Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church

The first Presbyterian services in this area were conducted by Rev. John Wilson in 1706. Then pastor of New Castle Presbyterian Church, Rev. Wilson came every other Sunday to minister to the many residents of this area who had immigrated ...

Preserving the Palisades

Through the 1890s, quarries blasted the Palisades for stone to make gravel and concrete. The largest of these, Carpenter Brothers’ quarry, was just south of here (background photograph and B). Many thousands of tons of broken rock were taken from ...

Grave Of General Tristram Thomas / Saw Mill Baptist Church

Grave of General Tristram Thomas

In Saw Mill Church cemetery is the grave of Tristram Thomas, major of militia during the Revolution. At Hunt's Bluff, ten miles south, a band of Patriots under his command seized a British flotilla in ...

Pegues Place / Revolutionary Cartel

Pegues Place

About 1760, French Huguenot immigrant Claudius Pegues settled in this area. His home, Pegues Place, is located one mile west of here. A founder and early officer of St. David's Episcopal Church in Cheraw, he was elected in ...

Pride of Delaware Lodge #349 IBPOEW

The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World was formally organized in 1898. Designed to promote civic improvements, the IBPOEW is one of the largest fraternal organizations of its type in the world. Responding to the request of ...

Along the Palisades Riverfront

The background photograph shows Alpine Landing – here – known earlier as Closter Landing or the Closter Dock – around 1897. From before the Revolutionary War, a steep road through a break in the cliffs of the Palisades allowed Bergen ...

Albert M. Shipp

In Gillespie Cemetery, west of here, is buried Albert M. Shipp, Methodist minister, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina 1849-59, second President of Wofford College 1859-75, Vanderbilt University Professor and Dean 1875-85, and author of "Methodism in ...

Lott's Tavern & Post Office

A house built for Emsley Lott about 1770, later Lott's Tavern and still later Lott's Post Office, stood here until it was demolished in 1918. Lott soon enlarged his one-room log house to become a tavern on the Columbia road. ...

Marion Depot

This one-story brick passenger depot, typical of the period, was built in 1908 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The first railroad through Marion was the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad, completed here in 1854 and later incorporated into the Atlantic ...

Paul Anderson

Birthplace

“World’s Strongest Man”

Lifted greatest weight ever listed by a human being: 6,270 pounds in a backlift. (Guinness Book of World Records)

Weightlifting

1956

Olympic Gold Medalist

Super Heavyweight

(Olympic Emblem)

Founder of

Paul Anderson Youth Homes for homeless and troubled teenagers. Ardent patriot, and free enterprise ...