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Lizabeth A. Turner

Lizabeth A. Turner

Past National President

Woman's Relief Corps

Auxiliary to the

Grand Army of the Republic

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Life Chairman

Andersonville Prison Board

Died at Andersonville

April 27, 1907

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Erected by the

Relief Woman's Corps

To memorialize her work in

Hallowing these grounds

Marker is on Prison Site Road south of Cemetery Road, on ...

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Boston Post Road

This section of the old Boston Post Road – Washington Street to Southbridge Road – was probably named for General George Washington who traveled this way en route to Boston to take command of the American troops in 1775. He ...

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DeBruhl-Marshall House

A fine example of the classic style in Southern domestic architecture. Built in 1820, probably after a design of Robert Mills. For almost one hundred years the home of the DeBruhl and Marshall families.

Marker is on Laurel Street near Marion ...

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Beery's Shipyard

On the west side of the river

a little south of the causeway

was Berry's Shipyard, where the

Confederate ironclad North Carolina

was built in 1862 for the protection

of the port. The ironclad Raleigh

was constructed at Cassidy's Shipyard,

near the foot of Church Street in ...

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Beery’s Shipyard

Many Confederate naval vessels, including the ironclad “North Carolina,” built here. Site lies across river on Eagles Island, ¼ mile west.

Marker is on Market Street (U.S. 17) just west of North 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy ...

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Judah P. Benjamin

United States Senator, Confederate Attorney General, Secretary of War, & of State, later lawyer in England. His early home was here.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 17) 0.1 miles south of Ann Street, on the right when traveling south. ...

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McCurdy - Sears Building

[Side 'One']

Built in 1920 for financier and philanthropist William H. McCurdy (1853-1930), president of Old National Bank. Constructed of reinforced concrete with poured concrete floors, employing architectural developments newly pioneered for industrial buildings. Building leased by Sears, Roebuck and Company ...

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Trades along the Battle Road

Minute Man Nat’l Hist Park, Mass

In 1775, the house before you was the home of Job and Anna Brooks, and their children Asa and Anna. Across the street was the home of cousin Joshua Brooks and his family.

From the late ...

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Graves' Battery

The Confederate outer defenses, in February 1862, formed a 3-mile broken line around Fort Donelson and Dover. The Confederates cut trees in front of the entrenchments to construct an abitis, a formidable obstacle to the enemy. Field artillery batteries took ...

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Columbus Grove Municipal Pool

The construction of Putnam County's first public swimming pool helped Columbus Grove weather the Great Depression of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Village of Columbus Grove planned the pool to provide much-needed jobs ...

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