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Dedicated to Those Who Gave Their Lives in Defense of Liberty From Texas County Dedicated Nov. 11, 1987 World War I Agee, Lee F. • Arms, James W. • Bell, Ernest M. • Blankenship, Fred L. • Brown, Willie H. • Courtney, . . .
(War, World I • War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Dedicated to Those Who Gave Their Lives in Defense of Liberty From Texas County Dedicated Nov. 11, 1987 World War I Agee, Lee F. • Arms, James W. • Bell, Ernest M. • Blankenship, Fred L. • Brown, Willie H. • Courtney, . . . (War, World I • War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
(Front Side) Texas County, largest county in Missouri, is 998.06 square miles of Ozark Highland. Rugged hills, springs, creeks, rivers and caves abound. The area was part of the 1808 Osage Indian Land cession. Though named . . . 
This one-room Italianate style schoolhouse has been the center of this Yorkville community since the building’s construction in 1885. Built at a time when one-room schoolhouses dominated rural education in Wisconsin, the . . . 
Jolliet, Father Marquette, La Salle and Tonti will live in American history as fearless explorers who made their way through the great lakes and across this watershed to the Mississippi in the late seventeenth century and . . . 
German immigrant Frederick Roeder was a prosperous baker, the father of seven children, and a recent widower. Roeder was also about to die. The Fourth of July was normally a day of celebration, but not this year - not 1861. . . . 
Q: How do you move a 28-ton gun barrel up a hill? A: With great difficulty, and a "gun drug." The heavyweight of Canadian artillery was the 9.2-inch gun. The barrel was 27 feet (11.2 metres) long and weighed 28 tons (this . . . 
Defence Electric Lights on both sides of Esquimalt Harbour entrance were used to illuminate targets for the guns at night. Engine rooms generated power for the lights. Lights and engines were controlled from this Defence . . . 
Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during the Civil War, nineteen in the last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two be Union accident. See map on reverse side. July 5, 1863 clerk's office . . . 
On the morning of July 5, 1863, Springfield awoke to the roar of cannon fire coming from Lebanon. That afternoon John Hunt Morgan’s column reached Springfield with over 300 Federal prisoners in tow. Young Will McChord, then . . . 
Hand dug well serving Marshfield on the square from late 1860’s to 1926. 42 ft. deep, solid rock at 11 ft. 20 ft. water. Uncovered and restored as historical site Oct. 1987 by Webster Co. Veterans Memorial Assn. and the . . . 
This scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope now orbiting earth is dedicated to Edwin Hubble a native of Marshfield Born November 20, 1889 Died September 28, 1953 Edwin Hubble was the 20th century’s outstanding . . . 
On Tuesday morning, December 30, thirty-nine hundred Confederate cavalrymen led by John Hunt Morgan left Bardstown, making every effort to beat the Union forces to the Cumberland River crossing at Burkesville. Their progress . . . 
CSA Gen. John H. Morgan's cavalry moved thru Springfield on raids July 12 and December 30, 1862. On third raid, into Ohio, after battle of Lebanon, July 5 1863, Union prisoners brought here but paroled to speed CSA movement. . . . 
The Smithfield Street Bridge is America's oldest steel truss bridge and an International Engineering Landmark, as well as on the National Register as a Historic Landmark. Gustav Lindenthal, the "Dean of Bridge Engineers," . . . 
This is the second Gato cigar factory located on this site. The first structure was a wooden factory built in 1884 and destroyed by fire in 1915. The second factory was built as a hurricane and fire proof structure in 1920. . . . 
In Memory Of Those Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice For Their Country In World War II Erected By The Pinellas County Liason Council Auxiliary A.D. 1951 [reverse] Those Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In World War II (not . . . 
(preface) For almost ten months beginning in mid-June 1864, the Army of the Potomac besieged the cities of Petersburg and Richmond from the east and south. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered the Union forti?cations extended west . . . 
Providing food for soldiers was the business of the Commissary of Subsistence, an army department. The Union Army used this building, then owned by Christopher Beeler, as a commissary during the Civil War. All or part of the . . . 
The building to the right on July 5th, 1863 was the military commissary store of Mr. Christopher Beeler. He had a wood frame house that he and his family lived in at the back of the store on Water Street. Historians are not . . . 
Morgan’s third Kentucky raid had not gone well from the beginning. The Battle at Tebbs Bend on July 4 cost him 35 men killed and about 40 wounded. From Tebbs Bend, Morgan pushed north, arriving in Lebanon about 7 o’clock on . . . 
