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Montgomery’s Slave Markets / First Emancipation Observance - 186

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The city’s slave market was at the Artesian Basin (Court Square). Slaves of all ages were auctioned, along with land and livestock, standing in line to be inspected. Public posters advertised sales and included gender, approximate age, first name ...

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The Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, 1880

This is the only remaining original redwood frame Southern Pacific R.R. Station in Arizona. It is also the only known, original, on site, passenger depot still extant on the Southern – Trans – Continental Railroad route, between Los Angeles and ...

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Maybank Green / Hobcaw Plantation

 

Maybank GreenIn 1697 David Maybank II (1660-1713) acquired 200 acres along Hobcaw Creek from the Lords Proprietors. Maybank, a carpenter, built a house on this site which he named Hobcaw Plantation. The plantation passed to his daughter Susannah (1700-1746) ...

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Percy French

1854 - 1920

This memorial is erected on the site

of the birthplace of

William Percy French

Born 1st May 1854

and commemorates his life as

engineer, song-writer, entertainer,

artist and journalist.

“Remember me is all I ask,

and yet if the remembrance

prove a task - forget!” W.P.F.

Erected by ...

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Confederate Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

C.S.A.

Buckner's Division strength 3425, killed 51*, wounded 314*, missing 41 - Aggregate 406*

• Brown's Brigade strength 2825, killed 38, wounded 247, missing 41 - Aggregate 326

• Hanson's Regiment strength 600, killed 13*, wounded 67* - Aggregate 80

Johnson's Division strength 4309*, ...

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Federal Troops and Casualties at Fort Donelson

U.S.A.

McClearnand's Division strength 8000, killed 311, wounded 1058, missing 183 - Aggregate 1552

Oglesby's Brigade killed 184, wounded 603, missing 66 - Aggregate 853

• Wallace's Brigade killed 99, wounded 350, missing 98 - Aggregate 547

• Morrison's Brigade killed 28, wounded ...

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Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott / Hank Williams Alabama Trouba

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At the bus stop on this site on December 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to boarding whites. This brought about her arrest, conviction, and fine. The Boycott began December 5, the day of ...

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Palace Saloon and Pool Hall, 1905

Earliest panel brick style commercial building in Willcox. Was a meat market during prohibition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Marker is on South Railroad Avenue near West Maley Street (Arizona Route 186), on the right when traveling south. ...

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First Mission and Pueblo in Texas

Corpus Christi de la Ysleta

Established by

Don Antonio de Otermin

and

Fray Francisco Ayeta O.F.M.

in 1682

Maintained by

Franciscan missionaries

for the civilizing and Christianizing

of the Tigua Indians,

Pueblo Revolt refugees

Marker can be reached from Alameda Avenue when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Packer John's Cabin

John Welch -- always known as Packer John -- hauled supplies from Lewiston to Idaho City during a major Boise Basin gold rush of 1863-1864.

He built a cabin (1/4 mile north of here) that immediately became an historic Idaho landmark. ...

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