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Mohican Veteran's Memorial

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Wisconsin, Shawano County, near Bowler
A Memorial Before The Great Spirit
To All Veterans
Who Served - Who Fought - Who Died - Who Returned
And Carry On


Dedicated by the Mohican Veterans
2002

(Military) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Naval Veterans Monument

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Wisconsin, Brown County, Green Bay
Dedicated to the Glory of God
and in Memory to All Men and
Women Who Served in the Naval
Forces of the United States


Erected by the Navy Club, Ship 18
1956
Rededicated June 1996

(Military) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Liberty Hall

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Liberty Hall
has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark

Under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
this site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating or illustrating
the history of the United States

U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service

1973

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Kansas, Allen County, Humboldt


Memorial to
Veterans of All Wars

In Memory of
Vicksburg Post No. 72
Grand Army of the Republic

1861 - 1865
Lawton Circle No. 97
Ladies of the G.A.R.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wagon Shed

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Built around 1900, the wagon shed was used to store farm equipment used on Ursino Farm. In addition to farm equipment, the wagon shed houses an Otto manufactured gas engine. This engine powered a circular saw that cut fire wood for the many fireplaces in the house.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Blue House

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Home of Mildred Barry Hughes.
Elected to the New Jersey Assembly,   1958 – 1965
The first woman elected to serve in the
New Jersey Senate,   1966 – 1968

This building is circa 1790

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

Carriage House

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Colonel John Kean built the present carriage house around 1882. The building is an example of utilitarian Victorian architecture with its distinctive roof shapes, slate roofing, and brick arches over the windows, doors and tower. The stable was the home for the work horse used by the Kean’s to maintain the Garden and Farm until the 1950’s.

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

Steam Tractor

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Manufactured By The Frick Engine Works
in 1920
This tractor was typical of the kind used here at Liberty Hall to cultivate the fields and plant various crops. Eventually it was replaced by a more “modern” gasoline driven engine. The spec. sheet indicates that it produced 36 brake horsepower.

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

Combat Wounded Veterans

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North Carolina, Wilson County, Wilson

Dedicated To All The Men And
Women In All Wars
Combat Wounded Veterans

My stone is red for
the blood they shed.
The medal I bear
is my country's way
to show they care.
If I could be seen
by all mankind
maybe peace will
come in my lifetime.

We few. We happy few. We band of brothers for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother


(Military) Includes location, directions, 6 photos.

Hotel St. Benedict Flats

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Illinois, Cook County, Chicago
This rare surviving example of Victorian Gothic design is also one of the city's best late-19th century apartment buildings. Because early luxury apartments were viewed with skepticism, this building was designed to look like a series of four separate townhouses. It was named for the Benedictines, a religious order that had operated a church on the site before the Fire of 1871.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lafayette Township and Village

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, Lafayette
First settler in township was Louis Sharro. John Bush and family came in 1854 and kept an Inn for travelers. Township organized in 1858. First post office 1859 - moved to Village 1897. Village platted 1896; Incorporated Feb., 1900. Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. completed 1895. First carload of wheat shipped 1896. First State Bank organized 1902. First Lafayette Ledger printed 1904. Heating tar on a kerosene stove to repair a roof caused a fire in 1908, destroying 7 businesses. 1976 Lafayette, growing - population 500 - many new homes and thriving business establishments. 1976

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Liberty Hall

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Built in 1772 in the Georgian style by William Livingston (New Jersey’s first elected Governor, 1776-1790). The house assumed its current Victorian Italianate appearance in the late 19th century, when it was enlarged by Colonel John Kean to meet the needs to his growing family.

(Colonial Era • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Horse Chestnut Tree

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
Planted by
Gov. William Livingston’s
Daughter Susan
In 1770.

The oldest tree of its type on the NJ State Register

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

The Serpentine Path

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New Jersey, Union County, Union
The Serpentine Path is based on the Serpentine, a lake in Hyde Park, London. It was built by Lord Bolingbroke, an English Viscount, who occupied Liberty Hall with his family from 1798 to 1807.

(Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lieut Wm. Munroe Brigham Jr. Park

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Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Marlborough

Dedicated by the City of Marlborough
to the memory of
Lieut. William Munroe Brigham Jr
104th Inf. 26th (YD) Div. U.S.A.
Born in Marlborough, Dec. 12, 1894
Killed leading a charge at Epieds near
Chateau Thierry, France, July 22, 1918
Where he was cited for distinguished and
exceptional bravery
His last words were "Come On"

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

The Volunteer

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Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Marlborough

Front Panel

Ernest D Marshall • Willis H Page • John O Cole • Louis Sasseville • William S Wadden • Timothy E McGee • Ernest A Carpenter • Arhur B Hersey • Cornelius J Donahue • Joseph North • George Lynch • Herbert H Chase

They died to make men free

Dedicated by the
City of Marlborough
to her hero sons who
freely served in humanity's cause
October 12, 1924

Left Panel

Honor Roll
Original Roster of
Co. F. 6th Mass. Inf. U.S.V.
in the
Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns
Capt. Thomas E Jackson • 1st Lt. Franklin G Taylor • 2nd Lt. Frank E Moore

Sergeants
Lucius P Hayward • Harold B Chamberlain • Charles W Holbrook • Aaron W Hosmer • Frank L Best • Walter A Wood

Corporals
Warren E Hapgood • Henry Simard • George W Higgins • Thomas L McDormond • Eldon L Holt • Harold A Leonard

Musicians
Charles H Small • Isadore I Vincent

Artificer
Willis H Page

Wagoner
Charles R Craig

Privates
Mason S Allen • William J Angell • James W Barry • Clifton R Berry • Alma Bertrand • Eli Brodeur • Frank W Buck • Henry M Chamberlain • Arthur W Clapp • Walter A Clisbee • John O Cole • John P Colleary • Walter H Cowern • Frank E Cutter • Dolor O Delude • Jeremiah Frazel • Harmisdas Goulet • John J Grady • Edwin E Haight • Ira J Haines • James A Harris • George B Herrick • Arthur B Hersey • Elton E Howe • Ernest A Howe • Everett C Howe • Fred W Howe • Chester W Hunt • James P Hutch • Ervin F Johnson • Lester O Keith • John W Kellette • Edmund G Knight • S Wright LePage • Ernest D Marshall • James J Martin • Charles F McCarthy • William F McCarthy • Leander Melanson • Albert E Miles • Fred H Mills • Carleton A Newton • Dennis W O'Brien • John V O'Brien • Ralph A Parker • James G Patterson • Charles H Perry • Frank Pichette • Walter H Readio • Walter T Redding • S Walter Rogers • Thomas T Ryan • Ardeen Schwartz • Frank D Stumpf • William F Trowbridge • William S Wadden • John A Ward

Second Call
May 25, 1898
Riley A Berry • David H Bishop • Armas Bonin • H Wallace Burhoe • Frank X Chartier • Edmund F Clements • Michael E Colleary • George E Cutler • Wilmot F Duley • Fred W Estabrook • Frank T Estey • Arthur C Faulkner • William E Fay • Wilfred Gour • John F Greene • John W Grover • Ernest D Howard • Dosithe LaFoy • Louis L'Hereaux • Robert E Lee • Edward Lovely • Timothy E McGee • Thomas F Mullen • Joseph O'Clair • Fenny Palardy • Clarence A Rowles • Henry T Rowles • Harry C Ruggles • Louis Sasseville • Harry A Taylor • Harry R Willard • Irving O Wright

Right Panel
Honor Roll
Marlborough Men
who served in the
Army, Navy or Marine Corps in
Cuba, Porto Rico,
The Philippines or China

