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Servis - Quick Family Cemetery

19th century family graveyard. Over 100 graves of local residents. Captain Jacob Servis, aide to Gen. Washington at Yorktown buried here. Stone wall built in 1848.

Marker is on County Road 579, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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New Market Historic District

Encompasses the 18th Century Hamlets of Linvale & Snydertown. Placed on the New Jersey & National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Marker is on Linvale Road north of New Jersey Route 31, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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General Green At The Round O

General Nathanael Greene advanced into the Low Country with the Continental Army under his command and set up headquarters in this vicinity on the Round O in December 1781 before moving down to protect the General Assembly convened at Jacksonborough ...

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Linvale Methodist Episcopal Church

Congregation formed in 1844. Church built in 1858.

Hamlet was then called New Market.

Marker is at the intersection of New Jersey Route 31 at milepost 13.4 and Linvale Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 31.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Covered Way

Camino Cubierto

The man-made hill around the fort, called the glacis (gla'sis), "covers" or protects this area from enemy fire. Capturing a fort's covered way usually involved a bloody assault.

Marker is on South Castillo Drive (State Highway A1A), on the right ...

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Eugene Sherwood

1828 - 1912

Born in London, England, graduate of Eton College, Captain in British Army and a London barrister. Arrived in San Francisco in 1856 as representative of a land purchasing group. Donated land in Salinas for railroad, churches, schools, streets, ...

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Remains of Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery

The State of New York Caused the Remains of Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery to be conveyed from Quebec and Deposited beneath this Monument the 8th day of July 1818.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway and Vesey Street, on the ...

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Mount Airy

Village Grew Up Around Holcombe’s Storehouse. Built In 1743. Patriot Army Passed Here June 1778.

Marker is at the intersection of New Jersey Route 179 and Mt. Airy Village Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 179.

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Site of Blue Mounds Fort

Built in May 1832 by the miners and settlers of the neighborhood and garrisoned by them as volunteer members of General Henry Dodge's Iowa-Michigan Brigade from May 20 to September 20, 1832 during the Black Hawk War

This site was donated ...

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The Most Dangerous Chieftain

When Sarah Anderson and her sons owned Dunlawton, Mosquito County settlers formed a militia unit called the Mosquito Roarers. Even with its fine name, this group reportedly lacked anyone who had ever "seen a gun fired in anger." By the ...

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