Captain Roger Gordon

In 1732 Roger Gordon led 40 Scotch Irish to found Williamsburg Township, (Kingstree), one of 11 inland sites granted by the Provincial Governor in King George’s plan to develop a successful English colony in South Carolina. In 1738 the town ...

Joseph Bryan Park

Before becoming a park, this property was part of the Young family's Westbrook estate in the 1700s and later Rosewood, home of the Mordecai family. It was a gathering place for participants in Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800. During the Civil ...

The Voyage of Captain George Waymouth

To commemorate the voyage of

Captain George Waymouth

to the Coast of Maine

in 1605

His discovery and exploration of the

St. Georges River

and planting a Cross on the

northerly shore of this harbor

where the river "trended westward"

The earliest known claim of

right of possession by Englishmen

on ...

The P.M. & M. Railroad

From 1881 to 1931 this former

railroad station served the

12-mile line to Haddonfield.

Milk, produce, passengers

and mail were carried until

the era of cars and trucks.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (County Route 541) ...

Spring Park

Healing Waters

The earliest record of the property shows that Samuel Williamson owned the 400 acre tract in 1796. His son, Dabney, who inherited the property, owned a slave by the name Lewis who participated in Gabriel’s Rebellion in 1800. Lewis ...

18th Pennsylvania Calvary

1st Brigade 3d Division

(front):18th Pennsylvania Calvary

1st Brigade 3d Division

Calvary Corps

Army of the Potomac

(rear):

The regiment participated in the cavalry fights at Hanover June 30th and Hunterstown July 2nd 1863. On July 3d occupied this position and in the afternoon charged with ...

100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

2nd Brigade 1st Division

9th Corps

Location 495 yards north

79 degrees west

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Casualties at Antietam

Wounded 7

Missing 1

Total 8

Recruited in Lawrence Washington

Butler Beaver Mercer

and Westmoreland Counties

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Battles Participated in

Coosaw - Secessionville

Legareville - Second Bull Run

Chantilly

South Mountain

Antietam - Wilderness

Fredericksburg - Spotsylvania

Vicksburg - North Anna

Jackson - Cold ...

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

This church was built in 1875.

Dr. A. E. Scheibner had his

office here from 1969 until 1992.

In 2000 it was converted by his

daughter into her own

restored historic home.

Marker is at the intersection of Union Street and Allen Avenue, on the right ...

William Penn

1644 - 1718

First lodged in America

in "Essex House" on this site

October 28, 1682

the guest of

Robert Wade

Here the earliest Quaker settler

on this side Delaware River, 1676,

purchaser of the property,

then called "Printzdorp,"

from ...

A Private School House

Built by Brigham Young for his own children stood on this corner lot 1860-1903 This early school was directed by Eli B. Kelsey, who in soliciting additional students announced in the Deseret News, December 12, 1860, as follows:

“President Young ...