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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PT_city-founders-cemetery_Pittsville-WI.html
This cemetery is the final resting place of men, women and children who settled Pittsville and the surrounding area. Some tombstones have weathered, some broke; some graves were never marked. Some stones were moved, but time and nature cannot remo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PS_oak-grove-methodist-church_Melfa-VA.html
Two miles east, on Route 600, meets what is possibly the nation's oldest continuous Sunday School. Begun by William Elliott in his home in 1785, it was moved in 1816 to Burton's Chapel and in 1870 to the present church.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PR_the-bear-and-the-cub_Melfa-VA.html
This first play recorded in the United States was presented August 27, 1665. The Accomack County Court at Pungoteague heard charges against three men "for acting a play," ordered inspection of costumes and script, but found the men "not guilty."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PQ_screven-cemetery_Georgetown-SC.html
Here are buried William Screven (1624-1713) and other members of his family. A native of England, he migrated to Kittery, Me., and was persecuted by New England authorities for non-conformity. He and other members of the Kittery Church came to S.C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PP_the-bear-and-the-cub_St-Augustine-VA.html
Probable site of Fowkes' Tavern where this first recorded play in English America was performed August 27, 1665.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PO_177-twine-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
The event that brought the civil rights movement in St. Augustine to international attention was the arrest of Mary Parkman Peabody (1891-1981), the 72-year old mother of the Governor of Massachusetts, for trying to be served in a racially integra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PN_rowsers-ford_Poolesville-MD.html
On June 24, 1863, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, leaving 3,000 cavalrymen in Rectortown, Virginia, to monitor Federal activity, led three Confederate cavalry brigades to Haymarket. Encountering Union Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's corps marching north, Stuart se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PM_accomac-county-northampton-county_Belle-Haven-VA.html
[Accomac County side]:Accomac CountyArea 502 Square MilesThe Eastern Shore was first known as the Kingdom of Accomac, for an indian tribe. Accomac was one of the original shires formed in 1634. The name was changed to Northampton in 1643. In 1663,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PL_occahannock_Belle-Haven-VA.html
Five miles west is "Hedra Cottage", site of the home of Colonel Edmund Scarborough (Scarburgh), surveyor general of the colony. Beyond, at the end of Scarborough's Neck, was the village of the Occahannock Indians, the seat of Debedeavon, the "Laug…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PK_64-washington-street_St-Augustine-FL.html
64 Washington Street was the Florida State Headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during and after the civil rights demonstrations of 1964. SCLC was founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after the successful M…