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James Screven and Daniel Stewart

[North Face]:

1750 1778

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier General

James Screven

who fell, covered with wounds, at

Sunbury, near this spot, on the 22nd

day of November, 1778. He died

on the 24th day of November, 1778,

from the effects of his wounds.

[South Face]:

1759 1829

Sacred to the

Memory of

Brigadier ...

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Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson

 

In memory of

Elizabeth Hutchinson

Jackson

Mother of

Andrew Jackson

President of the U.S. 1829-1837

Who gave her life in the

cause of independence

while nursing Revolutionary

soldiers in Charles Town

and is buried in Charleston.

Marker can be ...

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Joel Roberts Poinsett

1779-1851

[Front]:

Born in Charleston, S.C., educated in this country and Great Britain, he travelled widely in Europe and Asia before returning to a distinguished career. He served South Carolina in the state legislature, 1816-1820; 1830-1832; and as Chairman of the Board ...

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William R. Johnson House / The Columns

William R. Johnson House

This Greek Revival house was built ca. 1854 for William R. Johnson, (1813-1893), physician, planter, and legislator in what was then Marion District. Johnson, an 1838 graduate of the Medical College of S.C., later served in the ...

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Captain John Christie

Erected by

The Grand Lodge

Free and Accepted Masons

of Michigan

To the memory of

Captain John Christie

--- of the ---

60th OR Royal American Regiment

Founder and First

Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 1

at Detroit, Michigan.

Warranted ...

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- Jackson -

The Jumping Seat of Calaveras County

Judge Smith proclaimed Jackson the Seat of Justice after Clerk Collier canvassed the votes of the May 1851 election in which 1224 votes were cast for Moquelumne Hill and 1014 for Jackson. An armed party ...

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Major General Sickles

Major General

Daniel Sickles

Wounded

July 2, 1863

Marker is on United States Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Old St. Joseph's

1733

Old St. Joseph's earliest church on this site was built in 1733 by Rev. Joseph Greaton, a Jesuit missionary from England. When news that a "Romish Chappel" had been set up the Provincial Council investigated, but because William Penn's ...

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Saint John's Infirmary

Wisconsin’s First Public Hospital – 1848

Founded May 15, 1848, with the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul providing direction and nursing, St. John’s Infirmary offered Wisconsin’s first public hospital care under the supervision of the patient’s physician. ...

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Greater St. James A.M.E. Church

[Front]

This church was founded in 1883 by a Rev. Hill and twenty-five charter members. Early services were held in a member’s house on E. Main Street. The congregation purchased a lot at the corner of Lake and N. Church ...

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