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Jekyll Island Club Wharf

Here anchored the most luxurious pleasure craft in the world during the existence of the Jekyll Island Club, 1886-1942.

No other yacht was comparable to John Pierpont Morgan's several Corsairs. Corsair II, too large to dock, anchored in the channel. Morgan ...

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In Memory of Benjamin R. Hanby

In memory of Benjamin R. Hanby (Otterbein College Class of 1858) whose Christmas song, “Up on the House Top” was first given to the world December, 1864.

Marker is on South Grove Street south of West College Avenue, on the left ...

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Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Community efforts in the 1950s and 60s preserved this Gothic and Second Empire style house, one of the earliest recognized for its Victorian period architecture. The surrounding Tulpehocken Station historic district was among the nation’s first railroad suburbs.

Marker is ...

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108th Machine Gun Battalion

1918

108th Machine Gun Battalion

Chapagne Marne

Aisne Marne

Oise Aisne

Meuse Argone

Marker is on Boalsburg Pike 0.1 miles north of Boal Avenue (U.S. 322), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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103rd Medical Battalion and Regiment

103rd Medical

Battalion and Regiment

28th Infantry Division

Marker is on Boalsburg Pike 0.1 miles north of Boal Avenue (U.S. 322), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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The Home of Benjamin R. Hanby

Here Hanby composed the famous ballad “Darling Nellie Gray.” Visitors welcome.

Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Bowl, Pot, and Pipe

By 1640, Jamestown potters were making thick-walled jugs, bowls, and pots for everyday use. Symmetrical design and an occasional slip-coat of color show that skilled artisans were at work. The local ware fired red, due to the iron-rich Tidewater clay. ...

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Barry

This agricultural community was named for Corsicana businessman Bryan T. Barry, who developed the land deeded for the townsite by early settlers Dave and Effie Wright. The Barry Post Office was established in 1886, the same year the St. Louis, ...

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King's Bridge

Dec. 1864. After a 300 mile march which had left a wide belt of destruction from "Atlanta to the Sea," Gen. Sherman's army (USA) of about 60,000 men was nearing Savannah. During he first weeks of his campaign, his four ...

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Bell #8

"The Eloise Chimes"

This bell was part of a set of 11 chimes originally designed for a Methodist Church in Pennsylvania. Lincoln Hulley, Stetson University's second president, acquired the bells in 1915 and they were mounted in the cupola of ...

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