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Bernardsville Fire Company

To the glory of God and in memory of the departed members of the Bernardsville Fire Company.

Marker is on New Jersey Route 202, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Pierce Memorial Methodist Church

The first regular appointment for Sparta as a preaching place on a circuit was in 1799 with George Dougherty, one of the great preachers of the period as pastor. In 1802, Bishop Francis Asbury preached in the courthouse.

In 1806, the ...

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Isaac Duvall and Company

The first glass house in Western Virginia was built at Charlestown, now Wellsburg, in 1813, by Isaac Taylor Duvall and Company. It was located on the southeast corner of Fifth and Yankee Streets. Cobalt blue, green and clear flint glass ...

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Campaign Poles

(Left) Campaign poles sported flags and banners, such as this one from 1844 supporting Lincoln's hero, Henry clay. Lashed to Lincoln's 120-foot presidential Ash Pole in 1860 was a broom--- signifying Lincoln's intent to sweep corrupt Democrats out of Washington's ...

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Capt. Charles F. Rand

In Memory of

A native Batavian who once lived at No. 4 Liberty Street. Charles Franklin Rand is officially recognized by the Congress of the United States as the first person to answer President Lincoln's appeal for volunteers in the ...

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Centennial Park

Commemorating One Hundred Years

of educating blind students in

Batavia at the New York State

School for the Blind - First Opened

in September of 1868

Marker is on Richmond Avenue, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Joshua Speed's Store

There was a housing shortage in Springfield when 28 year old Abraham Lincoln---riding a borrowed horse---moved here from New Salem in April 1837. Builders couldn't keep up with the newly designated state capital. One of Lincoln's first stops was at ...

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Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Wilderness Area

You are about to enter the Wilderness Area of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. Designated by Congress in 1968, this area is part of the 100-million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System. It is distinguished in being the first designated Wilderness ...

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Eatons Corners Post Office & Store

 

Site of

post office & store established about 1820 by Lemuel Eaton and run for years. He brought the mail each Saturday on horseback from Amsterdam.

Marker is at the intersection of Eatons Corners Road (County Route 147) and ...

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Princeton War Memorial

World War I

Memorial

In memory of

Bernard Kasierski · Leo Leonard · Jacob Lese · Walter Shave · Edward L. Drill · Stanish Naperalla · William Malzham · Sylvester Rutkowski · Joseph Gebert

"Their ultimate sacrifice shall

live in ...

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