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The Wilbur Cherry House

New York native Wilbur Cherry (1819-1873), a veteran of the Texas Revolution, had this two-story home built about 1852. A pioneer Texas newspaperman, Cherry had earlier helped establish a local paper, now the Galveston Daily News. His residence, one of ...

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Manchester Canal

The still water in front of you once flowed freely to the right. It once spun the water wheels and turbines of several paper companies (like the one to your left), ...grist mills (where the grain elevator is now to ...

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Burlington, Kansas

From A Campground To A City

Restoration Capital and

Pressed Metal Ceiling Capital

of Kansas

Centennial 1857-1957

Sesquicentennial 1857-2007

Bi-Centennial 1857-2057

Fernando Augustus Atherly

1835 - 1904

First Mayor of Burlington

Elected 1870

Amarette Griffith Atherly

1833 - 1926

First ...

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El Campanil

 

El Campanil is the

first concrete

reinforced

structure

built west of

the Mississippi

Marker is on Wetmore Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Men of Rutgers College

Who fought for the cause of independence in the American Revolution

To the memory of the men of Rutgers College

Who fought for the cause of independence in the American Revolution

This tablet is placed by the

New Jersey Society

...

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

United Nations Educational Scientific

and Cultural Organization

MAB

Program on Man and the Biosphere

By Decision of the Bureau of the international

coordinating council of the program on man

and the biosphere, duly authorized

to that effect by the council

...

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Coffey County, Kansas

 

Coffey County Courthouse

1901-1964

Frederick and Isabelle Scott Troxell

Built First Home in Coffey County-1854

August Zscheile

Burlington Carriage Works

Delos Miller

Sheriff - 1877

C. B. Graves

County Attorney - 1876

W. H. Bear

Register of Deeds - ...

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Nedrow c. 1798

Known as Onondaga Castle until 1897. Renamed Rockwell Springs for the sulphur springs & picnic area. Nedrow P.O. est'd 1917.

Marker is at the intersection of South Salina Street (U.S. 11) and Wendell Road/Rockwell Road on South Salina Street.

Courtesy ...

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Theological Education in Old Queens

From 1811 to 1856 students preparing for ministry in the Reformed Church in America received their theological education in Old Queens.

Erected on the occasion of the Bicentennial of New Brunswick Seminary

1784-1984

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Hobson House

Located at the West end of Main St. Home of Col. Atwood G. Hobson, lawyer, banker and Union officer, begun, 1860. During Confederate occupation of Bowling Green, 1862, CSA Gen. Simon B. Buckner saved house at request of his friend, ...

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