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Zelda Fitzgerald

1900-1948

Writer, artist, Jazz Age

icon; wife of F. Scott

Fitzgerald. On Mar. 10,

1948, died in Highland

Hospital fire, ¼ mi. S.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (North Carolina Route 1791) and WT Weaver Blvd, on the right when ...

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The University of North Carolina at Asheville

Established 1927; became

Asheville-Biltmore

College 1936. Moved here

in 1961. A campus of

The University of North

Carolina, 1969.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway (North Carolina Route 1791) and WT Weaver Blvd, on the right when traveling north ...

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Battle of Asheville

On April 3, 1865, Union Col.

Isaac M. Kirby left East Tenn.

with 1100 men on a raid against

Asheville. On April 6, Kirby's

force was defeated by local

militia under Col. G. W. Clayton.

Earthworks remain 100 yds. N.

Marker ...

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Trackside Buildings

This 1870s view of Horseshoe Curve looks north past the rubble-strewn trackside area where you are standing, to show a coal hopper and a track along the hillside. These are evidence of coal mining activity along Kittanning Run. The shanty ...

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Watching The Curve

Caption of drawing at top left The GE P42DC produced by General Electric Transportation Systems.

Caption of drawing at top right Norfolk Southern SD40-Es usually come up in pairs. And often on both ends of long freight trains going up hill. ...

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Washington Afro-American Newspaper Office Building

1800 11th Street, NW

The independent weekly Afro-American, one of the most enduring Black newspapers in the country was founded in Baltimore in 1892 by John H. Murphy, Sr. The Washington Afro-American began publication in 1932, and operated from this ...

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George Cleeves Memorial

In honor of

George Cleeves

Founder of Portland

1633

Deputy President

of the

Province of Lygonia

1645 - 1659

There landed with

George Cleeves,

his wife Joan,

and daughter

Elizabeth,

his partner

Richard Tucker,

and his wife

Margaret

Erected

July 4th, 1883

[Base sides read] Machigonne, Casco, Falmouth and Portland

Marker is at the intersection of Eastern Promenade and Congress ...

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The Road to Fort Duquesne

 

This memorial was erected in 1907

by the Society of Colonial Wars

in the District of Columbia

to mark the road over which

on April 14, 1755

a division of the British Army

under General Braddock

marched on its ...

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4. The Counter-Offensive Takes Shape

The Battle of Queenston Heights Walking Tour

The Niagara escarpment rises above you. The British reinforcements arriving here from Fort George, in battle dress and exhausted from a "double quick march", struggled up this slope some distance to your right.

While the ...

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Welcome to Thomaston, Maine, the Town That Went to Sea

The Museum in the Streets

Thomaston is known for its historic white houses. Both Main and Knox Streets are on the National Historic Register. Of the slightly more than 700 homes in town, approximately eighty-five percent are more than one hundred ...

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