Site of First Ybor City Railroad Station

1887

The station of the Plant System was located here in the early days of this budding tobacco center. During the struggle for Cuban Independence Ybor City became a nest of insurgents. Through this station passed conspirators, spies, and many notable ...

The Route of United States Army Despatch Riders / Confederate So

The Route of United States Army Despatch Riders

who entered Perry County through this pass, known as Sterrett's Gap (originally Croghan's Gap, named for George Croghan, pioneer trader and Indian intepreter), later crossing the Juniata River at Reider's Ferry (now Newport), ...

Portage Path

You are standing on the famous portage, carrying-place between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers. The two streams and the portage across the watershed formed an early route between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. First the Indians, then French and ...

Sheshequin Path

By this path up Lycoming Creek, Conrad Weiser, with Lewis Evans, map-maker, and John Bartram, botanist, traveled to Onondaga in 1743 on a peace mission for Virginia: “To take the hatchet out of the head of the Six Nations.”

Marker is ...

The Pam Callahan Nature Preserve

In tribute to and in memory of Pamela A. Callahan 1947 - 1993

Pam loved all aspects of nature and had a special feeling for these wetlands. She spearheaded a community effort to prevent this site from becoming yet another dense ...

Wyoming-Minisink Path

The highway here follows closely the route of the Delaware Indian trail from Minisink Island to Wyoming. Refugees from the Massacre of Wyoming, 1778, camped by the “boiling” spring, which may be seen in the woods a few yards SW ...

Regulators Hanged

After the Regulators

were defeated at Ala-

mance, May 16, 1771,

six of their number

were hanged, ¼ mile

east, June 19, 1771.

Marker is on S Churton Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Political Meeting at Second Baptist Church

In 1870, African American men in Circleville attempted to vote in municipal elections. Despite the recent ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, pollsters refused their votes on the basis that state law forbade them from receiving the ballots. The Second Baptist ...

Mathews Mill

An Ancient Mill Type

(sidebar)

Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original ...

Civilian Conservation Corps

CCC camps were established as a New Deal relief measure. Camp John Rock, among first, operated here, 1933-36.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 276 and Government Road (Road 475) on U.S. 276.

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