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The Neil P. Anderson Building

Neil P. Anderson (1847-1912) lived in Fort Worth by 1882. A talented broker, he helped this city set the pace for cotton trading in the inland markets of the southwest. His firm had Sanguinet & Staats design this “Cotton Exchange” ...

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The Bank Block

Grandview Heights Shopping Center, 1927

Built by pioneering retail developer Don Monroe Casto Sr., the Bank Block was dedicated in 1928. Considered one of the earliest regional shopping centers in the United States, it innovatively featured 350 free parking spaces-complete with ...

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Cambridge

Originally part of the Choptank Indian Reservation laid out for them in 1669. Cambridge was made a port of entry by the Assembly in 1684. It is one of the few towns authorized at that early date that has survived.

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After the Whistle Blows

Mill employees worked at tedious jobs for long hours, usually having only Sundays to rest. With responsibilities at home as well as in the mill, free time was limited. Still, mill workers found ways to socialize, relax, and have fun ...

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“Appleby”

The home of Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks. Born 1798. Died 1866. Governor of Maryland 1858-62. U.S. Senator 1862-65.

Marker is at the intersection of Race Street (Maryland Route 341) and Pennsylvania Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Race Street. ...

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Ernie Lombardi

Catcher 1932-41

Even more legendary than Ernie Lombardi's pronounced profile were his blistering line drives. Using an interlocking grip and one of the league's heaviest bats, the Crosley-era catcher hit better than .300 seven times for the Reds and remains the ...

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Mt. Canaan Baptist Church

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This church, founded in 1868, was one of the first black Baptist churches in this area. Alexander Bettis (1836-1895), a former slave, established this church with the assistance of three white ministers after the local Baptist association refused to ordain ...

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The Bell Tower of St. George's

Angry with the Anglican Church, the Puritan Pilgrams left England in 1620. Their descendants, known as Congregationalists, founded Dorchester in the 1690s, only to endure South Carolina's 1706 declaration of Anglicanism as the colony's official church.

With the Congregationalists worshiping two ...

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9th Arkansas Battalion - 8th Arkansas - 27th Tennessee - 44th Te

Wood's Brigade - Hardee's Corps

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9 Ark. Batt'n, 8 Ark., 27 Tenn., 44 Tenn.,

Wood's (3d) Brigade, Hardee's Corps,

Army of the Mississippi.

These regiments were engaged here from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. April 6, 1862.

Marker is on Eastern Corinth Road, on the ...

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Morgan Cabin

Originally built 1731-34 as second home of Morgan Morgan-first white settler in West Virginia. Rebuilt with some of original logs in 1976 as a State and County Bicentennial project. It was here during the Revolution that James Morgan, the grandson ...

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