B. September 1, 1930, Bayonne, NJ, M.I.A. May 4, 1953 over North Korea, Graduate, Cranford High School 1948.
In 1993, forty years after the Korean War, the United States government presented evidence to the Russian government that hundreds of American prisoners were secretly transported to the Soviet Union and never heard from again. Charles Harker is listed among those likely to have been retained by the Soviets. “I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings and touched the face of God.” J. Magee.
Dedicated in honor and remembrance of Lt. Harker and all the M.I.A.’s by his classmates, Cranford High School class of 1948…April 30, 1994.
(War, Korean) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Rev. Dr. Randolph also took part in church activities on a state and national level, was active in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Movement, and served on the board of the New Jersey Suffrage Association. She organized the New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs in 1915 and contributed to its success---by 1917, there were 85 clubs with a combined membership of 2,616. In 1911, she founded the Supply Department of the Women’s Home & Foreign Missionary Society of the Supply Department. In 1916, she began a four year tem as General President of the W.H. & F.M. Society of the A.M.E. Zion Church.
In 1920, she embarked on an extensive tour of the Republic of Liberia and British West Africa (now Ghana) at her own expense. She brought a young African girl back to the states to pursue her education here. This girl graduated with honors from Summit High School and Hampton University and went back to teach in Angola, West Africa. After 21 years as Pastor of Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, she retired from the active pastorate in 1946 and moved to Montclair to live with her daughter and grandson. She died in 1951 at the age of 85.
“We then as African-Americans should forget our color and only remember that life is a great state of action and we too must play our part. Success is gained only by perseverance, and since each of us is assigned a work, let us go about it diligently…” –an excerpt from a sermon on “Hope”
by Rev. Dr. Randolph, 1945, from the book, Daughters of Thunder by Bettye Collier-Thomas.
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Wallace Chapel A.M. E. Zion Church is on the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail because of the spirit and dedication of Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph.
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The New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail highlights a collection of historic sites located around the state that represent the significant contributions women made to the history of our state. The Heritage Trail brings to life the vital role of women in New Jersey’s past and present.
(Churches, Etc. • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church Summit, New Jersey was designated a historic landmark of the A.M.E. Zion Church by the 48 quadrennial session of the general conference of the A.M.E. Zion Church in Atlanta, Georgia. July 19, 2008
(Churches, Etc. • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The History
In 1837, a young Scot settler drew a straw that gave him the privilege of naming his new home, and he chose to name it after his home town - Dundee, Scotland.
Thr River
There are over 200 islands in the Fox River between McHenry and Ottawa.
The Land
Flora in this region begins with blooming skunk cabbage in late February and end with goldenrods and gentians in late October.
The Animals
At least 248 of the 299 bird species common to Illinois can be found in the Fox River basin, including 30 state-threatened or endangered species.
(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Environment) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
[Names not transcribed]
(War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
First Pioneer Settlers
in No. Kane Cty.
May 10, 1834
(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The name Marjorie Cranstoun Jefferson is synonymous in Summit with this community theater. Her personality and her approach to theater were different and unique in many ways. She insisted that the audience must be seated on time and that the curtain rise at the precise time listed in the program. She wanted everything in each production to be authentic to the period of the play, including the set design and the costumes. She did not allow the actors to have understudies in order to keep the performances at a very high level. The theater group she helped found began as a local effort to raise funds for war relief and is one of the oldest active community theater companies in the nation.
“I never allowed the world amateur to be used in conjunction with the Summit Playhouse Association except in its true meaning: someone who does something for the love of it.”
–Marjorie Cranstoun Jefferson.
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The Summit Playhouse is on the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail because of the significant contributions of Marjorie Cranstoun Jefferson to the arts and culture in New Jersey.
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The New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail highlights a collection of historic sites located around the state that represent the significant contributions women made to the history of our state. The Heritage Trail brings to life the vital role of women in New Jersey’s past and present.
(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Interpreter for the Indians at the "Old Fort," a mission station in charge of Rev. Gideon Hawley in 1748.
(Native Americans • Colonial Era • Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In 1963, the graves of twenty-five prehistoric Glacial Kame
Indians and six white settlers were discovered near the
blockhouse site. Seventeen War of 1812 veterans and eight
others were also buried there. These bodies were
subsequently removed and reinterred at Green Camp
Cemetery. An abandoned right-of-way of the Erie Railroad,
Dayton line, also passes through the area. Prairie grasses
that once dominated parts of Marion County can still be
found in the vicinity.
(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812 • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Anthropology) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Constitution Oak 
First Lieutenant, USAF F-84 Pilot, 311th Fighter Bomber Sq., 56th Fighter-Bomber Gp.
Florence Spearing Randolph, born in Charleston, South Carolina on August 9, 1866 was an African-American A.M.E. Zion (Methodist) minister and social activist. She served as Pastor of Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, Summit City, from 1925 to 1946. As the congregation grew, she organized the fundraising effort for the construction of a permanent spiritual home. In 1935, ground was broken for this red brick Colonial Revival church still in use today. Prior to its construction, the congregation met in the living and dining room of the duplex house next door, which now serves as the parsonage and community house.
State Tree of Connecticut 
Amos Eaton, with Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer, founded the Rensselaer School in 1824, later Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A philosopher of higher education, he revolutionized instruction away from the liberal arts tradition into a laboratory method of applied preparation for solving society's problems. He was also a strong proponent of higher education for women.
Ohio's
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Did you know that Marjorie Cranstoun Jefferson: *Was a leader in the Little Theater Movement in the United States? *Co-founded this community theater in 1918? *Directed more than 130 productions in this theater? (She was its director for 51 years, from 1928-1979.) *Funded the Marjorie Jefferson auditorium in 1960? *Lived to be 100 years old (1887-1988)? 
The Playhouse Association has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.
The Plains lay south and west of the Sandusky
River, bounded by the Olentangy River on the
east and Tymochtee Creek on the west. The local
black prairie soils mark the extent of the
grasslands, which were uncommon in the dense
eastern forests. Bur Oak trees, from the period
of the Wyandot Indians, have survived because
their thick bark protected them from the
common prairie grass fires. This remnant of
wilderness--Bur Oak Grove and Tall Grass
Prairie--is protected from cultivation, which would
destroy most of the native plant species.
In Memory of "Wausaunia" Rebecca Kellogg Ashley
Born Dec. 22, 1695, in Suffield, Mass.
Died Aug 1757, Windsor N.Y.
The U.S. Army built a two-story blockhouse on a nearby
hill during the War of 1812. The blockhouse was one of a
series of such structures erected along the Greenville
Treaty line to guard against Native Americans who
supported the British during the conflict. After the war,
Daniel Markley, one of Green Camp Township's first white
inhabitants, settled near the blockhouse.
A Former Camp Hill resident, “Doc” Goddard
served five governors in an unprecedented
career from 1955-1979 as Secretary of Forests
and Waters and the Department of Environmental
Resources. Goddard expanded the state park
system, promoted science-based environmental
and natural resource management, and led
efforts to professionalize state government.
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