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Old Indian Trail

Here passed the Old Indian Trail used as a dividing line between the Choctaw and Creek Tribes.

General Andrew Jackson and his troops rested here for the night in 1813.

Marker is on Old Line Road (County Road 35) 2 miles north ...

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Henry C. Burn House

[Front]

Henry C. Burn (1839-1912), state representative and Darlington County public servant, lived here from 1882 until his death. Burn, born in Chesterfield District, was educated at St. David’s Academy in Society Hill, then at Furman University, before joining the ...

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Douglas International Airport

At this location on June 5, 1933, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dedicated Douglas International Airport as the first international airport in the United States.

Designed by J. P. Sexton as the first and only truly ...

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North Square

Here in North Square

Lived Paul Revere and his wife

Rachel Revere for whom this overlook is named

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Here lived Major Pitcairn

of the soldiery

occupying Boston in 1775

Governor Thomas Hutchinson

Sir Harry Frankland

William Clark

The alarm that British troops

were ...

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Birthplace of Herman Melville

On this site, number 6 Pearl Street, Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819. Author of Moby Dick, “Bartelby the Scrivener,” Pierre, Billy Budd and many other American classics.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Humphrey DeForest Bogart

1899 - 1957

This site is the childhood home of

Humphrey DeForest Bogart

1899 - 1957

Mr Bogart lived at this site from the time he was born until 1923. During a film career that spanned nearly 30 years and ...

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Birth Place of Jennie Jerome

In this house in January 1850 was born Jennie Jerome later Lady Randolph Churchill.

She was the mother of The Rt Honorable Winston Spencer Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain and staunch friend of the United States.

This plaque is ...

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Caleb Coker House

This house, built ca. 1832, was the home of Caleb Coker (1802-1869) and the birthplace of his son Maj. James Lide Coker (1837-1918), Confederate officer, industrialist, and founder of Coker College. Caleb Coker, a merchant, was also a director of ...

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24th New York Infantry

Second Battle of Manassas

August 30, 1862

3:15 p.m.

1st Brigade (Sullivan), First Division (Hatch)

Third Corps (McDowell), Army of Virginia, USA

24th New York Infantry

("Oswego Regiment")

Maj. Andrew Barney

"Those of us on the embankment were too few ...

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Robin Helton

Crash Site of

U.S. Marine A-4 Skyhawk

Oct. 29, 1985

In memory of the pilot

1st Lt. Robin Franklin

Helton

Sept. 13, 1955

Oct. 29, 1985

son of

McDonald & Kathryn Helton

husband of

Connie Swann Helton

father of

Robyn L. Helton

Donated by John Brown Memorials

Marker is on Robin Helton Drive 0.1 miles ...

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