Forbes Camp

Near here was located Shawnee Cabins camp. Used by Gen. Forbes army in the campaign of 1758 against the French at Fort Duquesne in present Pittsburgh.

Marker is on Lincoln Highway (U.S. 30) 0.2 miles west of Market Street (Pennsylvania Route ...

Stingray Point

Eight miles east, where the Rappahannock River joins Chesapeake Bay. Near there, in June, 1608, Captain John Smith, the explorer, was hurt by a stingray while fishing in the river. The point took its name from this incident.

Marker is at ...

Transportation Through the Ages

1900–1930’s

Roads were only paths made by walking and from the passage of wagons and buggies. When the first cars came into the area, the roads were “pot-hole after pot-hole.” Sam Bonham told of riding his motorcycle around 1918 to Knoxville, ...

World War II POW Camp

(Front text)

German prisoners of war were held in a camp on this site from September 1943 to the spring of 1946. This camp, one of 21 in S.C., was a sub-camp of Fort Jackson, in Columbia. 250 prisoners captured ...

Stingray Point

Capt. John Smith led two exploratory voyages in Chesapeake Bay during the summer of 1608. His boat ran aground at the mouth of the Rappahannock River three miles east, on 17 July. While awaiting high tide to float the vessel, ...

St. Stephen’s Missionary Baptist Church

Organized in 1887, this congregation first met in a small wooden building near this site. The Rev. Stephens Smith served as first pastor of the church, which served residents of the Waters Park, Round Rock, and Pflugerville communities. Land for ...

Pascagoula Fire Fighters

On this site on April 17, 1952, Pascagoula's newest and most modern fire truck, on its way to an emergency call collided with and was destroyed by a train called "The Hummingbird". Assistant Chief Klein Thornton, Firefighter DeWitt Monroe, and ...

Port of Matamoros

The Port of Matamoros was established in 1824. Commercial cargo, shipped mainly from New Orleans and other U.S. ports, was unloaded at the Port and transported overland to Matamoros, Reynosa, Camargo, Monterrey, and Mier. Mexico maintained a garrison and at ...

Pennsylvania

Mourns her known

and unknown dead, peacefully

sleeping here, who gave up their

lives that the nation they loved

so dearly should not

"perish from off the earth."

Marker is on National Avenue (Business State Highway 7), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ramsey, Steele, Porter, Steele

This is a four sided marker honoring notable men from the area.

Side 1

Dr. David Ramsey

Historian - Surgeon - Patriot

Born 1 mile S.W - 1749

Continental Army surgeon

Friend of Washington

Constructive leader of Congress

Talented man of letters

The father of American History

He is best ...