Search Markers

Conyngham, PA · est. 1933

In September 1780, as the Revolutionary War flared along the Pennsylvania frontier, a detachment of Northampton County militia paused to rest at a spring near Sugarloaf Mountain. They were ambushed by a party of Native warriors and Loyalists led by the Seneca chief Roland Montour, and more than a dozen men were killed. The marker preserves the names of the fallen, a roster of ordinary frontier soldiers caught in the war's brutal borderland fighting.

Gause, TX

Rising red-capped near where the Little and Brazos Rivers meet, Sugarloaf Mountain overlooked Rancheria Grande de los Ervipiame, a village that gathered the remnants of some twenty-two Native nations under the dominant Ervipiame. The landmark guided travelers along ancient Indian trails that became part of El Camino Real, the King's Highway, and it remains bound up with the Tonkawa, many of whom regard the mountain as the place of their people's origin — even as an 1866 promise of land here came only after the Tonkawa had already been forced toward Oklahoma.

Hearne, TX

Calvin A. Suggs brought his family from Georgia to this stretch of Robertson County around 1868, in the uncertain first years after emancipation, and set aside part of his eighty acres as a burying ground. For more than a century it has been the principal cemetery of the Black Jack community, its oldest marked grave dating to 1880. Beneath its marked and unmarked stones lie the pioneer settlers — many of them African American — who built a rural community out of Reconstruction-era Texas.

Forks Township, PA · est. 1947

In the summer of 1779, Easton became the staging ground for one of the Revolution's largest offensives against the Native and Loyalist alliance harrying the New York and Pennsylvania frontier. Under General John Sullivan, the army spent more than a month gathering men and supplies before beginning its march on June 18, 1779. The campaign that followed would drive deep into Iroquois country to the north.

Laporte, PA · est. 1982

Sullivan County was created in 1847 out of Lycoming County, taking its name from state senator Charles C. Sullivan, who pushed for its formation. Laporte became the county seat in 1853. In the wooded highlands here, Eagles Mere grew into a celebrated mountain resort and Worlds End became a beloved state park.

Wilkes-Barre, PA · est. 1929

In the summer of 1779 the Wyoming Valley became the assembly point for General John Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois. From late June through the end of July, the army gathered, drilled, and stockpiled supplies at its mobilization camp here before marching north up the Susquehanna. This staging at Fort Wyoming set in motion one of the Revolution's largest offensive campaigns.

Wind Gap, PA · est. 1929

On June 18, 1779, Sullivan's troops set out on the first day of their long march toward Iroquois country, covering twelve miles before halting at Heller's Tavern. Wayside taverns like this were the natural waypoints of the era, offering the only fixed shelter along frontier roads. The plaque marks where the campaign's opening day came to a close.

Sheshequin Township, PA · est. 1929

In August 1779 General John Sullivan marched his Continental army up the Susquehanna Valley on a campaign to break the power of the Iroquois Confederacy, which had raided frontier settlements as Britain's allies. On the night of August 10 the army made its seventh and final encampment before reaching Teaoga on these river lowlands at Sheshecunnunck. The march was one leg of a systematic expedition that would destroy dozens of Iroquois towns and cornfields.

Forks Township, PA · est. 1929

This plaque marks the road over which Sullivan's army began its advance on June 18, 1779. Cutting and following such roads was itself a feat, as thousands of men, horses, and wagons of supplies moved through country with few improved routes. The path set the direction of a campaign that would carry deep into the lands of the Six Nations.

Athens, PA · est. 1929

Teaoga was a key Iroquois village at the forks of the rivers, and in August 1779 it became the staging ground for General John Sullivan's army during its campaign against the Six Nations. From roughly August 11 to 26 the Continental force encamped near here before pressing deeper into Iroquois country. This marker fixes the village's site relative to that fateful summer of the Sullivan Expedition.

