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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63H_keowee-john-ewing-colhoun_Central-SC.html
Keowee2? miles west is the site of Keowee built by John Ewing Colhoun as his upcountry seat in 1792. His sister, Mrs. Andrew Pickens, lived nearby at Hopewell. His daughter, Floride, married her cousin, John C. Calhoun, and lived at Fort Hill, 2&#…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63G_ferryboat-binghamton_Edgewater-NJ.html
Built for the Hoboken Ferry Company and launched in1905, it plied the Hudson River between Hoboken and Manhattan (Barclay St.) for 62 years. This double-ender steamboat was designed to carry 986 passengers and a number of vehicles. It was in opera…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63F_waterborn-services-memorial_Peoria-IL.html
Dedicated to the men whom have given their lives in the Waterborn services. Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63E_cleburne-outflanked-left-wing-17th-a-c_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. The left wing (Giles Smith's div., 17th A.C.) of McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) occupied an intrenched line on Flat Shoals Rd. between Leggett's Hill & Glenwood, where it hooked eastward, facing to the south. Gen. P.R. Clebur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63D_sturgeon-point-kennons_Charles-City-VA.html
Kennons originally took its name from the plantation of the Kennon family. Kennons Creek, earlier known as David Jones Creek, served as a boundary for the earlier Wallingford Parish. Kennons Landing was the terminus for the Meadow Road, as well as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63C_cleburnes-div-in-the-federal-rear_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Cleburne's 3 brigades, (CS) after over-running the Federal left (at Glenwood), moved on the rear of its line facing W. on Flat Shoals Rd., at the same time Maney's div. (CS) attached its front. Beset on both sides Giles Smith's 17th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63B_john-c-calhoun-memorial-highway_Easley-SC.html
Named in honor of John Caldwell Calhoun, (1782-1850), the Old South's most admired statesman and profound philosopher and America's most influential spokesman for state's rights. From 1808 to 1810 he served his state as a member of the S.C. Hou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM63A_kennons-landing_Charles-City-VA.html
Located 1 ½ miles south of the James River is Kennon's Landing. Richard Kennon married Anne Hunt about 1735 and lived there until his death in 1761. Anne Hunt's father was Captain William Hunt whose father William Hunt, a supported of Nathani…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM639_leggetts-hill_Atlanta-GA.html
July 22, 1864. Blair's 17th A.C., McPherson's Army of the Tenn. (US) was aligned S. of Logan's 15th astride the Ga. R.R. Leggett's div. of the 17th held the line from Logan's left, to & including the hill. An extension S.E. on Flat Shoals Rd. to G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM638_fort-pocahontas_Charles-City-VA.html
South of here, on a bluff overlooking the James River, stands the half-mile-long Fort Pocahontas, built in the spring of 1869 by Union soldiers during the Civil War. The fort protected Union vessels on the river and guarded the landing at Wilson's…