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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4MJ_camp-merritt-memorial_Cresskill-NJ.html
In memory of those soldiers who gave their lives for their country while on duty in Camp Merritt.
This monument marks the center of the camp and faces the highway over which more than a million American soldiers passed on their way to and from the World …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4O9_westside-flume-lumber-company_Tuolumne-CA.html
May 31, 1889 Henry J. Crocker, Wellington Gregg, Thomas Bullock and Charles Gardner formed the Westside Flume and Lumber Company, for a total cost of 361,000.00 dollars. The mill was built, and by the end of the year was in operation, and by 1900 was produc…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4OE_bonanza-mine_Sonora-CA.html
Discovered 1851, by Chileans, they took out a substantial amount of free gold.Early 1870's acquired by James Divoll, Charles Clark, and Joseph Bray, sinking a shaft 1500 ft. in 1877. Big strike came in 1879, 990 lbs. of gold was removed in one week, valued …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4OF_emigrant-trail-terminus_Sonora-CA.html
Sonora was the goal of many emigrants traveling the various overland and sea routes.
The 1852 Clark-Skidmore Party of emigrants from Elizabethtown, Ohio and Lawrenceburg, Indiana struggled to force a wagon train up the Walker River and over the 10,000 ft…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4P7_eli-siegel_Baltimore-MD.html
Great American Poet, PhilosopherFounder of Aesthetic RealismQuiet and green was the grass of the field,The sky was whole in brightness,And O, a bird was flying, high, there in the sky,So gently, so carelessly and fairly.
There are millions of men in the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4TD_coaches-james-g-deegan-and-james-j-phelan_Emmitsburg-MD.html
Universitas Sanctae Mariae Ad Montes Marylandia Fundata Ab Joanne DuBoisThis boulder honors Coaches James G. Deegan and James J. Phelan for their combined century of dedicated service to Mount St. Mary's University. For over five decades these two men coach…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4VU_anne-makemie-holden_Temperanceville-VA.html
Honors Anne Makemie HoldenLandowner, successful business woman manager, champion of American Independence.Daughter of Naomi and Francis Makemie, founder of organized American PresbyterianismPresented June 17, 1998 by Virginia Business and Professional Women…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM51L_general-sullivans-new-york-campaign-trail_Seneca-Falls-NY.html
Routes of the armies ofGeneral John SullivanandGeneral James Clinton1779An expedition against the hostile Indian nations which checked the aggression of the English and Indians on the frontiers of New York and Pennsylvania, extending westward the dominion o…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM539_first-womans-rights-convention_Seneca-Falls-NY.html
On this spot stood the Wesleyan ChapelWhere the First Woman's Rights Convention in the World's history was heldJuly 19 and 20 1848———————Elizabeth Cady StantonMoved this resolutionWhich was seconded by Frederick Dou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM54J_red-jacket_Seneca-Falls-NY.html
SA-GO-YA-WAT-HA(He keeps them awake) The orator of the Six Nations of IroquoisA chief of the Wolf Clan of the SenecasBorn near this spot-died at Buffalo N.Y.1750 1830