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Court of Quarter Sessions

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Pennsylvania, Chester County, near West Chester

The Petition of Joseph Martin of the Township of West Bradford in the County of Chester Humbly Showeth.

“That there is a necessity for a Publick house for the Entertainment of Travellers in said Township, there being many large roads much used by travellers and no house of Entertainment upon any of them for several miles distant so that they are often times obligated to be burdensome to the neighbors or want refreshment. And your petitioner has now purchased a lott with a house thereon, and is now erecting a commodious house at the place, it being convenient for most of the roads for many miles remote from any house of entertainment upon any of them, your petitioner therefore prays you would be pleased to recommend him to his honour the Governor for a Lycence to keep a house of entertainment for travellers at the place aforesaid.”

25 subscribers signed the petition, including Humphrey Marshall

(Colonial Era • Entertainment • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Buchanan Eads

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Indiana, Dearborn County, Lawrenceburg

Born in Lawrenceburg, became a famous engineer who built the Eads Bridge arched over the Mississippi at St. Louis and jetties at New Orleans. During the Civil War President Lincoln commissioned him to design and build ironclad gunboats for the Union forces. He is the only Hoosier and the only engineer in the Hall of Fame in New York.

Born May 23, 1828 Died March 8, 1887

(Bridges & Viaducts • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Delaware Military Academy

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Delaware, New Castle County, near Wilmington

Dedicated to All Delaware Veterans
Delaware Military Academy
By CMCPO Joshua Loper,
First DMA Eagle Scout
Military Science Course Project
Unique 1861 Iron Cannon
Last Survivor from Lobdell Foundry
Union Field Cannon
Used by Delaware Troops at Gettysburg 1863


First 1869 Breach Loading Conversion
Mounted on Rare Deck Gun Base 1871 for
Second U.S.S. Delaware
Commandant Baldwin • Colonel Wintermantel
Mr. Giansanti, Advisor • Cmdr. Hendricks, VFW
Donated by Polish-American VFW Post #3257
2008

(Military • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battle of Middle Creek / The Fitzpatrick Farm

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Kentucky, Floyd County, near Prestonsburg

(Side 1)
The Battle of Middle Creek
At this site, on Jan. 10, 1862, Union troops under Col. James A. Garfield defeated Confederates led by Gen. Humphrey Marshall. Garfield's 1,100 Ohioians and Kentuckians advanced up Middle Creek and clashed with Marshall's 1,967 Virginians and Kentuckians. Marshall's main force occupied ridge on the south side of Middle Creek. The battle began about noon, with the Union troops fighting their way up the ridges and the Confederates counterattacking down them. Turning point came at 4:00 p.m., when Garfield's reserves arrived from Paintsville. Faced with fresh Union troops and advancing shadows, Marshall withdrew his troops from ridge and retreated. Union losses: 3 killed, 18 wounded; Confederate losses: 12 killed, 15 wounded.

(Side 2)
The Fitzpatrick Farm
The Battle of Middle Creek was fought on land owned by Henry Clay Fitzpatrick (1823-1895), son of Jonathan Fitzpatrick and grandson of Bath Co., Va., native John Fitzpatrick, Revolutionary War veteran, who established a farm here sometime before 1800. John is buried on Graveyard Point, Garfield's command post during battle. Henry's son Hiram H. Fitzpatrick, Floyd County Clerk, inherited the farm and passed it to his son Henry D. Fitzpatrick, Sr. and daughter Osa F. Ligon. Next owners were Henry D. Fitzpatrick, Jr., president of The Bank Josephine, and Osa's daughter, Sally Ligon Clarke. Farm is now owned by Middle Creek National Battlefield Foundation, founded in 1992 by Franklin D. Fitzpatrick, son of H.D. Fitzpatrick, Jr.

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

Michigan Light Artillery Regiment / Batteries F and G

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Kentucky, Madison County, near Richmond

(Side 1)
Michigan Light Artillery Regiment
During the Civil War more than three thousand men served in Michigan's First Regiment of Artillery. The twelve batteries saw action in both major theaters. Unlike in infantry regiments, the six-gun artillery batteries served as detached units. Light artillery was mobile. Six-horse limbers pulled ammunition caissons and guns that delivered devastating fire using solid shot, explosive shell, case or canister. On May 28, 1861, the Coldwater Light Artillery, Michigan's first unit, mustered in; its last battery formed in 1864. In late August 1862 the six-gun battery G, under Lieutenants Lanphere, Hale, Paddock and Brown, fought against superior Confederate numbers in their first battle, here at Richmond.

