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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GV_fort-lancaster-c-s-a_Ozona-TX.html
Site 33 miles west on U.S. 290. Upon U.S. surrender Texas forts start of Civil War. Made part Confederate far western frontier line. Occupied by 2nd Texas Cavalry on supply line to and from Arizona-New Mexico. Campaign 1861-62, intended to make Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GU_4th-new-york-volunteer-infantry_Sharpsburg-MD.html
(Top Plaque):4thNew York Vols.First Scott Life Guard3rd Brigade, 3rd Division2nd Corps (Lower Plaque):Mustered in service May 4, 1861. Participated with theArmy of the Potomac in the Battles of South Mountain,Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GT_the-reverend-thomas-curtis-d-d_Gaffney-SC.html
[East Face]:Erectedto the MemoryofThe ReverendThomas Curtis, D.D.by his affectionateanddevoted pupils.[West Face]:He was bornMay 10, 1797 in the townof Wisbfach England.And was lost in the wreck of thesteamer North Carolina,bound from Baltimore to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GS_michael-gaffney-home_Gaffney-SC.html
Michael Gaffney was born in Granard Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1797. After a short period in New York, he set sail for Charleston, South Carolina. He departed Charleston for the upstate and arrived at Smith's Ford on the Broad …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GR_a-canal-home_Bethesda-MD.html
"When I was 7, we moved [to the] lock, and we were very happy. My mother was so happy to have a home; she was just about wild. And we did love it here, as a locktender, you know?" —Lavenia Cross Waskey The canal company supplied locktende…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GQ_jones-battalion-reserve-artillery_Sharpsburg-MD.html
C.S.A.Jones' Battalion, Reserve Artillery,Major H.P. Jones, Commanding.Organization.Morris (Virginia) Artillery, Orange (Virginia) Artillery,Turner's (Virginia) Battery, Wimbish's (Virginia) Battery,(September 17, 1862.)Jones' artillery battalion …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GP_loudoun-branch-manassas-gap-railroad_Hamilton-VA.html
The Virginia General Assembly approved plans for the Loudoun Branch (parts of which survive here) of the Manassas Gap Railroad on 8 March 1853, and construction soon began. The route extended 27 miles from just southwest of Chantilly on the main r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GO_washington-crossing-the-delaware_Washington-Crossing-PA.html
A Bicentennial gift to the people of the United States from Citizens of the Bedford Indiana area and the Indiana Limestone Industry July 5, 1976.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GN_bicentennial-of-general-george-washingtons-birthday_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
To commemoratethe Bicentennial of the birthday ofGeneral George Washingtonat this spot hallowed by his strokeof military genius in the crossing ofthe Delaware on Christmas night - 1776and to remind usthat the triumphs of the Revolutionwere made po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4GM_200th-birthday-of-george-washington_Hopewell-Township-NJ.html
In commemoration of thetwo hundredth birthday ofGeorge WashingtonThese eagles and this tablet were placed here by the New Jersey Society of the Colonial Dames of America