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Gabreil Daveis Tavern

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Glendora, New Jersey.
The Gabreil Daveis Tavern was built in 1756 as part of a 178 acre plantation.

This was the first recorded tavern along the “Irish Road”, the great road leading from Gloucester Township to Great Egg Harbor. Guests could find lodging and meal for a few shillings and pence.

Notable persons who inhabited the tavern over the years include Benjamin Pittfield, 1771, a patriot leader during the Revolutionary War; Major George Payne, 1779, a patriot and owner of a privateer, a privately owned and armed ship, licensed to prey on enemy vessels; and Captain Edward Warrick, 1865, and officer during the Civil War.

The last owner was William F. Schuck who owned the property from 1923 - 1976. In his will, Mr. Schurk deeded the property to the Township of Gloucester to be preserved as a historic structure.

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


The Underground Railroad / The Marion County Trial of Bill Anderson

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Marion, Ohio.

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised, and instructed during their journey to freedom. Although this movement was one of America’s greatest social. moral, and humanitarian endeavors, the details about it were often cloaked in secrecy to protect those involved from retribution of civil law and slave catchers. Ohio’s history has been permanently shaped by the thousands of runaway slaves passing through or finding permanent residence in this state.

The Marion County Trail of Bill Anderson
Runaways sheltered by friendly abolitionist communities often believed that slave-catchers could not touch them in the heart of Ohio, but they were wrong.

Such was the case in 1838 in Marion County. A black man by the name of “Bill Anderson” or “Bill Mitchell” fled bondage in a Virginia salt works and settled near Marion but he was soon recognized there. A mail dispatch sent to Virginia caused the alleged slaveholder to demand Bill’s incarceration by local authorities.

Forty days after his capture, six strangers appeared in Marion claiming ownership of Bill and brandishing bowie knives, pistols, and clubs. During the trial, the men, one identified as “Smith” produced notes of sale showing that three of them had purchased “Bill” at different times with “John Smith” the most recent buyer. After lengthy preamble, local UGRR stationmaster Judge Ozies Bowen rocked the courtroom by announcing, “Mr. Smith and John Smith might be two different persons, therefore I shall decide in favor of the prisoner.”

Pandemonium erupted in the courtroom after the ruling was announced and the Virginians refused to accept the verdict. They drew weapoms; Bill was jerked back and forth in a vicious tug-of-war, while clubs and pistols pummeled bodies. Several Quakers gave as good as they got. A local black man helped Bill escape, and Quakers escorted them both to the Ruebem Benedict home near Marngo, Morrow County. After a long and anxious night, Bill was on his way north to Oberlin, a noted Lorain abolitionist stronghold, and then to freedom in Canada.

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Marion Cemetery

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Marion, Ohio.
Marion founder Eber Baker donated this two-acre plot for use as a cemetery shortly after platting the village in 1822. The oldest legible headstone bears an 1812 burial date, indicating that it may have been moved to the site after the opening of the cemetery. While complete records are not available, approximately 200 burials took place in the cemetery with the final one believed to have occurred in 1872. Many of the 65 victims of an 1854 cholera outbreak were buried here. The cemetery’s location next to an active railroad, combined with unfavorable soil conditions, eventually created a need for relocation. This led to the establishment of a cemetery on Delaware Avenue that opened in 1858. Many of the original interments were subsequently moved to the new Marion Cemetery.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Christ Church at the Quarry

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near Gambier, Ohio.
The stone masons brought from England by Bishop Chase to construct the early buildings at Kenyon College settled in this area. In the 1850’s with the help of Episcopal Bishop Gregory T. Bedell, they and other families in the community built “Quarry Chapel” on land given by John Bateman. William Fish, owner of a nearby quarry donated the sandstone. The church stood unused and deteriorating since 1937. Restoration began in 1972.

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

Jacob Lake Ranger Station

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near Jacob Lake, Arizona.
Built in 1910
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

By the United States
Department of the Interior

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

Jacob Lake Lookout Tower

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near Jacob Lake, Arizona.
This location has two markers

This steel lookout tower is 80 feet tall and has a 7 foot by 7 foot steel cab on top. It was erected in 1934.

As guardians of our nation's vast timber reserves, the U.S. Forest Service has always given fire detection and control a high priority. In the first years after the Forest Service was established in 1905, fire guards patrolled the forest on horseback. The earliest form of lookout structure was simply a platform mounted in a tree. The fire guard would climb the tree, spot the fire, and then report it. Eventually, permanent lookout stations and towers were established on prominent points These early towers were built with local materials, usually logs or lumber. The lookout used a device called an Osborne fire-finder to pinpoint a fire's location. Telephones enabled lookouts to quickly report fires, speeding response time. Today, radios are the most common form of communication. In the early 1930s, the Forest Service developed a region-wide plan for fire detection and control. The plan included suggestions for lookout tower design and locations to ensure complete visual coverage of the landscape

Largely as a result of this plan, and the influx of labor from the Civilian Conservation Corps, the 1930s became the most active period for lookout tower construction in the nation. Steel towers and cabs were built to standard Forest Service architectural plans. Jacob Lake Lookout Tower, completed in 1934, is typical of others built during that era.

