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Judge Harry Toulmin

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Bay Minette, Alabama.
Born and educated in England, Toulmin became a Unitarian Minister and fled persecution in 1793. In the U.S. he served as President of Transylvania University and Secretary of the State of Kentucky. In 1804 Thomas Jefferson . . .

(Notable Persons • Antebellum South, US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Little Bethel Baptist Church:

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Daphne, Alabama.
On April 15, 1867, Major Lewis Starke deeded these two acres to four of his ex-slaves and their heirs as trustees for this church: Nimrod Lovett, Stamford Starlin (now Sterling), Narcis Elwa, and Benjamin Franklin. In this . . .

(Churches, Etc. • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1814 ~ ~ ~ 1977

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Daphne, Alabama.
Standing on a low limb of a giant oak tree near here, General Andrew Jackson made a pep talk to his troops, fresh from their victory at the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend and poised before advancing on the British and Spanish . . .

(Native Americans • Notable Persons • Military • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1st Division, U.S. Colored Troops

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Spanish Fort, Alabama.
This earthen mound was part of a redoubt constructed by the 1st Division, U.S. Colored Troops in April, 1865. The regiment saw considerable action against Confederate warships protecting the Blakely River. These earthworks . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Union Siege Battery No. 21 / 3rd Brigade of Carr's Division

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Spanish Fort, Alabama.
Side 1 Located on this bluff overlooking Minette Bay, Battery No. 21 anchored the right flank of Maj. Gen. Edward Canby's Army of West Mississippi during the Battle of Spanish Fort. Maj. Gen. Andrew Smith's XVI Army Corps . . .

(Notable Persons • War, US Civil • Heroes) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Final Assault

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Spanish Fort, Alabama.
At dusk on April 8, 1865, 300 yards west of this site, the Union Army's 8th lowa Infantry and three Illinois Regiments breached the Confederate main line of resistance. Under the cover of night, troops holding the thin gray . . .

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Union First Parallel / Union Siege Battery No. 16

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Spanish Fort, Alabama.
Side 1 The main Union siege line during the Battle of Spanish Fort ran along this ridge. Brig. Gen. Eugene Carr's Division occupied the right flank of the Union line between here and Minette Bay. Carr's men initially faced . . .

(War, US Civil • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Smartville / Smartsville

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Smartsville, California.
Named for James Smart, who built the first hotel in 1856. Smartville was referred in the US Federal land grant of 1878, as Smartsville. Due to ruling by the US Post Office Department, in 1909. The name was changed back the . . .

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

Fighting at Dandridge

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Dandridge, Tennessee.
(preface) In November 1863, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led a force from Chattanooga to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E, Burnside's army at Knoxville. The campaign failed, and in December Longstreet's men marched east . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benjamin H. Helm Memorial Shell Monument

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Benjamin H. Helm Brig. Gen. C.S.A. Commanding Brigade Breckinridge’s Division Mortally wounded here about 10 A.M. Sept. 20th, 1863

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Admiral Farragut's Birthplace

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near Farragut, Tennessee.
In front of you, on the promontory just across the cove, is where David Glasgow Farragut was born on July 5, 1801. Farragut's father, George Farragut, came to the American colonies in 1776 from Spain as a merchant sea . . .

(War, US Civil • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Patriot's Point Memorial

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Daphne, Alabama.
Patriot's Point Memorial This Memorial is Dedicated to All the Brave Men and Women Who Proudly Served in the United States Armed Forces Protecting Freedom Around the World

(Military • Patriots & Patriotism • Heroes) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

See Seven States

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Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
Tenn. ½ MI.; KY-VA 120 MI Mt Pinnacle; N.C. 50 MI. Smoky Mts.; S.C. 80 MI.; Georgia; ALA. 25 MI.

(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lewis & Clark Campsite / Eli Wixson Farm Site

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Elk Point, South Dakota.
Lewis & Clark Campsite The Missouri River has carved many channels in its history. One such channel curved through the western edge of Elk Point creating the area now known as Heritage Park. On August 22, 1804, Captain . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Smartsville Grocery

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Smartsville, California.
Originally a two story, L-shaped building. Mrs. Bridget Henderson ran it as a boarding house later selling to Mrs. Ellen Dewan, becoming the Dewan Hotel. Her son, Jim Dewan briefly ran Jim's Saloon along the side of the . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baldwin County Eternal Flame Veterans Memorial

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Bay Minette, Alabama.
Dedicated to the Glory of God and in Honor of the Veterans of all Wars

(Military • Patriots & Patriotism • Heroes) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Museum for the Community

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Across the street is the former Carver Theatre, built in 1948 as the first nonsegregated movie house in Southeast Washington. It closed in 1957 becoming, in turn, a roller rink, a church, and a funeral parlor. Then a decade . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Faith and Action

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Settled by the formerly enslaved. Some Barry Farm-era churches still serve the neighborhood. Macedonia Baptist Church, about a block to your left at 2625 Stanton Road, was organized in 1866 by Rev. James William Howard. Ten . . .

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

Native American Settlement

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Farragut, Tennessee.
Initial permanent habitation in the area we now call Farragut began approximately 3,000 years ago when the Woodland Indians moved in the area on a permanent basis and became east Tennessee's first farmers. The Woodland . . .

(Native Americans • Anthropology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Campbell Station Inn

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Farragut, Tennessee.
History tells us that as early as 1785, the State of Franklin (today Tennessee) entered into an agreement, known as the Dumplin Creek Treaty, with the Cherokees. This treaty opened the land along the French Broad and Holston . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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