The Lewis and Clark Expedition

In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana territory. ...

Beverly Public Square

This lot, originally part of the James Westfall plantation, was used as a public playground prior to the chartering of Beverly in 1790. In 1813, country plans were to use this lot as the site for the new jail. Adam ...

Public Parks: Refuge & Recreation for All

High Point State Park

The First Public Park Was an Urban Oasis

When Europeans first arrived in America the land seemed limitless. However, by the late 1800s settlements stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. More people were living in ...

Tannenbaum Historic Park

Parks and Recreation Department

In 1778 Joseph and Hannah Hoskins moved to Guilford County from Chester County, Pennsylvania, and purchased 150 acres of land here from James Ross. During the Battle of Guilford Courthouse on March 15, 1781, the British army ...

Hephzibah Methodist Church

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The Brothersville Methodist Church was organized in March 1852 in the community of Brothersville to serve the fifteen families living there. The building completed in 1853, was dedicated in 1854 by Bishop George Pierce. In 1890 the church was moved ...

First Post Road

The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738–39, passed near this spot.

Marker is on U.S. 17 near the South Carolina line, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wars and Conflicts in White Springs

Although residents living here have always been somewhat insulated, outside influences such as war and conflict have historically influenced the Town of White Springs. The Spanish, French, British, and Americans all fought wars to won the peninsula of Florida. The ...

The Gift of a State Park

High Point State Park

High Point – One of New Jersey’s First State Parks

Like many early parks, High Point was privately owned for many years. During the early 1900s it was the summer estate of Anthony Kuser and his wife, Susie ...

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

(Center Plaque):

Ferdinand Rudolph

Hassler

October 7, 1770 - November 20, 1843The first superintendent of the United States' survey of the coast, founded in 1807, led America's efforts in establishing the geodetic framework for all land measurement and hydrographic surveys of the young ...

American Position

Battle of Cooch's Bridge

On September 3, 1777, an American Light Infantry Corps composed of Continental soldiers from New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, with militia from Pennsylvania and Delaware, was stationed west of Christina Creek between Aikentown (Glasgow) and ...