Frank Avery • Edward F Boule • Irving E Brigham • Thomas F Bullock • John Byrne • Martin Byrne • Charles P Callahan • Ernest A Carpenter • Daniel F Carr • Herbert H Chase • Urgel Colette • George A Cutter • Edward Danues • Joseph Danues • Walter C Dean • Cornelius J Donahue • John O Donahue • Arthur Dragon • Alphonse Duchaine • Arthur W Dunn • Cornelius J Dunn • Isaac S Dunn • Edward Durand • Martin E English • William J W Findlay • Edward H Fitzgerald • Thomas F Fitzgerald • Timothy E Flynn • Ernest C Forbush • Frank J Fritchie • Arthur Gagnon • John A Gagnon • William Gauthier • Frank Burke • Patrick J Danehy • Ernest C Forbush • Joseph E Gauvin • Timothy Genery • Thomas F Glynn • Peter Gour • James Green • Adelard Gregoire • Flibert J Gregoire • John Hackett • Warren B Hamilton • John Heffron • Harrie C Hunter • William Jackson • Humphrey Jordan • William R Keefe • Clarence F Kenney • Charles L Kurtz • Arthur LaCouture • Ame LaFernais • Louis LeMay • William H Leonard • Perley W Libby • Charles H Lynch • Charles Lynch • Edward T Lynch • Edward J Lynch • James Maguire • John T Maguire • Philip J Mahar • Louis Marcure • Alfred Maynard • Edward Maynard • Joseph O McGee • Charles E McGregor • Walter C Latham • James P McNiff • John Morgan • John W Morse • Daniel F Moynihan • Patrick J Mulcahy • Thomas F Murphy • Joseph Norih • David P O'Brien • Cornelius J O'Callahan • James O'Connell • Michael E O'Donnell • Ellsworth D Onthank • Fred Onthank • William Palardy • Clarence O Perry • Richard J Regan • Bert C Riley • John Robinson • David Sasseville • Edward Sasseville • Joseph Sawyer • Levi O Sawyer • Louis O Sawyer • Mansfield Schwartz • Cornelius J Sheehan • Maurice Sheehan • Daniel E Sullivan • John J Sullivan • Charles F Tilson • Cornelius H Toomey • William D Toomey • John Trainor • John A Wheeler • Albert J Whelan • George H Paul • Felix Robert • Richard Rowles

(War, Spanish-American) Includes location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Robert W. "Red" Touchette

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Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Marlborough

Dedicated to
USAF Captain
"Red"
Robert W. Touchette
Born August 31, 1931
Killed January 27, 1962

Sacrificed his life by
diving his disabled F-86 jet
into the Alabama River to
avoid a populated area

38 combat missions over Korea

A true hero remembered by his Marlborough High 1949 Classmates

November 11, 2000

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

The African American Story in the Indian Town

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Maryland, Dorchester County, Vienna
“When I am homesick, I just call up rene in my dreams and I’am right back home in the Indian Town.” Gloria Robinson Walter.

It is clear that from the early days on both white and black families lived in the Indiantown as a plantation community, with free blacks working on the farms side by side with enslaved people. Many of the slaves and freeman were related and their descendants continued to reside in Indiantown Road through the 1950’s. Living family members have provided photographs that help to reconstruct life as it was here in the 20th century. All structures that you see in these old photographs, including former slave houses, sheds and barns have been demolished except for Handsell.

Uncovering data from historic documents such as death inventories, manumission papers, deeds and Wills can provide important information to reveal the story of those descended from the Indiantown community. Comparing names and ages of listed persons helps to identify not only a specific individual but sometimes family connections as well. This timeline shows a few samples of what can be learned from this research. 1749-As the sole surviving child of her parents, Ann Billings Steele inherited several slaves. One was a young girl named Nell.

1776-According to the Maryland Colonial Census Henry Steele (and his wife Ann Billings) lived in the Nanticoke District of Dorchester County with his family and 91 slaves.

1782-When Henry Steele died, three slaves were treated by medical Dr. Gordon who charged debits to Henry Steele’s estate for treatment of Negro Isaac, a Negro Man and a Negro child.

1803-James Steele signed the first of several annual agreements with Overseer Levin Simmons at his farm in the Indiantown which states: “Levin Simmons agrees to continue in the employment of James Steele as Overseer during the present year at his plantation in the Indian Town…also that he will see that a Negro woman intended to be kept mostly at spinning does follow and perform her business as she ought.” Other slaves listed to assist Simmons on the farm were Stephon, Bill, Jim, John, Dick, Hicks, old Dido, young Dido, Lucy and Mary.

1803-On January 20, 1803 Isaac Steele granted freedom to Negro Levi, with a receipt for $36.50 “in full balance for his freedom”, 1810-Levin Simmons, overseer, is listed as living in the Vienna District with family and 27 slaves. John C. Henry, James Steele’s son-in-law, was also living in the Indiantown with two other females and 52 slaves. Both Henry and Steele owned parts of the Handsell tract.

