Montcalm's Camp

On these grounds Montcalm's Army camped during the siege of Ft. Wm. Henry, August 6 - 9, 1757

Marker is on Canada Street (U.S. 9), on the left when traveling north.

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364th Fighter Group

383rd, 384th, 385th Fighter Sqdns & Support Units

A Memorial to Those Who Served

in the 364th Fighter Group

Missions 342

Enemy A/c destroyed 455

Honington, England, 8th Air Force

1944-1945

Activated - 25 May 1943,

Deactivated - 10 Nov 1945

Dedicated - 19 September 1986

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Saint Mary of the Springs Academy / Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880-1

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Saint Mary of the Springs Academy

On this site stood St. Mary of the Springs Academy, a school for girls first founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1830 in Somerset, Ohio, to respond to the educational needs of frontier Catholics. ...

Joseph De Rivera St. Jurgo, 1813-1889

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Joseph (José) de Rivera was born in Barcelona, Spain, and built an import business in New York City. In 1854, he bought six Lake Erie Islands and had South Bass Island surveyed and subdivided into ten-acre lots. ...

Radeau Warship

Land Tortoise, built by Colonial and British troops, near this site in 1758. Lies 2 miles north in 107 feet of water.

Marker is on Beach Road ½ mile east of County Route 9L, on the right when traveling east.

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Old Philadelphia Congregations

It was in Philadelphia, alone of America's colonial cities, that Quakers, Jews, Catholics and Protestants "experienced the difficulties and discovered the possibilities of fruitful coexistence that American democracy was to offer." Philadelphia is a city that not only tolerated but ...

Shelby County / Memphis

Shelby County

Established 1819; named in honor of ISAAC SHELBY who, along with Andrew Jackson, as appointed United States Commissioner; together they arranged the purchase of the Western District from the Chickasaw Indian Nation in 1818.

Memphis

Founded 1819, by Andrew Jackson, John ...

Mary Potter Academy

Founded by G.C. Shaw 1889 to educate African Americans. Named for a Presbyterian benefactor. Later a public school. Operated one block east.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street (U.S. 15) and East McClanahan Street, on the right when traveling ...

Oakland Plantation

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This plantation was established in 1735 with a royal grant to William Sanders, who built a house and tavern, or “publick house,” here. That house was either extensively remodeled into or replaced by the present house featuring a ...

First Protest against Slavery

Here in 1688, at the home of Tunes Kunders, an eloquent protest was written by a group of German Quakers. Signed by Pastorius and three others, it preceded by 92 years Pennsylvania’s passage of the nation’s first abolition law.

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