Amos Spafford / Perrysburg

[Front Side of Marker]: "Amos Spafford"

In 1810, early settlers here were Major Amos Spafford (1753-1818), his wife Olive (1756-1823), and their children Samuel, Aurora , Chloe (Mrs. Almon Gibbs), and Anna (Mrs. Richard Craw). In 1796, Spafford, a native of ...

Bernards Township War Memorial

1917 - 1918 1941 - 1945

Dedicated in grateful appreciation

to the men and women of

Bernards Township

who served in the armed forces

during World War I and World War II

that Peace, Freedom and Justice

might not perish from the Earth.

Marker is at the intersection ...

Old Baptist

Old Baptist

Revolutionary War Cemetery

Early church and burial site of more than a dozen Revolutionary War soldiers including patriot General James Townsend

Frank Del Campo, Supervisor Town of Carmel 1999

Marker is at the intersection of Gleneida Avenue (Route ...

Dizzy Gillespie Birthplace

[Front]:

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born in a house on this site on Oct. 21, 1917. His family lived here until they moved to Philadelphia in 1935. A founder of modern jazz, Gillespie was an innovative trumpeter and bandleader known ...

Pee Dee Union Baptist Church

[Front]

This church, formally organized in 1867, had its origins in Cheraw Baptist Church, founded in 1837. Shortly after the Civil War 285 black members there received permission to organize a separate church. Rev. Wisdom London, the first pastor here, preached ...

Boisaubin House

Built in 1790's by a French emigre on a campsite of the Continental Army, later, a station on the "Underground Railroad"

Marker is on Treadwell Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Abraham Lincoln Employed

[Side 'One']

Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." ...

Mariner’s Bethel United Methodist Church

During the spring of 1779, Methodist pioneer Freeborn Garrettson visited this area to bring the message of his faith to the people. Garrettson’s efforts were favorably received, and a number of local Methodist “societies” were organized. Among these was the ...

Harriet Barber House

The Harriet Barber House, the home of

Reverend Samuel Barber and his wife

Harriet McPherson Barber, is significant

for its association with the South Carolina

Land Commission during the late nineteenth

century. Samuel Barber purchased a 42.5

acre of land ...

Site of Benson Field

Decatur’s Football Stadium 1931 - 47

Named in honor of

W. W. “Barney” Benson, Supt. Ed. 1927 - 38

H. L. “Shorty” Ogle, Coach 1934 - 64

Aubrey Fuller, Asst. Coach 1929 - 58

The “T” formation was introduced to Alabama here in 1941

On ...