Third Ward Fire

1892

On the evening of October 28, 1892, an exploding oil barrel started a small fire in the Union Oil and Paint company warehouse, which was located at 323 N. Water Street. Another fire broke out in a nearby factory ...

To the Glory of God

This original stone which formed one of the four

Pillars of the first building of Tyger Baptist

Church, the first in this area of South Carolina

near the head of Tyger River, about the year 1800.

I will praise thee, O Lord, with my ...

Sinking of the Lady Elgin

The loss of the sidewheel steamship Lady Elgin was one of Lake Michigan’s most tragic maritime disasters. On September 8th, 1860, the ship, returning to Milwaukee from Chicago, sank following a collision nine miles off Winnetka, Illinois. Milwaukee’s Irish Union ...

First Protest against Slavery

Here in 1688, at the home of Tunes Kunders, an eloquent protest was written by a group of German Quakers. Signed by Pastorius and three others, it preceded by 92 years Pennsylvania’s passage of the nation’s first abolition law.

Marker ...

111th Infantry Regiment

(Front):In remembrance of those members of this

Regiment who lost their lives defending

their country's honor fighting against

tyranny and for justice and liberty of all

nations, the weak as well as the mighty

111th Infantry

1917 - 6th PNG - 18th PNG

1921 - 3rd PNG ...

Fredericksburg

Where 100,000 Fell

Because of the immense amount of fighting that occurred here, the Fredericksburg area has been called the vortex of the Civil War. Four major battles - Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House - resulting in approximately 100,000 ...

Prisoners of War in St. Augustine During the American Revolution

From the onset of the American Revolution in 1775, the British Crown Colony in East Florida was a Loyalist bastion. In its capital, St. Augustine, the British lodged as prisoners many American Patriots and their French allies. Most of these ...

Masconomet Sagamore of the Agawams

Traditional Grave Site

Indians of Agawam

Masconomet

Sagamore of the Agawams

Died March 6 1658

Marker can be reached from Sagamore Hill, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Camp Lander

Site of

Camp Lander

1862-1865

A training field for

Massachusetts

Regiments

Marker is on Main Street (State Highway 1A), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frankford United Methodist Church

In 1819, a group of Methodists purchased a parcel of land north of present-day Frankford. A frame chapel was erected, and on March 4, 1820, the members of the congregation met there to elect trustees and formally organize themselves as ...