Tunkhannock, PA · est. 1929

In the summer of 1779, at the height of the American Revolution, General John Sullivan led a punishing campaign up the Susquehanna Valley against the Iroquois nations allied with the British. This plaque marks a waypoint on that march from Wyoming to Teaoga, where on August 3 the army camped on the lowlands between here and the river. The relentless expedition burned Iroquois towns and crops, breaking the military power of the Six Nations in the region.

Meshoppen Township, PA · est. 1929

As General Sullivan's army pushed north against the Iroquois in August 1779, it made its fourth encampment on the fertile bottomland here, remembered locally as Black Walnut Flats. The soldiers rested on the nights of August 4 and 5 before continuing the march from Wyoming toward Teaoga. The campaign systematically destroyed the towns and food stores of the Six Nations across this valley.

Wyalusing Township, PA · est. 1929

Wyalusing had been the site of Friedenshütten, a Moravian mission town where Christian Delaware Indians lived before being pushed westward in the early 1770s. A few years later, in August 1779, General Sullivan's army made its fifth encampment here on the march from Wyoming toward Teaoga. The marker stands near the monument to that vanished Moravian Indian community.

Stroudsburg, PA · est. 1929

In the spring of 1779, General George Washington ordered a punishing campaign into the heart of Iroquois country to end frontier raids allied with the British. Here at Fort Penn, the fortified home of Col. Jacob Stroud served as a rendezvous where companies gathered before joining the main army. From this staging ground in the Pocono foothills, men and supplies funneled westward toward the march that would follow.

Pocono Township, PA · est. 1929

As Sullivan's army pushed into the wilderness in June 1779, it left the settled country behind. This spot, remembered as "the last house on the frontier," marked the end of the second day's march — a sixteen-mile push into thinning settlement. Beyond here lay forest and the long road to Iroquois territory.

Pocono Township, PA · est. 1929

On June 20, 1779, the third day's march ended at a spot the soldiers dubbed Chowder Camp, where General Sullivan is remembered as dining on trout chowder pulled from the mountain streams. The short five-mile advance hints at the rough terrain slowing an army hauling artillery and supplies into the Poconos. Small human details like a general's stream-caught supper survive alongside the grand campaign.

Philadelphia, PA · est. 2016

Opened in 1968, Sullivan Progress Plaza was the first shopping center in the nation built, owned, and operated by African Americans. It grew from the efforts of Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, members of Zion Baptist Church, and the surrounding Black community, who pooled small investments to create it. Its visible success drew national notice—prompting President Nixon to fund a corporation to spread similar commercial development—and inspired Black-led economic ventures across the country.

Wyalusing Township, PA · est. 1947

In the summer of 1779, at the height of the Revolution, General John Sullivan led a Continental army up the Susquehanna Valley, camping near here on August 5-7 as it pushed north. The expedition, ordered by George Washington, aimed to break the power of the Iroquois nations allied with the British and to end the devastating raids along the frontier. Over the campaign Sullivan's troops burned dozens of Haudenosaunee towns and their harvests.

Standing Stone Township, PA · est. 1947

As General John Sullivan's Continental army marched north against the Six Nations in August 1779, it made its sixth camp on the river lowlands near here on the nights of August 8-9. The stopping places along the Susquehanna traced the slow, deliberate advance of a major Revolutionary War expedition ordered by Washington. From Wyoming to Fort Sullivan, each riverside campsite marked another day's push into Iroquois country.

Hamilton Township, PA · est. 1947

Brinker's Mill served as the storehouse and forward supply post for the Sullivan Expedition, the 1779 Continental Army campaign that marched out of Easton on June 18 to strike the Iroquois nations allied with Britain. Ordered by George Washington in response to frontier raids, the expedition aimed to break Iroquois power in the region. This mill helped provision an army bound for one of the Revolution's harshest campaigns.

