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Bouquet Camp

Bouquet Camp, supply base in the Forbes' campaign against the French holding Fort Duquesne in 1758, was near here. Named in honor of Col. Bouquet, second-in-command and builder of Forbes Road.

Marker is at the intersection of Saltsburg Road (Pennsylvania Route ...

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Abraham Baldwin

Founder of the University of Georgia

Born in North Gilbert, Connecticut, November 2, 1754; graduate of Yale, 1772; licensed to preach by the New Haven Association of Ministers, 1775; Tutor in Yale, 1775 – 1779, Chaplain in the Continental Army, 1779 ...

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Greensboro Law School

Est. by Robert P. Dick & John H. Dillard in 1878. About 300 graduates licensed. School, which was here, closed 1893.

Marker is at the intersection of West Market Street and North Elm Street, on the right when traveling west on ...

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Braddock's Field

Known as the high tide of the Whiskey Rebellion, the rendezvous of militias from Pennsylvania's four western counties took place here, August 1-2, 1794. This was the largest armed resistance to the national government between the Revolutionary and Civil War ...

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Site: Ault's Mill

In this vicinity stood Ault’s mill and residence cited in Official Records as Lt. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee’s headquarters, May 8-13, 1864.

Hardee was in temporary command of units of Hood’s A.C. (Hindman’s div.) together with his own corps at various ...

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Minden Park

Built in 1906. the park became the “town square” for the first residential section of Minden. The first bandstand, a rectangular structure, was built in 1914. The present bandstand was built by the Minden Rotary Club in 1984 and dedicated ...

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Carpenter's Battery - Latimer's Battalion

Johnson's Division - Ewell's Corps

Army of Northern Virginia

Ewell's Corps - Johnson's Division

Latimer's Battalion - Carpenter's Battery

The Allegheny Artillery

Two Napoleons and Two 3 inch Rifles

July 2 The Battery took a prominent part in the cannonade against the Union Artillery on East ...

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Braddock's Defeat

July 9, 1755, Gen. Braddock's British forces en route to capture Fort Duquesne were ambushed and routed by French and Indians within present limits of Braddock and North Braddock, forcing retreat and failure of the expedition.

Marker is on Library Street ...

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Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles

Our Lady Queen of Angels

This tablet commemorates the

one hundredth anniversary

of the erection of this church

Our Lady Queen of Angeles.

Built in 1814 by the Franciscan

Fathers, restored and enlarged in 1912

Right Reverend Thomas James Conaty

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Benner's Hill

"The most accurate fire I have yet seen from their artillery."

Colonel Charles S. Wainwright

1st Corps Artillery Brigade, USA

The Confederate battle plan on July 2 called for General Richard Ewell's Second Corps to threaten the right flank of the Union army, ...

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