To the Memory of the Unknown Dead

Erected by the Women's Relief Corps

Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.

[small plaque]

Department of MO. W.R.C.

Monument Committee

Ruth A. Graham

Florence J. Fink

Sallie A. Moore

Mary E. Wright

Clara A. Alford

Mary J. Kirby

Site of Gano Community

Settlement in this area began in the 1870s. The Wilder family operated a cotton gin, grist mill, blacksmith shop and general store. Other pioneer residents included the Allcorn, Watson, Casey, Gambrell, Gregory, and Howe families. By the 1890s the community ...

Ralph Blaisdell and Family

Near this site on August 15, 1635

Ralph Blaisdell and family

were shipwrecked.

The ship was the Angel Gabriel

bound from Bristol, England

to Pemaquid.

From here the family

went to York, Maine

and later to Salisbury,

Massachusetts.

Marker can be reached from Bristol Road.

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Cathedral of Immaculate Conception

Oldest church structure in continuous use in Fort Wayne area and seat of Catholicism in Northern Indiana.

Christianity carried to this part of the New World in 1600's by Catholic missionaries. Land formerly part of burial ground for Miami Indians.

Major ...

Town of Corrigan

Located in piney woods of east Texas. Founded about 1860 by landowner and settler James B. Hendry, who donated property for original townsite.

When the Texas & New Orleans Railroad was built through area in the early 1880s, a prosperous ...

45th New York Infantry

Advance

Position

45. N.Y. Inf.

July 1, 1863

Marker is on McLean Farm Lane 0.1 miles north of Mummasburg Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Hoot Owl Farm

Now called Sandy Run. This

typical colonial glazed brick

front home was built in 1772.

Restoration was faithfully

accomplished in recent years.

1847-1997

Marker is on Christopher Mill Road, on the right when traveling west.

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104th New York Infantry

1st Brigade, 2nd Division

(Front):104th

New York

Infantry,

(Wadsworth Guards)

First Brigade.

Second Division.

First Corps.

(Right):Casualties;

11 killed.

81 wounded,

92 captured

and missing.

(Left):Regiment raised

at Geneseo,

and Troy, N.Y.

Organized at

Albany, N.Y.

March 8, 1862.

Discharged at

Elmira, N.Y.

July 29, 1865

(Back):

July 1st, 1863

Marker is on Robinson Avenue, on the left when traveling east.

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Town of Thrall

An 1876 International & Great Northern Railroad siding called “Stiles Switch”, for landowners J.E. and F.N. Stiles, grew into a shipping point for the Swiss and Germans who settled this area. The Post Office that opened in 1901 was named ...

Site of Black’s Fort

The fort, built in 1776, stood a short distance to the south. Here the first court of Washington County was held, January 28, 1777.

Marker is at the intersection of Pecan Street SE and East Main Street (U.S. 11), on the ...