C. G. Powell People's Store

Town founder Levi Ruggles built a store on this site in 1876. In 1882, it became Peter Will's Brewery. It was demolished for the construction, in 1915, of the C. G. Powell People's Store, a single-story, commercial building. Prominent Phoenix ...

Shadnor Baptist Church

Organized in 1840 as New Hope Baptist Church; named changed to Shadnor, 1853. The original log structure that stood a short distance N. of present one, was a prominent landmark during the foray of Federal forces to cut the West ...

Califon Methodist Episcopal Church

Congregation founded in 1867 in a building moved here

from New Germantown (Oldwick). Present church built in 1891.

Marker is on Raritan River Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hobcaw Shipyards

Shipyards built on Hobcaw Creek included Pritchard’s Shipyard, the largest in colonial South Carolina.

Notable ships launched there were the 180 ton Heart of Oak (1776) and the 200 ton Magna Carta (1770). The South Carolina Navy built and maintained ...

Hobcaw Point Powder Magazine

In 1770, the South Carolina colonial government authorized construction of a powder magazine near the Wando River plantations and Hobcaw Point shipyards. A four-sided earthen embankment with a brick powder magazine and guardhouse stood near here from 1772 to 1783, ...

First Primary School

1878-1879

22 Valley Road

Vernacular/Early Classic Revival Style

This is the second oldest school building still standing in the Township. It was built to meet the needs of a community which almost doubled in population during the 1870's.

Marker is on Valley Road north ...

Hampton (Incorp. Since 1895)

Known for years before 1909 as junction. Central RR of NJ & DL&W railroads met here. Site of extensive machine shops and a huge coal storage facility set up to get nearer the city areas to the east.

Marker is at ...

45 Church Street Plaza

1925

Renaissance Revival Style

This is a corner apartment building with commercial space at street level, buff-colored brick with extensive use of terra cotta for the architectural details.

Marker is on Church Street east of S. Park Street, on the right when traveling ...

Webberville Ebenezer Baptist Church

This church traces its origin to the plight of Anglo American John F. Webber, who along with his African American wife and children, settled in this sparsely populated area of Texas in 1839 to escape the racism they had experienced ...

Hibben House / British Occupation

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Hibben House

A 1777 map shows a house on this property owned by Jacob Motte, Charleston City Treasurer. His 67 acre plantation called Mount Pleasant provided the name for the present town. James Hibben purchased the land in 1803. ...