(Side 2)
Batteries F and G
Batteries F and G of Michigan's First Light Artillery went into action here on August 29, 1862. They were the only Union artillery on the field of battle. Despite inadequate training and ammunition, they provided accurate fire that helped drive back the Confederates "with admirable effect." Early on August 30 the batteries defended the initial Union battle line. During successive Union withdrawals, the guns served as rallying points or as the rear guard. Seven of the eight guns were brought off the field in the last Federal withdrawal. In the final chaotic retreat, lacking infantry support and ammunition, the seven also fell into enemy hands. Reported losses were 7 killed, 12 wounded and 65 captured. The two batteries later fought during the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns and at the battle of Nashville.

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

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker

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Louisiana, Bienville Parish, near Gibsland
This site May 23 1934
Clyde Barrow
and
Bonnie Parker
were killed by
law enforcement officials

Erected by
Bienville Parish Police Jury

(20th Century • Notable Events) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Town of Tusten

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New York, Sullivan County, Narrowsburg
Town of Tusten
Formed December 17, 1853 from
the Town of Lumberland by
Act of the Sullivan County
Board of Supervisors
Charles Woodward, 1st Supervisor
Tusten
Historical Society
October 2003

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Y. Joyner

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North Carolina, Lenoir County, La Grange

Superintendent of Public
Instruction, 1902-1919.
Educator and agriculturist.
Home is 3 blks. N.W.

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

Modern Banking

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Maryland, Montgomery County, Silver Spring
The 1958 Perpetual Building Association office at 8700 Georgia Avenue is the finest example of Mid-Century Modern architecture in Silver Spring. The University of Maryland study Modern Movement in Maryland extols Perpetual as a "pristine and superior example of the statewide and national output of the Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America...one of the best examples of commercial modernism from the 1950s in the Mid- Atlantic region."

Designed by BB & EC and leading Washington, D.C. architect Robert O. Scholz, Perpetual's glass, limestone, and Carnelian granite exterior symbolized permanence and protection of depositors' funds. This landmark building's construction marked the birth of Silver Spring as a suburban financial center. Its presence attracted additional banking establishments to the intersection of Georgia Avenue an Cameron Street, culminating in The Evening Star dubbing the corner in 1961 as "...fast becoming Silver Spring's Little Wall Street..."

Perpetual was founded in 1881 in Washington D.C. by the St. George's Society a group of poker-playing Englishmen who pooled their resources to help members purchase new homes in the nation's capital. Perpetual's long-lived success was pioneered and nurtured by President Edward C. Baltz.

With the motto "Dedicated to Thrift," Perpetual evolved into the Washington area's largest savings and loan, and for nearly two decades the nation's largest. It was the first S&L to provide loans to African-Americans to purchase homes in any neighborhood, and the first (1970) to appoint an African American to its board, William S. Harps.

(African Americans • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 12 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A.M.E. Zion Church

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New York, Chemung County, Elmira
Founded in 1840 stood 300 feet west of here played a role in the underground railroad & was a center of Elmira's African-American Community

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fitzsimmons Cemetery

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New York, Chemung County, Elmira
Contains remains of many pioneers and members of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

High Security

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South Dakota, Pennington County, near Wall

The fence in front of you once guarded the Delta-09 Launch Facility which held a Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). During the Cold War, anyone or anything that crossed this fence was in serious trouble. Standing orders meant the use of deadly force was authorized. Motion sensors recorded activity day and night.

Now imagine one thousand ICBM silos like this, each roughly the size of a football field, scattered widely across the American heartlands. Here you see part of the enormous system that kept the United States secure from a Soviet nuclear attack by threatening overwhelming destruction.

Delta-09 is one of ten launch facilities commanded by the Delta-01 Launch Control Center, located eleven miles southeast of here.


Photo Caption:
Missiles in the Minuteman silos had to be regularly maintained to launch at a moments notice. This missile is in a training facility at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City.

(War, Cold) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Zim Bandstand

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New York, Chemung County, Horseheads
Designed in 1910 by nationally renowned local cartoonist Eugene Zimmerman. Dedicated on this site in 1914 for “Zim's” band.

