Harford, Pennsylvania.
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This tablet erected in 1940, to the memory of nine young men M. Thatcher • J. Carpenter • R. Follet E. Titus • C. Richardson • H. Tiffany S. Thatcher • D. Carpenter • J. Carpenter from Attleboro, Massachusetts who settled . . .
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This tablet erected in 1940, to the memory of nine young men M. Thatcher • J. Carpenter • R. Follet E. Titus • C. Richardson • H. Tiffany S. Thatcher • D. Carpenter • J. Carpenter from Attleboro, Massachusetts who settled . . . (Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Born in Scotland in 1728, William Fleming came to Virginia in 1751, and practiced medicine in Staunton before moving with his wife, Nancy Christian Fleming, to Belmont here on Tinker Creek in 1768. Fleming led Botetourt . . . 
After occupying Willow Springs on May 5. 1863,. Gen. U. S. Grant divided his force. The XVII Corps advanced on Hankinson s Ferry 5 miles north of here in two columns. Gen. M. M. Crocker's division driving up this road . . . 
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Members of Harvey S. Rice Post No. 620 G.A.R. Dept. of Pa. Capt. A. T. Sweet, W. S. Withers A. T. Brundage, T. M. Maynard G. L. Payne. No. 2. H. Blanding E. Flint, E. G. Peck, S. B. York G. S. Doloway, C. A. Stearns U. . . . 
Food Lion, founded in 1957 by Ralph Ketner, Brown Ketner, and Wilson Smith was originally named Food Town and located in what is now the Ketner Center in Salisbury, North Carolina. Grocery prices at the time included . . . 
Builder: Great Dane Trailers Manufactured: November 1968 Model: 731T Dry Van Weight: 12 feet 6 inches Length: 45 feet Weight: 13,600 pounds Capacity: 49,960 pounds PurchaSe price: $17,608.07 The Great Dane Trailer Company . . . 
River Navigation The Dam - The huge concrete wall that you see is the McAlpine Dam. Its main function is to control water levels for navigation, but its unusual shape, an elongated Z, also provides water for the . . . 
Home and grave of William Dunbar (1749-1810), Scot settler who surveyed the boundary line between the USA and Spain-1798 and led 1st exploration of LA Purchase 1804. World-famed scientist and inventor in Miss. Territory.
History’s Great Explorers Lewis & Clark Acclaimed National Heroes The Eastern Legacy October 14, 1803 Meriwether Lewis came from Washigton, D.C. and met William Clark at the Falls of the Ohio “When they shook hands, the . . . 
Strategic Location Fort Monroe occupies a peninsula in the shape of the letter "J" or a “?shhook" surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay, Hampton Roads, and Mill Creek. The southern tip of the peninsula is known as Old Point . . . 
The ?rst concrete seawall, constructed at Fort Monroe between March and August of 1895, was designed to provide better protection against coastal ?ooding and erosion. This concrete wall extended 664 feet from the eastern . . . 
In commemoration of the deeds of valor of her native sons in the War of the Rebellion, the State of Pennsylvania maintained the Harford Soldiers Orphan School on these grounds from 1865 to 1901 for the education of their . . . 
When Union Gen. J. B. McPherson's XVII Corps reached Grindstone Ford, 2 miles south of here at dusk on May 2, 1863, the troops found the bridge across Big Bayou Pierre burning. Col. J. H. Wilson and a detachment put out the . . . 
On May 8, 1863, as the Union XV Corps left Grand Gulf, two divisions of the XVII Corps rested at Hankinson's Ferry and Rocky Springs to wait for rations. Three divisions of the XIII Corps camped at Big Sand Creek, one and a . . . 
“The old freight depot, which is the oldest in the world, is in a perfect state of preservation, though long in disuse… The old building stands as a monument of the commercial industries of the world.” - Book of the Royal Blue, 1899
Mount Olivet Cemetery is considered one of the most distinguished burial grounds in the country. Here, in peaceful tranquility, rest national and local heroes, veterans of every major conflict in our country's history, . . . 
Here at Interstate 70, this hiking and biking trail runs 15 miles through nearby Franklintown and the Gwynns Falls valley to the Inner Harbor in downtown Baltimore and the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River, a tributary of . . . 
Norman Reeves, a member of the Baltimore City Council, was an active opponent of the expressway. A Leaking Park trail is named in his memory.—Barbara Mikulski, an activist social worker and Fells Point resident, and later . . . 
Virginia’s highway system took shape during the 1920s as automobile ownership expanded rapidly. State Route 52 was established in 1928 to connect Suffolk with Prince George County. In 1933, this road became part of the new . . . 
