed the inhabitants in 1610, the colonists settled there and the village grew. By the early eighteenth century, the royal customhouse, wharves, ...

Hampton Confederate Monument

(front)

1861-1865

Our

Confderate

Dead

(rear)

Erected by

Hampton Chapter, No.19

Daughters of the

Confederacy

Unveiled Oct. 29, 1901

Marker can be reached from the intersection of West Queens Way and High Court Lane.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hampton Courthouse

“Roofless and Thoroughly Gutted”

“The courthouse, roofless and thoroughly gutted. … [Its] chimney served oar cooks well in getting supper. The Telegraph tent was soon up and the operator at work on the newly strung wire to Fort Monroe.” – Pvt. ...

Hampton Is Burned

"… a bright light over by the bay."

When Capt. Jefferson C. Phillips’s Confederate troops set the town of Hampton on fire on the evening of August 7, 1861, a house that stood on this King Street site was one of ...

Hampton

A Sacrifice to the Grim God of War

The control of Hampton had been disputed during the war’s first months. Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler sought to expand Union control over the lower Peninsula. Despite his defeat during the June 10, ...

The Hampton Carousel

PTC No50

Built by the Philadelphia Tobaggan Co.

in 1920

Located at the Buckroe Beach Amusement

Park from 1921-1985

Purchased by the City of Hampton in 1985

and completely restored in 1991

Grand Opening June 30, 1991

One of less than 70 antique operating

carousels still remaining in the ...

Hampton

A 1700 industrial and mill settlement. Wawayanda Inn built in 1866, a store and stage coach stop. Mason’s store established 1917.

Marker is on County Road 50 (County Route 50) ½ mile north of New York 17M (New York Route 17M), ...

New Hampton Cemetery

Located in the center of the village of New Hampton, which was platted on the 4th of July, 1822, by Samuel Jones and Samuel Sexton, the village stood on the Old State Road which ran from Franklinton Columbus to Springfield. ...

New Hampton and Ludlow's Road

On September 8, 1803, the year that Ohio became a state, the Associate Judges of Franklin County ordered that a road be constructed "leading from the Public Square in Franklinton to Springfield, Greene County." This road came to be known ...