Park Founders

Guilford Courthouse NMP

Nearby monuments commemorate park founders David Schenck and Joseph M. Morehead. Appalled at the neglect of the battlefield in the 1880s, Schenck directed the purchase of historic land and incorporated the Guilford Battle Ground Company to preserve the ...

First Security Branch of Wells Fargo

Oldest continuously operated banking site in Utah

This site, the northeast corner of First South and Main (formerly East Temple Street), was first occupied in the 1850s by an adobe building housing the Hooper & Eldridge bank. This bank was succeeded ...

The Battle of Hatcher’s Run

Fighting Around Dabney’s Sawmill, February 6-7, 1865

On February 6, the Union forces pressed onward towards the South Side Railroad. Around 1 p.m., Major General Gouverneur K. Warren’s Fifth Corps sent out two divisions under the leadership of Major General Samuel ...

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

Old Folks Day was inaugurated in Salt Lake City in 1875, by Charles R. Savage, assisted by Edward Hunter, presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and George Goddard, since which time all persons seventy or ...

Reserve Officers Association of the United States

At this site on the 2nd of October 1922

General of the Armies

John J. Pershing

met with 140 World War I

reserve officers and founded the

Reserve Officers Association of the United States.

At the meeting General Pershing said:

"I consider this gathering perhaps one ...

The Ford Airport and Ford Tri-Motor

The Ford Airport

At this airport, built by Henry Ford in 1924, world and national history was made, ushering in a new era of flight embracing the all-metal airliner, radio control devices, air mail, scheduled flights, and the airline services ...

Site of James Burke’s Garden

Burke’s Garden is named for James Burke who

surveyed the region with James Patton by

1750. According to tradition, Burke buried

some potato peelings in the region’s fertile

soil during a survey expedition. Sometime

later another group camped at the same site

and discovered the potatoes, ...

The Battle of Hatcher’s Run

Fighting Around Dabney’s Sawmill, February 6-7, 1865

On February 6, the Union forces pressed onward towards the South Side Railroad. Around 1 p.m., Major General Gouverneur K. Warren’s Fifth Corps sent out two divisions under the leadership of Major General Samuel ...

Chester Fire Department

Roll of Honor

In appreciation of loyal service

rendered in the World War

Franklin Fire Company

Hanley Hose Company

Moyamensing Hook & Ladder Company

Good Will Fire Company

Felton Fire Company

Marker is on Ave. of the States, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Village of Chairville

A chair parts factory

and a sawmill operated

here from 1845 to 1890.

Chairville’s one-room

school served children

in the area until 1900.

Marker is at the intersection of Chairville Road and Marlton Pike (New Jersey Route 70), on the left when traveling north on Chairville ...