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The tree was a Maryland State Champion White Ash approximately 175 years old when on July 10, 2001 a storm with tornado-like winds took off one of the major limbs and decay was discovered inside the remaining limbs.
The Maryland Department of N…
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Three firemen raised a flag at ground zero in silent tribute to those brave firefighters who answered the call. This noble flag is raised permanently in honor of those heroes and all who serve this great nation. May God continue to bless America! …
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Dedicated October 4, 1981. National Emergency Training Center. Emmitsburg, Maryland.
"Dedicated to the thousands of Firefighters who have lost their lives in the very act of saving others."
Ronald Reagan, President.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBDB_william-elder-sr_Emmitsburg-MD.html
William Elder, Sr., named this land Mount Saint Mary's & established (ca. 1743) his home "Pleasant Level" and the Elder Cemetery on the plain below. His family deeded (October 24, 1793) this mountain land for a church. In respect for the living Go…
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In Memoriam Amleto Cardinal Cicognani
Apostolic delegate to the United States 1933-1958Cardinal Secretary of State 1958-1973Under Pope John XXIII - Paul VI While serving as apostolic delegate to the United States Amleto Cardinal Cicognani freq…
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Ave Maria
This monument is dedicated to the glory of God and His Blessed Mother.
It is erected on the site of the "Old Church on the Hill," which was built in 1805 Father John Dubois, founder of Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary here …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM660_the-john-hughes-cabin_Emmitsburg-MD.html
John Hughes, class of 1826, fourth bishop (1838) and first archbishop of New York (1850-1864), born in County Tyrone Ireland (1797), immigrated in 1817.
A gardener and mason, Hughes was employed the 10th of November, 1819, by Fr. John DuBois (f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM65V_the-white-house_Emmitsburg-MD.html
This reconstruction log building, faced with clapboard and painted white, was occupied by Mother Seton and her little community in February 1810. At the close of the year the school numbered thirty boarders and forty day pupils.
In 1817 this sc…
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On the last day of June 1863, Emmitsburg became a Union army supply base. Union Gen. John F. Reynolds, commanding the left wing of the Army of the Potomac (I, III, and XI Corps), arrived as I Corps came into Emmitsburg to obtain needed supplies, c…
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About 80,000 Union troops settled here in Saint Joseph's Valley as June 1863 drew to a close, "until the grounds around were actually covered with Soldiers." Emmitsburg was placed under martial law, and the Vincentian priests at Saint Joseph's Chu…