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Old Stone House

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West Virginia, Monongalia County, Morgantown
Oldest stone house in Monongalia County. By legend built by Jacob Nuze on original lot 25. Sold 1795 to tavern-keeper Henry Dering. Owned 1800 - 1813 by potters John Thompson and Jacob Foulk. Bought by Joseph Shackelford who operated a tanyard here for 50 years. A minister, he led the first Methodist reform movement in the area. First Methodist-Protestant Church formed here, 1830. Sold to Frank Cox and George Baker, 1895. Used as a dwelling and tailor shop. Occupied by Morgantown Service League, 1935, and restored to near original condition for use as headquarters and shop. House donated to League by Cox heirs, 1976.

(Churches, Etc. • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Pennington

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Pennington
Pennington
Settled in 1708
First known as
Queenstown
Incorporated in 1890
as the Borough
of Pennington

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Harmony Grove Church

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West Virginia, Monongalia County, near Morgantown
Built before the Civil War on land donated by Rufus E. and Elizabeth Conn in 1854, this church was the meetinghouse for congregations of Episcopal, Presbyterian , Methodist Episcopal, and Methodist Protestant denominations. It was placed on the National Register in 1983.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Monument

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West Virginia, Monroe County, Union
On Aug. 21, 1901, this 20 ft. monument with a 6 ft. statue depicting typical Confederate soldier was dedicated to the Monroe County men who served the lost cause. Hinton Marble Works produced the Italian marble statue, standing on granite pedestal, placed on native blue limestone. Site selected in anticipation of Union's growth. Dedication crowd of 10,000 heard speech of Gen. John Echols.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Joseph Hewes

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
Born here, 1730, he later
moved to North Carolina.
He signed the Declaration
of Independence for that
state in 1776.

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

“The Washington-Rochambeau Historic Route”

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
On this site, the allied American and French troops of Generals Washington and Le Comte de Rochambeau encamped August 29 to September 1, 1781 enroute to their
Victory at Yorktown
American independence was assured there in Virginia by the defeat and surrender of Lord Cornwallis’ British forces on October 19, 1781.

Princeton Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
October 19, 1981

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nassau Inn – 1756 - 1937

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton

The original “Nassau Inn” stood on this site for nearly 200 years. Many of America’s early statesmen stopped overnight in this half-way house on the stage coach journey between New York and Philadelphia. At times as many as thirty coaches left this inn during a single day.

Much of its early American atmosphere was preserved when Nassau Inn was rebuilt on Palmer Square in 1937.

(Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

English Boxwood Plants

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
These English Boxwood plants
were grown from
George Washington’s hedges
planted November 1798
on his Mount Vernon estate.

(Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Discovery Location of the "Lots"

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Israel, Southern District (Mehoz HaDarom), near Arad
"...then, having chosen by lot ten of their number to dispatch the rest... these, having unswervingly slaughtered all, ordained the same rule of the lot for one another, that he on whom it fell should slay first the nine nd then himself last of all."

Josephus Flavius

Here several hundred inscribed pottery shards (ostraca) were found. Outstanding among them was a group consisting of names and nicknames, including the name "Ben Ya'ir." Yigael Yadin, the most distinguished of Masada's excavators, connected this group with Josephus Flavius' story of the drawing of lots on the last night of the revolt.

(Anthropology • Forts, Castles • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washington’s Spring

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
General George Washington and
his soldiers paused to drink
water from a nearby spring
after the Battle of Princeton on
January 3rd 1777.

NJ Society Sons of the Revolution
August 2002

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

Battle of Princeton

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
No Further Inscription >

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washington’s Crossing

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
No Further Inscription >

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Major Murray Davis D.S.C.

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Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City


Killed at Exermont France
September twenty ninth MCMXVIII

A kindly just and beloved officer
wise in counsel
resolute in action
courageous unto death

Amiens • Vosges • St. Mihiel
Meuse Argonne

Killed at Exermont France
September twenty ninth MCMXVIII

Seriously wounded he refused to
relinquish his command until mortally
wounded He fell leading his
comrades to victory His last words
"Take care of my men"

Vauquois • Charpentry
Chaudron Farm • Exermont

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mills Murphree

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Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah

Reared in Burke County, Georgia.
Mills, like his Dublin-born father
John, fought for independence.
John served in Collier's Regt. of
N.C. Militia and Mills served in his
local militia company. After the
bitter hostilities of the back
country of Georgia were over,
Mills raised a large family in
Burke County and he is buried there.

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

R.H. Marquette Building

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Missouri, Jackson County, Lee's Summit


On May 9, 1895, Mr. R.H. Marquette established a cigar factory and store at this location. The store was a local gathering place for men in the community. Its popularity increased greatly when a bowling alley was added to the business years later.