Second marker

This site listed on the
National Historic Lookout Register
A national register recognizing fire lookout sites, structures and towers with historic and cultural significance to forest fire detection in order to promote their protection.
Maintained in cooperation with federal, state, and private forestry agencies and landowners throughout the United States

(Agriculture • Environment) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Prickly Pears and Pinion Nuts

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Fredonia, Arizona.
A worn and hungry band of Spanish explorers made camp at Johnson Wash, six miles to the east, on October 21, 1776. Fathers Dominguez and Escalante called it Santa Barbara. They found no water for horses or the men who were subsisting on meager supplies of pinion nuts and prickly-pear cakes obtained in trade from the local Paiutes.

The Spaniards had already spent nights without water and only minimal nourishment. Lorenzo de Olivares was nearly mad with thirst after eating too many of the salty cactus cakes. He disappeared that evening stumbling up the wash. Having worried about their companion all night, the padres found him the next morning at some small pools near the base of the red Shinarump Cliffs to the north.

The territory known as the Arizona Strip confronted the expedition with some of its most brutal difficulties. Wandering first southeasterly then north, without the aid of native guides, they struggled through a hard and rutted land searching for the Ute crossing of the Colorado River.

Dominguez and Escalante returned to Santa Fe in January, 1777 after exploring much of what is now the Four Corners region but having failed in their effort to open a land route to Spanish settlements at Monterey.

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

Pipe Springs National Monument

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Fredonia, Arizona.
Fifteen miles southwest is historic “Pipe Springs” early pioneer outpost and first telegraph station in Arizona.

(Forts, Castles • Exploration) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fredonia Centennial

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Fredonia, Arizona.
Fredonia Arizona
1885-1985


Settled in 1885 by few hardy Mormon pioneer families. Once the center of sheep and cattle grazing on the Arizona strip. The main industry is logging. Fredonia boasts one of the largest sawmills in Arizona. Other industries include refining, mining trucking, forestry ... etc.

• Sign and buckle design by Laura Johnson • Sign built & donated by Fredonia High VICA • Advisors: John Cram and Robin Button • Members: Danny Judd, Yancy Archer, Eddie Heaton, Carmen Savala, Michael Goodall, Darl Gailey, Wayne Lathim, Pat Castro, Nick Holliday Terril Heayon. • Sign material donated by Kaibab Industries, Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc., Arizona Refining Company, Intermountain Refining Company Inc.

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

The Final Frontier

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Fredonia, Arizona.
In a parched and rugged land, Fredonia is a welcome oasis for residents and travelers. Mormon pioneers drawn to area springs settled here to begin farming and ranching in 1885. But water, like many resources on the Arizona Strip, was scarce. Cisterns and ditchwater kept the town alive until the 1940's when piped-in water first became available.

In 1956, Fredonia became the first incorporated community on the Arizona Strip. Arland Brooksby was the first mayor in 1956. Still thriving after over one hundred years, Fredonia is a testament to the strength and resourcefulness of those willing to cope with life on the frontier. The Paiute name for Fredonia is "Atsika," meaning place where hunters dehorned their deer.

Fawn Farming
Fredonians took on a unique but unsuccessful fundraising project in the 1920's raising fawns for the government to restock certain areas. The young fawns were caught and brought to town where they were fed on canned milk. Allen Judd remembers "when the fawns were big enough to fend for themselves, the government shipped them out in a big airplane in padded crates; however, once the fawns were set free, they were not able to survive very well. Therefore, the project was discontinued."

Roll 'em
The dramatic backdrop of the Vermilion Cliffs may look familiar if you're a western movie buff. Many films and TV programs, including Maverick, Death Valley Days and the 1950's version of Last of the Mohicans have been made in and around Fredonia.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montgomery County Circuit Court / Sit-Ins and Marches at the Montgomery County Courthouse

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Montgomery County Circuit Court
Site of Major Civil Rights Cases 1956-1960

In 1956, 89 persons were indicted for violating an anti-boycott law; Rosa Parks' conviction was appealed; the Montgomery Improvement Association car pool was enjoined; and Fred D. Gray was accused of legal misrepresentation (actions in all 4 cases ended with the successful end of the boycott). In 1957, the NAACP was banned from Alabama (later overturned). In 1960, black Alabama State College and white MacMurray College (IIlinois) students were jailed for eating together at the Regal Cafe, and a white and a black student were arrested for attempted desegregation of the Jefferson Davis Hotel; all convictions in these cases were reversed. Also in 1960, local black ministers were sued for libel in the case that resulted in the landmark 1964 Times v. Sullivan ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, and Martin Luther King Jr. was acquitted by an all white jury in a tax case. African American lawyers arguing cases in the courts here included attorneys Fred D. Gray, Charles Langford, Solomon Seay Jr., Charles Conley, Orzell Billingsley Peter Hall, Arthur Shores and Robert Carter.

