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Much forged iron was found near this site, suggesting it was the location of the blacksmith or armorer's shop. The top edge of the slope, now greatly eroded, was much wider in 1778, and would have accommodated ...

Site of White's Mill

About 1 ½ miles south of here on Fishing Creek were a house and mill mentioned on a 1766 royal land grant to Hugh White. British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his Legion were encamped at White's Mill for several days ...

Second Infantry Division Memorial

[From 1936:]

The Second Division

To Our Honored Dead, 1917-1919

Toulon

Troyon

Bois de Belleau

Vaux

Soissons

Marache

St. Mihiel

Blanc Mont

Meuse-Argonne

The Rhine

[From 1962, west inner wing:]

Organized in France in October, 1917; original unit consisted of ...

Robert J Crawford

In memory of our brother Robert J Crawford April 1, 1939 - Sept. 11, 2001 and all our brother knights who perished on September 11 at the World Trade Center

Marker is at the intersection of Flatlands Avenue and E. 40th ...

Fame, Fortune and Financial Scandal

The Calhoun-Buchanan vault holds the remains of 29 members of two of Baltimore's leading Scots-Irish Presbyterian families spanning five or six generations. The neo-classical granite vault is probably the work of Robert Mills (1781-1855), the architect of monuments to Washington ...

Falls of the Tar Church

Constituted as Particular

Baptist, 1757; Rev. John

Moore & Joshua Lawrence

among early ministers.

Now Primitive Baptist.

Marker is on Hunter Hill Road near Benvenue Road (North Carolina Road 43), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Influence of the Fairfax Family

William Fairfax:

• fought in Spain for Queen Anne;

• was a member of the Royal Navy;

• served as Governor of New Providence, Bahama Islands,

• served as an agent to manage, the Northern Neck Proprietary;

• was a Vestryman of Pohick Church;

• elected ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

The Great Depression 1929-1941

The depression was world-wide. In the U.S., the banking system collapsed and 12.8 million people were unemployed. Hardest hit were youth, minorities, the elderly, and workers in the consumer durables industries. There was widespread hunger ...

Fort McIntosh

1778 - 1788

[Left Side of Text]: First Home of the U.S. Army

After the American Revolution was won, Congress authorized formation of a small regular army for general defense. This unit, formed under Col. Josiah Harmar, was named the ...

The McDonoghs of Baltimore

Baltimoreans associated the name McDonogh with a well-known private school founded in 1873. Buried here are the parents of the school's founder, Irish natives John (1734-1809) and Elizabeth McDonogh (1747-1808).

John McDonogh, a brickmaker, took part in two events that shaped ...