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Camp Chapel

The site of camp meetings between 1776 and 1807, when a log chapel was built. Methodist leader Francis Asbury visited frequently.

Marker is on Joppa Road 0.1 miles east of Honeygo Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Bum Proof Stockade

Fortress Rosecans

Those things [you see] inside the fort ... this shape + ... are bum [bomb] proof stockades. The outside line is heavy oak timer hewn on 3 sides ... about 10 feet high. The timber is .. set up ...

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United States Capitol Grounds

 

[Diagram of Capitol Square - East and West Plazas]

General Plan for the Improvement of the U.S. Capitol Grounds by Frederick Law Olmstead, 1874

Following the extension of the Capitol in the 1850s-1860s, the grounds were enlarged in 1872. ...

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In Honor of James Joseph Reeb

1927-1965

Rev. James J. Reeb, an Army Veteran and Unitarian minister from Casper, Wyoming, was working in Boston when Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. appealed for clergymen of all faiths to come to Selma to protest the violence that occurred at ...

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Heylmann Repository

The long-standing carriage & wagon manufactory of Heylmann & Sons had its beginnings here. Built in 1872, it is one of downtown's oldest remaining structures. A facade remodeling in 1918 updated it for a new tenant, the gas company.

Marker is ...

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118th Pennsylvania Volunteers

Corn Exchange Regiment

(Front):118th Penna. Vol's

Corn Exchange Reg't

1st Brigade 1st Division 5th Corps

Army of the Potomac

(Left):Engaged in advance

of "Wheat Field" July 2,

and held this position

July 3, and 4, 1863.

(Back):Mustered into service

August 30, 1862

Mustered out June 1, 1865

Participated in 34 battles

Killed in ...

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Mormon Battalion Campsite

Dec. 11, 1846

Herd of Wild

Horses and

Bulls

Erected 1960

Marker is on Arizona Route 90 at milepost 329, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Temple Mishkan Israel

Side A

The earliest Jewish settlers came to Selma prior to the Civil War, some as early as the 1830’s. A group of Jewish citizens assembled as the Mishkan Israel Congregation and began meeting in private homes in 1867. The congregation ...

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Albert Pike

In Loving Memory

Albert Pike

Arkansas Poet of the Confederacy

Philosopher, Jurist, Philologist,

Ethnologist, Statesman, Man of Letters

Born in Boston Mass, 1809

Died in Washington D.C. 1891

The greater part of his life was passed where his work was done in Arkansas

Marker is on Old Airport ...

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The Sleeping Prophet

Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), was internationally accepted as an extremely gifted psychic. An humble man, he never profited materially from his psychic ability, but used it to help “make manifest the lover of God and man.” Operated his photography studio and ...

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