Fort Early

The Confederate Center

Following the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg in July 1863, Lynchburg’s citizens became concerned about the lack of defenses around the city. Gen. Francis Nicholls, post commander, prepared a series of earthen redoubts and trenches at strategic points to ...

State of Ohio Pearl Harbor Survivors

Remember Pearl Harbor

Memorial to all State of Ohio

Pearl Harbor Survivors

0755 • 7 Dec 41

In Memorium

Dedicated 16 Sep 94

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Early English Exploration

In 1650 Fort Henry, now Petersburg, marked the western and southern extent of English settlement in, and knowledge of, Virginia. On 27 Aug. 1650, Edward Bland, merchant and land speculator, and Abraham Wood, frontier militia commander, left Fort Henry on ...

Earl Bellamy

Utah's Little Hollywood

Director

Filmaking In Kanab

Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin • Daniel Boone

The Lone Ranger • The Six Million Dollar Man

Tales of Wells Fargo • Wagon Train

Marker is on Center Street (U.S. 89), on the left when traveling west.

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In Memory of Early Settlers

To the glory of God and in grateful memory of those early settlers, the founders of this Nation who died at Jamestown during the first perilous years of the colony.

Their bodies lie along the ridge beyond this cross, in the ...

Earleton, Florida

(Front text)

Earleton is named for General Elias B. Earle (1821-1893) who received government land grants in Florida for his service in the U.S./Mexican War (1846-48). Born into a prominent South Carolina family, Gen. Earle fought in the Palmetto Regiment, ...

Joseph Early Home

One mile west was the home of Joseph Early, Revolutionary soldier. Washington, in going west and returning, stopped at Early’s overnight. His diary for October 2, 1884, shows that he spent the night before at “Widow Early’s.”

Marker is at the ...

The Early Mountain Brook Village Area

Once an Indian hunting ground, this land was opened for settlement after the War of 1812. The first settlers, who fought in that war under Andrew Jackson, came here in the early 1820’s after the U.S. acquired the land in ...

Site of Early Spanish Mission

This high bluff was the site of one of the early Spanish Missions of the Old District of Guale. Here, in the late 16th and the 17th centuries, Franciscan friars labored with the Indians, converting them to Chritianity and instructing ...

Earle's Ford and Fort

Erected By Cowpens Chapter D.A.R. to the Memory of The Valiant Defenders of Earle's Ford and Fort • July 15, 1780

Marker is on Landrum Rd (South Carolina Route 14), on the left when traveling north.

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