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San Domingo School Community & Cultural Center

The first school at this location, built around 1875, was a single story, one-room plan frame building that served the Sharptown District for over forty years. Built in 1919 to replace the first school, this two-story, hip roofed frame structure ...

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The “Veteran Sailor”

Founded in 1910, Canada’s Naval Service wore the same uniform as the Royal Navy. The traditional “sailor suit” included bell bottom trousers, jumper, flannel ‘gun shirt”, and square collar. The uniform was completed with a lanyard, silk and a round ...

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B&O Railroad Station

Keep Supplies Moving

One of the first railroads in the country, constructed in 1830 of wooden rails that carried horse-drawn cars, extended from Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills. This station was built the next year, and soon steel rails replaced wooden ...

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The Old Corner Saloon

In the 1860’s Copperopolis had a population of 10,000 and was the principal mine in the west. The mine closed in 1945.

This building has housed a saloon since it was built in 1862. Twice it survived raging fires which destroyed ...

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Tule Springs

(Archeological Site)

Tule Springs is one of the few sites in the U.S. where evidence suggest the presence of man before 11,000 B.C.

Scientific evidence shows this area, once covered with sagebrush and bordered with yellow-pine forests, had many springs. These springs ...

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Jackson Trail

This is the same road over witch marched the famous Gen. Andrew Jackson.

This marker erected April 1926

By Georgia Daughters of The American Revolution.

Atlanta Chapter Atlanta and Sunbury Chapter Winder.

Marker is on Winder Highway (State Highway 11).

Courtesy hmdb.org

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100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy

Prior to 1910. the Royal Navy provided maritime defence of British North America and for the Dominion of Canada from 1867. With World War I brewing in Europe early in the 20th century, Great Britain redistributed the British fleet and ...

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Revolutionary Battlefields

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Revolutionary

Battlefields

and

Colonial

Fort Sites

NY State

Historical

Marker

Marker is at the intersection of East Dominick Street and Bouck Street, on the right when traveling east on East Dominick Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Brandon World War II Honor Roll

Ayers, Edwin - Beever, Joseph - Bird, Donald

Bunnell, Walter - Carpenter, Robert - Chambers, Merritt

Chrisman, Clarence - Chrisman, Everett - Cochran, Chester

Conard, John - Dennison, William - Donze, Roy

Dunmire, Hershel - Dunn, Harrison

Ellis, Carrol - Gaines, Paul - Genre, ...

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The First Shot of the War of Secession

1861 - 1961

At half past four on the morning

of April 12, 1861, from a mortar near

this spot on Fort Johnson, the first

shot of the War of Secession was fired,

by order of Captain George S. James ...

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