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Brown-Stetson-Sanford House

This Milledgeville Federal-style house was built c. 1825 on North Wilkinson Street for George T. Brown by English-born builder-architect John Marlor. It was operated as the U.S. Hotel and then the Beecher-Brown Hotel to serve visitors and legislators during the ...

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Opening of the Gettysburg Campaign

On this plain Lee reviewed his cavalry, June 8, 1863. The next day the cavalry battle of Brandy Station was fought. On June 10, Ewell's Corps, from its camp near here, began the march to Pennsylvania.

Marker is on Brandy Road ...

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Fort Wilkinson

Three hundred yards east of this point stood Ft. Wilkinson, established in 1797 on Georgia's Indian boundary. Garrisoned by soldiers whose families lived outside the stockade, it was an early trading house where Creek Indians were provided agricultural

supplies under the ...

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First School-House in Greene County

225 feet south of this spot the first school-house in Greene County was built by pioneers 1831. Small cabin, logs cut out for window and door openings. No shutter, door or chimney. Dirt floor. Three-legged benches. First teacher, Joseph Rountree. ...

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Site of Old Burial Ground

The Gift of John Potts - Founder of Pottstown

to

Early German Settlers of the

Lutheran and Reformed Faith

A.D. 1752

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On the adjoining bronze tablets are inscribed the names and dates of persons whose graves were located in the Reformed portion of the graveyard.

This ...

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Battle of Brandy Station

Greatest cavalry battle of the Civil War

• Fought June 9, 1863 •

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart defeated Gen. A. Pleasonton

Confederates engaged 10,200. Federals 10,900

Casualties, Confederates, 485, Federals 866

This is Fleetwood Hill

The crucial position

Finally occupied by the Confederates

Marker is on Fleetwood Heights Road ...

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Newfane Honor Roll

Korean War - Vietnam War

Korean War

June 25, 1950 – January 31, 1955

Bourn, Melvin F. • Brooks, Dennis R. • Brooks, Roy I. • Carey, Leighton, E. • Carey, Merton M. • Chase, Charles D. • Druke, Edward J. ...

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Shell Bluff

Shell Bluff on the Savannah River 15 miles northeast has been famous since Indian days because of its outcrops of fossil shells including those of giant

oysters. These lived in the Eocene sea that covered this part of Georgia some 50 ...

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Buffalo Park

The City of Flagstaff purchased this land in 1959 from the United States Forest Service.

In 1964, James Potter, Sr., long-time resident, entrepreneur and Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce President, led the effort to form a non-profit organization, lease the site from ...

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The Battle of Brandy Station

The Race for Fleetwood Hill

Here the old Carolina Road crosses the southern part of Fleetwood Hill, some of the highest ground in the area. On the slope ahead of you Maj. Gen. James Ewell Brown (J.E.B.) Stuart, commander of Robert ...

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