De Anza Expedition 1775 – 1776

Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza by decree of Carlos III of Spain led and expedition near this site – The mission being to colonize the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marker is on Second Street, on the right when traveling north. ...

American Troops Withdraw

American troops withdrew

west along Elmwood and

Morris Avenues toward the

Rahway River Bridge at the

Springfield border on

June 7, 1780 after heavy

fighting at the First

Presbyterian Church.

Marker is at the intersection of Caldwell Avenue and Elmwood Avenue, on the right when traveling north on ...

Ray’s Place – Now Raytown

Ray’s Place, oldest community in Taliaferro County, was, in the late 1790’s and early 1800’s, a recreation center on Little River for the “livelier social set” of Washington. It was named for a Ray family from New York who lived ...

St. Peter Claver Catholic Church and School

This African-American parish began in 1888 and was named St. Peter Claver in 1903, in honor of the Patron Saint of Negro Missions. The current school, convent, and rectory were built here after the parish moved from Pio Nono Avenue ...

General von Knyphausen

Lt. General Wilhelm

von Knyphausen led 5000

British and Hessian troops

west on Morris Avenue

on June 7, 1780. His

objective was to destroy

Washington’s army camped

in Morristown.

Marker is at the intersection of Morris Avenue (County Route 82) and Colonial Avenue, on the right when traveling ...

Gen. Andrew Porter

Revolutionary War officer; surveyor of western and northern State boundaries, 1784-87; Surveyor-General, 1809-13. Born near here, 1743; died at Harrisburg, 1813. His home, "Selma," is marked a block distant.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Selma Street, on ...

Post Office Oak

The stump before you is all that is left of a grand old oak tree that was about 270 years old when it died in 1990. The tree, which once stood 80 feet high, was located in the campground used ...

A Changed Landscape

The sketch below, done by a Union soldier, shows the landscape in front of you as it looked in 1863. During the Civil War, this was the rear of Chatham—a functional space unadorned with gardens or architectural finery. Union soldiers ...

American Legion Post 482 War Memorial

This tree is dedicated

as a memorial to our comrades

Phoenixville Post 482

American Legion

Walter Caffrey • Alfred I. Campbell

William E. Carr • Joseph C. Chrisman

Ralph H. Cowell • William Cox

Louis H. Ennis • George ...

Fries Manufacturing and Power Co.

First producer of hydroelectric power in North Carolina, April 20, 1898. Located 3 mi. S.W. at early ferry crossing.

Marker is on U.S. 158, on the right when traveling east.

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