B. F. Shirley Home

circa 1910

This Queen Anne home was built by Mr. Benjamin Franklin Shirley using a Sears Roebuck house pattern. Features include a nine-room interior, a veranda, and exterior stairs leading to the second floor. Renovations have been made, but the original ...

Les Shirley Park and Cannon Beach

Les Shirley Park, in the city of Cannon Beach, commemorates the arrival of Lewis and Clark’s expedition, the Corp of Discovery, to the Pacific Coast and marks their furthest southern travel along the coast.

While waiting for a trading vessel ...

Shirley

The house a short distance south, Shirley was first occupied in 1613 and was known as West-and-Shirley Hundred. In 1664, Edward Hill patented the place, which was left by the third Edward Hill to his sister, Elizabeth Carter, in 1720. ...

The Shirley House

A Legacy of Service

In 1875, Confederate veteran Christian Shirley constructed this brick house on the site of his family's former home, which had burned two years earlier. The Shirleys were longtime residents of Shenandoah County who had farmed their 153 ...

Shirley Place

James Shirley built this raised cottage in 1838, using Federal and Greek Revival detailing. Constructed of local handmade brick, it was home for him, his wife, Mary Ann Christian Shirley, and his mother, Elizabeth Shirley. James was town surveyor in ...

Fort Shirley

Built 1755-56 by George Croghan. First a stockade and then a major link in the frontier fort chain west of the Susquehanna. Base for the Armstrong expedition, 1756. Site on opposite knoll.

Marker is on Croghan Pike, on the right when ...

The Shirley Cemetery

This small family cemetery is the final resting place of Richard O. (1802-1857) and Susan (1813-1880) Shirley and possibly several of their six children.

Richard Shirley was a farmer and tavern keeper who owned approximately 400 acres of land near Gainesville ...

Fort Shirley

One of the chain of frontier defenses

of the Province of Pennsylvania

in the French and Indian Wars

stood on this knoll,

built 1756

by

its Commander

the noted Indian trader and agent

George Croghan

here in 1753

at the ...