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Reynoldsburg

Six miles northwest, where Dry Creek enters the Tennessee River, this town was first settled from 1800 to 1805. In 1812, it became the county seat of Humphreys County, with the first court meeting in the home of Samuel Parker ...

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Cecil County Doughboy Monument

This monument is erected by the people of Cecil County in grateful recognition of the services of the men and women of this county who, on land or at sea served their country in the Great World War - 1914 ...

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Chee Kung Tong Building

This rare example of a 19th century Chinese benevolent society hall conformed to a Chee Kung Tong tradition that placed services to members on the ground floor and formal functions above. With its hostel, kitchen, and meeting and ceremonial spaces, ...

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Historic Brookeville

Welcome to Historic Brookeville. Founded 1794. United States Capitol for a Day. August 26, 1814. Incorporated 1808.

Marker is on Market Street 0.2 miles east of Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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He Helped Bring And Keep Fort Benning

Mallory Reynolds Flournoy (Oct. 21, 1882 - Apr. 26, 1920), leader in establishing Fort Benning and the Infantry School on the 182,000 acre military reservation south of Columbus, lived here. The son of John F. Flournoy, outstanding citizen and developer ...

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Walterboro Army Airfield

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Walterboro Army Airfield

In the late 1920's and 1930's, a rough landing strip was made on the farm of C.C. Anderson just outside Walterboro. Starting in 1941, as part of the World War II effort,The U.S. Government acquired the ...

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Textile and Banking Pioneer

Site of the home of William H. Young (1807- 1894), a native of the State of New York who migrated to Georgia at the age of 17. Visiting the site of Columbus a year before the city was established, he ...

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Robert Strawbridge

? The first preacher of Methodism in America. He formed at his house (still standing, 1938) one-half mile east of here the first Class and the first Society of American Methodism. He built the first log meeting house (1764) for ...

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Miesbach to Munich Power Transmission

Im Oktober 1882 wurde hier anlässlich der internationalen Elektrizitätsaustellung von Miesbach nach München erstmals in der Welt eine Kraft?bertragung mit hoch gespannten Str?men durchgefuhrt. Die Sch?pfer des Werkes Oskar von Miller und Marcel Deprez bahnten da mit den Weg zur ...

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19th Alabama - 2nd Texas

Jackson's Brigade - Wither's Division

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Army of the Mississippi.

19th Alabama 2d Texas,

Jackson's (3d) Brigade, Withers' (2d) Division,

Bragg's Corps.

These regiments were engaged here April 7, 1862 until 1 p.m.

Marker is on Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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