1814-In Deed 3 ER 114, James Steele released from slavery and forever manumits William, age 28, son of Sarah for $1, Witnessed and sworn by Richard Pattison and John C. Henry. Charles Jackson, born a slave in 1814 was the paternal ancestor of the Jackson family who lived and worked on Indiantown farms into the 1950’s. Who owned Charles is still a mystery, but we know he was freed by 1860.

1837-Handsell was sold to John Steele of Dorchester County, who rebuilt the brick house. The 1840 Census indicates he lived in the Vienna District with his family. Also listed in his household were 3 free black males.

1850-The 1850 Federal Census lists John Nevett Steele, white, widower, living in the Indiantown with his three sons. He lived in a house just up and cross the road from Handsell. Also listed in the household were Charity Jackson, age 37, “mulatto” and her daughter Fanny, age 8 months. The 1850 Slave Schedules also lists 26 slaves owned by Steele. The 1850 Slave Schedule lists free black man Thomas Pinder as a slave owner. He owned one female, age 45 and two girls ages 8 and 6. It is assumed that these were his wife and two daughters. During this time it was not unusual for a free black man to keep his family enslaved as a way of protecting them from being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the deep south.

1854-After his death, slaves of John N. Steele, “of Indiantown” were transferred to “James B. Steele, son of James Steele of Henry…do grant bargain and sell unto the said James Steele…the following negroes to wit Joshua, Lucy, Daniel, Marshall, Hooper, Moses, Charles Littleton, Henry, John Nace, Mary, Elizabeth, and her three children, Sarah and her three children, Jack Wesley and another, Margaret and her Son Isaac, Maria and Nancy her child and Lilly all being Slaves for life…”

1859-Handsell was sold to John Thompson who is listed in the 1860 Census, age 73, farmer. The 1860 Slave Schedule listed John Thompson as the owner of 10 slaves. During this time the underground railroad was most active. Harriet Tubman is known to have used the Nanticoke River and/ or the Marshy Hope Creek as a route to the north.

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

The native people of the Chicacone Village...the Nanticokes

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Maryland, Dorchester County, Vienna
Pre-History-For at least 2,500 years prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Eastern Woodland Indians inhabited a wide area in the eastern part of the United States including the vastly wooded area of the Delmarva Peninsula. This region is noted for ample rainfall, numerous ponds, streams, and rivers and the Woodland Indians tended to establish long-term settlements near water in the forested area, as well as other short-term settlements associated with traditional seasonal migrations to alternate food sources. Traditionally, Easter Woodland Indians live in dwellings built of bent saplings covered with mats and/or bark. Some of these would be single family size while others were quite extensive, housing larger family units.

There were numerous tribes living on the Delmarva Peninsula. These included the Algonquian speaking “Nentego” (Nanticokes), the largest tribe on the Eastern Shore, who were part of a matrilineal culture. John Smith’s 1608 voyage around the rim of the Chesapeake Bay described one of the largest villages, that of the Nanticoke “Emperor” which was in the area of Chicone Creek and Vienna.

They lived off the land, using wood, stone, bone and clay products as the basic raw materials in their lives. The Nanticokes were a hunter-forager-farming culture. Their primary animal foods were deer, turkey, turtle, fish, and shellfish. As experienced farmers they grew beans, corn, and squash. While the males hunted, the females worked in the gardens raising crops and foraged for nuts, berries, and roots like tuckahoe and cattail. Available plant material was used both for food and medicinal purposes.

While many tribes had moved freely up and down the peninsula for centuries, by the mid 1600’s, Europeans seeking land forced the tribes to abandon most of their traditional homelands and lifestyles and initially move to Indian “reserved” areas established by the Colonial government. Nanticoke Indians who originally lived along the Nanticoke River found themselves slowly being pushed north away from their ancestral lands, some eventually joining the Iroquois Confederacy. By 1769, all ownership of former Nanticoke “reserved” lands had transferred to Europeans.

