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Three Notch Trail

This road, called “Three Notch Trail” from early days, is believed to have been marked with three notches by scouts sent out by General Andrew Jackson’s troops on their march to Fort Scott. Most of his troops passed this way ...

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Curly Lambeau

Earl L. (Curly Lambeau

Curly Lambeau founded the Green Bay Packers in 1919 and was a driving force in the teams early years, including the 1921 decision to join what is now the NFL.

Marker can be reached from Lombardi Avenue, on ...

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Morgan Hall, 1910

Named for John Tyler Morgan (1824-1907).

As U.S. Senator, Morgan led the 1882 campaign to obtain federal funds in reparation for the destruction of the University of Alabama campus by Union Troops in 1865.

A member of the Alabama Secession Convention and ...

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Arthur Horace James (1883-1973)

Prominent Pennsylvania Republican politician and public official. Elected Luzerne County District Attorney, 1919-1926; Lieutenant Governor, 1927-1931; and Governor, 1939-1943. Served as a Judge on the Superior Court of the Commonwealth, 1933-1938, and was a Republican presidential primary candidate in 1940. ...

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Three Notch Trail

This road, called “Three Notch Trail” from early days, is believed to have been marked with three notches by scouts sent out by General Andrew Jackson’s troops on their march to Fort Scott. Most of his troops passed this way ...

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. Her mother moved to Charlottesville in 1909 and rented the house here. Beginning

in 1912, O’Keeffe intermittently lived with

her mother and sisters. She took a summer

drawing class taught by Mon Bement at the ...

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Robertson's Brigade

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Army of Northern Virginia

Stuart's Cavalry Division

Robertson's Brigade

4th. and 5th North Carolina Cavalry

July 1 The Brigade crossed the Potomac at Williamsport Md. and marched to Greencastle Pa.

July 2 Marched from Greencastle Pa. to ...

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Battle of Rhode Island   1778

During the American Revolution the British strategy focused on controlling American ports and blockading the coast. Because of Newport’s significance as a deep-water port and as a center of trade, British forces landed in Newport in December of 1776 to ...

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Pvt. Mark Wood

Company C., 21st. Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Pvt. Mark Wood, Company C,

21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Died July 11, 1866

Congressional Medal of Honor winner

Pvt. Wood, a union soldier during the Civil War, was a member of the famed Andrews Raiders, who took possession of ...

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Beale Wagon Road

America’s Great Camel Experiment 1857-1858

In the summer of 1857 former Navy Lt. Edward F. Beale was chosen by the Buchanan Administration to develop a wagon road from Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory (now Arizona) to the Colorado River along the ...

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