Robert Kirkwood, Jr.

Born in 1756, Robert Kirkwood, Jr. spent his youth on the family farm several miles north of Newark. Kirkwood eventually enrolled at the Newark Academy, later to become the University of Delaware. When the American Revolution began, Kirkwood was commissioned ...

Bank of Italy Building

This granite faced building was designed in the Classic Renaissance Revival Style for the Bank of Italy in 1921. It later became the thirteenth branch of the Bank of America. From 1957-1978, this building served as Livermore's city hall.

Listed ...

Bloomingburg War Memorial

Erected

in honor of

Soldiers

of All Wars

Humbly We Praise

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St. Alban’s Episcopal Church

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St. Alban’s Episcopal Church has long been the only continuously active Episcopal congregation in Williamsburg County. It was founded in 1879 by Carrie Simons (1849-1938), who persuaded Bishop W.W. Howe to help her organize a mission church with a few ...

I O O F Building

Erected in 1864

By International Order of Odd Fellows

Originally 24 feet (front) by 80 feet (along alley)

Two stories high; outside stairway on alley side

expanded east to present size in 1905,

adding four windows and inside stairway

Many lodges met upstairs; Eastern Star,

IOOF, Native ...

Battle of Pigeon's Roost

Near a hill south of town on May 17, 1862, Confederate troops led by Maj. Peter Otey surprised and routed a Union regiment commanded by Colonel Louis von Blessing. Federal losses were 18 killed, 56 wounded and 14 captured. Confederate ...

Leora Brown School

Facility built 1891 as elementary and secondary school for African Americans. Originally known as Corydon Colored School; first graduation was on May 14, 1897.

Renamed 1987 for Leora Brown Farrow, a teacher at the school, 1924 - 1950.

Rehabilitated as cultural ...

$5 Bought Paducah

In 1827, Gen. Wm. Clark purchased 37,000 acres of land, including the site on which Paducah now stands, for $5. This land, part of a Revolutionary War grant to his brother, George Rogers Clark, was secured from George Woolfolk, of ...

Hanks Bros and Jones Hardware

This Property has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of The Interior

Hank Bros and Jones Hardware 1897

G.E. Hank *Hank* Maj. T.T. Jones

Marker is on Broadway Street.

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Monmouth Battlefield State Park

The Battle of Monmouth

During the afternoon of Sunday, June 28, 1778, the hills and meadows in front of you disappeared under clouds of gun smoke.

When the firing subsided, over 600 men were dead, dying or wounded, and the Continental Army ...