West Tampa Centennial

1895 ~ 1995

Hugh C. MacFarlane, an immigrant from Scotland, purchased land in November 1886 and built a cigar factory that started production on June 15, 1892. MacFarlane and other developers offered free land and buildings, bringing in more cigar factories ...

A Prairie Reborn

These rambling acres of grass and greenery might not look like a carefully planned landscape. Yet they are part of an ongoing restoration effort begun in 1939 to undo the effects of 76 years of farming, restoring agricultural fields to ...

Phillips Community

Side A

This community, settled along Horlbeck Creek in the 1870s by freedmen, was named after the Phillips Plantation. Former slaves of the Laurel Hill, Parker Island, and Boone Hall Plantations purchased the land in ten acre parcels and ...

Beech Island Baptist Church

[Marker Front]:

This church was organized in the Beech Island Academy on January 21, 1832, with Rev. Iverson Brooks as its first minister and Mathias Ardis and Randolph Bradford as its first deacons. This sanctuary, built on land donated by James ...

Capt. James W. Magoffin

Hometown of Texas Confederates

Born in Kentucky. Trader in Mexico. Special U.S. Army agent in Mexican War, 1846-47. Established trading post at Magoffinville about 1850. Named state agent with Simeon Hart to receive U. S. property surrendered at Ft. Bliss, Mar, ...

Mount Pleasant Waterworks

Side A

In the early 20th century, Mount Pleasant’s leaders and citizens believed that the town’s rural locale and lack of a quality water supply hindered residential growth and prosperity. The situation changed when the Cooper River Bridge opened ...

119th Pennsylvania Infantry

3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps

(Front):Formed line afternoon of July 2nd

in rear of ridge to right of little round top

morning of the 3rd moved to this position

afternoon marched to rear of left centre

thence to face of Round Top.

119th. Penna. Infantry

3rd. ...

Mount Pleasant Home for Destitute Children

Side A

At this site in 1881, Abby Munro, a Quaker from Philadelphia, established a home for orphans, neglected, and destitute children. Funds to purchase and operate the home were solicited locally and from friends in the North. It ...

Counter Intelligence Corp Memorial

In Memoriam

Dedicated on the fifth day of August, the year 1962, to the eternal and glorious memory of those men of the Corps who made the supreme sacrifice while securing the blessings of liberty for the United States of America

Marker ...

Whistler Mound Group and Enclosure

The Whistler Mound Group and Enclosure originally consisted of 70 conical or round burial mounds and a low, earthen double enclosure. The site has never been scientifically investigated so the exact date of construction is unknown. Archaeologists, however, believe that ...