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Brigadier General Anthony Walton White grave marker

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New Brunswick, New Jersey.
(Inscription on the grave marker is illigible) (Bronze Tablet) In Memory of Brigadier General Anthony Walton White An officer of the American Army of the Revolution. A member of General Washington’s staff. Washington, Lafayette, and Kosciuszko called him friend.

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple

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New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Congregation Anshe Emeth was founded October 11, 1859. It was the first incorporated Jewish congregation in Middlesex County, and the fourth in New Jersey. The congregation, which followed American Reform liturgical practices, built New Brunswick’s first synagogue on Albany Street in 1897. In the 1920s, as it began construction of a new synagogue on Livingston Avenue, the congregation was renamed Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple “in memory of the Jewish Dead of New Brunswick”. The Moorish Revival style building, designed by local architect Alexander Merchant, was dedicated Jun 1930. Additions were constructed in 1964, 1978, and 2006, when the sanctuary was renovated as well. Of the seven oldest Jewish congregations in New Jersey, Anshe Emeth is the only one that remains in the city of its founding. This plaque commemorates the sesquicentennial of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple.

This Historic Marker is a gift to the people of New Brunswick from the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, 2009.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Voorhees Home

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Middlebrush, New Jersey.
Early 18th century house of Garret Voorhees was burned by the retreating troops of General Howe in 1777. Rebuilt in 1793

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Col. Asa Warren

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Eden, New York.

Col. Asa Warren
built this house in
1815. Used as underground
railroad station during the
Civil War.

(War, US Civil • Abolition & Underground RR) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Baptist Church

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Eden, New York.

First Baptist Church
First church to be formally
organized in Eden Oct. 2, 1816.
Member met here after 1840.
Existing church dedicated
this site Jan. 28, 1896.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clarksburg

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Eden, New York.

Clarksburg
Est. 1819. Named for early
settler Simeon Clark, who
built a sawmill & gristmill
near here ca.1820. First
school established ca. 1839.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Typhoid Traced to Well

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Boston, New York.

Typhoid
Traced to Well
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In 1843, Typhoid Fever
attacked 28 persons with
10 deaths after a stranger's
illness contaminated the water
in the well at Fuller's Tavern.
The study by Austin Flint, M.D.
is the classic story that
first points the way to the
real cause of the disease.

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Texas Central Railway Company

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Albany, Texas.
The Houston & Texas Central Railway, which began building north from Houston in 1856, was tapped in 1872 by a branch line from Waco. In 1879, the Texas Central Railway Co. was chartered to extend the branch from Ross, 11 miles north of Waco, to the Panhandle. By 1881, the track stretched 177 miles through Whitney, Hico, Dublin, and Cisco, to Albany. Because financial problems prevented further building, Albany remained the rail terminus for 19 years.
     Realizing the value of rail service on the frontier, the citizens of Albany had raised $50,000 to win the railroad away from the nearby town of Ft. Griffin. As the end of the rail line, Albany experienced a long period of growth and prosperity. It became a shipping center for cattle, buffalo bones, and building stone. Hotels and stores sprang up to accommodate visitors and new residents arriving by train.
     In 1900, the railroad started to build again, extending the line from Albany to Stamford. Purchased in 1914 by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co., the Texas Central Railway was part of that system until the growth of highway travel reduced rail service. In 1967, the line was discontinued except for a short section between Gorman and Dublin.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Albany News

