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Birthplace of Andrew Jackson

Seventh President of the United States. Near this site on South Carolina soil Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived and where Jackson himself said he was born.

Marker is at the intersection ...

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Jackson's Command

Hays' Brigade, Ewell's Division

C.S.A.

Jackson's Command.

Hays' Brigade, Ewell's Division,

Brigadier General Harry T. Hays, Commanding.

Organization.

5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 14th Louisiana Infantry.

(September 17, 1862.)

On the night of September 16, Hays' Brigade bivouacked in the woods northwest of the Dunkard Church. Soon after ...

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Captain Joshua Huddy — Prisoner of War

Here

Captain Joshua Huddy

of the Monmouth County Artillery

A Prisoner of War

Captured March 24, 1782 while defending

the Block House at Tom's River. Was hung by Torries without warrant April 12, 1782

The British authorities repudiated

but did not atone for that crime.

The Sons of ...

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Joan of Arc

Born at

Domremy, France

January 6, 1411

Burned at the

Stake at

Rouen, France

May 30, 1431

Back of Monument : >

Erected by

The Joan of Arc Statue Committee

in the City of New York, 1915

Marker is at the intersection of Riverside Drive and W 93rd Street, on the ...

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Lajos Kossuth Monument

Riverside Park

For many years on March 15th, Hungarian Independence Day has been celebrated on Riverside Drive at the monument to patriot Lajos Kossuth (1802-94). The bronze tableau portrays a vignette of the struggle for Hungarian independence in 1848. Atop ...

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John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway

Named in honor of John Caldwell Calhoun, (1782-1850), the Old South's most admired statesman and profound philosopher and America's most influential spokesman for state's rights.

From 1808 to 1810 he served his state as a member of the S.C. House ...

John W. Ellis

Governor, 1859-61. A leader

of the secession movement

in N. C. Died July, 1861, aged

40. Home stands 1½

blocks south.

Marker is at the intersection of S Ellis Street and W Innes Street, on the right when traveling south on S Ellis Street. ...

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John Abbot

John Abbot, world famed entomologist and

collector of Lepidoptera came to Georgia

from London in 1790, and settled in

Jacksonboro, where he remained many years

collecting Lepidopterous insects. He was sent

to Georgia by a London collector and publisher.

Abbot, besides being an assiduous collector,

was ...

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John Christopher Mack

1929

This Tablet is to Perpetuate the Memory Of

John Christopher Mack

A public spirited citizen who truly loved Bristol

the place of his birth.

His declining years were spent in California

yet his interest in his native town never lessened.

His great love for children

found fitting ...

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Jeannette Rankin's Georgia Home

Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) was the first woman to serve in Congress: being elected from Montana in 1916 before women had the right to vote in other states. She was active in women's suffrage and was a peace advocate who opposed ...

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