Pocono Township, PA · est. 1947

On June 19, 1779, the army of the Sullivan Expedition camped near Learned's Tavern at the close of its second day out of Easton, having covered sixteen miles from Heller's Tavern on the long road toward Fort Wyoming at Wilkes-Barre. The tavern marked a waypoint on the campaign George Washington launched against the British-allied Iroquois. These recorded halts trace the grueling overland route of one of the Revolution's most consequential frontier operations.

Wind Gap, PA · est. 1947

On June 18, 1779, the first day's march of General Sullivan's expedition ended at Heller's Tavern near Wind Gap, where his weary army camped for the night. Stirring at four the next morning, the troops pressed on to cross the Blue Mountains through the natural pass at Wind Gap. Their route traced old paths through the ridges as they moved north toward the Iroquois heartland.

Tunkhannock, PA · est. 1947

In the summer of 1779, General John Sullivan led thousands of Continental soldiers up the Susquehanna Valley in a scorched-earth campaign ordered by George Washington against the Iroquois Confederacy, allies of the British. On August 3, that army made its third camp above Fort Wyoming here by the river as it pushed north toward Tioga. The march devastated Iroquois towns and croplands, breaking the power of the Six Nations on the New York–Pennsylvania frontier.

Exeter Township, PA · est. 1947

During the Revolution's Sullivan Expedition of 1779, General John Sullivan's Continental army moved north up the Susquehanna from Fort Wyoming at Wilkes-Barre toward Tioga. On August 1–2 the troops encamped on the lowland across the river here — the second stop on a grueling march through frontier country. The campaign was Washington's answer to raids on the frontier, aimed at the Iroquois Confederacy allied with the British.

Meshoppen Township, PA · est. 1947

On August 4, 1779, General John Sullivan's Continental army made its fourth encampment on the lowland here as it marched from Fort Wyoming toward Tioga Point. The column was part of a coordinated Revolutionary War campaign against the Iroquois Confederacy, whose warriors had raided settlements along the frontier. The soldiers' northward advance up the Susquehanna would culminate in the destruction of dozens of Native towns.

Ulster Township, PA · est. 1949

In August 1779, General John Sullivan led a Continental Army expedition up the Susquehanna Valley, camping on the Sheshequin Flats below this point on the ninth and tenth before pressing on to Tioga Point. This was the seventh and final overnight stop of a hard march into Iroquois country. Sullivan's campaign, ordered by George Washington, aimed to break the power of the Six Nations who had allied with the British on the frontier.

Village of Horseheads, NY

In the autumn of 1779, General John Sullivan led a punishing military expedition through the lands of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, part of a scorched-earth campaign ordered by George Washington during the Revolutionary War. As the weary army withdrew through what is now the Chemung Valley, Sullivan's exhausted pack horses—broken down after weeks of hard marching—were put down near this spot. The bleached skulls left behind so struck later travelers and settlers that the place came to be called Horseheads, a name the village still carries today.

Shiner, TX

In the summer of 1930, landowner Jake Kurtz set aside four acres beside the newly paved State Highway 95 to build a huge concrete swimming pool fed by a sulphur-laced mineral well. Excavated with horse- and mule-drawn scrapers, the 120-foot pool opened on "Splash Day" that August with barbecue, a turkey shoot, a baseball tournament, and live music before hundreds of visitors. For over sixty years Sulphur Park—with its dance floor, ball field, and picnic grounds—was a beloved country oasis for the Shiner and Moulton communities.

Asheville, NC

During the nineteenth century, Sulphur Springs drew visitors to its mineral waters as a fashionable health and social resort in the mountains near Asheville. Low-country planters especially favored it, escaping the coastal summer heat and disease for the cool Blue Ridge. The springs themselves lie a short distance south of this marker.

Sulphur Springs, TX

Chartered in 1890 by a circle of local business leaders, this savings and building association arrived just as the railroad was quickening growth across Hopkins County. By lending for homes, farms, and businesses in town and countryside alike, it helped finance the community's expansion, and many area enterprises trace their beginnings to its early loans. Recognized as the oldest surviving savings association in Texas, it long paired its financial role with support for local charities and civic groups.

