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Cherry Hill Black Cemetery

A colonial & early American cemetery for Blacks, free and slave, lies up to the rear of the church.

Marker is on Readington Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School

District No. 9

Originally at the NW corner of Fish Hatchery and Lacy Roads, the Dogtown School was later relocated ½ mile north and called the Fish Hatchery School. The Gorman Family relocated and restored the one room schoolhouse on this ...

South Branch Of The Central R.R.

Arrival in 1864 spawned the town of Three Bridges.

Huge quantities of livestock and meats were shipped from here. Passenger service ended 1953. Station dismantled in 1955.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and South Street, on the right ...

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Civil War Action at Vienna

On June 17, 1861, at this bend in the railroad, a Union train carrying 271 men of the 1st Ohio Volunteers was ambushed by nearly 700 South Carolina infantry and cavalry. Amid artillery fire, the Ohioans jumped from the platform ...

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Three Bridges

Early Indian trail known after 1711 survey as “The York Road,” later as “The Old York Road.” A third bridge added west of here in 1813 provided town’s official name in 1866.

Marker is on Old York Road, on the right ...

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First Brigade

(The Stonewall Brigade)

August 28, 1862

7:00 p.m.

Jackson's Division (W. B. Taliaferro)

Left Wing (Jackson)

Army of Northern Virginia, CSA

First Brigade

(The Stonewall Brigade)

Col. William S. Baylor

2nd Virginia 5th Virginia

4th Virginia 27th Virginia

33rd Virginia

"Here one of the most terrific engagements that can be conceived of ...

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John Stewart

1816 — 1916

JOHN

STEWART

——

Apostle to the

Wyandot Indians

Father

of missions of

the Methodist

Episcopal Church

Marker is at the intersection of East Church Street and North 4th Street, on the left when traveling east on East Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Orphans Cemetery

Albert G. Williamson, a Dodge County entrepreneur, donated land for a burial place in Orphans community following the death of a neighbor’s child, George

P.A. Barnes, in 1887. The community was named in honor of the six orphaned Williamson brothers who ...

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Old York Road

Early Lenape Indian trail; became a "Kings Highway" in 1764. Was main stage route between Philadelphia and New York.

Marker is on Old York Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The National Farmers Memorial

 

This Memorial is dedicated to the American Farmer past, present and future

To the Farmers of America

Because of the sacrifices that you have made

Because of the hardships that you have endured

Because of your determination to succeed

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