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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME75_philadelphia-beirut-bombing-memorial_Philadelphia-PA.html
October 23, 1983241 servicemen killed in theBeirut, Lebanon terrorist bombingIn Memoriamto the Philadelphia Marine casualties ofthe Beirut Peace Keeping Mission
Cpl. Moses Arnold, Jr. · Sgt. John J. Bonk, Jr. · Cpl. Thomas A. Hair…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDT9_broad-street-station_Philadelphia-PA.html
Opened here, 1881, by the Pennsylvania Railroad; enlarged 1893. This was once the world's largest railroad passenger terminal. Its great arched train shed burned, 1923. The station and its long elevated stone track bed (the "Chinese Wall") remaine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCNE_cruiser-olympia-submarine-becuna_Philadelphia-PA.html
OLYMPIA
Cruiser OLYMPIA, launched in 1892, is the oldest steel warship afloat today. OLYMPIA is best known as Commodore George Dewey's flagship in the Battle of Manila Bay, Philippine Islands during the 1898 Spanish American War. After defeatin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCJW_associators_Philadelphia-PA.html
The Rampant Lion [Image of a lion with sword and shield] Crest of the the PA National Guard.
Near this site, the Associators, a group of citizen-soldiers organized by Benjamin Franklin and predecessor to the modern Pennsylvania National Guard, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC2E_shibe-park-connie-mack-stadium_Philadelphia-PA.html
Early Major League baseball park opened here, 1909. Renamed, 1953. Home to Athletics 1909 - 1954: Phillies 1938 - 1970. Site of three Negro League World Series; five A's World Series victories. Razed, 1976.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM899_soldiers-barracks_Philadelphia-PA.html
Report from the Fort21 January 1802 · Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi
One side of brick barracks, 117 feet long, 28 wide and very divided into seven rooms, five of which could accommodate 25 men?the other side is quite small and intended for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM890_artillery_Philadelphia-PA.html
CannonDuring the Revolutionary War armaments at Fort Mifflin were typical of those used at all colonial forts. Cannons were the largest weapons, but due to lack of materials in America, they were acquired from France or captured from the British. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88P_hospital-mess-hall_Philadelphia-PA.html
Report from the Fort21 January 1802 · Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi
Out of the fort is the hospital composed of three small rooms 12 feet by 25, it is a good wooden building, but too small.
Another two-room wooden building and an apothec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88E_casemates-or-bombproofs_Philadelphia-PA.html
Report from the Fort21 January 1802 · Major J. J. Ulrich Rivardi
The bombproofs are six in number and well arched.No.1 - used as a guard house has two large bake ovens - its dimensions are 50 feet in length, 18 in width and 12 high in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM867_quartermasters-store_Philadelphia-PA.html
Quartermaster's Store
Report from the Fort16 October 1844 · Major Brevet C. W. Thomas
The Quartermaster's Store at 55 feet in length by 20 in width, is nearly new and sufficient for all wants of the post.National Archive
In 1842 th…