Beechwood Plantation

The Beechwood Plantation house, which formerly stood at this site, was an important Confederate headquarters during the Tullahoma Campaign. It was built for Col. Andrew Erwin, Jr. and family in 1826. The Erwins, who were southern sympathizers, lavishly entertained local ...

Accomac County / Northampton County

[Accomac County side]:

Accomac County

Area 502 Square Miles

The Eastern Shore was first known as the Kingdom of Accomac, for an indian tribe. Accomac was one of the original shires formed in 1634. The name was changed to Northampton in 1643. In ...

A Prehistoric Fort

A Prehistoric Fort consisting of earthen walls accompanied by moats, formerly occupied this site. The walls, three to four feet high, probably were surmounted by palisades which together with the steep river banks, rendered the fort fairly secure from attack ...

Harmony Baptist Church

This church had its origins in a brush arbor as early as 1830 but was formally organized in 1878 with Rev. H. C. Smart as its first pastor and W. H. Cone and R. H. Mixon as its first deacons. ...

Oldest Operating Courthouse in Kansas

1871 - 1872

Marker is at the intersection of Pearl Street and Broadway, on the right when traveling east on Pearl Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Captain William Plunkett Harris

Early Texas Entrepreneur and Pioneer Settler

New York native William Plunkett Harris (1797-1843) ran a steamboat line in partnership with Robert Wilson before moving to Texas in 1830. At Harrisburg, founded by his brother John Richardson Harris (d. 1829), for whom ...

Conrad Ehrhardt Railroad Park

Conrad Ehrhardt was born in Weiterade Kuhrhessen Germany on December 13, 1832 and left home at the age of 19 to come to America. He came with only 25 cents in his pocket and skills that he aquired from the ...

These Citizens by Subscribing for the Park Stock in 1860

Enabled the city to purchase

Druid Hill

Thomas Swann, Mayor

George S. Brown, Chauncey Brooks, Benjamin Deford, John S. Gittings, William E. Hooper, John H. B. Latrobe, Columbus O'Donnell, John M. Orem, Enoch Pratt, Thomas Winans

Park Commission

1860Thomas Swann, ...

Candler Hospital

Georgia's first hospital, Candler is the

second oldest continuously operating

hospital in the United States. Its history

began in the 1730s when Methodist

missionary George Whitfield brought

medicines to treat sick seamen and

the poor. Chartered in 1804 as a

seaman's hospital and poor house, ...

Prehistoric Indian Campsite

In this vicinity are the remains of a prehistoric Indian refuse pile, comprised mainly of clam shells. Archeologists call such sites "shell middens." They are the result of centuries of shellfish harvesting by early Indian groups. Shells found at this ...