Mount Enterprise, TX

Tradition traces Sulphur Springs Missionary Baptist Church to 1890, when residents of this rural Rusk County community first gathered in the local schoolhouse near the springs that gave the place its name. Early in the 20th century the growing congregation moved to this site and raised a frame sanctuary, adding facilities over the following decades. Its members went on to support other congregations through mission-building work.

Sulphur Springs, TX

Soon after Sulphur Springs incorporated in 1870, volunteer firefighters organized a bucket brigade and hand-drawn equipment to battle blazes, until the city bought a steam fire engine in 1888. To summon the volunteers, this 500-pound brass bell was purchased in 1889 and hung in the engine house tower, ringing out alarms until a siren replaced it in the 1930s. Professionals joined the force in the 1940s, but volunteers still turn out for major fires.

Longview, TX

Built in 1869 on land given by Parson B.W. Brown, a founder of Gregg County, Summerfield Methodist Church took its name from an Alabama congregation the Brown family had left behind. It became the last surviving trace of the vanished pioneer settlement of Summerfield, anchoring its community through generations of rebuilding. The congregation organized one of the area's first official women's church societies in 1937.

Dimmitt, TX

In 1876 the English-born surveyor John Summerfield began mapping millions of acres across the Texas Panhandle, raising earth monuments to anchor his work. One such marker near this spot became a starting point for surveys spanning several counties and later gained the name Dameron's Corner after a nearby landowner. Citizens set a concrete monument here in 1925, though a road cut buried it in 1958.

Belton vicinity, TX

Built in 1866, just after the Civil War, Summers' Mill ground corn into bread meal for the surrounding Bell County settlers. Some of its machinery came the hard way — hauled by ox-team all the way from Houston. As neighbors brought their grain to be milled, the site became a natural center around which a small community grew.

Morrisville, PA · est. 1949

Built in 1773 by Thomas Barkley, this fine house near Morrisville briefly sheltered George Washington and his army from December 8 to 14, 1776, in the desperate weeks before the crossing of the Delaware. Its later owners included Robert Morris, financier of the Revolution, and George Clymer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The house was restored in 1931.

San Bernardino County, CA

High on Cajon Pass, where the rails climb between the desert and the Los Angeles basin, the Summit station took its name in 1887 as railroads pushed their transcontinental lines across Southern California. For decades it was a vital operating point for trains laboring over the grade. Changing technology and routing sent it into decline by 1967, and the station itself is now gone.

Baker County, OR

The No. 2 dredge chewed its way north up McCully Fork and Cracker Creek toward the mining camp of Bourne, part of the great gold-dredging era in Oregon's Sumpter Valley. These massive floating machines tore through streambeds in the early twentieth century, leaving behind the long ridges of tailings still visible across the valley. Bourne itself faded into a ghost town as the gold played out.

Bethlehem, PA · est. 1953

Begun in 1758, the Sun Inn quickly earned a reputation as one of the finest hostelries in the colonies, and during the Revolutionary War it welcomed a remarkable roster of patriots and military leaders passing through Bethlehem. Travelers found comfortable lodging and good food at a time when such quality was rare on American roads. The inn's guest list reads like a directory of the Revolutionary generation, making it a crossroads of the era's political and military life.

Chester, PA · est. 2007

Founded by the Pew family in 1916 along the Delaware River, Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company grew during World War II into the largest single shipyard on earth, employing more than 35,000 workers. Sun pioneered the all-welded ship and the T-2 oil tanker that became the standard across American yards, building over 250 wartime tankers—roughly 40 percent of the world's total—and repairing more than 1,500 damaged vessels. The yard operated on this Chester waterfront until 1982.

Sunbury, PA · est. 1947

Laid out in 1772 as the seat of newly formed Northumberland County, Sunbury rose on the site of Shamokin, a major Native town at the forks of the Susquehanna. Surveyors John Lukens and William Maclay platted the town where Fort Augusta had stood since 1756, guarding the frontier, and the community grew into a hub of travel, trade, and industry before its incorporation as a borough in 1797.

