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Camp Ford - Establishment of the Camp

In March 1862, the movement of the Confederate army in Northern Arkansas to the Mississippi River left the northern frontier of the Trans-Mississippi virtually defenseless. Immediate efforts in Texas were made to raise new regiments for service in Arkansas. ...

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The Main Plaza

This is Castillo San Felipe del Morro’s main plaza, called the plaza de armas. Completed around 1780, it looked then much as you see it now. This plaza witnessed the activities of daily life in a Spanish fortress for more ...

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This Tablet Marks The Site of Fort Bedford

This tablet erected by Bedford Penn'a Chapter D.A.R.

May 30, 1925

Marks the site of Fort Bedford

One of the Frontier Forts

Built by the British in 1758

The stockade enclosing the fort contained about 7000 square yards of ground

It was the rendezvous and protection ...

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The Wilder Home / The Little Books Began Here

(Side A) The Wilder Home 1928-1936

In 1928, after living abroad for several years, Rose Wilder Lane returned to her childhood home on Rocky Ridge Farm. With proceeds from her writings Rose built her parents a modern house. The keys were ...

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The Birthplace of the Petroleum Industry

West of the Mississippi River, in

this well, drilled by H. G. Johnston,

E. H. Akin, and Charles Rittersbacher

under contract for a water well

for the city of Corsicans in

1894, the first oil in commercial

quantities in ...

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The Famous Hotel El Paso de Robles 1891 - 1940

Historic Site

On May 11, 1889, with one million bricks piled at this site, the laying of the foundation of this famous hotel was begun.

In November of 1889, the El Paso de Robles Hotel Company was incorporated with five stockholders: Drury ...

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The Clay Family of Bryan Neck

In this cemetery are interred members of the Clay family, among the most prominent of Bryan Neck and coastal Georgia from the colonial era of Georgia through the 19th century. Prominent among these are Thomas Savage Clay (1801-1849) and his ...

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The Iceman's Arena

Hub, Home, Heart

Uline Arena was built in 1941 by ice maker Mike Uline to present ice skating, hocky, basketball, and tennis. The Dutch immigrant, originally named Migiel Uihlein, had made a fortune patenting ice production equipment and selling ice from ...

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The Basin Park Sycamore

I stood here growing so many years,

I shared your laughter, I shared your tears.

My life was good, beginning to end,

and this is a wish I'd like to send.

Be happy and kind to all around,

and let not sorrow be ever found.

The ...

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The "Bottom" Village

The “Bottom” residential village, built in the mid-1930s, was the first housing project developed by Henry Ford for his employees in the Ways Station (later Richmond Hill) area. The name originated from the fact that the area had been a ...

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