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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6VQ_william-church-whitner_Anderson-SC.html
Native son William Church Whitner developed the concept and spearheaded financing for the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power over a long distance in the South. On May 1, 1895, electricity travelled six miles from a generator at High Shoals on the R…
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[North]:(Palmetto Tree)(Crossed swords in scabbards with a laurel wreath - representing the cavalry.)(Confederate Battle Flag)"Though conquered, we adore it!Love the cold dead hands that bore it!"
[West]:(Furled Stainless Banner)(Cannon wheel, cannon bal…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6WP_theodore-roosevelt_Arlington-VA.html
Theodore Roosevelt: 1858-1919
[Quotations, Panel 1]:NATURE
There is delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy, and its charm.
The nation…
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Philadelphia Athletics 1908-1909Cleveland Naps 1910-1915Chicago White Socks 1915-1920Position: Left FieldThrew: RightBatted: Left1919 World Series Batting Average .375Lifetime Batting Average .356Third Highest in Baseball History————…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM729_schuyler-colfax_Colfax-CA.html
Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was asked by President Abraham Lincoln on April 14 to take a message to the miners of the west, that their prosperity is the prosperity of the Nation. These may have been Lincoln's last words on publ…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM73J_you-can-fool-all-the-people-part-of-the-time_Clinton-IL.html
"You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time."
Spoken in an address in Clinton July 27, 1858 by? ? ? ? ? Abraham Lincoln
"I must stand with anybody that stands righ…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM773_general-john-a-sutter_Sacramento-CA.html
Swiss ImmigrantFounder of New HelvetiaThe beginning of SacramentoBuilder of Sutter's FortA man of vision and compassionwho deserves the respectand gratitudeof Americans and Swiss
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM78X_vardry-mcbee_Greenville-SC.html
"A man should be prudent and careful, without seeming to be so, in character, information, propriety, friends, and money, and in everything, never neglecting his friends." Vardry McBee, 1852.
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Industrialist.In 1815, Vadry McB…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM79C_abbeville-county-confederate-monument_Abbeville-SC.html
South:Ship's Anchor1861-1865
"The world shall yet decide,In truth's clear, far-off light,That the soldiers who wore the gray, and diedWith Lee were in the right!"—————"Brave men may die - right has no death;Truth never shall…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM79O_polk-county-world-war-memorial_Columbus-NC.html
This monument marks this highway that we dedicate to the memory of? ? ? Levi Butler? ? ? Jessie Lewis? ? ? Wallace Lankford? ? ? Zibo Wilson? ? ? Lawson Williams? ? ? Ralph Walker? ? ? Columbus Donstantwho paid the surpreme sacrifice for their home and coun…