Eliza R. Snow - Leader of Pioneer Women

Eliza R. Snow

Leader of Pioneer Women

January 21, 1804 - December 5, 1887

O My Father

The immortal poem – hymn, “O My Father” was written by the inspired poetess, Eliza R. Snow, sometime in the Spring of 1845 in the City of ...

College Place Historic District

The land on which this district rests was part of the 1818 sale by the Cypress Land Company which established the City of Florence. During The Civil War Confederate soldiers constructed breastworks here for the defense of Florence. House construction ...

Hull-Rust Mahoning Mine Pit Overlook

Immediately to the north and extending approximately 3½ miles east to west is the open pit known as the Hull-Rust Mahoning Mine, begun in 1895. In fact, over the past 100 years of mining here, more than thirty separate mining ...

Pennsylvania Canal

A State-owned canal system, built 1826-34, to connect Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Lake Erie. The first lock on the canal to be dedicated, March 13, 1827, was "Penn Lock," 150 yards east. It was replaced in 1859 by Locks No. 10 and ...

John Witherspoon

1723 - 1794

Preacher

“One of the most useful qualifications of a good minister is that he have a lively sense of religion upon his own heart.”

John Witherspoon

Born in Gifford, Scotland, in 1723, Witherspoon was educated at the University of ...

Purgatory Hill

Purgatory Hill

Named by the Continental

Army encamped here fall of

1778. Site of great barbecue

celebrating anniversary of

Burgoyne’s defeat – Saratoga

Marker is at the intersection of Quaker Hill Road (County Road 67) and ...

U.S. Colored Troops Grand Review

Excluded from a May 1865 "Grand Review of the Armies" in Wash., DC, U.S. Colored Troops from Penna. and Mass. regiments assembled here at State and Filbert Sts. on Nov. 14, 1865 for a parade honoring their courage during the ...

Trinity Episcopal Church 1894

Episcopal services in Florence began in 1824. Rev. Thomas Armstrong Cook organized Trinity Episcopal Church in 1836. The original building, on the northwest corner of College and Cedar Streets, was consecrated Feb. 23, 1845, by Bishop Nicholas Hamner Cobbs. It ...

The Pennsylvania State Capitol

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission declares The Pennsylvania State Capitol

A Commonwealth Treasure

for all to protect and preserve as a vital architectural and artistic monument to government by and for all Pennsylvanians.

Marker is on Commonwealth 0.1 miles south of North ...

Ruskin College President's Home

Ruskin College opened in 1910 as a coeducational industrial and liberal arts college. It was located on part of a large tract of land purchased by Dr. George McAnelly Miller beginning in 1907 for the purpose of establishing a cooperative ...