Point Plantation / Richmond Plantation

Point Plantation

In 1715, John Vanderhorst purchased 540 acres known as the Point for ?360. So began a long line of ownership by this well-known Colonial family. By 1740, John’s son Joseph and 29 slaves lived at the Point ...

Pierre Esprit Radisson and Medard Groseilliers

These brothers-in-law during the winter of 1659-60 camped with the Ottawa Indians two miles upstream from this point on Lac Court Oreilles (meaning "Lake of the Short Ears" in French). Early French explorers called the Ottawa Indians "Court Oreilles." Radisson's ...

Western Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue

[Freedom Plaza]

Western Plaza consists of a large raised terrace in which part of L'Enfant's original 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. is rendered in black and white stone. At one end of the raised terrace is a pool. At the other ...

Pierates Cruze / Pierates Cruze Gardens

Pierates Cruze

The Pierates Cruze property, once part of the Hilliardsville tract, was a private residence and garden. The property changed hands several times before it was purchased and named by the Osgood family in 1928. The Osgoods transformed ...

Patjens Post Office

In 1899, the Patjens family built this small office adjacent to their store on Church Street, to serve as the post office in Mount Pleasant. The Patjens family served as postmasters until 1917. Patjens Post Office has been owned and ...

Company K, First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

(Center Main Plaque):Company K

First Pennsylvania Reserves

(Thirteenth Regiment)

First (McCandless') Brigade

Third (Crawford's) Division

Fifth (Sykes') Corps

Army of the Potomac

Mustered into Pennsylvania service

June 8, 1861

Mustered into Federal service

July 26, 1861

Mustered Out

June 10, 1864

(Center, Lower Plaque):

This monument was erected in 1991 by the Adams ...

Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Twin Mounds & Parallel Walls

These circular twin mounds were excavated in the late 1800s and contained no human remains. Two shallow ditches extend from these earth mounds. One ditch connects to Randall Run on the north side of Fort Ancient, while the other ...

The Pony Express Trail

1860 -1861

The first Pony Express trip between St. Joseph and San Francisco was 1943 miles. This first trip took 10 days. The Pony Express operated from April 3, 1860 to November 20, 1861. The trail was located 1100 feet North ...

Original Site of Winthrop College

In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary. In ...