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Sergeantsville First Brethren Church

Founded in 1898. Building constructed the same year.

Its Gothic Revival style is unique in Hunterdon County.

Marker is on Rosemont - Ringoes Road, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Rappahannock County / Culpeper County

Rappahannock County. Area 274 square miles. Formed in 1833 from Culpeper, and named for the Rappahannock River, headwaters of which are in this county.

Culpeper County. Area 384 square miles. Formed in 1748 from Orange, and named for Lord Culpeper, Governor ...

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Jim Bridger

Trapper 1844

He little knew that when he cut his name, or had it cut, in this stone, that it would be engraved in the annals of the West deeper than that of any other man. As one of the world's ...

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Lower Agrillite Alley

Lenape tribes used this abundant Hunterdon mineral for spearpoints and tools. One of their trade routes followed the River Road (now Rte. 29) southwards toward Sanhican (Trenton).

Marker is on Trenton Ave. (New Jersey Route 29) just south of S. Washington ...

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Union Lee Baptist Church

According to oral tradition, this congregation began meeting together for outdoor worship services in 1874. In 1884, Leonard Eck donated land, the B.J. Lee family gave a building, and the church was formally organized with the Rev. Anthony Winn as ...

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Town of Monterey

Headquarters Town

Monterey was headquarters for Confederates during much of the 1861 Mountain Campaign and headquarters for Federals prior to the fighting at McDowell. In the winter of 1861-1862, skirmishing occurred across the county as the frontier between the armies shifted ...

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Seeds-Kee-Dee-Agie, Spanish River, Rio Verde, Green River

To the Shoshone Indian, this river was the Seeds-Kee-Dee Agie (Prairie Chicken River). On Sept. 16 1811, the Astorians near its headwaters termed it the Spanish River. To the Spaniards, far to the south, it was the Rio Verde (Green ...

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Graves of the Pierponts

In Memoriam

Francis H. Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia and the "Father of West Virginia" died on March 24, 1899. He is buried here with his wife, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont. They first met when he interviewed her ...

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Washington Spring

1780

The Continental Army is reported to have utilized the old spring at the base of these slopes during the September encampment west of the Hackensack River.

Reports indicate that General Washington visited here and drank water from the spring.

Bergen County Park ...

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Ruhama Baptist Church

Constituted in 1819 by pioneer settlers in Territory of Alabama.

Oldest Church in Birmingham Baptist Association.

Elder Hosea Holcombe served as first pastor.

First meeting house was log cabin.

Present building is on fourth site.

Marker is on 2nd Avenue South, on the right ...

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