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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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Jacob Bond I'On

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Jacob Bond I'On (1782-1859), planter, U.S. Army and militia officer, and state legislator, is buried in the family cemetery 1/2 mi. north. I'On, a contemporary of John C. Calhoun at Yale University, represented St. James Santee Parish in ...

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The Stoever - Schick Building

During the Battle of Gettysburg this Federal style building, erected in 1817, housed Professor Martin Stoever's family and J.L. Schick's general store. As a result of the battle the building hosted a variety of unusual events.

Shortly after the fighting began ...

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Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott / Hank Williams Alabama Trouba

Side A

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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Dubois County Civil War Memorial

[ Battle Names - Around Top of Memorial ]

Antietam • Chickamauga • Gettysburg • Vicksburg

[ Front Panel ]

Yield not to grief the tribute of a tear,

But ‘neath the fore-front of a

specious sky,

Smile all exultant, as they smiled at ...

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(Former) Marshfield Trust and Savings Bank

This terra-cotta-clad flat-iron building makes the most of its triangular building lot. Like many neighborhood banks from the 1920s, the Marshfield Trust and Savings Bank employed the Classical Revival style of architecture to convey a sense of permanence and security. ...

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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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Swayne College / Booker T. Washington School

Side A

Named for Union General and Freemen’s Bureau Agent Wager Swayne, Swayne College was dedicated 21 April 1869. The Bureau appropriated $10,000 for the building and the local black community purchased 3.5 acres for the site. Future officeholder Elijah Cook ...

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Revolutionary War Site - Shabakunk Creek

Under the command of Colonel Edward Hand a successful delaying action, fought at the Shabakunk Creek, prevented British forces fron reaching Trenton before nightfall where the Second Battle of Trenton took place at the Assunpink Creek January 2, 1777.

Marker is ...

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