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Albany, Texas.
In 1866, a Union Army Regular, Harry Hall (H.H.) McConnell (1837-1895), left Pennsylvania and traveled to Fort Belknap near Jacksboro. A natural journalist, he was a talented writer with an inquisitive mind and sense of humor. Along with his partner, R. Chandler, McConnell began a newspaper in Jacksboro called the Frontier Echo on June 30, 1875. Later that year, Captain George W. Robson (1837-1918), a Union officer from Kansas, bought The Echo. In 1878, Robson relocated to Ft. Griffin and renamed the newspaper The Fort Griffin Echo, and from 1883-1884, it was named The Albany Echo. Robson’s newspaper was a success with much to say about crime, religion, politics, civic responsibility and public morals. In 1879, Edgar Rye, a Kentucky man who briefly worked with Robson, began a newspaper called The Albany Tomahawk. For four years, Robson’s and Rye’s newspapers rivaled each other through print. Finally, in 1884, Rye purchased The Echo, merged with The Albany Star to form The Albany News (also known as The Albany Weekly News from 1891-1894). With the talents of Don H. Biggers of Breckinridge, Rye’s newspaper was lively, unusual and excellent for the west Texas journalism world of the 19th century.
     The 20th century editors, Paul Baker from 1908-1917, Col. Dick McCarty from 1917-1944 and John McGaughey from 1939-71, gave the newspaper more creativity and stability. Many historians regularly use these noteworthy newspapers for historical research and to gain insight into west Texas history. These significant publications and contributors gave future Texans knowledge and understanding of frontier life, people and events.
175 Years of Texas Independence ★ 1836 2011

(Industry & Commerce • Communications) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

City of Albany

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Albany, Texas.
Chosen county seat of Shackelford in 1874, Albany had a 43-acre townsite donated by Sheriff Henry C. Jacobs. County Clerk W.R. Cruger named city for his old home, Albany, Ga. A wooden picket courthouse was erected. The post office opened Aug. 1, 1876. By late 1877 there were 16 buildings—homes, hotels, saloons, a blacksmith shop. Merchants were T.E. Jackson and firm of Woody & Hatcher. Physicians W.T. Baird and W.M. Powell and Lawyer A.A. Clarke located here. D.H. Meyer and Edgar Rye began (1879) publishing “The Albany Tomahawk”. Already on the Western Cattle Trail, city expanded as a frontier shipping point when Houston & Texas Central Railroad built a terminus here in 1881.
     By 1882 a church building had been erected. Music lovers organized a cornet band. In 1883 an opera hall opened, and a permanent courthouse of native stone was built. Succeeding D.R. Britt as the school principal, W.S. Dalrymple founded an adult study club, “The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle”.
     Albany had an academy, and then a college in 1898-1915. Local activities include ranching, petroleum production, small farming, and annual staging of the historical drama, “The Fort Griffin Fandangle”.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ledbetter Picket House

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Albany, Texas.
William Henry Ledbetter (1833-84), a native of Georgia, came to Texas in 1858, and established a salt works on Hubbard Creek (8 miles SW) in 1862. Ledbetter withstood fierce Indian attacks before moving near Fort Griffin (15 miles N). He was elected first county judge in 1875. In the mid-1870s, Ledbetter built this picket house near the army post, using construction methods typical of this frontier region. It was moved here and restored by the city of Albany in 1953.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Peter's UCC

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West Seneca, New York.

St. Peter's UCC
Completed in 1857 by a
group of immigrants from
Germany, services were held in
German until 1929. Church
moved from road in 1980.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hazelwood: A Rivertown Rich in History

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Named for the hazelnut trees that once grew on the banks of the Monongahela River, Hazelwood possessed a natural beauty that George Washington noted in his early journals. Originally Native American territory, Hazelwood was purchased through the 1758 Stanwix Treaty.

The treaty made way for Scottish Immigrants, who settled in the area of Hazelwood that became known as Scotch Bottom. The first settlers paved a dirt path into Pittsburgh's downtown. Travel on this important throughway, later called Second Avenue, flourished during the mid-1800s. Meanwhile, the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad was built along the Monongahela and the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (J&L) opened the Eliza Plant between Bates Street and Greenfield Avenue. Both entities brought industry and prosperity to Scotch Bottom.

