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Law West of the Pecos

Judge Roy Bean lived a life in which fiction became so intermingled with fact that he became a legend within his lifetime. Basis for his renown were the decisions which he reached in this building as the Law West of ...

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Kansas Pacific Stockyards

Historical Plaza Walking Tour Stop 7

The stockyards were to your left on the location of today's old CK elevator. The photo to the left was actually taken from a location west of here. It shows scattered buildings in the background. ...

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Birthplace for Equal Suffrage for Women in Florida

“ The population of Fellsmere is of a high type of intelligence, with lofty ideals and wise execution. Progressive in all things, perhaps no better indication of the fact may be given than the unanimous vote of the town granting ...

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Battle of Trevillians

— Fought here June 11, 12, 1864 —

Confederate Gens. Wade Hampton, Fitzhugh Lee

and Thomas L. Rosser, victors over

Federal Gens. P.H. Sheridan and G.A. Custer

5000 Confederates, 8000 Federal

Casualties Confederate 612 Federal 1,007

Greatest all-cavalry battle of the war

Signal Confederate victory

Marker is at ...

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In Memory of Unknown American Soldiers

In Memory of Unknown

American Soldiers

Who Died in the

War of 1812

Marker is on Sullivan Avenue just south of Towpath Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Confederate Cemetery

Originally the site of a pioneer cemetery, many early residents are buried here. In 1866, returned Confederate soldiers, under the leadership of Maj. William Hume and David Lawrence, collected and reinterred here the bodies of soldiers who fell at isolated ...

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In Memory of John Bean, Ph.D., M.D.

John Bean was born in Attercliffe, Ontario, on September 8, 1901. He attended Stratford Collegiate Institute in Ontario and Northwestern College before transferring to the University of Michigan, where he earned his degrees and spent the rest of his life ...

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William R. Geddings Fish Culture House

Dedicated in memory

of

William R. "Randy" Geddings

S.C. Department of Natural Resource

Fisheries Biologist

for his 26 years of service

to the

protection and conservation

of

S.C.'s trout resources.

Marker is on Fish Hatchery Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Fort Wayne - Detroit

No hostile shots have ever been fired from this star-shaped fort built in the 1840s to guard against a British invasion from Canada which never came. This third bastion to protect the river approach to the city was named for ...

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Veteran Corps of Artillery

The late 18th century the City Arms Tavern stood on this site. On November 25th 1790, known as "Evacuation Day" because it marked the anniversary of the departure of the last British troops from New York in 1783, a group ...

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