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Grand Junction

Crossroads of Conflict

Grand Junction is named for its location, where the Memphis and Charleston and Mississippi Central Railroads intersect, and was strategically important to both Confederate and Union forces. After defeats at Shiloh and Corinth, Confederates tore up the tracks, ...

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Philosophiæ et Scientiæ Domus

On land granted in January 1744 by Thomas and Richard Penn, Proprietories of Pennsylvania, to Joseph and William Shippen was erected this house.

In 1798 it became the home of Dr. Caspar Wistar the great Physician devoted to Scientific work. ...

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The Golden Weed

King James called smoking “a filthy novelty,” but tobacco proved the salvation of his

Virginia colony.

Seeds from South America and the West Indies, grown in Virginia’s soil and climate, produced a pleasing leaf. From 1615 to 1619, tobacco exports increased twentyfold.

In ...

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U.S. Post Office and Courthouse

Entered on the National Register of

Historic Places

August 13, 1974

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse

Charleston, South Carolina

John H. Devereux

Architect 1896

This property significantly contributes to the nation's cultural heritage

Commemorated June 1976

Gerald R. Ford

President ...

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This Building

Erected in the post-Revolutionary

period on a part of the land once

known as Archdale's Square, was

occupied the Charleston branch of

the First Bank of the United States

prior to 1800. Acquired in 1833

by the Hebrew Orphan Society, ...

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Site of Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery

Post Marker:

Known as

Old Swack Church

Erected 1844

Builder Jacob Swackhammer

In use until 1896

Small marker on concrete post:

Mount Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church

(Commonly known as the Swack Church)

Built in 1844 - In use until about 1900

Plaque prepared by

Watchung Area Council, B. S. A.

Marker is ...

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Excellent Good Timber

Colonists marvelled at the deep, tall forests of Virginia – then set to clearing them away. The “goodly tall Trees” became firewood, fort walls, house frames, boat planks, barrel staves, industrial fuel, and lumber exports.

Jamestown’s ruins yielded many tools of ...

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St. Augustine Confederate Memorial

(Front):Our Dead.

In Memoriam

our

Loved Ones

Who gave up Their Lives

in the service

of

The Confederate States

Peter Masters.

John M. Llambias.

Michael G. Llambias.

Antonio Mickler.

George Mickler.

Jacob Mickler.

Joseph Noda.

Eusebio Pagetti.

Frank Papy.

Edward ...

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Saint Mary of the Springs Academy / Anne O'Hare McCormick 1880-1

Side A:

Saint Mary of the Springs Academy

On this site stood St. Mary of the Springs Academy, a school for girls first founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1830 in Somerset, Ohio, to respond to the educational needs of frontier Catholics. ...

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Radio Astronomy

Near this site in 1932, Bell Labs. scientist Karl Jansky first discovered radio waves coming from outer space, thus beginning the science of radio astronomy.

Marker is on Crawford Corners Road near Seven Oaks Drive, on the right when traveling east. ...

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