Public Market Place

The first public market was established in this Plaza by Governor Mendez de Canzo in 1598. Here, for the first time a standard system of weights and measures was introduced in this country for the protection of the consumer. On ...

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens House

This house was the birthplace of Lucy P. Holcombe Pickens (June 11, 1832 - Aug. 8, 1899), a noted beauty of ante-bellum days and the most famous person born in La Grange. Mrs. Pickens is the only woman whose likeness ...

Home of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

The "Queen of the Confederacy" was born here January 11, 1832. In 1858 she married Francis Pickens, United States Ambassador to Russia and later Governor of South Carolina. During the Civil War, Lucy was the only woman honored by having ...

Original Cobblestone

In front of you lies a remnant of a cobblestone street (also called "pebblestone")constructed about 1800.

Although William Penn, founder of Philadelphia carefully planned the placement of city streets as early as 1681, it was not until 1762 that the ...

This Building

Erected in the post-Revolutionary

period on a part of the land once

known as Archdale's Square, was

occupied the Charleston branch of

the First Bank of the United States

prior to 1800. Acquired in 1833

by the Hebrew Orphan Society, ...

Site of Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Post Marker:

Known as

Old Swack Church

Erected 1844

Builder Jacob Swackhammer

In use until 1896

Small marker on concrete post:

Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church

(Commonly known as the Swack Church)

Built in 1844 - In use until about 1900

Plaque prepared by

Watchung Area Council, B. S. A.

Marker is ...

Battle of Moscow

"The river seemed like running blood"

By late in 1863, the Union army occupying West Tennessee strongly defended the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which ran eastward from Memphis through Moscow. Federal infantry, including the U.S. Colored Troops of the 2nd West ...

Major Peter Bocquet's House

c.1770

Peter Bocquet the younger built this house

shortly after the lot was given to him in July,

1770, by his father Peter Bocquet, senior, a

Huguenot immigrant. The younger Bocquet

became a major in the Revolutionary forces,

a member ...

Public Well

The well was used from 1823 to the early 1880's. The remnants lay buried and forgotten until city of St. Augustine public works employees discovered the well, with assistance from the St. Augustine Archaeological Association, while renovating the historic Plaza ...

Excellent Good Timber

Colonists marvelled at the deep, tall forests of Virginia – then set to clearing them away. The “goodly tall Trees” became firewood, fort walls, house frames, boat planks, barrel staves, industrial fuel, and lumber exports.

Jamestown’s ruins yielded many tools of ...