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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM680_a-crucial-connection_Havre-de-Grace-MD.html
Wetlands are a beautiful place to visit. Brightly colored flowers and a variety of birds are just some of the wonderful things to see in a wetland.water rushes off the land in a storm. When the water reaches the wetlands, plants help to slow the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67Z_birds-by-the-bay_Havre-de-Grace-MD.html
Herons, ducks, and geese gather along the shores and on the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.A Great Blue Heron has caught a fish to eat.Who is this?Domesticated geese are not native to this area. They are from Europe and Asia. The geese probably esca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67Y_lure-of-the-chesapeake_Havre-de-Grace-MD.html
Canvasback ducks float quietly on the water The hunter waitsFlocks of ducks appear in the sky, cup their wings and drop down to the waiting canvasbacksThe hunter's ploy has workedFor it was not real canvasbacks that lured the ducks but well crafte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67X_luxury-on-the-bay_Havre-de-Grace-MD.html
Listen, and you can almost hear the jazz music and smell the roasting duck.Edward F. Piersol conceived the idea for the Bayou Hotel and was the first owner. The hotel, considered lavish for a small town was built with field stone from Harford Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67W_good-hope-baptist-church_Hodges-SC.html
[Marker Front]:This church, founded about 1870, has its origins in Walnut Grove Baptist Church, founded in 1820. Walnut Grove included both white and black members before the Civil War, but after the war black members asked for letters of dismissa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67V_samuel-hartford_Loyal-WI.html
When a lad of 14 he went as a substitute for his brother in law that his sister and her 7 little ones might not be deprived of a husband and father's care. Served as Private in N. Y. Militia.
Was in Battle of Niagara.
Honorably discharged Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67U_kosciuszko_Stillwater-NY.html
In memory ofThe Noble Son of PolandBrig. GeneralThaddeus KosciuszkoMilitary EngineerSoldier of the War of Independencewho under the command of General Gatesselected and fortified these fieldsfor the great Battle of Saratogain which the invader was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67T_camp-anderson_Michigan-City-IN.html
One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67S_morris-county-court-house_Morristown-NJ.html
One of the finest examplesof public buildings in theFederal style in New Jersey.Original Court House on theGreen built in 1755.Morris County Heritage Commission
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67R_fort-peachtree-war-of-1812_Atlanta-GA.html
One of a line of forts hastily constructed during the War of 1812 to control the Creek Indians who were in alliance with the British, of the Chattahoochee River and Peachtree Creek, and overlooked the Creek trading-post town of Standing Peachtree.…