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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wolf

Jacob Wolf (1812-1874) and wife Adeline Faulkner Wolf (1814-1870) came from Tennessee to Texas about 1850. Obtaining land grant in Burnet County, they settled at Dobyville, and were pioneers, supplying their own provisions, buildings, medicines, and school. Menaced by Indian ...

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Baltimore Regional Trail

A House Divided

During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland's residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in violence on April ...

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George Whitaker Home

Built 1870 by George Whitaker, early settler. Of hand-hewn rock. Has inside cistern. Stones from old courthouse used in 1939 addition.

Marker can be reached from the intersection of S. Main St. and E. Elm St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Military Dock

 

During the French and Indian

War, British and Procincial

troops used a dock near

here for loading soldiers,

artillery, and supplies.

Marker is at the intersection of Beach Road and Lake George Road, on the left when traveling east ...

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The Tobey Community Cemetery

The Nat Tobey family moved from Indiana to northeast Burnet County in the 1850s. Sons Avery and Samuel bought land here in Backbone Valley in 1868. At the death of N. W. Tobey, aged 12, this cemetery was opened in ...

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Battle of Gilgal Church

June 15-17, 1864

U.S.: Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield. 3rd Div. 20th Corps. Army of the Cumberland.

C.S.: Maj. Gen. Patrick R Cleburne. Cleburne’s Div. Hood’s Corps. Army of Tennessee.

Marker is on Kennesaw Kue West Road NW 0.2 miles east of Due West ...

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Lee County Monument to the Confederate Dead

(West face)

CSA

In Memory

of

Lee County's

Confederate Soldiers

Heros

Confederate Dead

(East Face)

Lest We Forget

Erected by the people

of Lee County

Through the efforts of

Lottie Green Chapter of

U.D.C.

A.D. 1913

Marker is on South Main Street (U.S. 15), on the right when traveling ...

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Chambliss's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

C.S.A.

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Chambliss's Brigade

2nd North Carolina

and

9th, 10th, 13th Virginia Cavalry

July 3 The Brigade reached here about noon and took an active part in the fight until it ended. Some of the men serving as sharpshooters ...

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Burgess Mill

An old mill stood here, with earthworks. On October 27, 1864, General Hancock, coming from the south, attempted to cross the run here and reach the Southside Railroad. He was supported on the east by Warren's (Fifth) Corps. The Confederates, ...

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Don Pedro Menéndez de Aviles

1519 - 1574

(Front):Illustrious son of Aviles, Spain

Governor and Captain General, Conquistador,

Adelantado in Perpetuity of Florida.

Founded St. Augustine September 8, 1565

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Statue was a gift of the ...

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