The Builders were Human

In 1682, a new engineer found that this bastion had been built 3 feet too low! By 1686, such mistakes were corrected. Labor for the fort included 100 Indians and Spaniards, plus a few convicts and slaves. Indian laborers got ...

Abraham A. Haring House

Built c. 1758

Erected on a 200 acre farm by Abraham A. Haring, a captain in the Bergen County Militia. During the Revolutionary War, Haring was captured by the British and imprisoned in New York City where he died. In 1805 ...

Silver Spring Presbyterian Church

Founder 1734 on land of James Silver by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, earliest settlers of the Cumberland Valley. Present church built in 1783, restored in 1928 to its original style, and still used for worship.

Marker is on Silver Spring Road 0.1 miles ...

Branchburg Veterans Memorial

Main Marker:

In Honor and Memory of all the Men and Women of Branchburg who proudly served our country in the armed forces of the United States of America.

In recognition of the Branchburg Veterans Memorial Committee.

Dedicated November 11, 2000

American Revolution Marker:

Honoring ...

St. Paul's Bastion

Baluarte de San Pablo

You are standing in a "bastion," looking along the "curtain" wall toward another "bastion." The angles are planned to expose attackers to cross fire from several walls.

Marker can be reached from South Castillo Drive (State Highway A1A), ...

Cumberland Valley Railroad

Incorporated in 1831. Completed, Lemoyne to Chambersburg, 1837; eventually, Harrisburg to Virginia. For over 80 years, vital to Valley's economic life; merged into Pennsylvania R.R., 1919. Passenger Station, Stationmaster's House here, built in the 1860's.

Marker is on Strawberry Ave. just ...

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 ...

South Branch School

Erected 1874

Restored by

Branchburg Township

Tercentenary Comm.

J. Fred Baer, Chairman

1964

Marker is at the intersection of South Branch Road and Studdiford Drive, on the left when traveling north on South Branch Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Columbia Cemetery

Site given by Josiah H. Bell family out of their grant, the first deeded to one of "Old 300" in colony of Stephen F. Austin. Has graves of many heroes of Texas Revolution of 1836.

Deeded in 1852 to Bethel ...

Old Dixie Club Library

This antebellum structure once stood on Orangeburg's Public Square. In 1865 it was occupied by Federal troops. From 1924 to 1955 it housed the first public library in Orangeburg County, organized by the Dixie Club, (1896). Given to the Orangeburg ...