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Original Site Sardis Baptist Church

Erected 1810

Rebuilt 1847

Dismantled 1940 and material used in erecting pastorium in Sardis.

Originally Beech Branch Meeting House constituted in 1803.

Marker is on Old Sardis Road west of Cemetery Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Old Campbell County

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This was the Courthouse of Campbell County at the time it was merged with Fulton County Jan. 1, 1932. When the County was created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 20 & 22, 1828, the Site was at Campbellton on ...

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Home of Conrad Beissel

1691 - 1768

Founder and superintendent of the

Ephrata Cloister. Conrad Beissel was one

of America's earliest composers of hymns

and anthems, organizer and teacher of

the cloister singing school and publisher

of America's first book of original

compositions, Turtel-Taube, 1747.

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Pablo Galtes - Union Cemetery

Historical Marker #1

Pablo Galtes facilitated the establishment of the Catholic community of Bakersfield in the early 1870's. The first Mass celebrated in Bakersfield was said in the back of Pablo's store located on 19th Street near Chester Avenue. (Eleven family ...

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First Flight to Break the Sound Barrier

X-1 Loading Pit

The Bell X-1 was loaded into its B-29 Launch

Aircraft from this Pit on

October 14, 1947

Captain Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager

Piloted the Airplane to Mach 1.06 (700 mph)

Marker is on West Lancaster Boulevard.

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Melbourne & Atlantic Railroad

Melbourne Beach Historic Site

On this site, in February of 1889, Captain Alfred Wilcox took delivery of a shipment of steel rail that would be used in the building of the Melbourne & Atlantic Railroad. Over the coming months, railroad ...

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Brasstown Bald

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The high, rounded peak, Brasstown Bald or Mt. Enotah, is the highest mountain in Georgia, 4,748 ft. Its Indian name, Itseyi, means “a place of fresh green,” referring to its grassy, instead of timbered, summit. Early white ...

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Eau Gallie Bridge to the Beach

The first wooden bridge from Eau Gallie to "Eau Gallie Beach" was started in 1924. The bridge was formally opened in February 1926. Soon after John R. Mathers began plans to build a bridge from the barrier island to the ...

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Weaver College Bell Tower

in Memory of

Weaver College

1872-1933

Weaverville, North Carolina

Dedicated

April 3, 1992

Marker is on Brevard College near N. Broad Street (U.S. 276).

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The Weaver College Bell

Cast on January 29, 1841

These Bricks and the Hand-hewn Beams

Were a Part of

The Weaver College Administration Building

Which was Constructed in

Weaverville, North Carolina

1872

Marker can be reached from Brevard College near N. Broad Street (U.S. 276).

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