Harrisburg Hospital

Harrisburg Hospital, the city's first public hospital, opened in the former South Ward School building in 1873, beginning a course that today makes Harrisburg a major health and research center. The school faced Mulberry Street (now vacated) which paralleled the ...

Kanawha Division, Ninth Corps

U.S.A.

Kanawha Division, Ninth Corps.

Col. E.P. Scammon, 23d Ohio Infantry, Commanding.

September 16-17, 1862.

On the evening of September 16th the Kanawha Division was on the ridge east of the Antietam; Crook's Brigade north of the Burnside Bridge, Ewing's Brigade southeast of it. ...

Pleasant Green Ward

Settlers came to this part of the valley around 1850 to farm and stock range. It was known as Pleasant Green and was part of the Brighton Ward of the Salt Lake Stake.

Traveling so far to meetings presented a ...

President's House

In August 1905, the Fort Omaha post was reestablished with a new mission. The War Department designated Fort Omaha as a place of instruction for the technical duties in connection with the Signal Corps of the Army. With this change, ...

McClellan’s Picket Line

The picket line of McClellan’s

army crossed the road here

on the morning of May 31, 1862.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Pioneer Telegraph Office

At this location on October 18 1861 stood the telegraph pole, shown on above plaque, on which telegraph wires were joined which spanned a continent and united two oceans.

On that date the first two telegrams transmitted were as follows: ...

Rock Hill Buggy Company / Anderson Motor Company

Rock Hill Buggy Company

In 1886 A.D. Holler, who had long owned a wagon and buggy shop in Rock Hill, founded Holler and Anderson Buggy Company with his son-in-law John Gary Anderson (1861-1937). Anderson built a factory here in 1892, with ...

Masonic Temple Building

1910

The Masonic Temple Building was dedicated on April 15, 1910 and still serves as the home of Eden Lodge #113 of the Freemasons. The Eden Lodge was instituted in San Leandro in 1857, the first fraternal order established here. This ...

Cold Spring Road

Side A

In 1836, surveyors working for the U.S. General Land Office measured out the 6x6 mile grid of the future Town of Greenfield. Arterial roads and streets were later built at half-mile intervals following that pattern. In the ...

Robert M. Bell Parkway

Named in 1985 by action

of the Aiken County

Legislative Delegation

and Highway Commission

in recognition of an

outstanding citizen and

his many contributions

to the life and well being

of his county, district.

and state

2nd District member,

S.C. State Highways and

Public Transportation

Commission

1982 - 1986

Marker is ...