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The Gift of Friendship

Japanese Pagoda

This 3,800 pound, 17th century Japanese Pagoda arrived in the Nation’s Capital in 1957 as a gift from Mayor Ryozo Hiranuma of Yokohama, Japan. Its parts packed in five shipping crates with no assembly instructions, the pagoda required ...

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Battle of Westport

Action on the Third Day

Near this point on the morning of October 23, 1864, Capt. Richard A. Collins' Confederate battery of Shelby's Brigade went into action, supported by two cavalry battalions. for two hours this battery dueled with the ...

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El Paso's First Newspaper

El Paso Del Norte where the Centuries Meet

El Paso's First Newspaper

Near this spot in 1860, grew a cottonwood tree on whose broad breast were posted many public and private notices. In one of these on August 6th, 1860, Anson Mills ...

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First Court of Washington County

On Feb. 23, 1778, 0.6 mile NE at the house of Col. Charles Robertson, Trustee, on the east “east (Catbird) branch of Sinking Creek” was held the First Court of the newly formed County of Washington, North Carolina, with John ...

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Death of Fletcher Webster

On the morning of the 30th, Col. Fletcher Webster wrote his wife:

"If a fight comes off, it will be to-day or to-morrow & will be a most dreadful & decisive one. This may be my last letter, dear love, for ...

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Faneuil Hall

This is Faneuil Hall

the Cradle of Liberty

built and given to the town

of Boston by Peter Faneuil

***** 1742 *****

Still used by a free people

1930

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Congress Street and North Street, on the right when traveling ...

Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere

The Signal Lanterns of

Paul Revere

displayed in the steeple of this church

April 18, 1775

warned the country of the march

of the British troops to

Lexington and Concord.

Marker is at the intersection of Salem Street and Hull Street, on the right when traveling north ...

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The First United States Soldiers to Be Stationed at the Pass of

1848 – 1948

By authority of War Department Orders of

November 7, 1848

The First United States Soldiers

to be stationed at the Pass of the North

Camped in this Area

Regimental Headquarters and Six Companies

of the Third Infantry

Major Jefferson Van Horne Commanding

arrived in El ...

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Nine of Primitive El Paso's Patriotic Heroes

To the memory of

nine of primative El Paso's

patriotic heroes

Emmett Mills

Aged 19

Freeman Thomas - Joe Poacher

M. Champion - John Pontel

Bob Avlin - John Wilson

Who in July 1861

were loyal citizens

of El Paso, Texas

and Loyal employees

of the Butterfield Overland Mail Co.

When all ...

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House and Farm of Colonel James Barrett

House and Farm of

Colonel James Barrett.

Commanding Officer

of the Middlesex Militia

On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British march from Boston which resulted in the outbreak of the Revolutionary War ended here with a search for military stores. Gun ...

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