Ida B. Wells

1862–1931

Ida B. Wells crusaded against lynchings in Memphis and the South. In 1892 while editor of the Memphis Free Speech, located in this vicinity, she wrote of the lynching of three Black businessmen. As a result, her newspaper office was ...

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor

Alfred Goldsboro Mayor, who studied the biology of many seas and here founded a laboratory for research for the Carnegie Institution directing it for XVIII years with conspicuous success, brilliant versatile courageous utterly forgetful of self. He was the beloved ...

The Beginning of the Cigar Industry in West Tampa

A cigar factory built on this site in June 1892 by Hugh C. Macfarlane brought the first industry to the community of West Tampa. First operated by A. Del Pino and Company, it failed financially. In 1894 the O'Halloran Cigar ...

Col. Asbury Coward

Soldier - Patriot - Educator

To honor

Col. Asbury Coward

President, Kings Mountain Centennial Association, 1880.

Acknowledged, inspirational force in

perpetuating the glory and importance of the

Battle of Kings Mountain

Erected by Kings Mountain Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

North South Carolina

Marker can be reached from Kings ...

Lower Three Runs Baptist Church

(Front text)

This church, originally located 8/10 mi. W on the old Augusta-to-Charleston road, was founded in 1789 by twelve charter members, with Rev. Nathaniel Walker as its first pastor. Lower Three Runs was a mother church to at least ...

Greenville Arboretum

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

The Greenville Garden Club won the $500 second place price in Better Homes and Gardens' "Most Beautiful America" contest in 1932 for their landscaping of Rock Quarry Park. Members used the money to develop South Carolina's ...

LaPlaisance Bay Settlement

When the War of 1812 began, LaPlaisance Bay settlement consisted of 14 homes along the creek. Medard LaBadie, considered a hero for his participation in the Battles of the River Raisin and those at Fort Meigs and Thames, was a ...

The Battle of Kings Mountain

In Memory of

the patriotic American

who participated in the

Battle of

Kings Mountain

this Monument is erected

by their grateful

Descendants.

Marker can be reached from Kings Mountain Park Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

"The History of the World is the Biography of Great Men"

Carlyle

Hon. Daniel A. Haynes

Educator, Judge of the Superior Court

By Nature and Training a Most Able Jurist

Hon Alvin W. Kumler

A Brilliant Lawyer

An Honest Courageous Judge

Daniel C. Cooper

Platted Dayton 1801

Gave Land for Parks and Public Buildings

A Builder and Official Whose Vision Made ...

Marble Falls School Building

Adam R. Johnson donated land at this site for construction of the present two-story granite building. Completed in 1891, it originally housed the Marble Falls Alliance University. Near Backbone Creek, east of this main building, a wooden boarding house was ...