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Scarborough Bluffs

The layers of sand and clay exposed in these cliffs display a remarkable geological record of the last stages of the Great Ice Age. Unique in North America, they have attracted worldwide scientific interest. The first 46 metres of sediments ...

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Old Coal Pit Railroad Bed

This railroad bed carried coal from the Deep Run and Springfield Coal Pits, two miles to the northeast of here, during the nineteenth century. The line ran south for about six miles to the now abandoned Kanawha Canal on the ...

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James Chamberlain Jones

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Popularly known as “Lean Jimmy,” lived here. First native Tennessean to become Governor, he defeated James K. Polk in 1841 and 1843. In 1850, became President of Memphis & Charleston RR. Served as U.S. Senator from 1851 to 1853. He ...

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The Battle of Fort George

La Bataille de Fort George

On the 25th May, 1813, the American Fleet and the Batteries at Fort Niagara across the river began a devastating two-day bombardment of Fort George. On the 27th a large American force was landed and after ...

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First Baptist Church of Kennard

In October 1903, approximately fourteen men and women organized the First Baptist Church of Kenard. The congregation selected four trustees: Dr. T.M. Sherman, George W. Willis, M.B. Matchett and Hugh P. English, who served the church in many capacities throughout ...

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Greene's - Third Brigade

Geary's - Second Division

[Front Side of Monument]

78th New York Infantry

137th New York Infantry

149th New York Infantry

Greene's - Third Brigade

Geary's - Second Division

Slocum's - Twelfth Corps

Hooker's Command

11th and 12th Corps

Army of the Potomac

Oct. 28-29 1863

[Reverse Side of Monument]

Two sections of Knap's ...

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Battle of Edgar's Lane

Sept. 30, 1778 Continental Dragoons Under Maj. Henry Lee killed 23 Hessians on a Marauding Expedition. Battle Waged Here to Ravine

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (U.S. 9) and Edgar's Lane, on the right when traveling north on ...

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Belle Mont

Built between 1828 and 1832, Belle Mont is a foremost example of Jeffersonian Palladian Architecture in the deep south and one of Alabama's first great plantation houses.

It was build for Dr. Alexander W. Mitchell, a native of Virginia, and ...

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U.S.S. Bennington CVA-20

In memory of our shipmates and members of Air Task Group 181 lost in an accidental explosion on the USS Bennington while operating off the coast of Rhode Island on May 26, 1954

[ List of those killed in the explosion. ...

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Wright-Patterson AFB

1927

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...

-John Gillespie Magee

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has led the nation throughout the evolution of U.S. military air superiority. When the original Wright Field was ...

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