34th Bomb Group (Heavy)

Valor To Victory

To the American airmen of the 34th who in valor gave their lives to the victory that made real the challenge for world peace and unity.

The 34th Heavy Bombardment Group, a unit of the United States Air Force ...

91st Bomb Group (H)

Always Remembered

322 Sqdn. • 323 Sqdn. • 324 Sqdn.

401 Sqdn.

and supporting units

441st Sub Depot • 243 Med. Disp. (AVN)

1st Station Comp. • 39 ABGp. Hq. & Hq.

1996 Ordnance • 2024 Eng. FF.

1204 QM • 206 Finance

863 CWS • 18 Weather

556 ...

South Carolina Champion Oak

The live oak between houses 513 and 515 Prince Street is registered with The American Forestry Associates as a State Champion – South Carolina. In 1940 the tree was estimated to be over 500 years old, and it measured 23 ...

Purple Heart Memorial

Combat Wounded Veterans

Dedicated to all men and women wounded in all our wars.

1782 The Military Order of the Purple Heart 1932

My stone is red for the blood they shed.

The medal I bear is my country’s way ...

Ophir Grade

Built in 1860 by the Ophir Mining Company to facilitate the hauling of ore to the mills in the Washoe Valley, it was operated as a toll road until 1871 when its popularity declined due to the completion of the ...

Coppahaunk Springs

A Nottoway Indian town was located two miles south at the springs when the English settlement was established at Jamestown in 1607. The Nottoways gave the three springs the name, Coppahaunk, meaning "good health or healing waters." About 1825, Coppahaunk ...

Battle at Point of Rocks

This [railroad] company was met by the most decided and inveterate opposition, on the part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Philip E. Thomas, President, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

The proximity of railroad tracks by the canal belies the intense ...

McPherson Cemetery

Named for Major General James B. McPherson, buried here July 29, 1864. Here also are graves of George Burton Meek, U.S.N., first American serviceman killed in the War with Spain; Congressional Medal of Honor recipients Charles H. McCleary, Civil War, ...

The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Founded May 1, 1848 at Jefferson College by Daniel Webster Crofts

James Elliott

Naaman Fletcher

Ellis Bailey Gregg

John Templeton McCarty

Samuel Beatty Wilson

Fortiter

Fideliter

Feliciter

Marker is on South College Street (U.S. 19) south of East Beau Street (Pennsylvania Route 136), on the left when ...

Miles B. Carpenter

Miles B. Carpenter (1889-1985) moved to a Sussex County peanut farm from Pennsylvania in 1902. He entered the lumber business in 1912 with a planing mill and sawmill. When business slowed during World War II, he whittled figures but did ...