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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OKX_the-white-mills-community-trail_Hawley-PA.html
Eugene A. Dorflinger Sr., Christian Dorflinger's cousin who had also emigrated from Alsace, established a general store in White Mills in 1869. The family home was behind the store on Charles Street across from the St. Charles Hotel. Eugene's prop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OKS_history-of-hawley_Hawley-PA.html
In the late 18th century, pioneers moving west through the woodlands of Northeastern Pennsylvania found a place where three streams converged. They settled here and built a sawmill, eventually rafting lumber down the Lackawaxen and Delaware Rivers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OII_lincoln-nomination_Honesdale-PA.html
In May, 1859, Horace Greeley met with notable political leaders to create a boom to nominate Abraham Lincoln for President. The events that ensued at the Republican National Convention in Chicago paralleled the strategy planned at the parley held …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OIH_delaware-hudson-canal_Honesdale-PA.html
Terminus of the waterway uniting the Hudson and Delaware rivers. Built in 1825-28. A gravity railroad feeder reached to Carbondale. For 70 years the anthracite trade outlet for the region.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OIG_wayne-county_Honesdale-PA.html
Formed on March 21, 1798, from Northampton County. Named for Gen. Anthony Wayne. Site of test run of Stourbridge Lion, first locomotive in U.S. to run on a commercial track. Honesdale, county seat, incorporated 1831, was western terminus of D & H …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OIE_dorflinger-glass-works_Hawley-PA.html
Founded in 1865 by Christian Dorflinger on this site. Glass was made and cut here until 1921. Noted for the quality of Flint Glass, Dorflinger supplied the White House with sets of tableware through a number of administrations.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OID_the-white-mills-community-trail_Hawley-PA.html
The earliest fire protection in White Mills was likely informal bucket brigades—-neighbors pitching to help when needed. The Dorflinger Guards, a group dating back to the early days in Brooklyn, was a security force whose members probably pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OI2_wayne-county-civil-war-monument_Honesdale-PA.html
1869.
This monument was erected
by the
Ladies Monumental Association
of
Wayne County,
to the memory of our dead
who fell,
"That government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,
should not perish from the earth."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OHY_stourbridge-lion_Honesdale-PA.html
A replica of the famous Stourbridge Lion, first locomotive run on rails in the U.S., 1829, is housed here. Beside it is the Eclipse, original passenger coach on the D & H Gravity Railroad.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OHX_stourbridge-lion_Honesdale-PA.html
Here began the trial run of the first locomotive operated by steam on rails in the U.S., Aug. 8, 1829. The Lion was English-built for use on levels of the Gravity Railroad. It was piloted by Horatio Allen.