Sit-Ins and Marches at the Montgomery County Courthouse
On February 25, 1960, Alabama State College students demanded service at the "Whites Only Courthouse Grille located on this site. When refused, the students occupied all the tables. The Grille was then closed, the lights turned off, and the students asked to leave. Subsequently, 9 ASC students were expelled, a dozen professors were pressured to resign and the president was compelled to step down. Fred D. Gray filed St. John Dixon v. Alabama as a result of these actions and ultimately the students were ordered reinstated. On March 17, 1965, after a week of voting rights demonstrations in Montgomery marred by police violence against the protesters, some 4,000 students from Montgomery and Tuskegee marched on the Montgomery County Courthouse where leaders met with city, county, state, and federal officials. During the 7-hour meeting students sang and chanted in the rain outside. When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged from the meeting, he announced that officials had apologized for the recent violence.

(Education • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Log Cabin

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Fredonia, Arizona.
Owned by
Billie McMurry Griffiths
Built about 1930
Donated by the
McMurry Sisters


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

Korean War

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Front
Our Nation Honors People
Who Answered the Call
To Defend a Country
They Never Knew
And People
They Never Met

'Remember Forever" (In Hanguk - yeong-wonhi gieog hari)

Reverse
United Nations
Dead     Wounded     Missing
40,670     104,280     4,116

Republic of Korea
Dead     Wounded     Missing
137,899     45,742     24,495


USA
Dead     Wounded     Missing
36,490     92,124     3,737

Alabama
Total Record Count of U.S. Military
Fatal Casualties of the Korean
War for Alabama is 700
The Source of the Data: Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS)

Combat Units
Australia • Belgium • Canada • France • Phillipines • Columbia
Ethiopia • Greece • Luxembourg • Netherlands • New Zealand
South Africa • Thailand • Turkey
Medical Support
Denmark • India • Italy • Israel(1) • Norway • Sweden
Other Support
Cuba • El Salvador • Japan • Spain(2) • Taiwan

Donated by Hea Bok Chang
    on 5th May 2015
Hea Bok Chang Family
Scholarship Foundation
established by Mr. Hea Bok Chang

Recipients
Surviving Grandchildren of Korean War Veterans
Surviving Children of Police Officers and
Firefighters Killed in the Line of Duty
Orphanage Children
Special Thanks to the USA for Helping Korea Gain
Independence from Japan

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

Montgomery County World War II Monument

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Respectfully dedicated to the memory of the men and women
of Montgomery County who made the supreme sacrifice in
World War Two.   1941—1945

Around the circular monument
On Land, On Sea, and in the Air They Died That the Four Freedoms Might Live On ☆
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Fear
Freedom from Want

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Moon Tree"

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Loblolly Pine crown from
seeds that journeyed to the
moon with 1971 Apollo 14 mission.
Planted here in 1976.

(Horticulture & Forestry • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Laurel Oak Tree

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Montgomery, Alabama.

This Laurel Oak Tree
from Battle Fields of Virginia, 1861-65
Planted by Gov. Thomas G. Jones 1893

(War, US Civil • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

'Washington' Elm Tree

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Washington
took command of the
American Army under
grandparent of this elm
Cambridge, Mass., July 3, 1775
————
Raised and given by Maryland D.A.R.
and Alice Paret Dorsey as part of
200th anniversary of birth of
1732 — Washington — 1932


(War, US Revolutionary • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montgomery County Vietnam War Memorial

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Montgomery, Alabama.

Montgomery County
In Service to America
Vietnam War Memorial

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kanab Forts

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near Kanab, Utah.
Kanab gets its name from a anglicized form of the Piute word “willows”, which grew abundantly along the creek banks.
The Kanab Fort was begun in 1864 under the direction of Jacob Hamblin as a protection from Indians and as a base to explore the region. Severe and frequent Indian attacks made it impractical to maintain the fort and it was abandoned in 1866. It was reoccupied in 1870 by Levi Stewart and others sent to do missionary work and to establish peace with the Indians. In December of the same year there was a fire in the fort that killed Levi's wife and five sons. There is a historical plaque in Kanab marking the site of the the fort honoring Jacob Hamblin and Levi Stewart.
The Fort you can see in the distance west of this sign, is a movie prop. In the 1930's the Parry brothers realized the potential of the movie industry in this area. The town was soon nicknamed “Little Hollywood” because so many movies were made in the area. This fort was built for the movie “Buffalo Bill”. The fort was intended to remain as a landmark and a set for other movies, but for the filming of “Fury at Furnace Creek”, it was soaked with gasoline and burned to the ground. It was rebuilt and burned again for “The Apple Dumpling Gang”.

(Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bowman-Chamberlain House

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Kanab, Utah.
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

By the United States
Department of the Interior

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