Richmond Pearson

1805-1878

Chief Justice of State Supreme Court, 1859-78. Conducted law school at Richmond Hill, his home, located 5 mi. NW.

Marker is at the intersection of North Carolina Route 67 and Nebo/Smithtown Road, on the left when traveling west on State Route ...

Philadelphia United Methodist Church

In 1839, Philadelphia Sunday School Society was organized and a house of warship was built on a tract of land on Lick Creek donated by the Turner family. Joel Chandler Harris, while he lived in Turnworld Plantation, attended this church ...

Civil War Camp to Victorian Neighborhood

City within a City

The Shaw neighborhood and the Greater U Street Historic District are rich in African American and Civil War history. They are the ideal place for the African American Civil War Memorial now located on this Metro ...

Riverfront Park

Harrisburg's distinction of having one of the most beautiful inland waterfronts in America is attributed to the growth and conservation of Riverfront Park. Through the foresight of John Harris, Jr., the founder of Harrisburg, 6.2 linear acres along the Susquehanna ...

The Palisades Interstate Parkway Scenic Byway Corridor

It Began with a Boom

Just over a century ago, more than a thousand cubic yards of the Palisades Cliffs were being blasted away every day for a growing New York in need of roads and foundations. The constant explosions could ...

Dauphin County Courthouse

Dauphin County's third and present courthouse since the 1785 creation of the County was completed in 1943 at this, the traditional and most prominent entrance to the City of Harrisburg. It replaced the second Courthouse, erected in 1860, which stood ...

Dauphin County

Formed March 4, 1785 from part of Lancaster County. The name honors the eldest son of the French King Louis XVI. Harrisburg, the county seat, was laid out in 1785 and chartered a city in 1860. Since 1812 it has ...

Camp Harris

Here was one of the earlier training camps of the Condederacy. Units traing here included the 1st Tenn. Infantry (Maney) and 17th Tenn. Infantry (Newman). The area, covering the former mill settlement of Allisonia, was heavily fortified to protect highway ...

Post War, 1946 to 1955

Peacetime Changes Tahoe City

A peacetime boom came to Tahoe City. New businesses flourished. Life was changing in ways unimaginable. From the old Tahoe Tavern Winter Sports Grounds, a retired Norwegian sea captain, Kjell “Rusty” Rustad, created a small family-style ski ...

Magnolia Plantation

Fountainhead of the Drayton family, which

played so important a part in America's

Colonial, Revolutionary, and Independence

history. Its original plantation house, credited

by contemporary historians as having been

the earliest in the Carolina colony, along

with its famous garden, ...