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Commercial Club

1864 - 65 this building survived the ravages of fire as well as gunfire. Probably used at first as a social center, later to be used by interested citizens and businessmen. Organized as "The Pioche Commercial Club," its purpose was ...

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Fairmount Presbyterian Church

Founded in 1727, the congregation was originally German Reformed. First a log building. A series of

larger structures followed. Present building erected in 1851 and remodeled in 1902.

Marker is on Old Turnpike Road (County Route 517) south of Beacon Light Road, ...

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Daniel Drawbaugh

Inventor of a telephone for which he sought a patent in 1880. Claims contested by Bell Telephone, which won the court decision in 1888. Born in this village, July 14, 1827, where he developed his inventions; he removed in 1904 ...

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Camp Bushnell

Spanish American War

To establish a camp of general rendezvous for the Ohio National Guard and other Ohio troops, the citizens of Columbus offered to the State of Ohio Bullitt Park, now a part of Bexley - President William McKinley, April ...

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High Bridge Company 1268 / Civilian Conservation Corps

Voorhees State Park

[Main Marker]:

On October 31, 1933, CCC Company 1268, S.P.-5, arrived at High Bridge, N.J., four years after former Governor Foster M. Voorhees donated his 325 acre farm, known as Hills Acres, to the State of New Jersey to ...

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Welcome To The Twp. Of Lebanon

Settled in the 18th century as an agricultural community.

Est. 1731 Inc. 1798

1798 Bicentenial 1998

Marker is on Penwell Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Hamlet of Readingsburg

Also Called Stone Mill

Site of 18th and 19th Century Water Powered Mills.

Placed on the state and federal register of historic sites in 1999.

Marker is on Cokesbury Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Second Volunteer Brigade

Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

Second Volunteer Brigade

Capt. Elijah D. Taft

1st Conn. Heavy Battery B

Capt. Albert F. Brooker

Not engaged

1st Conn. Heavy Battery M

Capt. Franklin A. Pratt

Not engaged

2d Conn. Battery

Capt. John W. SterlingJuly 2d Reinforced Third Corps line and late in ...

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Birds Landing - Benjamin's Store

In 1869 John Bird constructed a wharf and warehouse on Montezuma Slough. Soon, one mile east of the wharf, a community began to evolve. A blacksmith shop came first, and then the store was built in 1875. In this year ...

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Karrick-Parks House / Harberson's Station

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Karrick-Parks House

Bivouac for Confederate troops on Oct. 7, 1862, night before Battle of Perryville. Karricks ordered to vacate home the next day. Day after the battle they returned to survey damage, found little done. Officers, doctors lived in house for ...

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