Pinewood Plantation

Front

This plantation was the home of Maj. William Seaborn Bamberg (1820-1858), planter, merchant, and the founder of Bamberg. Maj. Bamberg, a native of what was then Barnwell District, returned to this area from Georgia in the late 1840s. The town ...

Libby Prison

1861-1865

Libby Prison, one of the most notorious prisons of the Civil War, housed mostly Union officers. It was located at the southeast corner of 20th and Cary streets (the doorway in the floodwall is at 20th, and the wall runs ...

Skirmish at Spring Hill

Gen. Edward E. Potter commanding 2700 Federal troops left Georgetown on April 5, 1865, to destroy the railroad between Sumter and Camden. On April 16 after a skirmish with militia under Col. James F. Pressley he camped at Spring Hill ...

Hampton Heights Historic District

Located one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because of its historical and architectural significance as an example of an intact early twentieth-century neighborhood. A number of popular architectural styles ...

Boiling Springs, South Carolina

This bubbling spring gave the community of Boiling Springs its name. Earliest records indicate settlement in the area began around this site in the mid-1700s. Prior to that trappers stopped here as they traveled the Piedmont en route from the ...

The Post War Era

With the surrender of Japan and the close of hostilities in August, 1945, a call resounded across the nation to “bring our boys back home.” A demobilization center was established at Great Lakes to process the discharge of sailors. In ...

Richmond Dock / Chapel Island

Richmond Dock

In 1816, the Virginia legislature chartered the Richmond Dock Company. It operated independently of the James River and Kanawha Canal until 1854, when the Tidewater Connection was constructed. The Tidewater Connection, a series of locks and basins from 17th ...

Federal Artillery Position

August 29 & 30, 1862

Federal Artillery Position

A succession of Union artillery batteries

occupied this ridge throughout

August 29 and 30, 1862.

August 29

Company I, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

Capt. Hubert Dilger (9-11 a.m.)

2nd Battery, New York Light Artillery

Lt. Theodore Blume (11 a.m. - 1 ...

King’s Chapel

Founded 1686

its first building was

the first Church of England

in Boston

The corner stone

of the present building

was laid August 11, 1749

After the Revolution

it became

the first Unitarian Church

in the United States

Marker is at the intersection of Tremont Street and School Street, on the ...

Site of St. Paul Lutheran School

Site of the first building of St. Paul Lutheran School which served as school and teacherage, home, and youth center (1849-1974). Henry Bartling, first teacher (1849-1891) also served as Addison postmaster for over 50 years.

Marker is at the intersection of ...