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Isaac Long Barn

The United Brethren in Christ, and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, trace their origin to the joint efforts of Rev. Philip w. Otterbein of the German Reformed Church and Martin Boehm, a Mennonite preacher, as a revival held here about ...

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Harveysburg / The Harveysburg School

Side A: Harveysburg

The Quaker village of Harveysburg was founded in 1829 on land originally a part of Colonel Abraham Buford's Revolutionary War Land Grant. Levi Lukens, a Virginia Quaker, purchased the 1000 - acre survey in 1812 and sold a ...

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Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Building

Veteran Travis County official and historian Frank Brown (1833-1913) erected this structure in 1886. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company bought and restyled the building in 1898. Architect A.O. Watson designed the ornate façade. Previously in rented quarters at various sites, ...

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Branchville Depot

The first settlement of the town of Branchville was 1735 about one mile southeast of the present town. Almost 100 years later, the present town grew from 170 acres of land purchased from the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company. ...

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Battery C, Fourth U.S. Artillery

First Regular Brigade - Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Battery C Fourth U.S. Artillery

Six 12 pounders

Lieut. Evan Thomas commanding

July 2 Arrived and took position on crest of hill near General Meade's Headquarters on the left of the Second ...

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First Regular Brigade

Artillery Reserve

Army of the Potomac

Artillery Reserve

First Regular Brigade

Capt. Dunbar R. Ransom

1st U.S. Battery H

Lieut. Chandler P. Eakin, Lieut. Philip D. MasonJuly 2d and 3d Engaged on Cemetery Hill

3d U.S. Batteries F and K

Lieut. John C. TurnbullJuly 2d Engaged on Emmitsburg ...

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Bloomfield Centennial War Memorial

South side of base:

In memory of all citizens of Bloomfield who served in the Army or Navy of our country for the defence of her freedom and honor

East side of base:

A tribute to the dead, a memory for the living, ...

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Old B.J. Smith Property

Purchased from State of Texas at auction in 1853, by Smith, a school proprietor. Structure, one of the better early homes in Austin, was probably built in the 1850’s.

Handmade hardware, doors, and other structural parts reveal fine workmanship.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Peter Bezellon

Famed Indian trader and interpreter bought a tract of 500 acres in this area in 1736. This site is a part of the tract. He died in 1742. Bezellon and his wife, Martha, lie buried in St. John's churchyard at ...

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Boonville

Side A:

Historic Boonville's first settlers were pioneer Mother Hannah Allison Cole and her 9 children who located on the Missouri River bluffs where St. Joseph Hospital now stands, 1810. Hannah, whose husband William T. Cole was killed by Indians, ran ...

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