John Winthrop: Founder's Memorial

John Winthrop (1588-1649) was an English aristocrat and the only son to a lord. He married numerous times and became a widower. His wife Margaret by all accounts was the love of his life. Altogether, Winthrop had 16 children between ...

Winthrop Glacier

The beauty and grandeur of "Tacoma" was noted frequently by Winthrop on the way up the Puyallup River and across to the White River, where he met some of McClellan's men engaged in the survey of the road. On August ...

Deane Winthrop House

1630 - 1930

In 1637 William Peirce, Captain of the ship "Lion" erected this house which was occupied from 1647 to 1703 by Deane Winthrop, younger son of Governor Winthrop.

Marker is on Shirley Street, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy ...

Governor Winthrop House

1630 - 1930

Site of house erected by Governor Winthrop about 1634 and occupied for a time previous to 1647 by his son Deane who established on the nearby hill a ship signaling station by hoisting a bush to the top ...

John Winthrop

1606 – 1676

Founder of New London

May 6, 1646

Governor of Connecticut

1657, 1659-1676

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The Charter of Connecticut

was procured by him

from King Charles II

April 23, 1662

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To commemorate

his great services

to this commonwealth

the State of Connecticut

erects this monument

A.D. 1905

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Marker is at the intersection of Hempstead Street ...

First Home of Winthrop College

The South Carolina College for Women

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This Chapel of the Columbia Theological

Seminary, at Columbia, South Carolina,

was occupied by the Winthrop Training

School as a classroom for one year.

1886-1887.

The Winthrop Training School was organ-

ized in 1886 by D.B. Johnson, superintend-

ent of the ...

Original Site of Winthrop College

In 1886, chiefly through the efforts of D. B. Johnson, first superintendent of Columbia public schools, Winthrop Training School, later Winthrop College, was started here in a small brick building which had been the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary. In ...

Winthrop

Here at the forks of the rushing Methow, Boston-bred Guy Waring founded Winthrop in 1891. Trappers, prospectors and homesteaders tramped into his frontier store. In '95 Colonel Thomas Hart came through to carve a narrow-gauge wagon road across the Cascades, ...

Boyhood Home of Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling

Dr. Winthrop Smith Sterling (1859-1943) founded Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity on November 13, 1903, at the Metropolitan School of Music in Cincinnati, where he served as dean. The Victorian frame house was built by his parents, ...