Shamokin Dam, PA · est. 1948

Sunbury was laid out in 1772 as the seat of newly formed Northumberland County, planted on the site of Shamokin, an important Native American town at the forks of the Susquehanna. Sixteen years earlier, during the French and Indian War, colonial authorities had built Fort Augusta here to guard the frontier. The spot's command of the river made it a lasting hub of travel, trade, and industry.

Pembroke, NH

Here the Suncook River was first harnessed in the 1730s, its falling water turning saw and grist mills, forge shops, and eventually paper mills. In 1811 Major Caleb Stark built the village's first cotton factory, and over the next century Suncook grew into a full-fledged mill village — by 1900 the Pembroke and Webster mills hummed along its banks. It is a textbook story of New England industrialization written in brick and water power.

Fredericksburg, TX

German settlers who farmed the distant countryside around Fredericksburg needed a foothold in town, so they built these compact "Sunday Houses" — a single room with a lean-to kitchen and a half-story loft reached by an outside stair. Families used them on weekends when they came to trade or worship, and during school terms, religious instruction, or illness. Built from the 1890s into the 1920s, most were frame, a few of rock, and some later became snug retirement homes for aging German farmers.

Montgomery, TX

Sawmill worker George J. Sunday and his wife Aletha built this board-and-batten home in the 1890s on land his father had purchased in 1870. In 1906 Alabama native Will Moore and his wife Mary bought it and farmed the place into the late 1920s. With its dog-trot hallway, the modest house typifies the dwellings of small landowners and Depression-era sharecroppers.

Livingston, TX

In 1882 seven families in this corner of Polk County gathered in the local one-room schoolhouse to organize a church, naming it for the wild sunflowers that grew nearby. They raised their first sanctuary in 1905, the same year they joined with the neighboring Lone Oak congregation, and expanded their meeting houses as the community grew. The church has anchored this rural neighborhood ever since.

Port Lavaca, TX

As Calhoun County schools desegregated in 1955, educator Naomi B. Chase watched Black students from the all-Black Alice O. Wilkins School navigate wrenching change. In 1960 she founded the Sunlight Girls Club in her garage to guide them, teaching everything from music and typing to leadership and the value of finishing school. Over four decades some 312 girls passed through the club, which offered scholarships and, from 1964, even its own community-donated band.

Collier County, FL

Just east of this site, Humble Oil and Refining Company drilled Florida's first commercial oil well in 1943, striking oil at more than 11,500 feet and proving the state held petroleum after decades of fruitless exploration dating to 1900. Seventeen more wells followed nearby, and the Sunniland field remained Florida's only commercial oil producer until 1964. The discovery fulfilled a long-held vision of developer Barron Gift Collier.

Colmesneil, TX

Organized on April 22, 1882, by the pioneer families of the prosperous Sunny Dell farming settlement, this church began with fourteen charter members under the Rev. Arnold Rhodes, on land donated by James Sturrock. For many years it was a leading congregation in early Tyler County, but as the surrounding population thinned the church declined and discontinued regular services in 1955. Descendants still gather here each year for a homecoming.

Cumby, TX

A.J. Weathers deeded this Hopkins County land for a cemetery and school in 1881, and the first known burial — Mary W. Brasher — followed the next year. Several generations of founding families rest here alongside veterans of American conflicts reaching back to the Civil War, while the nearby Sunny Point School served the community until it consolidated into the Cumby district. A cemetery association still gathers each May in a tradition decades old.

Kerrville, TX

The oldest marked graves in Sunset Cemetery belong to four Dowdy children killed in an 1878 Indian raid soon after their family reached the Texas Hill Country from Goliad. Nearby lie four Byas children lost to an 1880s typhoid epidemic and pioneers like H. L. Nelson, who founded the Mountain Home post office. Assembled over decades from several landowners, the cemetery preserves the hardships of frontier Kerr County.

