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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMTZI_working-men-of-the-railroads_Atchison-KS.html
The backbreaking work building railroads to the West was accomplished by men, like Thomas W. Haverty from Galway, Ireland. Wielding hammers and driving spikes their labor united a country and made Atchison "The Rail Centre of Kansas" beginning with the firs…
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Legislator - GovernorSupreme Court JusticeTreasurer of the United States of America
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMU4L_jasper-county-veterans-memorial_Newton-IA.html
The Plaque was mounted on 1928 WW I Monument. This monument is dedicated to the Veterans of the United States of America, July 4, 1994. Honoring Jasper County Men who served in the World War.
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In July 1878, a band of Nez Perce Indians returning south from Canada after eluding U.S. Cavalry, crossed what is now Granite County. While passing through they attacked a small mining camp located on a tributary of Rock Creek at McKay Gulch. Three miners w…
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On January 26, 1598, amid embraces and farewells, Governor Juan de Onate left Santa Barbara, in present day Chihuahua, leading an expedition bound for New Mexico. Nearly 600 settlers accompanied him, along with Mexican Indian allies and Franciscan friars. I…
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(West Face):N.S.D.A.R. Memorialto thePioneer Mothersof theCovered Wagon Days(South Face):Into the primitive westFace upflung toward the sunBravely she cameHer children besides her,Here she made them a homeBeautiful Pioneer Mother! (East Face):The Nation…
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With the faith and courage oftheir forefathers who madepossible the freedom of theseUnited StatesThe Boy Scouts of Americadedicate this copy of theStatue of Liberty as a pledgeof everlasting fidelity andand loyalty 40th Anniversary Crusade tostengthen th…
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Hannah Cole was one of the earliest settlers of the present site of Boonville. She was born in Virginia about 1762. In 1789 she married William Temple Cole. They moved to Kentucky about 1805 and then to what would soon become Missouri Territory in 1807 wher…
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Frederick Thomas Kemper, pioneering Missouri educator and founder of Kemper Military School in Boonville, was born at Madison Courthouse, Virginia. After graduating from Marion College in Palmyra, Missouri, he came to Boonville in 1844 and opened his first …
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One of America's greatest painters, George Caleb Bingham, was known during his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist" for his depictions of frontier life and portraits. Bingham was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 20, 1811, and in 1819 the family moved…
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