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Tabitha A. Holton

1854 – 1886

First woman licensed to

practice law in North

Carolina, 1878. Lived

thirty yards northwest.

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (U.S. 601) and W Atkins Street, on the right when traveling south on N Main Street.

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Wm. Rainey Holt

Physician. Advocate of

scientific agriculture.

His plantation “Linwood”

was 6 miles southwest.

Built home here, 1834.

Marker is on S Main Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Judge Asa Holt House

?This house, built in 1853 by Judge Asa Holt, was struck by a cannon ball from Gen. Stoneman´s guns in East Macon during the Battle of Dunlap´s Hill. July 30, 1864, when the Union army tried unsuccessfully to take Macon. ...

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Rosholt War Memorial

In Memoriam

World War II

Luther J. Bestul

Leonard L. Dahlen

Onufry Dzwonkoski

Emory J. Nelson

Nick C. Ostrowski

Korea

Joseph S. Berna

David E. Halverson

Ernest M. Kaminski

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not graven only on stone over their clay but ...

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Rosholt Saw Mill

Site of last

Rosholt saw mill

Land given to

Rosholt Fair Assn

by

Mr. & Mrs. J. M.

Rustad

Marker is at the intersection of North Main Street and Forest Street on North Main Street.

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Rosholt

This site marks the beginning of the village of Rosholt. In 1867, Jens Rasmussen, who came from Lolland, Denmark, purchased land and improved a beaver dam here to furnish power for a grist mill. In 1885 the dam was acquired ...

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Gisholt Machine Company Manufacturing Complex

1899-1901; 1911; 1946

The Gisholt Machine Company site encompasses an expansive complex and is made up of three Neoclassical Revival style brick buildings: The 1899-1901 factory, the 1911 office building, and the 1946 engineering building. The company produced manufacturing tools including ...

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Holt’s Corner

Lee’s Retreat

While passing through this intersection, the Confederate column was attacked by Union cavalry. Consequently, part of Lee’s army, and the main wagon train, turned north onto the Jamestown Road while the main portion continued straight ahead to Rice’s Depot.

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C. B. Holt Rock House

African American Charles B. Holt owned a carpentry

business in Charlottesville’s Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The son of former slaves, Holt built this

Arts and Crafts-style house in 1925-1926, during

the era of segregation when blacks were more

than a quarter of the city’s population ...

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Lord Sholto Douglas

Within these walls, on Jan. 22, 1896, Lord Sholto Douglas, theatrical entrepreneur, and son of the Marquis of Queensbury of Pugilistic fame, was initiated into the mysteries of ECV. Though Douglas went on to riches, subsequent publicity of his initiation ...

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