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Otto Reinke Building

Erected 1879, three years after Round Rock expansion began at railroad’s arrival.

Some successive tenants included stores, physician, restaurants. After it was gutted by fire in 1963, architect Martin S. Kermacy and wife, Evelyn, built a modern interior within the Victorian ...

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Historic Burlington County Prison Museum

1811-1865

The Burlington County Prison Museum is a National Historical Landmark located here in the heart of historic Mount Holly, New Jersey.

Designed by Robert Mills, one of America's first native-born and trained architects, the Burlington County Prison was completed in 1811.

As ...

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Mount Battie Memorial Tower

In grateful recognition

of the service rendered by

the men and women of Camden

in

the World War

1914 — 1918

the Mount Battie Association

has erected this tower

for an enduring memorial

1921

Marker can be reached from Mount Battie Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Banneker Circle: Vista to the Past

River Farms to Urban Towers

This high ground serves as a monument to Benjamin Banneker, a free African American who charted the stars for the first survey of Washington, DC. Banneker was 60 years old when he hired on to ...

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Liberty Pole

The Liberty Pole erected here in 1766 to celebrate repeal of Stamp Act has been replaced several times. Present one, 1964.

Marker is at the intersection of West Palisade Avenue (County Route 505) and Lafayette Avenue, on the left when traveling ...

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Liberty Pole

The Liberty Pole erected here in 1766 to celebrate repeal of Stamp Act has been replaced several times. Present one, 1964.

Marker is at the intersection of West Palisade Avenue (County Route 505) and Lafayette Avenue, on the left when traveling ...

Dred Wimberly

Former slave. Voted for better roads, schools, and colleges as State representative, 1879, 1887; and State senator, 1889. His home stands here.

Marker is on North Raleigh Street (U.S. 64) near Wake Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Brookside Chapel

Built in 1860 on Palisade Avenue as “The Englewood Presbyterian Church”, it was the first church established in the city. A new, larger church was built on the original site and the old building was taken down, stone by stone, ...

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John G. Benson House

Built c. 1800 by John G. Benson, a farmer, and from 1794 to 1797, a captain in the militia. This house, an example of post-Revolutionary War Dutch Colonial architecture, was built on property confiscated by New Jersey from the Reverend ...

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Gettysburg Campaign

The Battle of Boonsboro

Two U.S. Cavalry divisions repulsed five rebel cavalry brigades in a day-long fight north of Boonsboro on July 8, 1863. The South Mountain passes remained open to the Federal Army in pursuit of the Confederates retreating ...

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