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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM11XO_alfred-washington-ellet_El-Dorado-KS.html
Brig. Gen. - U.S. VolunteersCommander [Mississippi] Marine BrigadeCapt. 59th Ill. Inf. Aug. 20, 1861Lieut. Col. U.S. Volunteers Apr. 28, 1862Brig. Gen. Nov. 1, 1862This marker erected in 1979at the request of his grandson,the late Charles Ellet of Palo Alto…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM122G_edwin-a-ulrich_Wichita-KS.html
This building is named in honor ofEdwin A. UlrichNew York BusinessmanArt Collector andBenefactor of the University
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM123T_mcknight-art-center_Wichita-KS.html
The McKnight Art Center is a tribute to a pioneer Wichita family. Mrs. McKnight's dream to advance the arts and serve the community, was fulfilled in her generous bequest to the university.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1245_gene-stephensons-wichita-state-university-all-americans_Wichita-KS.html
All Americans[List of WSU Baseball Players] Freshmen All Americans[List of WSU Baseball Players] Scholastic All Americans[List of WSU Baseball Players] [All Americans Marker Symbol Designations] "Star" denotes - N.C.A.A. Player of the Year1981 J…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12F8_wichita-vietnamese-american-memorial_Wichita-KS.html
We, the Vietnamese American Community of Wichita, Kansas, dedicate this plaque in the memory and honor of American, Vietnamese and Allied soldiers who fought to resist the North Vietnamese Communist aggression against the Republic of Vietnam. We honor in pa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12NJ_lt-gen-thomas-j-stonewall-jackson-memorial_Fort-Meade-FL.html
(Front face)In memory ofLt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson21 Jan. 1824 - 10 May 1863Com. 2d Corps. Army of Northern Va., CSAGraduated from West Point US Military Academy 1846 ⋆ Breveted Major for Gallantry in the Mexican War ⋆ Served as 1st …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12PN_swiss-volhynian-mennonite-memorial_Moundridge-KS.html
This Centennial Memorial, erected in gratitude to God, commemorates the coming to America of the Swiss-German Mennonites in the Fall of 1874 from Volhynia, a former Polish province, in the present Russian Ukraine. It symbolizes the Christian faith among the…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12QA_the-swiss-yolhynian-mennonites_Moundridge-KS.html
Seventy-three families, the Mennonite Congregation of Kotosufka, left Russia on Aug. 6, 1874, under the leadership of Elder Jacob Stucky and Rev. Jacob D. Goering, at Liverpool, England. They embarked on the "City of Richmond," arriving in New York on Augus…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12QQ_original-site-of-hoffnungsfeld-eden-church_Moundridge-KS.html
Drawing of church
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM12RT_the-wedding-of-the-rose-and-the-lotus_Springfield-IL.html
This painting by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), entitled "The Wedding of the Rose and the Lotus" was a companion piece to one of Lindsay's poems. Lindsay recited the poem in 1915 for President Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet to commemorate the opening of the…
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