In 1917, Mr. Marquette was elected mayor and decided to close the enterprise. R.H. Marquette passed away in 1938. He was the grandfather of Mary Marquette Graves, who was the great niece of the legendary Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger and wife of noted Lee's Summit historian Frank Graves.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Oldest Commercial Building in Richmond

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Virginia, Richmond
Built in 1817, this structure is the oldest commercial building in Richmond. As this building was being built, James Madison, a Virginian, was serving as the 4th President of the United States.

During the Civil War, the Union Army passed by this spot on their way into Richmond. This area was the heart of the Confederate Civil War hospital, prison and supply district.

Originally a lumberhouse, It has served the community as a brewery, soap and candle factory, saddle factory, gunsmith and produce market. The storefront was added in 1909 to depict the popular Greek Revival style of architecture.

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maybury Hill

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior
Circa 1725

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Princeton WW2 Memorial

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton

A Grateful Class Remembers the Men of 1944 who gave their Lives in World War II

Ernest Robinson Ackerman
Army Air Corps, Budapest
April 3, 1944

John Crosby Butler, Jr.
Marine Air Service, Rota Island
November 13, 1944

Francois Louis Chapman
Free French, Vosges Mountains
September 20, 1944

Norman Godfrey Conze
32nd Infantry Division, Luzon
April 17, 1945

Thomas Arthur Chance Crimmins
6th Marines, Okinawa
May 13, 1945

Greville Cobbett Elliott Cummings
Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Anzio
March 16, 1944

Paul Briscoe Cunningham
Naval Air Corps, Jacksonville
March 15, 1943

Douglas Wilson Demler, Jr.
1st Marines, Okinawa
May 10, 1945

Joseph Anthony Donohue, Jr.
Infantry, Battle of the Bulge
April 12, 1945

Reginald Camille Dussaq
12th Army, France
August 26, 1944

Waldo Beattie Farnum, Jr.
8th Air Force, England
September 17, 1945

Donald Henley Freeman
4th Infantry Division, Germany
April 12, 1945

Arthur Davis Fulton, Jr.
Naval Air Corps, Atlantic Coast
October 4, 1944

Mark Hall
Marine Corps, Guam
July 25, 1944

Walter Hughson, Jr.
7th Army, Germany
February 23, 1945

Alexander Long James, III
Army Air Corps, Burma
April 5, 1944

William Gale Kester
Army Air Corps, Atlanta
March 13, 1944

Charles John Killian
Army Air Corps, Luzon
January 10, 1945

John Adrian Larkin, Jr.
9th Army, Ruhr
April 10, 1945

Robert Bagley McCaslin
Army Air Corps, Rumania
June 6, 1944

James Leonard Vauclain
5th Army, Anzio
May 23, 1944

Paul Joseph Walsh
8th Air Force, Germany
February 2, 1945

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Albert Einstein

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
E = mc²‎
(1905)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.
(1929)

Born in Ulm Germany on March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein became a resident of Princeton in 1933, residing on Mercer Street until his death in 1955.

Before becoming a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein had already become famous for his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 and General Theory of Relativity in 1915-1916, both of which explained fundamental laws of the universe. His name became synonymous with genius.

A Nobel Laureate in physics, a philosopher, a humanitarian, an educator, and an immigrant, Albert Einstein left an indelible mark on the world and expressed tremendous appreciation for Princeton.

“I am privileged by fate to live here in Princeton,” Einstein wrote. “I feel doubly thankful that there has fallen on my lot a place for work and a scientific atmosphere which could not be better or more harmonious.”

( Base of Monument : )
Physicist • Humanitarian • Educator • Immigrant

( Left Side Inscription : )
The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me the energy
to face life have been
Kindness, Beauty and Truth
(1930)

( Rear Inscription : )
America today is the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principles of freedom and justice.
(1941)

( Right Side Inscription : )
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
(1931)

( Artist Marker : )
Robert Berks
Sculptor


Robert Berks has devoted more than half a century to creating enduring images in bronze of people who have shaped our age. His work includes more than three hundred sculpted heads and fourteen monuments.

Albert Einstein sat for his portrait by Robert Berks on the weekend of April 18, 1953. Of the sculpture, Einstein wrote, in part, “I admire the bust highly as a portrait and not less as a characterization of mental personality.” Subsequently, that experience was the inspiration for two monuments: Berks’s Einstein Centennial Monument for the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and the Einstein Millennial Monument for the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from which this head has been cast.

Gift of the Robert Berks Foundation to commemorate Einstein’s years in Princeton.
Dedicated April 18, 2005

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

M. Hartley Dodge, Jr.

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton
In memory of
M. Hartley Dodge, Jr.
Class of 1930

Killed in France
August 29, 1930

His sun is gone down
while it was yet day.

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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