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Bordentown Veteran's Memorial

In honor of all men & women who served our country in the Armed Forces

Marker is at the intersection of Crosswicks Road and Cemetery Lane, on the right when traveling east on Crosswicks Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Four Corners

Until 1930 this intersection was the turn-off point for west-bound motorists who opted to drive northward to avoid the Jugtown Mtn. grades toward Phillipsburg and Easton.

Marker is at the intersection of Center Street and Leigh Street, on the right when ...

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Converse Heights

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Converse Heights is one of Spartanburg's earliest suburbs, with most of its houses built between 1906 and 1950. This area was originally the antebellum plantation of Govan Mills (1805-1862). In 1906 Mills' heirs sold the property to Spartanburg Realty Company ...

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Benjamin Lundy Home / Free Labor Store

Benjamin Lundy Home:

After witnessing the slave trade in Wheeling, Virginia, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) resolved to battle the institution, first organizing the Union Humane Society in St. Clairsville in 1815. In 1821, Lundy moved to Mount Pleasant and began ...

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Lott Cary Birthplace

A mile and a half northwest, Lott Cary was born in slavery about 1780. In 1804 his owner, John Bowry, a Methodist minister, hired him out to a Richmond tobacco firm. Cary joined the First Baptist Church in 1807. He ...

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Mount Pleasant Historic Underground Railroad District

Historic Underground Railroad Site

By 1816, Mount Pleasant had earned a reputation among fugitive slaves as a town where they would be welcomed in their quest for freedom. The Quakers who lived in the village helped Mount Pleasant become a center ...

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John D. Kilgore

Two Ridges Presbyterian Church

Brass plaque:

The Bell located in the tower above was donated by

John D. Kilgore in 1887.

The following inscription is found on the bell:

May the Glory of This Latter House Be Greater Than Any Former.

Church Organized 1802.

12 Pastorates ...

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Erected by Sullivan - Dunklin Chapter D.A.R.

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Approximately 2 miles s.e. is the corner of the Old Indian Boundary Line. Nearby is also the original site 1785 of the following:

Lebanon Church, the Rev. Mark Moore's School, the Grove Settlement.

The church organizers 1785 were: the Rev. Mark Moore ...

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Richard Pearis

Reede River Falls Historic Park

Richard Pearis, Greenville's first white settler, was an Irish adventurer who had settled in Virginia with his wife and family by the middle of the eighteenth century. He developed good trade relationships with the Cherokee Indians, ...

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Milford Remembers

[ south side ]

Milford Remembers

New York City

Erected by the People of Milford, Connecticut in memory of the innocent victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. With ...

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