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Patrick F. Taylor1937 - 2004"I used to think that it was the Marine Corps training that made former Marines such an extraordinary group. I have now come to realize that the Marine Corps attracts an extraordinary type of individual to undergo their training.…
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Born in Pennsylvania, 1820; Died in Duluth, 1902.
First permanent settler. In 1852 resided and traded on Minnesota Point. Government surveyor. Discovered iron ore before 1870 on Vermilion. Discovery of Missabe Range followed in 1890. Built Vermilion Tra…
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The Florida Keys Memorial, known locally as the "Hurricane Monument," was built to honor hundreds of American veterans and local civilians who perished in the "Great Hurricane" on Labor Day, September 2, 1935. Islamadora sustained winds of 200 miles per hou…
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This is all that remains of the four-story stone flour mill built in 1854 by James Alexander Forbes. The town that grew around this building was first called Forbes Mill, then Forbestown, and finally Los Gatos.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1QQ_23rd-regt-n-j-vols_Fredericksburg-VA.html
1861 - 1865(North face): Monument to commemorate the services of the Twenty-Third Regiment New Jersey Volunteers Infantry, in the battle of Salem Church, Virginia, May 3rd, 1863.
Erected by the State of New Jersey, under the authority of an act passed at…
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Directly opposite this tablet was located the first State Capitol Building in which California's first legislature assembled in December 1849. San Jose was the seat of government from 1849 to 1851.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1UA_toll-gate-on-the-military-trail_Fond-du-Lac-WI.html
This tablet marks the site of the toll gate on the Military Trail and Old Plank Road 1835 - January 10, 1916.
Erected by Fond du Lac Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1932
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1WT_mcneil-drive_Roanoke-VA.html
McNeil Drive is named in honor of Samuel P. McNeil, the leading sponsor and founder of WBRA and educational television of Roanoke and Southwest Virginia. Mr. McNeil served as Chairman of WBRA for 25 years from its beginning in 1966 until he retired in 1992.…
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Erected to commemorate that noble spirit of justice displayed by Gen. George Washington after his capture of Trenton in December 1776, in returning to both Whig and Tory alike their personal effects, of which they had been ruthlessly plundered by the Britis…
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Erectedin honor ofRobert E. LeebyWilliam Watts ChapterRoanoke, VASouthern Cross ChapterSalem, VARoanoke ChapterRoanoke, VAThe United Daughtersof the Confederacy1928