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Concordia Hall and Jewish Life in Little Rock

Site of the first Jewish house of worship in Arkansas

From 1882 to 1887, an ornate two-story space on the second floor of this building served as the social hall for the Concordia Association – an organization established in 1864 to ...

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Confederate Breastworks

This remarkably preserved stretch of the main Confederate line saw little action. Although the land here was much less wooded in 1864, its occupants appreciated the partial shelter offered by the low ground. The soldiers took advantage of it to ...

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Main Crown Forces Hospital

Burgoyne’s retreating army was forces to leave its sick and wounded to the care of the Americans. The main British medical facilities were located on the flat area below and to your right.

Marker can be reached from Park Tour Road, ...

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Cemetery / Command Officer’s Quarters

The two mounds of stones inside the square formed by the granite posts, were thought to be the camp cemetery. Accordingly, a memorial marker was erected to mark the site in 1902.

Archaeology work has proven this site to be ...

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Lee-Fendall House

Built by Philip Richard Fendall in 1785 on land purchased from Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee. Lee was a brilliant cavalry officer in the Revolution, close friend of George Washington, Virginia Assemblyman, member of Congress and Governor of Virginia. Borh ...

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136th New York Infantry

2d Brigade, 2d Division

(Front):136th New York

Infantry,

2d Brig. 2d Div.

11th Corps.

(Left):July 1st 2d 3d 1863.

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Number engaged ____

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Casualties;

Killed 17,

Wounded 89,

Missing 3,

Total 109,

(Right):Mustered in

Sept. 26th 1862,

Mustered out

June 13th 1865.

Recruited in

Allegany, Livingston,

and Wyoming Counties,

New York.

(Back):Transferred to

the Army of

the Cumberland

Oct. 1863.

Marker is on Taneytown Road ...

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Battle of Shepherd’s Plantation

On this site was fought the battle of Shepherd's Plantation between Creek Indians and pioneer settlers aided by volunteer soldiers stationed at Forts Ingersol, Jones and McCreary under Major Henry W. Jernigan and Captain Hamilton Garmany.

On a separate plaque ...

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Mississippi State College for Women

The oldest state supported woman's college (1884) in the United States. It pioneered in adding vocational subjects to standard arts-science program.

Marker is at the intersection of College Street and 11th Street South, on the right when traveling east on College ...

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The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park & Wildlife Area

A Brief History

The Mission: Promote the Increased Use and Appreciation of the Unique Beauty of the Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Through Education and Recreation

The Marsh

The Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park and Wildlife Area is the prominent feature in a ...

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Officers Quarters / Magazine

This structure was reconstructed in 1890 on the foundations of the original 1778 building. Long thought to be an officer’s barracks, recent information is now leading archaeologists to believe that it was actually the camp magazine which held the kegs ...

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