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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2I8_lincoln-herndon-law-offices_Springfield-IL.html
Abraham Lincoln prepared and wrote his first inaugural address as President of the United States, in the third story of this building in the month of January, 1861.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2P9_capture-of-generals_Cumberland-MD.html
A company of Confederates, young men from Cumberland, Maryland, Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, captured several picket posts, obtained the countersign "Bulls Gap," rode into the city, captured two commanding Union Generals, Kelly and Crook, an…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2QG_catalino-tingzon_Southport-NC.html
Dedicated to the memory of Catalino Tingzon, interred in Northwood Cemetery, and all Merchant Marine seamen and U.S. Navy Armed Guard on the tanker S.S.John D. Gill torpedoed and sunk off Cape Fear by the German submarine U-158 March 12, 1942. The citizens …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2V7_mccollochs-leap_Wheeling-WV.html
Major Samuel McCollochdaring scout, gallant soldierwhile attempting the relief ofFort Henry at WheelingSeptember, 1777escaped an overwhelming body of Indiansby forcing his horse over this precipice
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2WZ_first-movement-by-steam-on-a-railroad-in-new-jersey_Bordentown-NJ.html
First movement by steam on a railroad in the state of New Jersey, November 12, 1831, by the original locomotive "John Bull" now deposited in the United States National Museum at Washington. The first piece of railroad track in New Jersey was laid by the Cam…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2Z8_fort-plain_Fort-Plain-NY.html
"Let the Work of Our Fathers Stand"* * * * *On the Adjacent Hill SummitStood Fort Plain, Erected 1776,and Its Blockhouse, Built 1780.Military Headquarters of theMohawk Valley 1780 -1784Gen. Washington Here July 30, 1783* * * * *Erected by the Fort Plain Cha…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM308_elmer-holmes-bobst_Lititz-PA.html
His generosity interest in human welfare and love for Lititz, his boyhood home, made possible the restoration and development of this park.Established in 1843 by the Moravian Congregation, the park was given to the community of Lititz in 1956.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM30D_ruamie-hill-binns_Lancaster-PA.html
1914 - 2002Civic Leader · Volunteer · Philanthropist · FriendShe shared her talents and her spirit with Lancaster for six decades, including leadership roles in family and children's services, the Junior League, the Community Chest, th…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM30E_james-hazlett-binns_Lancaster-PA.html
1912 - 1985Industrialist · Patriot · Humanitarian · MentorHe rose from sales trainee to become president and chairman of Armstrong World Industries, a director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the National Association of…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM30P_british-raid-on-crosswicks-creek_Bordentown-NJ.html
Waters of Crosswicks Creek and the Delaware River join below. 22 vessels at Bordentown and 4 at White Hill were among the 44 that were destroyed in a British raid on May 8, 1778. All were trapped in the Upper Delaware when the British took Philadelphia in S…