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Southern Exploring Company – 1849

Parley P. Pratt

The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming ...

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La Verkin

"Indian for Beautiful Valley"

In 1881 Thomas Judd, promoter, with others completed an 840 foot tunnel and 1 1/4 mile canal to bring water from the Rio Virgin for the cultivation of this valley. Excavations opened a large crystal cave of ...

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Southern Exploring Company - 1849

Parley P. Pratt

The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming ...

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Look-out Point

Hurricane Valley Historic Rock Fort and Corral

With the settlement of Toquerville in 1858 by the first six families and others soon to join them, they soon realized that the pressures on the available irrigated farmland could not support the increasing ...

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Galveston Artillery Club

By 1840, a year after its incorporation, the city of Galveston was home to approximately 1,200 residents, the entry point for scores of immigrants and a major coastal shipping port. Ongoing tensions between the young Republic of Texas and Mexico ...

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Mt Jackson General Hospital

Shenandoah at War

In September 1861, the Confederate Medical Department built a large general hospital on this site because Mt. Jackson was the western terminus of the Manassas Gap Railroad, which provided access to northern Virginia battlefields. Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, ...

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William Lee Watkins

Meals on Wheels Center

This facility was originally built in 1951 and was the cafeteria for the McCants Middle School. Renovation of the space for Meals on Wheels was completed in 2000 to allow for the expansion of the successful community ...

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Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham

The City and County

of Effingham

erect and dedicate

this monument to the

memory of

Lord Thomas Howard

Earl of Effingham

who with courage and loyalty

to his principles

of freedom and justice

resigned his commission as

deputy marshal of

His Majesty George III

of England

rather than draw his sword

against the American Colonies

in ...

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Dr. Charles M. Wright House

Built in 1889

has been entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

by the United States

Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of Jackson Street and Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Jackson Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Songo Lock

This lock, originally built of stone masonry in 1830, was a vital link in the 50 mile long waterway from Portland Harbor to Harrison at the head of Long Lake until the advent of the railroad in 1869. At one ...

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