Conewango

Warren, PA

Pennsylvania State Forest Academy

Mont Alto, PA

Nellie Bly

Apollo, PA

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Bethel Hill Missionary Baptist Church

Thomaston, AL

Following the Civil War and emancipation, newly freed African Americans, who had worshiped in the Bethel Church in McKinley while enslaved, established their own Bethel Church in a wooden house at the rear of the current church site. In the… more »

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Mt. Zion Methodist Church

Florence, SC

[Front] This church, founded in 1868 with Rev. James Wesley Johnson as its first minister, held its early services in a brush arbor. In 1870 trustees purchased this 1 ? acre tract to build a "Negro Schoolhouse" sponsored by the church, th… more »

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Spesutia Island

Aberdeen-Proving-Ground, MD

The name is derived from the Latin for Utie's Hope, a 2,300-acre manorial grant in 1661 to Col. Nathaniel Utie, for whom this island was surveyed in 1658. Settling here from Virginia, Utie traded with the Indians, became a member of the Mar… more »

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