Jail Flats

Because of the often soggy conditions that discouraged use as either residential or commercial property, the area of Headwaters Park became known as the Jail Flats. The first jail in Allen County was a two-story hewn-log structure that was enclosed ...

Daniel Kaufman

An Underground Railroad agent from 1835 to 1847, when he was sued by a Maryland slave owner. He was ultimately fined $4,000 in 1852, in a case that drew wide attention. Kaufman had provided food and transportation to fugitive slaves ...

First State Bank of Girard

First Brick Bldg.

in Crawford Co.

Erected by Franklin Playter

1870

Owned by

state's first woman banker

Sarah A. Haldeman

1905 - 1915

First home of

Mr. and Mrs. E Haldeman-Julius

1915 - 1918

Marker is on Prairie Street near Summit Street (Kansas Route 7), on the right when traveling east. ...

In Honor of the Students of

Wellford-Lyman-Tucapau High School

Who served in the Armed Forces

of there Country in World War II

and in loving memory of those who gave their lives

1941-1945

In Memoriam

James Redmond Barry • Lethco Augustus Groce, Jr.•

Lee Earl Brown Daniel Carey Morgan

Ellis Perry Bruce • Thomas ...

Simpson Ferry Road

Built about 1792. It extended from Michael Simpson's ferry on the Susquehanna to Carlisle, following, at this point, a course later known as Simpson St. Used by many persons traveling to western part of state.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Milford

Town laid out by Joseph Oliver 1787.

Village was located on tract then called

“Saw-Mill Range.” Named Milford from

fording place near mill-dam erected

by Rev. Sydenham Thorne across Mispillion

Creek, 1787. First incorporated 1807. Old

town in Kent County, new ...

Site of the Surrender of Columbia, SC

Erected

Feb. 17, 1914

by

Wade Hampton Chapter, U.D.C.

On the spot where

Mayor T.J. Goodwyn

surrendered the city of Columbia

to

Gen. W.T. Sherman

Feb. 17, 1865

Councilmen

O.Z. Bates • Samuel Leapheart

John Stork • John McKenzie

W.B. Stanley • Clark Waring

Marker is at the intersection of River Drive and Beaufort ...

Irving Female College

Site of the College that was chartered in 1857, and named for Washington Irving, a trustee. First women's college in Pennsylvania to grant degrees in arts and sciences. It closed in 1929.

Marker is on E, Main Street just from Filbert ...

Northern Defense Lines

After the English burned St. Augustine in 1702, the Spanish built earthworks beyond the fort for defense against attack. Water and marsh protected the other sides.

English raiders were stopped in 1728 at the Hornwork, a half mile north of here.

Marker ...

University of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. The cornerstone of its first building was laid on October 6, 1817, in the presence of three presidents of the United States—Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. In 1825, the university admitted its ...