Restoration and Development

Reedy River Falls Historic Park

The Carolina Foothills Garden Club, beginning in 1967, spearheaded efforts to reclaim the long-neglected site of Greenville's birthplace and to preserve its natural beauty along the banks of the reedy River. The City of Greenville endorsed ...

Elvis Presley and Sun Records / Sun Records

Front

In July 1954 Sun Records released Elvis Presley's first recording. That record, and Elvis' four that followed on the Sun label, changed popular music. Elvis developed an innovative and different sound combining blues, gospel, and country. That quality made Elvis ...

The Bryson Place

John H. Bryson (1850-1930) and his wife Milda (Barton) (1852-1952) had this home constructed on their land in 1906 by local builder Marcus Langford. It is located on a site purchased in 1855 by Milda's uncle Welborn Barton and later ...

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 ...

Pozer Garden

Old Town Fairfax

Pozer Garden honors Kitty Barrett Pozer, who owned the adjacent historic Ratcliffe-Allison House from 1927 until she bequeathed it to the City at her death in 1981. Mrs. Pozer had a lifelong interest in horticulture and was ...

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

Plaza de la Constitución

The oldest public space in America, the plaza was laid out by Spanish Royal Ordinances in 1573. Its Constitution Monument may be the only remaining monument in the Western Hemisphere celebrating the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

The Ordinances specified that ...

Disposal of Land in Plain Township

Side A:

Because three distinct survey methods were used to survey Plain Township lands and are still meaningful, the township can be thought of as a surveyor's museum. The township came into existence by a 1796 act of Congress in ...

Bloody Pond

Here Sept. 8, 1755 (Battle of Lake George) the colonial forces under Lieut. Col. Cole checked the hitherto successful advance of Baron Dieskau and his allies, changing the English rout into ultimate victory. Here likewise on the evening of the ...

Col. Joseph A. Moesch

83rd New York Volunteers

(Front):

In memory

of

Col. Joseph A. Moesch

Killed at

the Wilderness

May 6, 1864

———

Erected by

Surviving Comrades

(Rear):

83rd N.Y. Vol's

———

Ninth Regiment

N.Y.S.M. -- N.G.S.N.Y.

2nd Brig.

2nd Div. 5th Corps.