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Baltimore County Courthouse

Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851. Towsontown was chosen as County Seat by popular vote February 13, 1854. The Courthouse of local limestone and marble was completed in 1855 at a cost of $30,000. Enlarged in ...

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Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour” / Welcome to Minnesota

Minnesota’s “Fashionable Tour.” In the years between 1835 and 1860, steamboats from St. Louis and the Illinois river towns of Rock Island and Galena carried hundreds of tourists up the Mississippi River past “a thousand bluffs which tower in countless ...

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Cecil Herbert Land D.D.

Son of

Annie Black and Edward H. Lang

Born

Temple, Texas March 18, 1891

Died

Columbia, SC July 9, 1974

Minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S over

fifty years.

Chaplain in World War I and II.

First Chaplain in the Presbyterian Church U.S.

to attain the rank of Colonel U.S. ...

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Baltimore County Courthouse

Separation of Baltimore City and County effective July 4, 1851. Towsontown was chosen as County Seat by popular vote February 13, 1854. The Courthouse of local limestone and marble was completed in 1855 at a cost of $30,000. Enlarged in ...

Bexley World War II Memorial

Bexley will ever remember her men and women who served in the Armed Forces of the U.S.A. during the Second World War

Names of Bexley's World War II veterans are engraved around the monument.

Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street ...

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The Headless Horseman Bridge

Described by Irving in The

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

formerly spanned this

stream at this spot.

Marker is at the intersection of N Broadway (U.S. 9) and Sleepy Hollow Avenue, on the right when traveling north on N Broadway.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Moor Mud Baths Hotel

John Weber purchased this property with its black “moor” earth and a spring in 1899. The hotel, patterned after European spas, and the springhouse opened in 1911. Spring water and warm mud baths, promoted as therapeutic, were available at the ...

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“Brothers in Valor” Memorial

Fort DeRussy, Oahu, Hawaii

Honoring the World War II Veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate), the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Military Intelligence Service, and the 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion.

“Veterans who served in these units, which are deeply rooted to ...

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Hobo Spring

This spring, so named because it was used by the transients who came off the nearby Soo Line railroad, is one of the few original reminders of Waukesha’s 19th century springs and resort era.

A century ago, Waukesha was known ...

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Alleghany County / Rockbridge County

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Alleghany County

Area 458 Square Miles

Formed in 1822 from Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann in this county a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763.

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Rockbridge County

Area 616 Square Miles

Formed ...

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