Falling Spring Church

Founded 1734; main part of present church built 1803. One of the Presbyterian churches marking the first great settlement of Scotch-Irish pioneers west of the Susquehanna.

Marker is on US 11 0.1 miles south of Rhodes Drive, on the right when ...

Cat Swamp Hijacking and Murder

In this area, on Cat Swamp Hill in Byram Township, at about 6:00 a.m. on June 14, 1921, the Sussex Print Silk truck was hijacked. Albert Koster drove onto the scene on his motorcycle, was mistaken for a state trooper, ...

Joseph Winters

(c.1816-1916)

African American inventor who secured a U.S. patent for the first fire escape ladder and hose conductor in 1878. In 1879 Winters was issued a second U.S. patent for improvements to the original invention. Winters was active in the Underground ...

Masonic Temple

Built 1823-1824. Oldest Pennsylvania building erected solely for Masonic use and now used exclusively for that purpose. Spared when Confederates burned town on July 30, 1864.

Marker is on S. Second Street near E. Queen Street, on the right when traveling ...

Nathaniel Warner Company Monument

[ upper plaque ]

In Memory of those who fought in the Revolutionary War with the Nathaniel Warner Company and those men and women who helped make this a free and independent nation.

Placed by the reactivated

Nathaniel Warner Company May ...

To The People of Greenwood County

May the 100 Yoshino Cherry trees planted here and at the Greenwood County Civic Center always grow as a symbol of our friendship and commitment to our new home.

Presented in commemoration of the grand opening of

Fuji Photo Film, Inc.

July ...

Valor Park

Dedicated to the United States Air Force

Medal of Honor

Recipients

[Panel 1]

1Lt Edward V. Rickenbacker

25 Sep 18

2Lt Frank Luke, Jr.

29 Sep 18

1Lt Harold E. Goettler

6 Oct 18

2Lt Erwin R. Bleckley

6 Oct 18

LtCol James H. Doolittle

18 Apr 42

Capt Harl Pease, Jr.

7 Aug 42

[Panel ...

Col. Robert Patterson

1753 - 1827

Explorer, surveyor, patriot, statesman, farmer, manufacturer, a leader in education, religion, good government, industry and transportation. Served in the Revolutionary War, the Indian Wars and War of 1812. Founded Lexington, Ky., and built its first house in 1776. ...

Pennsylvania

Founded 1681 by William Penn

as a Quaker Commonwealth.

birthplace of

The Declaration of

Independence

and

The Constitution of

The United States

Marker is on Catoctin Mountain Highway (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Potawatomi Emigration

Trail of Death

Indiana to Kansas 1838

On Oct. 11, 1838, 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Spring near Palmyra on the forced removal from Northern Indiana to Eastern Kansas. They passed through Palmyra at 10 o'clock October 12. That night they ...