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Harriett Dean House

In 1838, Abraham Lincoln purchased two lots in this block for $300. Twelve years later, he sold a half lot to Harriet Dean for $125.00 Mrs. Dean purchased an adjacent lot from someone else and had a house built, thus ...

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Tracks into History

The Washington & Old Dominion Railroad

The railroad that became the Washington & Old Dominion was born in Alexandria in response to the competition in shipping posed by the port in Baltimore, which was served by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. ...

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African Cemetery 1860-1964

Westchester County Tricentennial 1683-1983

Donated by Underhill and Elizabeth Halstead for use as a cemetery for black residents of Rye Town and Black Civil War Veterans

Marker can be reached from North Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Garcia School

Built 1905

Has been entered in the

National Register

of Historic Places

By the United States

Department of the Interior

Little remains of the old one room schoolhouses built of log, adobe, frame or brick which proliferated across Arizona in the late 1800's.

This fine brick example ...

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Colonel Raynal C. Bolling

This grove is dedicated

to the memory of

Col. Raynal C. Bolling S.C. U.S.A.

Lawyer Patriot Soldier

Born 1 Sept. 1877 at Hot Springs Arkansas

Killed in action during the German offensive

near Amiens France 26 March 1918

The first American officer of high rank

to fall in ...

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The Jail Tree

From 1863 to 1890

Outlaws were chained to this tree for lack of a Hoosegow- -

Escapes were unknown

Marker is at the intersection of North Tegner Street and Wickenburg Way, on the right on North Tegner Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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9th Ohio Infantry.

Van Derveer's Brigade. - Brannan's Division

[Front Side of Marker]:

9th Ohio Infantry.

Van Derveer's Brigade.

Brannan's Division

[Reverse Side of Marker]:

Plaque from the reverse side of the historical marker is missing.

14th Army Corps.

Marker can be reached from Glenn-Kelly Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Henry Wickenburg

1819-1905

Founder of the Vulture Mine and town of Wickenburg

Sculptor Clyde Ross Morgan

Commission by the Wickenburg Rotary Club

Marker is on North Tegner Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Electric Trains on the W&OD

Electrification arrived in 1912, after the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad and the Southern Railway’s Bluemont Branch were consolidated into the Washington & Old Dominion Railway. The new owners brought modern interurban trolley cars. Wire strung above the tracks ...

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Is this Weiser's House?

We can't be sure. We know that Conrad Weiser owned this land and lived on the property from 1729 to about 1750. And there is a strong oral tradition indicating that Weiser's house stood on this spot. But archaeology conducted ...

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