Market Square San Antonio

“Market Square”, three city blocks bounded by Dolorosa, Santa Rosa and West Commerce Streets is a revitalized commercial area in downtown San Antonio. The historic center of commerce in the city, since it moved to its current location in the ...

Union Square - Hollins Market Historic District

Begun during the influx of English, Irish and German immigration of the 1830s, the Union Square-Hollins Market Historic District is a dense area of rowhouses that includes Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate architectural styles. To the west, Union Square Park ...

Old Market Square

Appomattox Point & the Indian Trade

In the 1600s, just north of the present day market, the Appomattox River took a sharp turn around a horn of land known as Appomattox Point. The Quaker Indian traders Robert Hix and John Evans ...

Market House Square

Walking Tour Stop 7

In their 1751 plan for Carlisle, the Penn family designated a portion of the Square to be used as a market. From 1751 until 1952 a market was held on this spot.

Markets were held twice a week, ...

Market Square’s Main Gate Fountain

This historic fountain was originally erected near the turn of the century at the “edge of town” known as the Five Corners: Government, Douglas, Gorge and Hillside Streets.

The three-level fountain provided water for parched travellers [sic] and their thirsty horses, ...

Market Space: Yesterday’s Town Square

Civil War to Civil Rights

“Hay for the horses, produce for the table, live chickens for the pot, and a hat for your head.”

All this and more could be had right here during the Civil War. The triangular area ...

Market Square

Market Square

was the center of the British line in

The Battle of Germantown

October 4, 1777.

Here the artillery was parked.

The left wing, under Lt. Gen. Knyphausen,

extended along School House Lane to Ridge Road,

comprising the commands ...

Market Square (Marktplatz)

This Square, originally a two-block area which included what is now called the Courthouse Square, has been at the center of Fredericksburg since the city's founding in 1846. The area was still heavily forested when the town's Vereins Kirche was ...

The Market Square Walkway

The David R. and Susan S. Goode Railwalk

Above you is the Market Square Walkway, built to connect the Hotel Roanoke with downtown Roanoke, crossing the railroad in safety and comfort. There are two observation platforms to watch rail traffic here. ...

Market Square

Here is situated the nationally renowned historic and contemporary urban hub of the City of Harrisburg and the Greater Harrisburg Metropolitan Area. Laid out as the center focus of John Harris, Jr.'s plan in 1785 when Harrisburg was a launching ...