Tuscarawas County World War II and Korean Conflict Memorial

A tribute to the living and dead of Tuscarawas County who served in World War II and the Korean Conflict.

Marker is on Broadway Street (Ohio Route 416), on the right when traveling north.

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Site of Thomas Arnold High School

Dr. Samuel J. Jones (1857-1918) and his wife, Charlotte Hallaran Jones (d. 1904), established Thomas Arnold High School on this site in 1890. The school, which was actually a private academy, occupied the stone buildings vacated by Salado College, where ...

Taliaferro County

This County, created by an act of the Legislature Dec. 24, 1825, is named for Colonel Benjamin Taliaferro, Revolutionary soldier in Lee's Legion and a member of Congress from 1799 to 1802.

In this city stands Liberty Hall, now a ...

Village of Dover

Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon shop and stores. ...

Dawn's First Light Shines on Free Masonry

This cryptic marker placed here by the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Maine, to commemorate dawns [sic] first light shines on Free Masonry on the East Coast of the United States of America

Marker is on Main Street ...

Rio de San Felipe

California Historical Landmark

One mile north of here on May 1, 1776, Francisco Garces of the Franciscan Order, crossed Kern River in his search for a shorter route from Sonora, Mexico to Monterey, California. He was the first known explorer to ...

8th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

(Front Face):

8th Conn.

Vol.

Infantry

2d Brig.

3d Div.

9th Corps.

(Back Face):

Advanced position

8th Conn. V.I.

———

No. Engaged - 400

Killed and Wounded - 194

Marker can be reached from Harpers Ferry Road, on the right when traveling north.

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Confederate Pursuit

By nightfall Porter’s force had safely retreated across the Chickahominy. Lee had sustained nearly 9,000 casualties in his first victory of the war, while the Federals lost close to 6,000. “I could hear on all sides the dreadful groans of ...

Old Paramus Reformed Church

Organized in 1725 by pioneer Dutch settlers, the congregation of this church has worshipped here over 240 years. First church, built 1735 on this land given by Peter Fauconier, a French Huguenot, was a headquarters of Gen. George Washington in ...

9th New York Infantry

Hawkins' Zouaves

(West Face):

"Toujours Pret"

Erected by the State of New

York to the memory of the Ninth

New York Infantry - Hawkins

Zouaves - who fought on this

Field, Sept. 17, 1862.

(North Face):

Members present for duty in

action 373, killed 54, wounded 158, missing 28, total ...