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Moravian Cemetery

Used as a burial place, 1742-1910. Site selected and consecrated by Count von Zinzendorf. Only flat gravestones were permitted. Here are the graves of persons of various nationalities and races.

Marker is on West Market Street 0.1 miles east of Main ...

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Quartermaster Repair Shops

The Quartermaster Department was responsible for the transportation of the Army, storage and transportation of supplies, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, horses, forage, fuel, maintenance of buildings and repair of equipment.

Captain Edward J. Strang was in charge of the repair ...

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Pulaski Legion Memorial

Little Egg Harbor Massacre

This tablet erected by the Society of Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey to commemorate the massacre of a portion of the legion commanded by Brigadier General the Count Casimir Pulaski of the Continental Army in ...

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Old Bethel Church

Built in 1790 as a meeting place for Methodists, this structure originally stood at third and Market Streets and

consisted of one large room with an end gallery (slave box). In 1828 it was moved to Church and Mulberry Streets

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Porter House

“I’ve noticed that that band always begins its noise just about the time I am sitting down to dinner and want to talk.” – General U.S. Grant, City Point, Virginia

Earthworks had been thrown across the neck of land upon which ...

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Moravian Archives

Repository for records of the Moravian Church, first organized in 1757. The Archives holds a unique collection of manuscripts, books, music and images relating to the history of the Moravians in North America from 1740 to the present.

Marker is on ...

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One Soldier, One Family, One War

The Homespun Letters of James Nugent

"Oh! father, it would make your blood run cold to see the fights...War is awful." - James Nugent, City Point, April 27, 1865

In the closing months of the Civil War, a young Wisconsin college student ...

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David Tannenberg

(1728-1804)

One of America’s foremost pipe organ builders. Tannenberg, born at Berthelsdorf, Germany, emigrated to the Moravian community at Bethlehem in 1749. From 1760-65 he lived at Burnside Plantation, where he built organs as an apprentice of Johann Gottlob Klemm (1690-1762), ...

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Old Indian Reservation

Just to the north was the

Nottoway Indian Reservation.

William Byrd, while running

the boundry line between

Virginia and North Carolina,

visited these Indians April

7, 1729. Indians were living

here as late as 1825.

Marker is on Meherrin Road (VA 35) (Business U.S. 58), on the ...

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Sutter Creek Sanitarium

1895 - 1927

Medical Offices, Surgery and Hospital of

Dr. Philip Sheridan Goodman. (1867 – 1927).

Office and surgery on ground floor, hospital upstairs.

Miraculous and unconventional, a true

Sutter Creek Character.

Marker is on Main Street (Old Highway 49) south of Randolph Street, on the ...

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