Joseph T. Rothrock

Conservationist, father of the State Forest idea in Pennsylvania, lived in this house from 1876 until his death in 1922. He pioneered in the development of forest fire control, reforestation, and scientific forestry.

Marker is at the intersection of N. ...

Gettysburg Campaign

Farthest advance of a body of Confederate troops toward Harrisburg. Southern units under General A. G. Jenkins of Ewell's Corps reached Oyster Point on June 28, 1863. On the next day defending militia faced them here in a skirmish in ...

Lieutenant William P. Mangum

of the 6th North Carolina, son of Senator Mangum was mortally wounded here on July 21, 1861.

Marker can be reached from Sudley Road (State Road 234) 0.7 miles south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north. ...

Thespian Hall

Thespian Hall, believed to be one of the oldest surviving theaters west of the Allegheny Mountains, brought culture to the frontier town of Boonville. In 1838 sixty leading citizens founded an all-male dramatic group called the Thespian Society. The Society ...

Capture of Union Troops

This marks defence works

where three companies of

Union soldiers were taken

prisoner when Confederates

captured Boonville

Oct. 16, 1864

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 40) and Vine Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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Uzal Knapp

The last of the Life Guards

Born 1759, Died 1856

Monmouth, Valley Forge, Yorktown

(Back of monument)

Erected by the Newburgh Guards

Company F.

19th Regiment N.Y.S.M.

June 1860

Marker can be reached from Washington Street, on the right when traveling east.

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Philadelphia Presbyterian Church

(Front):

First Presbyterian Church in Pike County

Organized largely by members of Beaver Creek Presbyterian Church near Camden, South Carolina.

The petitioned Presbytery of South Alabama Oct. 18, 1839 and were officially established as a church April 3, 1840.

Church ...

Wade Hampton

of South Carolina was wounded here on July 21, 1861.

Battle of First Manassas

(Bull Run)

Marker can be reached from Sudley Road (State Road 234) 0.4 miles south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north.

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New Era Missionary Baptist Church

Organized ca. 1886, this African American church is the oldest continuous congregation in Gautier. Twice destroyed by fire, the church was rebuilt at its present site in 1893. The New Era Missionary Baptist Church choir sang at the 1936 inauguration ...

Salem Baptist Church

Pike County's oldest church

Organized by Dr. C.T. Mahoney

Since 1824 it has enriched

the life of this section

Here were organized:

Salem Baptist Association, 1839

Baptist General Assoc., 1868

Ladies Aid Society, 1891

Salem-Troy Baptist Assoc., 1904

Women's Missionary Society, 1905

First a log structure, the church had occupied ...