Pittsburgh Plate Glass Ford City Works

Among the largest and most productive plate glass factories in the world; opened 1887. At its peak, the plant employed more than 3,500 ethnically diverse workers, who passed through a specially-built tunnel under busy train tracks. Operations ended 1991.

Marker is ...

First Baptist Church

Side A

Established in 1831 as Darlington Baptist Church of Christ, with Rev. W.Q. Beattie as its first minister; joined the Welsh Neck Association in 1832. The first sanctuary, built in 1830 just before the church was formally organized, was ...

The Lavender Pit

This open pit mine is named

The Lavender Pit

In honor of

Harrison M. Lavender

1890 – 1952

Who as vice president and general manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation conceived and carried out this plan for making the hitherto unprofitable low grade copper bearing ...

Madero Camp

In the spring of 1911 Pascual Orozco and Francisco "Pancho" Villa amassed their revolutionary forces on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez and were soon joined by Francisco I. Madero. The Madero Camp, which stood across the river from this site, ...

Courthouse Hill / The Plum Orchard

(Side A):

Courthouse Hill

In the early years of Delaware, this area was known as Briar Hill. It is the highest elevation in the city. Situated facing south and approximately at the center of the existing Courthouse, was the site of the ...

Wilson Crossroads / Dr. Peter A. Wilson

Wilson Crossroads

At this point the Camden-Mars Bluff road intersected the road to Darlington on property granted to the Reverend John Wilson (1790-1869) by the state of South Carolina in 1837. Wilson, a North Carolinian, settled here, and after his ...

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and Graveyard

(Front)

Anglicanism was established in Orangeburg Township about 1750. After a period of no recorded activity, efforts were made to rekindle the Anglican tradition resulting in establishment of Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, circa 1850. Catharine C. Palmer donated this ...

A Turning Point In History

The Reduction of Fort Pulaski

This island became the "platform" on which

the Union Army mounted 36 pieces of heavy

artillery in early 1862. The bombardment that

began on April 10 led to the surrender of

Fort Pulaski 30 hours later. The placement of

these ...

Agawam - Ipswich

1630 - 1930

Among the founders and early

residents of Ipswich - 1630 -

were John Winthrop, Junior,

scientist and industrial pioneer; Nathaniel Ward, lawmaker

and wit; Richard Bellingham

and Richard Saltonstall, magistrates who defended popular

rights; Simon Bradstreet and

his wife Anne, who wrote poetry

of enduring beauty.

Marker ...

Attempted Ambush

On March 5, 1865, near the point where the Ebenezer Road crossed the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad, the 29th Missouri Mounted Infantry of Col. Reuben Williams's command, deployed on either side of the tracks to capture a Confederate train approaching ...