The story of Eastern Woodland Indian culture reaches thousands of years into the distant past of what is now the state of Maryland. Their heritage is intimately woven into the fabric of our nation, yet it is often misinterpreted and remains largely obscure. Disease, conflict and assimilation wiped out much of this heritage within one or two generations. As a result, for most Marylanders and visitors an awareness of native culture is limited to place names of many of our towns and rivers whose meanings have long since been forgotten.

1678-The Maryland Proprietary formally acknowledged a number of Eastern Shore town sites or informal reservations including the Nanticoke “Emperors” village of Chicone located nearby. If existing land patents already included these village sites they were honored. (English traders sometimes obtained patents to protect their economic interests and the Indians from further encroachment.) Thomas Taylor, a licensed trader and military officer obtained such a patent for 700 acres at this site which he called HANDSELL in 1665, upon which he built a local and no doubt prosperous trading post (the old English word, Handsell, translates to “earnest money handed at market.”).

1698-The Nanticokes experienced ever increasing English encroachment (social hostilities; hunting, fishing and foraging pressures; and English livestock rooting up Indian gardens) and had lodged numerous complaints with the Maryland Colony. English settlers were building houses nearby on the banks of the Nanticoke River. Christopher Nutter purchased HANDSELL from Taylor and assumed Taylor’s role as trader-interpreter; however, Nutter was less sympathetic to the Nanticoke plight. Tensions continued to mount. The Maryland Assembly passed an Act “for ascertaining the bounds of certain tract of land, to the use of the Nanticoke Indians, so long as they shall occupy and live upon the same..” Reservation Lands were then established for the Native Americans at Chicone Indian Town.

1723-After acquiring HANSELL from the heirs of Nutter, Captain John Rider claimed legal possession of the land within the Chicone Reservation after finding it deserted except for one Indian, William Ashquash, son of the late Nanticoke Emperor. Rider had physically ousted Ashquash, set fire to his cabin and built a clapboard house of his own. The Indians returned in the autumn, re-established residence and burned the house erected by Rider. They testified to the Maryland Assembly that Rider had found their towns uninhabited because they were following their traditional seasonal migration to alternative food sources. Maryland authorities ruled that Rider was trespassing.

1742-Ongoing English violation of Indian Reservation rights cause the Nanticokes to continue to abandon Chicacone town.

1768-The Maryland legislature passed a bill authorizing the purchase of all remaining rights to Chicone Indian lands from the Nanticoke Indians. In 1769 all Indiantown land including HANDSELL was returned to the ownership of the heirs of John Rider including Henry Steele and his wife Anne and her sisters.

1770’s-Henry Steele purchased from the other “heirs in law” and became the sole owner of the Indian Towne Purchase, which originally extended from the “Chicacone Creek to the junction of the northwest fork of the Nanticoke near Walnut Landing.”

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Strike Up the Band

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District of Columbia, Washington, Southeast
IF YOU ARE HEARING THE RINGING TONES OF BAND MUSIC, one of the ensembles of the world-famous United States Marine Band may be practicing inside the Marine Barracks.

John Philip Sousa, the neighborhood’s most famous son, spent 19 years here. In 1868 Sousa’s Marine Bandsman father persuaded the 13-year- old to apprentice to the Marine Band instead of running away to join a circus band. Twelve years later Sousa was named leader of the Marine Band and was on his way to becoming the “March King,” composer of dozens of stirring marches that remain popular worldwide. During his director-ship (1880-1892), Sousa wrote Washington Post March and Semper Fidelis, among many others, and the band began the extraordinarily popular concert tours that continue to this day. The band’s renown spread even farther after it made one of the earliest phonograph recordings (1889) and helped pioneer live broadcast radio in the early 1920s. In 1931 the NBC radio network began a record-setting 29 years of broadcasting the Marine Band in “The Dream Hour.”

The Marine Band was established by an Act of Congress in 1798 and has played for every president beginning with John Adams. Thomas Jefferson dubbed it “The President’s Own.” During Jefferson’s tenure, the band recruited musicians from Italy, some of whom eventually settled in the neighborhood. Italian immigrants contributed music schools, bakeries, and other businesses.

The Marine Band, still stationed at the Barracks, remains the official White House musical ensemble. In 2002 its 140-plus members performed 800 times throughout the nation.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Military) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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