The Harris Bus

The race to invent a gasoline-powered motor vehicle began in earnest in the 1890's. Most investors started with the modest idea of a two-seater, but William Thomas Harris, an engineer of this city, was more ambitious. He proposed a 15-passenger ...

Christofer Columbus

The Great Navigator

Whose first act upon landing in the New World, on October 12, 1492 was to give thanks to God for safe deliverance.

Presented to the City of Chester in the year of our Lord 1955 by the Italian-American Associations ...

Mule Barn

In the days before automobiles, armies moved by horse and mule power. Fort Hancock stabled its army mules in this building. The teamsters, or mule skinners who drove the mule teams, lived in the house next door. In later years, ...

Genevieve Blatt (1913 - 1996)

One of the most influential women in Pennsylvania politics in the 20th century. First woman to be elected to a statewide office, Secretary of Internal Affairs, and to be nominated by a major party to run for the U.S. Senate. ...

Edenton Bell Battery C.S.A.

Organized in March 1862 under the leadership of Capt. William Badham Jr., Lt. John M. Jones, and Lt. Nelson McClees, the Edenton Bell Battery was composed of men primarily from Chowan, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties. Lacking adequate artillery, various institutions ...

The Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore

This house was built by Rembrandt Peale in 1814 as a Natural History Museum and Gallery of the Fine Arts. Robert Carey Long was the Architect. Purchased by the City of Baltimore, 1830, Jacob Small being Mayor, it was occupied ...

Lewis-Bingham-Waggoner Estate

About 1856, John Lewis erected this mansion on 22 acres he had owned since 1845. George Caleb Bingham, the famous Missouri genre painter, bought the farm in 1864 and lived here until 1870. W.H. Waggoner, mill owner, bought it in ...

Fire House Number 1

Fort Hancock’s first fire station was manned by enlisted soldiers who were the post’s firefighters. The tower at the rear of the building was used for drying hoses. Today this is the National Park Service Sandy Hook fire fighting station.

Fort ...

Peale's Baltimore Museum

A pioneer art historical and scientific museum.

Erected 1818 by Rembrandt Peale.

Gas lighting demonstrated june 13 1816.

Occupied as city hall 1830-1875.

Rembrandt Peale

1778-1860

Distinguished Maryland artist, naturalist and technologist founded the first gas company in America June ...

Bryson College Memorial

Living Water

In gratitude for the lasting benefits Bryson College provided for so many students, her Alumni and Friends have provided this Memorial Fountain to perpetuate the "Associate Reformed Presbyterian College in the West." This fountain is dedicated in memory of ...