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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXOB_the-emigrants-of-1852-1853_Pinecrest-CA.html
Originating from Ohio & Indiana, the Clark Skidmore party of 1852 - 75 people & 13 mule wagons - was the 1st wagon train to gross the Sierra-Nevada via the Walker River-Sonora route. 35 days were spent to blaze a trail of 60 miles over this roughest of the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXOG_east-walker-toll-house_Bridgeport-CA.html
Henry Hayes lived in the toll house building on this site and collected tolls beginning about 1880 and continued until the county purchased the road in 1915. State ownership occurred August 21, 1833. Tolls were 25? for saddle horsed, 75? for teams, 75? for …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXQN_bridgewater-township-historic-monument_Bridgewater-NJ.html
[Plaque #1]Early History The Lenni Lenape Indians settled along the Raritan River, utilizing the river for food and transportation, while cultivating the flood plains by planting corn and a variety of other crops.
Heavy barges hauled goods to the mills a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXTA_tenney-park_Madison-WI.html
This park was named for its principle benefactor, Daniel Kent Tenney (1834 - 1915), an attorney, who purchased a portion of this marshland in 1899 and donated it to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association to be developed and maintained as an "in-cit…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXZ0_u-s-s-eagle-56-pe-56_Cape-Elizabeth-ME.html
In memory of the officers and crewmen of the U.S. Navy's Eagle Class Sub-Chaser U.S.S. Eagle-56 (PE-56) torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-853 approximately nine miles southeast of this location on Monday, 23 April 1945 with the loss of forty-nine of…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMXZE_robert-a-cinader_Carson-CA.html
Robert A. Cinader's involvement with the Los Angeles County Fire Department began in 1971 when he filmed a pilot television movie about the county's fledgling paramedic program.
"Emergency" aired in 1972 and ran as a prime time show for five years with a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMY19_charles-f-eastman_Portland-ME.html
Eastman (1821-1880) was barber, second-hand clothing dealer, mariner and hack driver. He was also a financial supporter of the Abyssinian Meeting House and School.
He owned and operated several barber shops with his four sons, including one on this site.…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMY1C_home-of-amos-no-and-christiana-williams-freeman_Portland-ME.html
First full-time called minister of the Abyssinian Meeting House 1841-1852
Rev. Freeman (1809-1893) was an instructor in the school maintained for African Americans in the Abyssinian Meeting House. As conductors on the Underground Railroad, the Freemans m…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMY1D_home-of-elias-and-elizabeth-widgery-thomas_Portland-ME.html
Corner of India and Congress Street, known as a Station House on the Underground Railroad. The home was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1866.
The Thomases were prominent in the Portland Anti-Slavery Society, begun in 1833, which also worked to advance wom…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMYBD_william-rockhill-nelson_Kansas-City-MO.html
Founder of The Kansas City STARDeveloper of the Historic Rockhill DistrictPatron of the Arts
William Rockhill Nelson was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and came to Kansas City in 1880. Shortly thereafter he produced the first issue of what he called "The Ev…