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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ON_c-s-a-brigadier-general-tom-green_Coushatta-LA.html
April 12, 1864, C.S.A. Brig. Gen. TomGreen was killed near here leading hisTexas cavalry in a duel against the Union monitor Osage, gunboat Lexington,and the transport Black Hawk at theBattle of Blair's Landing. Of his passing Lt. Gen. Richard Tay…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OM_grove-house_Sharpsburg-MD.html
The Historic Grove House The meeting place of Robert E. Lee and his generals on the night of September 17, 1862.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OL_washington-rock_Millburn-NJ.html
Tradition placesGeorge Washingtonhere, in the summer of 1780, observing American troops thwart British efforts to reach Morristown and destroy his base of supplies. The first advance was halted at Connecticut Farms, now Union, June 7th. The Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OK_washingtons-temporary-headquarters_Montclair-NJ.html
This boulder which lay from time immemorialon this site near the turn of the old roadmarks the location of a house used byGeneral George Washingtonas temporary headquarterson October 26, 1780while on march from Totowa now Patersonto support Lafaye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OJ_lafayette-headquarters_Montclair-NJ.html
This stone was the doorstep of the house occupied by Lafayette as headquarters. Eagle Rock Chapter D.A.R.1938
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OI_old-colony-burying-ground-1805_Granville-OH.html
Granville, Ohio, was settled in 1805 by the Licking Company, a group formed in Granville, Massachusetts, and Granby Connecticut, for the purpose of emigrating west. The Old Colony Burying Ground was defined on the first town plat of Granville in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OH_st-francis-xavier-catholic-church_Baltimore-MD.html
On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community that would …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OG_braddock-cannon_Alexandria-VA.html
(North Side):This monument marks the trail taken by the army of General Braddock which left Alexandria on April 20, 1755 to defend the western frontier against the French and Indians. Erected by the Society of Colonial Dames of America in the S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OF_emigrant-trail-terminus_Sonora-CA.html
Sonora was the goal of many emigrants traveling the various overland and sea routes. The 1852 Clark-Skidmore Party of emigrants from Elizabethtown, Ohio and Lawrenceburg, Indiana struggled to force a wagon train up the Walker River and over the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4OE_bonanza-mine_Sonora-CA.html
Discovered 1851, by Chileans, they took out a substantial amount of free gold.Early 1870's acquired by James Divoll, Charles Clark, and Joseph Bray, sinking a shaft 1500 ft. in 1877. Big strike came in 1879, 990 lbs. of gold was removed in one wee…