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The Lost Town of Cambridge

After the Revolution, the American government confiscated land that belonged to prominent Loyalists. You are standing on such a tract, and it became the site of a new town of Ninety Six in 1783. The old town, near the Star ...

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A Mother’s Grief

In an age of high infant mortality, Sarah and John Brown experience more than their share of loss. Plagued by smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, measles and mumps, early Baltimore families buried one of every three children before their first ...

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The South Park Community

Merriam Historic Plaza Walking Path

The community of South Park, Kansas was founded in 1887 as an integrated community. By 1900, four black families had settled in the town of 250 residents. South Park continued to grow and became a part ...

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The Charles Miller House

Est. 1886

The first house in Raymond was home to

Charles Miller. He was the first railroad

station master and stagecoach agent. He

filed the homestead for Raymond and is a

substantial part of Yosemite history.

California Point of Historical Interest

restored by Lynn and Wayne Northrop ...

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A Memorial to British Troops Who Died in the Old Meeting House

A memorial to British troops who died in the Old Meeting House during Cornwallis encampment here on his retreat from Guilford Courthouse March 1781.

Erected by Troop 46 B.S.A. Henry Overman Leader Who Died Before Completing It.

Marker can be reached from ...

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The Mormon Trail

The Southern Route of the Mormon Trail followed paths explored by Father Garces and Jedediah Smith. In 1848, Mormon Battalion Captain Jefferson Hunt trailed cattle to Utah on this trail. The Daniel Davis family, also of the Mormon Battalion, followed ...

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Power of the Potomac

The Potomac River races east past you with enough mountain-carving power to punch through the entire Blue Ridge to your right. Such energy easily powered the entire national armory from the early 1800s until 1861. Diverted by a dam upstream, ...

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Mount Tabor Lutheran Church

Shenandoah Valley circuit-riding preacher Paul

Henkel formed Mount Tabor Lutheran Church

about 1785, several miles to the east. It shared a

log building with St. John’s, a Lutheran and

Reformed union congregation. Under the direction

of David Frederick Bittle, the Mount Tabor con-

gregation moved here ...

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Grand Turk: The Original Columbus Landfall ?

The exact location of Christopher Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492 has been debated for centuries. Columbus' original journal of his first voyage to the New World is lost, and we will likely never know for sure.

Recent ...

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Haymarket During the War

Civilian Hardships

Throughout the Civil War, Haymarket and its residents endured the consequences of occupying an important geographical location. Marching armies

passed through the town during the First and Second Battles of Manassas,

the engagement at Thoroughfare Gap, the “Buckland Races,” and numerous

other ...

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