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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW3R_indiana-initial-point-memorial_Paoli-IN.html
Commemorating our Native Indians, our forefathers who planned and put into effect our Public Land System, the U.S. Deputy Public land Surveyors and our early prominent land surveyors ( Center are the plotted Survey Plaques ) Contributing spo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW2I_a-rocky-beginning_Rockport-IN.html
James Lankford settled in the Rockport area in 1808, moving his wife and daughter into a cave under the bluff overlooking the Ohio River. Other settlers moved into the lowland that became downtown Rockport (originally dubbed Hanging Rock). By 1818…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW22_a-visit-home_Rockport-IN.html
In October, 1844 Abraham Lincoln saddled up his horse and set out from Springfield, Illinois, for a trip back to his boyhood home in Spencer County, Indiana. It had been 14 years since he had left, and his term as a state legislator was over. He w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0M_abraham-lincoln-employed_Troy-IN.html
Side 'One' Lincoln (1809-1865) lived northwest of here 1816-1830. Worked circa 1825 as hired hand for James Taylor. William Herndon, a Lincoln biographer, wrote that Lincoln told him it "was the roughest work a young man could be made to do." H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0L_a-new-home-in-indiana_Grandview-IN.html
Do you want to experience the world of young Abe Lincoln? You've come to the right place. At Lincoln Ferry Park, just west of Troy, the Lincoln family arrived by ferry from Kentucky in 1816. Young Abe Lincoln walked these woods with his long, lank…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW04_a-bit-of-swiss_Tell-City-IN.html
In the early 1800s, the Ohio River was the font of Midwestern settlement. Easy river travel helped spur colonization. German speaking Swiss people were among the many ethnic groups who migrated to America seeking economic opportunity and freedom f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVZB_dubois-county-honor-roll-memorial_Jasper-IN.html
(( Left ?Small Book' )) ( Left ?Page' ) * * * Mexican War * * * James Green · Pleasant Horton · James McElvaine · Hiram Main · David L. Matthews · Joseph Orinder * * * Spanish American War * * * J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVZ3_orange-county-honor-roll_Paoli-IN.html
( Across Top of Memorial ) Honor Roll of the Silent Ones Who fought for God and Country ( Center Panel ) * * * 1917 - - World War I - - 1918 * * * (Row One) - - Alvis Apple · William A. Beaty · Walter Benson · Rosc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYW_martin-county-honor-roll_Shoals-IN.html
( Top - Center Panel ) In Memory of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice for their Country ( Left Panel ) * * * World War I * * * (Row One) - - Clarence H. Corbin · Benjamin H. Abner · Isaac Alford · George B. Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYA_vietnam-honor-roll_Rockport-IN.html
War drew us from our homeland in the sunlit springtime of our youth.Those who did not come back alive remain in perpetual springtime —forever young — and a part of us is with them always. Donald Harrison Ronald Kraus James Middleton…
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