Bethesda Baptist Church

When Bethesda Baptist Church was organized in 1785, it was known as Whatley’s Mill Church, and was in Wilkes County before it was added to Greene in 1802. When the present building was erected in 1818, the name was changed ...

Passenger Pigeon

Across Lake Marburg on the northern horizon lie the Pigeon Hills, once inhabited by thousands of passenger pigeons. The monument at the top of the knoll replaces the original Boy Scout Memorial erected in the Pigeon Hills in 1947. The ...

The abrupt end of Fort Miles

The Army started dismantling Fort Miles before it was even finished – not in the face of enemy invasion but because advances in warfare made it instantly obsolete. In fact, as early as 1943, construction of the entire nationwide Harbor ...

Curt Richter, Ph. D.

1894-1988

Discoverer of biorhythms / the biological clock. Head of Johns Hopkins psychobiology laboratory.

Garry Moore

1915-1993

***

Host of 1950s and 1960s

television variety shows.

Marker is on West Lafayette Avenue near Bolton Street, on the right when traveling ...

Harrisburg State Hospital

The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State's treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this ...

Pisgah United Methodist Church

The Reverend John Kobler preached the first sermon by a Methodist in Tazewell County here in 1793 and received eleven members into the church. The church building, constructed on a parcel of land donated by Thomas Peery, was the first ...

The South Church / An Teampall Theas

At one time a church consisting of nave and chancel stood on this site. In the 13th century re-edification the west gable was moved back to add over two feet to the nave. The chancel having by this time disappeared, ...

Deep Creek Friends Meeting

[Front:]

Was established by the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends on March 13, 1793. It was the first Monthly Meeting in this area.

[Back:]

Meetings were held as early as 1783. Deep Creek helped establish Hunting Creek, Forbush, ...

51st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

(Front Inscription):

The 51st Regt. P. V.

was organized Sept. 1861

By Col. afterwards,

Maj. Gen. John F. Hartranft

its leader in many battles and in

this charge

Mustered out July 1865

Engaged in 20 battles or minor

combats and numerous skirmishes

Total death roll 214

(Left Inscription):

Omitted.

Private Charles Keyser, Co. ...

91st Pennsylvania Volunteer Regiment

(Hazlett and Weed Memorial)

91.

P.V.V.

Reg.

Position

July 2 ,3, 4, 1863.Erected by the 91 Reg P.V. in memory of Brig. Gen. Weed 3 Brig. 2 Div. 5 A.C. and Lt. Chs. E. Hazlett 5th U.S. Arty. who fell at this spot July ...