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Nuckolls-Jefferies House

[Front]:

This house was built in 1843 for William Thompson Nuckolls (1801-1855) and later owned for many years by John D. Jefferies (1838-1910). Built in the Greek Revival style of the antebellum period and altered in the Neo-Classical style of the ...

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The Famous Sunbury "Masonic" Oak

[West Face]:

Northeast of this spot stood the famous Sunbury Oak of early Colonial Masonic legend. The tree is said to have been of tremendous size and provided an ideal

place for safe, comfortable campsites.

The legend of the Sunbury "Masonic" Oak ...

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Old Cotton Hill Seminary

Here stood the Cotton Hill Male and Female Seminary incorporated by an Act of the Legislature March 6, 1856, but in existence before that time. Professor Norman Flavius Cooledge, uncle of President Calvin Coolidge, who had come to Georgia for ...

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The Pennsylvania Military Museum / 28th Infantry Division Shrine

(Left Wing):

The Pennsylvania Military Museum

The Pennsylvania Military Museum honors the Commonwealth's military men and women past and present. It preserves the history of their significant service to the state and the nation through exhibits, programs, and military commemorative events.

The museum ...

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1891 Red Brick Courthouse

Montgomery County's third courthouse. Built in 1891 the "Old Red Brick Courthouse" has become the symbol and architectural monument of old Rockville. Designated a historic building on July 19, 1965 by the Montgomery County Historical Society, Inc.

Marker can be reached ...

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Federal Grain Inspection Service

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

Federal Grain Inspection ServiceDuring December 1977, a series of devastating grain elevator explosions resulted in the death of thirteen USDA employees working for the Federal Grain Inspection Service. On this ...

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Rockville Baptist Church and Cemetery

In 1823, the deacons of the Bethel Baptist Church church acquired a half-acre lot at this site to erect a church and provide a burial ground. The original church was replaced in 1864, but a half century later, the Baptists ...

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John B. White Sr., Blvd.

Dedicated July 1998

Owner and Founder of the World-Famous Beacon Drive-In, from 1946 until his retirement in 1998. Mr. White is truly an extraordinary person and one of Spartanburg's Treasures. His character is beyond reproach, his generosity boundless, and his many ...

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Green v. County School Board of New Kent County

In the 1968 Green v. County School Board of New Kent County decision, the Supreme Court of the United States abandoned the “all deliberate speed” mandate of Brown II (1955) and demanded immediate integration of schools. Black plaintiffs in New ...

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The Cattle Raid

Just to the north of the road here, at old Sycamore Church, Wade Hampton, coming from the south, attacked the Union cavalry guarding Grant's beef cattle, September 16, 1864. The Unionists were overpowered; Hampton, rounding up 2,500 beeves, succeeded in ...

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