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From picnic and playground facilities to sports fields and courts, Leon Day Park serves as a gathering place for people of all ages in the Rosemont-Franklintown Road neighborhood. Formerly called Calverton, the area . . .
(African Americans • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
From picnic and playground facilities to sports fields and courts, Leon Day Park serves as a gathering place for people of all ages in the Rosemont-Franklintown Road neighborhood. Formerly called Calverton, the area . . . (African Americans • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Built in early 1790s Last Home of Governor Thomas Johnson Delegate to Continental Congress 1774-1775 First Governor of Maryland 1777-1779 Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court 1792-1793 Rededicated this 1st day of . . . 
Williamstown was established in 1780 by Elijah Paine and was formally chartered one year later on August 9, 1781. The first settlers lived on West Hill, along present-day Stone Road. By the mid-1800s, development had shifted . . . 
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior ——————— This structure has been recorded by the Historic American Building Survey of the United States . . . 
The Surry Lumber Company, chartered in 1885, was among the largest producers of yellow pine lumber on the East Coast. Here at Mussel Fork Plantation, the company constructed sawmills, box mills, dry kilns, employee housing, . . . 
Commonly called the fish hatchery, this culture station was established in 1891, making it the oldest state hatchery in Vermont. Built in response to the dwindling fish population, the hatchery was funded by an initial state . . . 
The Surry Lumber Company began constructing the main line of its narrow-gauge Surry, Sussex & Southampton Railway in 1886. Eventually extending 28 miles, the line began at Scotland Wharf on the James River, continued to the . . . 
In March 1775, a Masonic lodge attached to the British army initiated Prince Hall and 14 other free black men as Freemasons in Massachusetts. Meeting provisionally as African Lodge No. 1, the black Freemasons gained full . . . 
Formed on February 21, 1810 out of Luzerne County. Named for Susquehanna River. Home of Galusha A. Grow, sponsor of 1862 Homestead Act. Montrose, county seat incorporated 1824, was an early Abolitionist center and stop on . . . 
Conjurer's Neck, located on this peninsula formed by Swift Creek and the Appomattox River, was occupied by Native Americans as early as 1000-3000 BC. This general area supported a substantial Appamattuck Indian settlement by . . . 
Three divisions of the XIII Corps camped here May 7-9, 1863, while a reserve division was at Little Sand Creek, two miles southwest. On May 8, Grant reviewed the troops here. On May 9, the XVII Corps marched through Reganton . . . 
On May 9, two divisions of McPherson's XVII Corps marched to Reganton, then known as Crossroads and moved southeast toward Utica, camping at Meyer's Farm three miles southeast. On May 10, the XIII Corps marched through here . . . 
This boulder from the farm of Hon. Galusha A. Grow Glenwood Pennsylvania commemorates his Homestead Bill of 1862. The near-by elm grew on the first homestead taken under this act. It was brought here by the first homesteader . . . 
Puente de tepetapa Dió principio su construcción el 18 de enero de 1830 y se terminó el 16 de dic. de 1835, habiendo costado 48,566 pesos, 6 reales, 3 octavos. Ayuntamiento 1989-91 English translation: Tepetapa Bridge . . . 
In 1812 Post and Bartlet Hinds deeded to this county ten acres for public buildings. In 1996 this site and everything within was placed on the register through the efforts of the Society for the Preservation of Montrose. Of . . . 
Axel Voss spoke little english when he emigrated in 12925 from Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked as a mechanic for Chris Anderson and John T. Belt, who founded A-B Motor Company in a backyard garage at 114 St. Catherine. The . . . 
This tree honors the selfless devotion of Susquehanna County's first public health nurse Mary Borthwick 1918 - 1976
In grateful recognition to those who served our country for the cause of peace in World War I "The Legitimate object of war is a more Perfect Peace...." W. T. Sherman —————————— In grateful recognition to those who served . . . 
"With malice toward none, with charity for all" Abraham Lincoln Dedicated to the memory of the Union Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Army Nurses, who served during the War for the Preservation of the Union. 1861 - 1865 . . . 
The name “Conjurer's Field” was associated with this site as early as 1635, when a land patent containing this reference was issued. Tradition has it that long ago, a Native American "conjurer,’ or priestly magician-healer, . . . 
