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Perkiomen Bridge

Built in 1799, it is one of the oldest bridges still in use in the State. A lottery was authorized by a 1797 law to raise $20,000 for its construction.

Marker is on Main Street/Ridge Pike (Old U.S. 422), on the ...

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Chester Stock, Ph.D. - Observation Pit

Hancock Park

Panel 1:

Chester Stock, Ph.D.

January 28, 1892 - December 7, 1950

Paleontalogist

Chief curator of science - Los Angeles County Museum

Chairman of the Division of Geological Sciences

California Institute of Technology

who, encouraged by the foresight ...

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Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg

Member, US House of Representatives from 1789-97. A Federalist, he was its first Speaker and first signer of the Bill of Rights. Ordained a Lutheran minister in 1770, he served as a pastor for nine years. He represented Pa. at ...

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First New Jersey Brigade

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Infantry and Hexamer's Battery

September 17, 1862

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This stone marks the right of the Brigade when a little after noon, it was formed to charge the woods north of the Dunkard Church. The order was countermanded and the ...

Scarboro

This is one of the older settlements in this part of Georgia having been established sometime prior to 1840 and receiving its name from Enoch or Hardy

Scarborouogh of Screven County. In 1839 it became Station No. 7 on the Central ...

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Moore's Battery - Garnett's Battalion

Heth's Division - Hill's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Hill's Corps Heth's Division

Garnett's Battalion Moore's Battery

The Huger Artillery

One 10 pounder Parrott, One 3 inch Rifle

And Two Napoleons

July 1 The Parrott and Rifle about 3.30 p.m. relieved some of Pegram's guns on the ...

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Airborne Forces Memorial Bridge

Parachutes • Air Assault

Gliders • Glider Pilots

Airborne

Forces

Memorial

To Their Perpetual Honor

Presented By The Citizens Of

Wisconsin

and

The Badger State Chapter

of the

82nd Airborne Division Association

[82nd Airborne insignia]

"America's Guard of Honor"

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Clark Street (State Highway 66) and Water ...

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Richardson's Battery

Battery D, 1st Missouri Lt. Art. - W.H.L. Wallace's Division

U.S.

Richardson's Battery,

"D" 1st Mo. Lt. Arty., W.H.L. Wallace's (2d) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

This battery occupied this position in the last line from 4.30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 1862 to the close ...

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Jesse Bean

The first permanent settler in what later became Franklin Co., he established a forge and gunsmith shop in a cave on Caney Hollow Branch, about three miles north, shortly after 1800. A gunsmith of great ability, his 45-inch long rifles ...

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Chew’s Ashby Artillery

Captain R. Preston Chew organized Chew’s Ashby Artillery, the first “horse artillery” in the Confederate army, in November 1861. He named it for Colonel Turner Ashby. Chew’s battery bosted a 3 in ordinance rifle, a 12-pounder smoothbore howitzer, and an ...

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