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Blenheim Bridge

Longest single span wooden

bridge in world. Built by

Blenheim Bridge Company,

Incorporated 1828. Last of

its kind in this region.

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 30 and Eastside Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 30.

Courtesy ...

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Naruna Baptist Church

Naruna Baptist Church Settlers came to the Naruna area as early as the 1840s, and the town was named by its first postmaster, William M. Spitler, who came to Texas on the riverboat Naruna. Residents formed Providence Baptist Church in ...

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Mount Horeb Lodge

Chartered Jan. 21, 1854; met in log schoolhouse.

Erected own lodge hall 1856 on land given by Grand Master Sam Mather and B. K. Stewart. First floor used as church and school. A fire in 1915 razed hall. Lodge rebuilt here ...

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Old Blenheim Bridge

Erected 1854 - 1855 by

Nicholas Montgomery Powers

Famous bridge builder

Born Pittsford, Vermont, August 30, 1817

Died Clarendon, Vermont, 1897

This bridge, 232 feet in length, the

longest covered single-span wooden

bridge in the world, was built for the

Blenheim Bridge Company, and was used

as a ...

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Battersea

Battersea was the home of Colonel John Banister, a member of the House of Burgesses, the Revolutionary conventions, and the Continental Congress, as well as a framer of the Articles of Confederation and the first mayor of Petersburg. The elegant ...

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The Grave of Duncan Campbell & Jane McCrea

 

The Grave of

Duncan Campbell

& Jane McCrea

are just within and

to the left

of this gateway.

Marker is on Broadway (U.S. 4), on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Solomon Blatt, Sr.

Erected to honor

Solomon Blatt Sr.

who was born in Blackville February 27, 1825

The son of Nathan and Mollie Blatt

A courageous gentleman and statesman who loves Blackville

and all its citizens.

No other Blackville citizen has been honored as has Mr. Blatt

and ...

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Golden Ball Tavern

Here stood a dwelling house, constructed about 1764 by prosperous tobacco merchant, Richard Hanson, who, as a fervent Loyalist, fled Virginia in 1776. During the latter part of the Revolution, the structure became known as the Golden Ball Tavern. According ...

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Arizona’s Liberty Bell Monument

Dedicated To You, A Free Citizen In A Free Land

This reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the people of

Arizona

by direction of

The Honorable John W. Snyder

Secretary of the Treasury

As the inspirational symbol of the United States savings bonds ...

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Friendship between the United States and

Canada was developed and strengthened by

the signing of the Webster-Ashburton

Treaty, on August 9, 1842, in the old State

Department building which stood on this

site. This treaty established the north-

eastern boundary ...

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