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The Blunt House

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This house, built in 1848 by Ainsworth Emery Blunt, pioneer settler of Dalton, has been continuously occupied by members of his family. Appointed postmaster of Cross Plains in 1845, Mr. Blunt was elected mayor when that town became Dalton in ...

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Duhring Building – 1891

This “modern brick building” with its distinctive cupola was built in 1891 by pioneer Sonoma merchant Frederick Duhring. It replaced the old Duhring Store, an adobe built in 1850 which had housed his mercantile established. In 1911 this building was ...

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Seven Days’ Battles

Glendale (Frayser’s Farm)

Willis Church Road runs from here to Malvern Hill. A large part of Union Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac followed this road south toward the James River, four miles ahead, near the end of the ...

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United States Synthetic Rubber Program 1939-1945

National Historic Chemical Landmark

Top plaque:

When the natural rubber supply from Southeast Asia was cut off at the beginning of World War II, the United States and its allies faced the loss of a strategic material. With U.S. government sponsorship, a ...

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Union Trust Building

Touted as "Harrisburg's First Skyscraper," the Union Trust Building was completed in 1906 and exemplified the beginning of Center City's 20th Century upward growth, particularly as spawned by the completion of the new State Capitol Building that year. It marked ...

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The Claster Building

This building was erected in 1920 for the offices of the Pennsylvania Public Services Commission and was one of the first buildings in downtown Harrisburg intended to be leased for state offices. Originally known as the Claster Building, having been ...

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First House on Filbert Street

Built in 1842 by Mahlon

Reeve, this home was bought

by Everett Mickle in 1955.

He preserved and shared an

invaluable collection of

old Medford photographs.

Marker is at the intersection of Filbert Street and Mulberry Street, on the left when traveling south on Filbert Street. ...

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Bingham City Cemetery Veterans Memorial

Bingham

City

Cemetery

Veterans

Memorial

Civil War, Spanish American War,

World War I, World War II,

Korean War, Vietnam War

Marker can be reached from Old Bingham Highway 0.9 miles west of State Highway 111, on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Harrisburg Hospital

Harrisburg Hospital, the city's first public hospital, opened in the former South Ward School building in 1873, beginning a course that today makes Harrisburg a major health and research center. The school faced Mulberry Street (now vacated) which paralleled the ...

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Cincinnati Breweries / Remaining Brewery Structures

 

Side A: Cincinnati Breweries

The Brewery District contains the majority of Cincinnati's remaining breweries and associated structures such as icehouses, bottling buildings, offices, and stables. With the first brewery north of Liberty Street founded in 1829, German immigrants fueled ...

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