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St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church

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Titusville, Florida.
In 1887, construction of a church was begun on land donated to the Titusville Episcopal mission by Mary Titus, wife of the town's founder, and J. Dunlin Perkinson, lay reader of the mission. The name of the church was . . .

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Camp Gordon Johnston

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Lanark Village, Florida.
In June 1942 the U.S. War Department selected a 155,000 acre section of coastal Franklin County to be used as an amphibious warfare training center. Originally called Camp Carabelle, the base was renamed in January 1943 to . . .

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

Town of Penney Farms 1927

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Penney Farms, Florida.
James Cash Penney (1876-1971), philanthropist and founder of J.C. Penney Department Stores, purchased 120,000 acres in Clay County and invited farmers to claim 40-acre tracts by clearing the land, building houses, growing . . .

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

Site of First Church

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LaGrange, Florida.
Site of the first church erected between New Smyrna and Key West A community church

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LaGrange Community Church

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LaGrange, Florida.
Founded by Tom Johnson Cockshutt in 1869, this was the first organized Protestant Church on the East Coast of Florida between New Smyrna and Key West. Tom donated land for a cemetery and built a small log structure located . . .

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Hezikiah Haskell House

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Austin, Texas.
The community of Clarksville is an early freedman's community that was established after the Civil War. Freed slave Charles Clark founded the community in 1871 as a place where former slaves could reunite with their family . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Wood’s Brigade.

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
16th Alabama - Maj. John H. McGaughy. 33d Alabama - Col. Samuel Adams. 45th Alabama - Col. E. B. Breedlove. 18th Alabama Battalion - Maj. John H. Gibson. 32D and 45th Mississippi - Col. M. P. Lowrey. 15th Mississippi . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

33rd Ohio Infantry Regiment

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
33D. Regiment Ohio Infantry, Scribner’s Brigade. 10:00 A. M. to 11:30 A. M. September 19, 1863.

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

10th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
10th Wisconsin Infantry 9 A. M. Sept. 19, 1863

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

1st Ohio Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Front of monument 1st, Ohio Infantry. Baldwin’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division 20th Army Corps. Rear of monument This Regiment, Lieut. Col. Bassett Langdon commanding, on the 19th Sept. 1863, at 12:00 M. advanced with its . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment (CSA) Marker

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
2nd Kentucky Inf. C. S. A.

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9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (CSA) Marker

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
9th Kentucky Inf. C. S. A.

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

Bentonville Union Soldiers Memorial

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near Four Oaks, North Carolina.
In memory of Union Soldiers of the 14th, 15th, 17th and 20th Corps who served during the Battle of Bentonville March 19 - 21, 1865 XIV Corps • XV Corps • XVII Corps • XX Corps Representing the States of Alabama, Connecticut, . . .

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

Site of the Town of Swartwout

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near Livingston, Texas.
86 blocks and 2 public squares were laid out here in 1838 with James Morgan, Arthur Garner and Thomas Bradley as proprietors. Named in honor of Samuel Swartwout (1783-1856), New York speculator and politician who advanced . . .

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Doubleday

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Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.
Abner Doubleday Col. to Bvt. Major General U.S. Army Major General Volunteers 1819 1893 He was graduated at West Point 1842 1848 Mexican War 1852 Commissioner to Mexico 1854 Indian Hostilities in Texas 1856 Indian . . .

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ER Veteran's Memorial

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East Rochester, New York.
ER Veteran's Memorial Station of Heroes with profound respect from a grateful community to our brave veterans who served our nation in war. Maintained by ER American Legion Post ER Veterans of Foreign Wars People of ER . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Park

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Grand Island, New York.
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In the Spirit of America

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Grand Island, New York.
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Company G, 112th Infantry, and Service Troop, 104th Cavalry, War Memorial

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Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
Given in honor of Co. G, 112th Inf., PNG (1917) and Svc. Tp., 104th Cav. PNG (1940) and to the memory of the soldiers of those units who gave up their lives World War I Killed in Action Sgt. John W. Wilson 28 Sep 1918 • . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Third Armored Division

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Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
June 1944 to May 1945 Battle Stars Awarded: Normandy • Northern France Rhineland • Ardennes Central Europe Fort Indiantown Gap Jan 1943 to Sept 1943 [Dedicated] September 1994

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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