In 1871, the B&O purchased the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad, allowing access from Hazelwood to Pittsburgh's now booming downtown. During the 1880s, a roundhouse for repairing locomotives was built while J&L added 54 beehive ovens near Longworth Street. Hazelwood's industrial growth called for even more workers, many of whom hailed from Central Europe.

By the 1950s, Hazelwood was home to over 200 businesses and a diverse demographic. But as the steel industry declined in the 1980s, so did the community. As businesses closed, people moved away, and Pittsburgh's last steel mill, Hazelwood Coke Works, closed in 1998.

Today, the Coke Works site is owned by Almono LP, a partnership of four Pittsburgh foundations and RIDC. a vision plan for the 178-acre site was developed with the input of stakeholders and the community. With a shared vision for the future, the site is poised to re-enter the market, connect with regional economic hubs, share the mile-and-a-half of riverfront with the community, and become an instigator of growth, renewal, and progress in Pittsburgh.

(Native Americans • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jean Marie Chotard LaPlace Home Site

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Washington, Georgia.
On this site was the
home place of French refugee
Jean Marie Chotard LaPlace
1797
The current building
was erected in 1896.
Queen Anne Style, as a
millinery shop for the
Dayman sisters.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oldest Brick Store

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Washington, Georgia.
Oldest brick
store in
Wilkes County
1815
built by
Augustus H.
Gibson

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oak Tree

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near Texas, Ohio.
This Oak tree was planted in 1836 by the Ottawa Indians in honor of Martha A. Edwards Showman, the first white child born in Washington Township, Henry County, Ohio.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hull's Trace

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Rockwood, Michigan.

Side A
In April 1812, as the United States prepared for a possible war with Great Britain, Michigan Territorial Governor William Hull, became the commander of the Army of the Northwest. His first task was to lead his army from Dayton, Ohio, to Detroit, building Hull's Trace, a two hundred mile long road, as it marched. The army left Dayton on June 1. As it cut the trace through the wilderness from Urbana north, it laid logs crosswise across swampy areas to create a rough but stable corduroy roadbed that could support supply wagons. In late June, a detachment from Frenchtown commanded by Hubert Lacroix also worked on the road, attempting to follow a route laid out under an 1808 territorial Legislative Council act. On June 1812, war was declared; Hull's army arrived at Detroit on July 5th

Side B
Hull's Trace, which linked Detroit and Ohio, was to be the Michigan Territory's inland lifeline during the war of 1812. However, the Detroit River and Lake Erie gave the British easy access to the Michigan portion of the road. American efforts to use the road to bring supplies and men from Frenchtown, present-day Monroe, were foiled twice before Hull surrendered Detroit on August 16, 1812. After the war the Hull's Trace route was used for ever-improving roads, beginning in 1817 with a new military road. In 2000 low water levels in the Huron River revealed a quarter mile of the old corduroy road, lying three to six feet under Jefferson Avenue. Axe marks were visible on some of the logs. This rare example of a surviving corduroy road is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

(War of 1812 • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fisher House

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South Bound Brook, New Jersey.
This 1688 house became the home of Hendrick Fisher, prominent citizen and patriot leader until his death in 1778

(Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saint Olha

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South Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Front panel
Equal-to-the Apostles-Great Princes of Kiev-Sovereign of Rus-Ukraine 945-969.

Left panel
This monument was erected upon the desires of devout Ukrainian women with the blessings of the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and Diaspora Mstyslav and by the labors and generous gifts of Ukrainian women dispersed throughout the entire world especially those incorporated in the United Sisterhoods of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA.

Right panel
This monument was blessed on Aug 16, 1987 AD in honor of the baptism of the Holy Princess Olha 957 wise ruler, zealous Christian and Grandmother of the Holy Prince Volodymyr The Great who in 988 A.D. proclaimed Holy Orthodoxy the State of Religion of Rus-Ukraine.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ukrainian American Veterans Memorial

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South Bound Brook, New Jersey.

Dedicated to all Ukrainian American men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces.

(Military) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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