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The Exchange

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places

The Exchange - constructed in 1880, the building housed the Bank of Breckenridge, the Engle Bros. Exchange Bank and the Post Office at various times.

Marker is at the intersection ...

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Great Auto Race

1908 - Centennial - 2008

From New York to Paris.

Racers arrived in Canastota Feb. 14th staying overnight.

The U.S. team won the race.

Marker is at the intersection of South Peterboro Street and Railroad Street, on the left when ...

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To Commemorate the Site of the First Permanent Capitol of Georgia

Built in 1795, and before whose door the Yazoo Fraud papers were burned with fire drawn from heaven, February 15, 1796.

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling ...

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Site of Capitol Building

Louisville Georgia

First Capitol built by the State of Georgia. Used as seat of government 1796 - 1807

Marker is on Broad Street (Business U.S. 1) 0 miles east of Green Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Civil War in Lynchburg

Prisoner-of-War Camp

This was the site of a Confederate training camp and Union prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. Before Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, the population of Lynchburg doubled

with the influx of soldiers from

other parts of the ...

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On This Site Stood Metro Clothes

Owned and managed by Joseph Feldstein, Metro Clothes was established in 1932 and originally located across the street. The business relocated to this site after the 1936 flood. Metro Clothes was a leading outfitter in men’s and boys’ clothing and ...

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Dundee Memorial Park Streetcar Wall

Dundee, Omaha's first suburb, was connected to downtown by the streetcar. Dundee was literally the end-of-the-line. The streetcars reversed their course just west of this site. In 1891, a steam driven "trolley" and then a horse-drawn car brought people free ...

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Hal Price Headley

1888 - 1962

Hal Price Headley embodied the image of the Bluegrass horseman. He was sophisticated in business, but always a man of agriculture, raising tobacco as well as Thoroughbreds. His lasting legacy to Lexington was his instrumental role in formation ...

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Col. E. R. Bradley

1859 - 1946

The activities of Col. E. R. Bradley ranged from operating Palm Beach's Beach Club casino to staging charity race days for orphans. A product of a burgeoning nation in the 19th century, Bradley worked in steel mills in ...

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Henry Clay

1777 - 1852

Visitors familiar with Lexington's Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, know it as a graceful old house, with lovely gardens and grounds. In an earlier time, when Henry Clay built it to some 2,000 acres, Ashland was also ...

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