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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM661_opening-the-sandhills_Gordon-NE.html
The first ranch in this area was set up on the Niobrara River about five miles south of here in 1877. E. S. Newman established his ranch to sell cattle to the government for delivery to the Indians at the Pine Ridge Agency to the north.
The san…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM660_the-john-hughes-cabin_Emmitsburg-MD.html
John Hughes, class of 1826, fourth bishop (1838) and first archbishop of New York (1850-1864), born in County Tyrone Ireland (1797), immigrated in 1817.
A gardener and mason, Hughes was employed the 10th of November, 1819, by Fr. John DuBois (f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65Z_admiral-ben-moreell_Annapolis-MD.html
[First Panel]:]About the SeabeesBorn in the early days of World War II when the nation was in dire peril, their mission was to build bases for the combat forces, to defend those bases, and to provide other support of whatever kind required.
Org…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65Y_john-llewellyn_St-Marys-City-MD.html
First register of the Colonial Land Office, Clerk of the Assembly 1682, Chief Clerk to the Secretary of the Province 1692, member of the committee signing protest against the removal of the Capital from St. Mary's City to Annapolis 1694. His home …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65V_the-white-house_Emmitsburg-MD.html
This reconstruction log building, faced with clapboard and painted white, was occupied by Mother Seton and her little community in February 1810. At the close of the year the school numbered thirty boarders and forty day pupils.
In 1817 this sc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65U_corydon-convention-of-freemasons_Corydon-IN.html
In the home of Reuben W. Nelson two blocks east of here, eleven Master Masons representing the nine lodges of Indiana assembled Dec. 3, 1817 and called a meeting at Madison to organize a Grand Lodge.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65T_oswell-wright_Corydon-IN.html
Front sideBorn in Maryland early 1810's. Bought land in Corydon, May 1849. In November 1857, Kentuckians arrested Wright and two white men, Charles and David Bell; they were indicted and jailed in Kentucky for aiding escape of fugitive slave. Bell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65S_pendleton_Pendleton-SC.html
On April 8, 1790, the Justices of the Peace for Pendleton County purchased this land to establish the courthouse town of Pendleton. Once Cherokee Indian land, the town became the judicial, social and commercial center for what now are Anderson, Oc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65R_pocahontas_Henrico-VA.html
Matoaka, nicknamed Pocahontas ("playful one"), the daughter of Powhatan, was born about 1595. At age eleven, she befriended Captain John Smith and later visited the English colonists. In 1613 Samuel Argall kidnapped Pocahontas to use her as a nego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65Q_henrico-town_Henrico-VA.html
In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale established the second English settlement in Virginia called Henrico in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King James I. The town was located four miles southwest on a peninsula of high land on the James Riv…