Benjamin Silliman

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Benjamin Silliman

Youngest Son Of

Gold Selleck & Mary

Silliman

Of Fairfield

Born Aug 8, 1779

Died Nov. 24, 1864

During Fifty Years

A Teacher Of Science

In Yale College

Through Life

And Earnest Trustful

Cheerful Christian

The Friend Of Man And

Of All Truths

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Sarah Isabella

Second Wife Of

Benjamin ...

Jerusalem Mills

Established 1772 by David Lee a Quaker from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A gun manufactory back of the mill furnished guns for the Revolution in 1776. The original tract called Jerusalem patented 1687.

Marker is on Jerusalem Road 0.2 miles west of ...

Allen J. (A. J.) Vandayburg

In Memory Of

Allen J. (A.J.) Vandayburg

Specialist, US Army

Aug. 26, 1983-April 9, 2004

Killed In Action

Operation Iraqi Freedom

2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Div.

Freedom Isn't Free

Marker is on Park Avenue East (Ohio Route 430), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Vasbinder Fountain

Donated by David and Jane Vasbinder to the City of Mansfield on July 4, 1881, and served as the focal point of Central Park until December 17, 1958. Restored and relocated back into Central Park on July 4, 1979. The ...

Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh

Born at Lockport, N.Y. October 29, 1831. Died at New Haven, March 18, 1899

Professor of Paleontology in Yale University 1866 – 1899

President of the National Academy of Sciences 1883 – 1895

Eminent as Explorer, Collector and Investigator in Science

To ...

Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery

Begun May 15, 1866 by Ladies Confederate Cemetery Assn. of Vicksburg. Remains of over 1600 soldiers who died in Vicksburg campaign & siege were re-interred here.

Marker is on Sky Farn Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Willard Inter-Continental Hotel

Civil War to Civil Rights

"This hotel, in fact, may be much more justly called the center of Washington and the Union than either the Capitol, the White House or the State Department. . ."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Civil War reporter for the ...

" Let's Debate " by John McClarey

Sculptor John McClarey is a former Illinois high school history teacher with an international reputation as an artistic interpreter of Abraham Lincoln. He has won many prestigious awards for his work, including the Order of Lincoln in 2009. His Lincoln ...

Defender of Liberty

George Mason Memorial

“I ... looked forward to ... Independence, ... and will risque the last Penny of my Fortune and the last Drop of my Blood upon the Issue.”

George Mason, 1778.

George Mason belonged to the genteel Virginia ...

Jose Lobero's Opera House

1873

On this site, February 22, 1873, Jose Lobero, impressario and musician, opened the first legitimate theatre in southern California. The Lobero continues to serve the cultural interests of Santa Barbara one hundred years later.

Marker is at the intersection of East ...