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Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American . . .
(Churches, Etc. • Entertainment • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American . . . (Churches, Etc. • Entertainment • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
On this green bank, by this soft stream, We place with joy a votive stone, That memory may their deeds redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. O Thou who made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free— . . . 
Who followed this route across the plains at the age of 17 driving oxen and walking barefoot. He later settled on Shuttler Flat five miles south of this marker and was the first to engage in wheat farming in Gilliam County
Side A 1714-1789 Near this Green was the site of the General’s Farm, Store and dwelling house Side B 1714-1789 Officer in the French & Indian and Revolutionary Wars Delegate to the Continental Congress Member of the . . . 
In concert with many of Old West Baltimore’s civil rights organizations and leaders, African Americans entered the political arena. As far back as 1792, Thomas Brown, an African American horse doctor and veteran of the . . . 
In commemoration of the Connecticut Constitutional Convention of 1901 Planted by Simsbury Delegate Joseph L. Bartlett 
In August 1559, eleven ships under command of Don Tristan de Luna y Arellano sailed into Pensacola Bay, then called Ochuse, to establish a new colony for Spain. Intended to stake a claim on the northern Gulf coast, the . . . 
The State Legislature authorized the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas April 17, 1871, under terms of the Federal Morrill Act. Constitutionally a part of a chartered, yet-unorganized state university, A&M gained . . . 
Settled in the 1860s by Czech, German, and Polish immigrants, the Shiloh community was an area of large family farms. In addition to homes and farms, the settlement at one time boasted a community center, a two-room school, . . . 
In 1900 the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, now part of the Southern Pacific line, platted the town of Frankston. The station was first called Frankport and the post office Ayres. Both were renamed Frankston in 1902 for Miss . . . 
Here General Thomas J. Rusk with 200 Texans on October 16, 1838, attacked a band of hostile Indians and allied Mexicans, molestors of frontier settlements, and routed them.
Invented the Lytch cotton planter (patented 1878), a favorite of the South, and other implements. Shops were ¼ mile southwest. This was his home.
Monseñor Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona Monseñor Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona nació el 19 de abril de 1837 en Izamal, Yucatán, y falleció en el año 1897. Sacerdote y obispo católico, versado historiador de la antigua . . . 
Fray Diego de Landa Contradictorio provincial de hierro. Fanático destructor e incansable constructor. Luz y sombra. Persiguió a los mayas como inquisidor. Como obispo los defendió de los encomenderos. Hizo el auto de fe de . . . 
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: Illinois 86th Infantry. 2nd Brigade - Daniel McCook. 2nd Division - Morgan. Reserve Corps - Granger Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Commanded By Lieutenant Colonel - David . . . 
The city of Troy was an unclaimed wilderness when Johnson Niles moved here with his family from New York in 1821. As a farmer, carpenter, innkeeper, and merchant, Niles did much to develop the area, offering advice and . . . 
Communities grow in direct proportion to their access to capital. Potential homebuyers and business owners in Old West Baltimore needed access to money. In 1896, Everett J. Waring, along with some of Baltimore’s most . . . 
From the late 19th century until the early 1920’s, a hand-operated pump was located in the center of the intersection of Bridge and High Streets in Historic Dublin. The pump supplied water from Dublin’s first well, which in . . . 
Side A In 1940 the U.S. Army and the Chrysler Corporation hired Detroit architect Albert Kahn to design a self-contained tank plant. Kahn specialized in factories. In 1941 he designed 20 million square feet of defense . . . 
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: Illinois 85th Infantry. 2nd Brigade - Daniel McCook. 2nd Division - Morgan. Reserve Corps - Granger Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Commanded By Colonel - Caleb J. . . . 
