Mizzen Top Hotel

Was located on this site from 1880 – 1933. The building was three stories high, faced the west with two hundred feet frontage. It was opened during the summer seasons and accommodated 250 guests. Porches bordered three sides. The spacious ...

Patterson Baptist Church

Patterson 200 Years

Patterson Baptist Church

(The Rock Church)

1790

The Baptist Church

The following material was adapted from notes put together by Reverend James B.M. Frost, March 1993:

Pelletreau’s “History of Putnam County,” written in the 1880s indicates ...

Pennsylvania Canal

The rise of Harrisburg's importance and distinction as one of the major transportation centers in the eastern United States was launched on March 14, 1827, by the laying of the cornerstone at the eastern end of Walnut Street downtown for ...

Lake Ripley

As a boy Ole Evinrude (1877-1934) lived near Cambridge. His father hoped to keep him on the farm and when Ole built a sailboat like he had seen in a picture book his father destroyed it. In a secret place ...

L?pez-Hill House

José and Mary L?pez belonged to the first generation of Americans born in California after statehood was granted on September 9, 1850.

José L?pez came to Kern County to raise sheep in 1873. The following year Edward Beale, owner of the ...

Cornerstone of the Statue of Liberty Pedestal

At this site on August 5, 1884, the cornerstone of the pedestal of the Statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” was laid with ceremony by William A. Brodie, Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York. Grand lodge ...

Aztalan Mound Park

Site of the famous prehistoric Indian stockade-protected village known as Aztalan first described by N.F. Hyer in the Milwaukee Advertiser in January 1837. Described by Dr. Increase A. Lapham, in The Antiquities of Wisconsin in 1855. Explored by the Milwaukee ...

Hopewell, Keowee

Home of General Andrew Pickens

Where in 1765, under Treaty Oak, a conflict with the Indians was signed securing peace for the white settlers in the Upcountry.

Marker can be reached from West Cherry Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Mule Power

“Here at Four Locks mule barn, mules rested during the winter months. Boat captains left their mules here, paying a mule tended to care for them. Often the mules grew thin because the keeper did not feed the mules as ...

Confederate Gun Shop

When the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee grew short of arms in 1863, Governor Shorter of Alabama and President Jefferson Davis persuaded Major O. O. Nelson of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to organize a company to erect a Gun Shop. ...