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The Marlborough Street Chapel

Built in 1872 by William Northup on the former site of Scalloptown. This chapel was the first fully integrated congregation in East Greenwich.

Marker is at the intersection of Marlborough Street and Long Street, on the left when traveling south on ...

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All Veterans in War and Peace

This monument is erected in appreciation

and dedicated to the memory of

All Veterans who served

our country in War and Peace

Marker can be reached from Indiana Route 32 west of Indiana Route 47, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

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Juana Briones Y Tapia de Miranda

1802 – 1889

Juana Briones, born in Hispanic California, was a preeminent woman of her time. In the 1830s and 1840s she transformed an isolated cove in the then Mexican hamlet of Yerba Buena into her rancho. At the site ...

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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.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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William Bryd’s Camp

Near here, on Matrimony Creek, William Bryd pitched his camp, November, 1728, while determining the Virginia-North Carolina boundary line.

Marker is on US 220, in the median.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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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 ...

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Site of Capitol Building

Louisville Georgia

First Capitol built by the State of Georgia. Used as seat of government 1796 - 1807

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

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Dundee Memorial Park Streetcar Wall

Dundee, Omaha's first suburb, was connected to downtown by the streetcar. Dundee was literally the end-of-the-line. The streetcars reversed their course just west of this site. In 1891, a steam driven "trolley" and then a horse-drawn car brought people free ...

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Hal Price Headley

1888 - 1962

Hal Price Headley embodied the image of the Bluegrass horseman. He was sophisticated in business, but always a man of agriculture, raising tobacco as well as Thoroughbreds. His lasting legacy to Lexington was his instrumental role in formation ...

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Sinking of the Maple Leaf

Approximately 15 miles up river from this point, the Union transport Maple Leaf was destroyed by a Confederate mine during the early morning hours of April 1, 1864. The Maple Leaf sank to the bottom of the St. Johns River ...

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