New World Medical Plants

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During the 1730's the Trustees of the Georgia Colony, aided by funds from the Worshipful Society Of Apothecaries of London sought to grow new world medical plants both for their therapeutic value and for the enrichment of empire. ...

WW II Grant County (Indiana) Veterans Memorial

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World War II

1941 - 1945

All Gave Some

Some Gave All

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** The Supreme Sacrifice **

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Edward Leroy Addison • Bruce Adkins • Donald Perry Adkins • George Corwin Allen • Robert Gerald Allen • Donald D. Alvarado • Floyd Amrhine ...

The Stoneman Raid

In July, 1864, Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman’s army [US] closed in on Atlanta. Finding its fortifications “too strong to assault and too extensive to invest,” he sought to force its fall by sending Maj. Gen George Stoneman, with three cavalry ...

Cultural Influences of Chillicothe and Ross County

(Marker 1, Native Americans)

During the course of Chillicothe’s history many diverse groups have come to inhabit the area with the earliest being the Native American as early as the late 1600's. During the American Revolution, the Shawnees fought alongside the ...

The Washburn and Pillsbury Clans

Minneapolis flour milling magnate, Cadwallader C. Washburn, was a member of a Maine family that sent four brothers to Congress, all from different states. Cadwallader served Wisconsin as congressman (1854-61, 1867-71) and governor (1872-73). His younger brother, William D. Washburn, ...

Longstreet's Command

Semmes' Brigade, McLaws' Division

C.S.A.

Longstreet's Command.

Semmes' Brigade, McLaws' Division.

Brig. Gen. Paul J. Semmes, Commanding.

Organization.

10th Georgia Infantry,

53rd Georgia Infantry,

15th Virginia Infantry,

32d Virginia Infantry,

September 17, 1862.

Semmes' Brigade reached the Western suburbs of Sharpsburg at sunrise of the 17th and halted until nearly 9 ...

George Washington Stopped Here

In 1709

George Washington

stopped here at an inn

where these stones

were in use

———

D.A.R. 1930

Marker is at the intersection of Route 150 and Washington Drive, on the right when traveling south on Route 150.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Ditchley and Cobbs

Ditchley, five miles northeast, was patented in 1651 by Colonel Richard Lee. The first house dated from 1687, the present house was built by Kendall Lee in 1752.

Cobbs Hall, near by, was acquired by Richard Lee, probably before 1651. ...

Park Maintenance Building

3915 Gillham Road

The Park Maintenance Building, built in 1905, was designed as an "ornamental barn" by the master architect Adriance Van Brunt. The building, constructed of native limestonea and trimmed with vitrified brick, was to be used to house ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The future President of the U.S., General of the Army, and Supreme Commander in Europe in WW II lived in this house with his wife Mamie and infant son Icky in the spring and summer of 1918. An Army captain, ...