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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45X_the-green_Hackensack-NJ.html
Gift of John Berry, 1696. It became the village center of New Barbadoes Township, now Hackensack. Later a public park.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45W_brinkerhoff-house_Wood-Ridge-NJ.html
Located in old "Polifly", George Brinkerhoff built this house about 1792 on a 200 acre farm he purchased in 1784. Owned in 1806 by son Henry G. and in 1849 by his son, Enoch, a N.J. Assemblyman. In the 1870's, great-grandson Henry E. remodeled the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45V_john-i-hopper-house_Hackensack-NJ.html
Built in 1818, by John I. Hopper in old "Polifly", this Federal style house stands on land purchased in 1694 by his great-grandfather Hendrick. The farm remained in the Hopper family for seven generations. Slaves lived in the kitchen wing on the n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45U_teterboro-airport_Teterboro-NJ.html
The home of Gates Flying Circus. Teterboro built Fokker tri-motors flown by Richard E. Byrd over the North Pole (1926); South Pole (1929); Atlantic (1927); and by Amelia Earhart over Atlantic (1928). Clarence Chamberlin, Ruth Nichols, Floyd Bennet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45T_casey-jones_Memphis-TN.html
From a station located on this site the night of Apr. 29. 1900, John Luther Jones, replacing the regularly detailed engineer, took out engine 382, pulling the Illinois Central "Cannonball." Driving into a blocked switch at Vaughn, Miss., early the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45S_mark-twain-cabin_Sonora-CA.html
Stopping place of packers carrying supplies to miners. Often 200 jackasses on hill over night furnishing concert suggesting name "Jackass Hill". Very coarse gold found here. $10,000 taken from 100 square feed of ground. Quartz found containing 3/4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45R_stevens-institute-of-technology_Hoboken-NJ.html
This land was a part of the Island of Hoboken which was deeded on Feb. 15, 1663 by Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of Nieuw Amsterdam, for the benefit of his sister Anna, Widow of Samuel Bayard of Amsterdam.
In 1784, these 564 acres belonging to Wil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45Q_claude-chana_Auburn-CA.html
Adventurer and first fruit rancher in Placer County. In 1848 he found gold in the Auburn Ravine, which led to the settlement of a mining camp that later became Auburn.
Lord Sholto Douglas Ch. 3 E Clampus Vitus 1975.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45P_van-kirk-park_Oceanport-NJ.html
In memory ofJohn Stewart Van KirkLieutenant 141 Armored Signal Company1st Armored DivisionKilled in Action 30 November 1942Djedeida, Tunisia
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM45O_3rd-maryland-volunteer-infantry_Sharpsburg-MD.html
Maryland3rd Md. Infantry.2nd Stainbrook's Brigade.2nd Greene's Division.12th Mansfield's Corps.Advanced to the cornerof the Dunkard Church,in front of thisMarker. Loss, 4 killed,25 wounded.The monument to theMaryland troops isnear the DunkardChurch.