The Unknown Embattled Defenders of Fort Harrison

Here

unknown but not forgotten

lie the Embattled Defenders

of

Fort Harrison

September 3, - 5, 1812

Marker is on McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison Road.

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Burial Ground Fort William Harrison

Dedicated to the memory of the courageous pioneers who so successfully defended Fort Harrison in the activities which served as a Prologue to The War of 1812

Marker can be reached from McCullough Avenue (becomes 4th Street) north of Fort Harrison ...

Whitson’s Fort

About 2 miles northeast, south of the mouth of Cosby’s Creek, William Whitson, Jr., established a fort on the east bank of Pigeon River in 1783. It was an important frontier outpost, since there was a ford there, and the ...

1812 - - Fort Harrison - - 1912

This stone marks the site, and commemorates the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Heroic Defense, of Fort Harrison by a small body of United States Soldiers, assisted by the settlers against the Indians.

September 4, 1812

The Fort was built by ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church

Founded June 17, 1849

Pro-cathedral 1852-54

Present church dedicated March 17, 1860

First parish church in San Francisco. In 1850 the first parochial school in California was established here, and the first ordination to the priesthood was held here in ...

Roanoke County / Franklin County

Roanoke County

Area 305 Square Miles

Formed in 1838 from Botetourt and Montgomery, and probably named for Roanoke River. General Andrew Lewis lived here. The city of Roanoke is known as the Gate City of the South.

Franklin County

Area 697 Square Miles

Formed in ...

Founding of Takoma Park

Erected by the citizens

in commemoration of

the founding of

Takoma Park

by

Benjamin F. Gilbert

November 24, 1883

Dedicated July 4, 1939

Marker is on Piney Branch Road near Eastern Avenue & Takoma Avenue.

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In Memory of those Soldiers

In memory of those Middlebury Citizens who served in defense of our freedoms

Marker is on South Academy Street (New York Route 19) 0.1 miles south of Main Street (County Route 7) when traveling south.

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Rocky Ridge Farm

Home of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Front

Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of America's best known authors, was born in 1867 near Pepin, Wisconsin. Her "Little House" books were written here on Rocky Ridge Farm, her home for over sixty years.

On July 17, 1894, ...

To Commemorate the Site of the First Permanent Capitol of Georgia

Built in 1795, and before whose door the Yazoo Fraud papers were burned with fire drawn from heaven, February 15, 1796.

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling ...