Strange But True
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One of the most remarkable events in medical history occured about ? mile (1 km) from here.On 13th September 1848, Phineas P. Gage, a railroad construction foreman from Lebanon (NH), suffered massive brain damage when a 3ft 7in (107 cm) long, 13? Pound (6 k…
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Born here on Wiltshire Manor in Caroline County in 1780. Moved to Foxley Hall, Easton on 1795. He read law under Judge Marshall. He met Andrew Jackson traveling across the Eastern Shore to the United States congress. He moved to Nashville Tennessee. Killed …
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Legend has it that the Potomac was once home to these wondrous beasts. George and Martha Washington are even said to have watched them cavort inthe river shallows from the porch of their beloved Mount Vernon on summer evenings. Credited with enhancing the f…
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Natural Shoreline of Lake ErieThe Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve's 1.5-mile shoreline represents the longest stretch of publicly accessible natural beach in Ohio. Because it is one of the last remnants of a wild…
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In 1934, Robert Ripleydeclares the Rose Bushthe World's Largest in theNewpaper column"Believe it or Not".The fire of May 26th, 1882, destroyed the dwellings located here. In 1885, Mrs. Amelia Adamson built the Cochise House Hotel. That same year, Mrs. Adams…
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A head-on collision between two locomotives was staged on Sept. 15, 1896, as a publicity stunt for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad. Over 30,000 spectators gathered at the crash site, named "Crush" for MKT passenger agent William G. Crush, who conceive…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM15X1_culbertson-cemetery_Mendon-MI.html
The Culbertsons owned all the land south and east of this point to the river from 1835-1983. Carroll Culbertsons estate designated burial rights to the families of 3 devisees who still use the cemetery.
This cemetery was illustrated in Ripley's Believe I…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM15Y9_magnolia-cannon_Corsicana-TX.html
??Fires were a major concern of oil fields.This cannon stood at the Magnolia Petroleum tank farmin Corsicana. It was used to shoot a hole in the bottom ofthe cyprus tanks if lightning struck. The oil would draininto a pit around the tank to be pumped away.T…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1764_martian-landing-site_West-Windsor-Township-NJ.html
On the evening of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre presented a dramatization of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as adapted by Howard Koch. This was to become a landmark in broadcast history, provoking continuing thought about media r…
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To the north lies Como Bluff - "The Dinosaur Graveyard" - one of the greatest and well known fossil beds of dinosaur remains in the world. There paleontologist of the 19th century discovered and unearthed many excellent fossil specimens of the world's large…