Munday, TX

Across rural Knox County, tiny one-district schools sprang up between 1891 and 1923 to serve scattered farm families. When Texas passed a rural aid law in 1929 to fund consolidation, four of these districts—Gillespie, League, Prairie View and Jungman—merged and built a high school here in 1930, eventually serving more than 400 students. The consolidated district lasted until 1951, when it joined the Munday Independent School District.

Gambier, OH

In the college town of Gambier, Ohio, this 1856 building on the Kenyon College campus became a landmark of American letters as the longtime home of the college's English Department and The Kenyon Review. Founded in 1939 by the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom, the Review grew into one of the most influential literary quarterlies in the United States and a flagship of the mid-century movement known as the New Criticism. For decades its editors and faculty worked from these rooms, reading manuscripts and shaping the careers of poets, novelists, and critics whose work reached a national audience.

El Paso, TX

Laid out beginning in 1884 as Satterthwaite's Addition and renamed in a newspaper contest, El Paso's Sunset Heights was among the country's earliest planned residential subdivisions. An electric trolley ran from its diamond-shaped central park into downtown, and the elite neighborhood's brick homes—many designed by noted architect Henry C. Trost—looked out over the Rio Grande and Mexico. It drew a strikingly diverse population, including wealthy Mexican émigrés, prominent Anglos, and many Jewish families.

Dallas, TX

Opened in 1925 to serve Dallas's Oak Cliff, Sunset High School rose from the drafting tables of noted Texas architects in a district that gave the school its name. Built for two thousand students, it grew across the century with New Deal-era library murals of Texas settlement, championship teams, and a celebrated orchestra and band. Plaques near its entry honor students and faculty lost in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Greensboro, NC

In the early decades of the twentieth century, as American cities pushed outward, planned residential neighborhoods like Sunset Hills took shape on the leafy edges of growing towns, offering families curving streets and shade trees as a retreat from the busy urban core. This monument marks a full century of one such Greensboro neighborhood, honoring the generations who put down roots and built a lasting sense of community there. Its plain-spoken message — that great neighbors make great neighborhoods — captures the everyday spirit that turns a cluster of houses into a home place.

Penn Township, PA · est. 2018

From 1940 to 1995 the Waltman family ran Sunset Park, a Chester County stage that grew into one of the premier country and bluegrass venues outside Nashville. Over its decades it hosted the giants of the genre — Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Randy Travis, and bluegrass founder Bill Monroe among them. The park helped carry American roots music through its transformation from pre-war "hillbilly" sound into the nationally beloved country genre, and preserved live recordings of many of those performances.

Corpus Christi, TX

From the late 1800s into the 1940s, the farming and ranching settlement of Sunshine—also called Encinal—thrived on this land now within Corpus Christi, with a school, a shared Union Church, and a post office. Congregations of several denominations took turns holding Sunday services, and the school ran until 1942. Today the cemetery and post office are the only physical traces left, its tombstones—Parry, Haney, and others—preserving the names of the Welsh, English, and American families who settled here.

San Antonio, TX

In 1905 Willie Maverick gave 173 acres along Babcock Road to family members who named the place Sunshine Ranch and built a hilltop home designed by architect Alfred Giles. Their son Jim Maverick opened the Sunshine Dairy in 1917, selling "certified" milk prized for its cleanliness and supplying creameries, delivery routes, and department-store restaurants across San Antonio. The city annexed the land in 1955, and the ranch was sold off and redeveloped as a subdivision.

Town of Babylon, NY

When Farmingdale opened its doors in 1912, Long Island was still a patchwork of farms and small towns, and the new state school was built to serve them directly — beginning life as a state institute focused on agriculture and the practical trades that the downstate region depended on. Over the following century it grew from those working-class roots into a full college within the State University of New York system, the oldest public college on the island. Its campus in the Town of Babylon marks more than a hundred years of New Yorkers learning skills meant to be carried straight back into their communities.