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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMREJ_roy-campanella_Philadelphia-PA.html
A record-breaking catcher with Brooklyn Dodgers, 1948-57. He began his professional baseball career while in high school here. In Negro league, 1937-42, '44-'45. MVP, National League, 1951, '53, '55. All-Star, '49-'56. Baseball Hall of Fame, 1969.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMREI_laurel-hill-cemetery_Philadelphia-PA.html
Founded in 1836 and designed by Scottish architect John Notman, this was the nation's second major rural cemetery. With its rolling landscape, horticultural plantings, and eclectic architecture, it offered a romantic alternative to the crowded urb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMREH_commercial-digital-computer-birthplace_Philadelphia-PA.html
BINAC, the world's first commercial, electronic, stored program, digital computer passed verification tests here, at 3747 Ridge Ave., on April 7, 1949. Customer acceptance of UNIVAC I, the world's first open market, commercial computer, followed o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRAX_lieutenant-joseph-bonnell_Philadelphia-PA.html
On April 7, 1836, Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell, West Point Class of 1825, 3rd Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, Fort Jesup, Louisiana, was sent alone into Texas by U.S. General Gaines to quell an uprising of 1,700 hostile Indians which threatened the sma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQB6_burholme-memorial-for-peace_Philadelphia-PA.html
United States Army PanelHarry F. Berry, 32, PFC, USA, WWIIFrederick W. Peterman, Jr., 21, PFC, USA, WWIIHoward G. Watkins, 20, Sgt, USA, WWIIFrank N. Flick, 21, Pvt, USA, WWIIHarry Childs, 19, Pvt, USA, WWIIEarl E. Livengood, 30, Pvt, USA, WWIIHer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN99_exiles-for-conscience-sake_Philadelphia-PA.html
To the memory of the followers ofCaspar von Schwenckfeldwho fled from Silesia and foundin Pennsylvania a haven ofreligious tolerationThey landed near this spot 1731-37Erected by the Society of the Descendants ofthe Schwenkfeldian Exiles September …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN1P_glomar-explorer_Philadelphia-PA.html
In a covert CIA plan named the Jennifer Project, this ship was built at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Chester, in the early 1970s and played a key role in US Cold War espionage. Its mission was to obtain intelligence by recovering a sunke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOA_thomas-bond-house_Philadelphia-PA.html
In 1769, when Dr. Thomas Bond built this house and rented it to his son and namesake, the elder Bond was already a prominent Philadelphia physician and civic leader. Along with Benjamin Franklin, he helped to found the Pennsylvania Hospital and th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLL3_hannah-callowhill-penn_Philadelphia-PA.html
Born in 1671, she married William Penn, 1696. They lived at Pennsbury, and in the Slate Roof House here, 1699-1701. During his final illness, 1712-18, and until her death, 1726, she was Pennsylvania's acting proprietor. She was the only woman to c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLK4_common-sense_Philadelphia-PA.html
At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution, it played a key role in rallying American support f…