Newtown Battlefield

August 29, 1779

Erected by

Newtown Battle Chapter

Sons of

American Revolution

1907

Marker is at the intersection of Oneida Road (County Road 60) and Lowman Crossover, on the right when traveling east on Oneida Road.

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National Historic Landmark - Father Flanagan's Boys' Home

(The Original "Boys Town")

Boys Town was founded as a home and school for homeless, abandoned, neglected or otherwise underprivileged boys, regardless of color or creed, by Father Edward J. Flanagan (1886-1948) on December 10, 1917. The first Father Flanagan's Boy's ...

Edgewood Aerie 1801 F.O.E. World War II Memorial

Roll of Honor

Dedicated to the

two hundred fifty two

members of Edgewood

Aerie 1801 F.O.E. who

served and to the sacred

memory of these who gave

their lives in World War II

Howard A. Baldwin

John Banyor

Wallace J. Bishop

William A. Defibaugh

John L. James, Jr.

Bernard J. Larsen

Darwin J. Riley

James ...

The Fig Industry In Friendswood

Friendswood was established as a Quaker colony by Frank J. Brown and Thomas H. Lewis in 1895. Among the colony's early settlers was former Kansas farmer Nereus Stout. Stout became a highly acclaimed horticulturist and is believed to be the ...

Nation's First Watershed Project

This point is near the center of the 90,000 acre Coon Creek Watershed, the nation's first large-scale demonstration of soil and water conservation. The area was selected for this purpose by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (then Soil Erosion Service) ...

Old Coffee Road

The Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this section, crossed here, running southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today’s Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville to the Florida line above Tallahassee. This thoroughfare was opened by direction ...

Birthplace of Eighth Air Force

On 28 January 1942, the Eighth Air Force, was activated in the adjacent building, a National Guard Armory at the time.

Having moved to England, the Eighth was ready on 17 August to test the theory that daylight bombing raids could ...

Home of Hendrikus DuBois

Built 1775 on lands bought from Esopus Indians on December 28, 1678, by his grandfather, Louis Dubois, Patentee of New Paltz

Marker is on Albany Post Road (County Road 7) 0.3 miles west of Yankee Folley Road.

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Founding of Neosho

1839 - 1937

From this point the town of

Neosho, Mo. was laid out 1839

Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street and Spring Hill Street, on the left when traveling west on Spring Street.

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Franklin County Soldiers of the Mexican War

Honoring

the Memory of

Franklin County Soldiers

of the Mexican War

1846 - 1848

On this day, October 2, 1954, this tablet is placed in memory of those soldiers from Franklin County, Ohio who served their country with great courage and ...