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Bogart's Tavern

First licensed in 1763, it was headquarters of the Committee of Observation and Inspection, which organized the revolutionary movement in Bucks County in 1775 & 1776. It was also the site where the county's first military organizations of the Revolution ...

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The Sisters of St. Ann

In 1850, Marie Esther Blondin, now known as Blessed Marie Anne Blondin founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Ann, a Roman Catholic religious order dedicated to education and nursing in Lachine, Quebec.

Bishop Modeste Demers of Victoria went to ...

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Liberty Plot

Dedicated to the boys

Who Fought Overseas

— In 1917 —

Marker can be reached from French Camp Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Elliot Street Square

This area, designed and laid out by the landscape branch of the Provincial Department of Public Works in 1975, has been named Elliot Street Square, in memory of Andrew Charles Elliot, barrister, judge, gold commissioner, police magistrate, and fourth Premier ...

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Franklin Township WWII Memorial

1941 - 1945

In the glory of their youth we will remember them. Our dead shall not have died in vain.

Orrin C. Boice •

Frederick E. Dissler •

Andrew J. Hodulik •

Robert V. Leusenring •

Porter C. Little

Dedicated to our ...

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Cherokee Control

Throughout the spring and summer of 1838 Principal Chief John Ross and a group of Cherokee delegates negotiated with the United States War Department to take control of conducting the parties west. Just as the first groups departed under United ...

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Woburn

1630 - 1930

Settled by men from Charlestown under Captain Edward Johnson. Named in 1642 after Woburn, Bedfordshire. Here was born and grew up together Colonel Loammi Baldwin, the Engineer, and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford), Philanthropist and Scientist.

Marker is on Pleasant ...

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"They drove us out of our house"

Beginning on May 26, 1838, soldiers began rounding up Cherokee women, men, and children. They showed little concern or respect for families or their property. In the first days, confusion abounded as soldiers and militiamen gathered individuals wherever they were ...

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The March to Soap Creek

Schofield's 23d A. C. [US] marked time in this vicinity while McPherson’s Army of the Tenn. [US] made demonstrations at Chattahoochee ferries below Johnston’s River Line [CS] -- indicating, falsely, that crossings would be made there while actual passages upstream ...

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Old Marshfield Training Field

1630 - 1930

The Old Marshfield Training Field and Meetinghouse of the First Parish where Daniel Webster attended church.

Home of Daniel Webster. Home of Governor Edward Winslow. Historic Winslow House is open to visitors in summer.

Marker is at the intersection ...

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