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

She-Qua-Ga

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New York, Schuyler County, Montour Falls
“Tumbling Waters” A sketch now in the Louvre made about 1820 by Louis Philippe later King of France

(Natural Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wapahasha I / Wapahasha II / Wapahasha III

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Minnesota, Wabasha County, Wabasha
Wapahasha I
As George Washington was to the United States of America, so was his contemporary, Wapahasha, to the Dakota of eastern Minnesota. Wapahasha (Red Standard or Red Cap) was born about 1718 and became the foremost hero in the national history of the Mdewakanton. He traveled to Montreal where he presented himself as a vicarious sacrifice to the British governor, offering his life in place of a murderer so that the Dakota would be granted the all important gun trade. Afterward, he distinguished himself as a British general during the American Revolutionary War. He started a new band, called Kiyuksa, and a village on the Upper Iowa River in the late 1790s. Joseph Roque, an early voyageur, married Wapahasha's sister and had a son, Augustin, who became an early settler of Rocque's Landing, the town which was eventually known as Wabasha. Wapahasha died of throat cancer in 1806.

Wapahasha II
Wapahasha II or La Feuille (The Leaf) was born in the 1760s and became the highly skilled diplomatic leader of the Dakota Nation from the late 1790s through 1836. The son of the greatest hero of the Dakota Nation, he was recognized by the Americans as the "first chief" of his tribe and as such had contacts with Spanish, American, and British officials. After the Americans made the Louisiana Purchase, he aided Tecumthe in the formation of a British-Indian confederacy to fight in the war of 1812 against the Americans. He afterward establish his village below the bluff known as "Wapasha's Cap" (now known as Sugarloaf) at present day Winona, Minnesota. He adjusted uneasily to the rapid inroad with the government into the affairs of his nation. He signed a number of treaties with the government and was also constantly involved in affairs with the Ojibway, Ho-Chunk, and Sac and Fox tribes. His long life ended when he caught smallpox in 1836. In 1843 the settlers at Rocque's Landing changed the name of their town to "Wabasha" in honor of the chief.

Wapahasha III
Wapahasha III or Tatepsin (Bounding Wind) was born about 1812 and emerged as a tribal leader in the 1840s. At first strongly defiant against the government's control over his tribe, he was gradually persuaded to accept the religion and custom of the whites. He signed the 1851 and 1858 land cession treaties which created the southern half of Minnesota. While at the Dakota Reserve on the Minnesota River, he came under the influence of Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple and was converted to Christianity. He opposed the Dakota War of 1862 and afterward suffered the humiliating removal to Crow Creek, Dakota Territory, where 300 people died from lack of food and medical care. He then helped his people rebuild their lives at the Niobrara, or Santee, Reserve in Nebraska, though for a decade they were plagued by uncertain land tenure, drought, grasshoppers, and smallpox. He died in 1876.

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

Lest We Forget

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Minnesota, Brown County, New Ulm
In 1914, two four-inch naval cannon barrels, each with a pyramid of balls, were placed on the courthouse grounds as a tribute to all Brown County citizens who served their nation in time of conflict. The United States Government reclaimed them in 1942, during World War II, for use as scrap iron.

In October, 1977, these five-inch naval cannon barrels, similar to those erected in 1914, were placed here to serve again as a memorial to all men and women of Brown County who served the nation with sacrifice and valor in time of armed conflict.

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

Catherine's Landing

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New York, Schuyler County, Montour Falls
1st Store & Inn in region located here 1805 at head of Lake Navigation

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

James A. Shepard

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New York, Schuyler County, Montour Falls
Mechanical Genius in 1880 aged 16 yrs. began business with his father and brother in a foundry 20x45 feet on this site. From his ingenuity and tireless efforts grew the Shepard Niles Crane and Hoist Corporation of this village

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battle of Chelsea Creek

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Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Revere
On May 27, 1775 near this point occurred the Battle of Chelsea Creek - the 2nd military battle and the 1st naval engagement of the American Revolution. Col. John Stark and his militiamen successfully engaged British regulars in driving livestock from Hog and Noddle Islands.

The British attempted to cut off the colonists from the mainland by sending two armed vessels and several barges. Col. Stark's troops aided by reinforcements led by Col. Israel Putnam made a vigorous attack on the naval vessels and inflicted such damage that the schooner, Diana, was abandoned by her British crew. The Diana was dismantled and burned.

The Colonies' first victory of the American Revolution.

Rededicated on May 27, 1998, by The Revere Historical and Cultural Commission.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs
Died in this house on April 12 1945
No soldier gave more on any battlefield than he who here gave his life for his country no greater martyr ever served the cause of freedom

This tablet erected June 25 1947 by the Presidential Electors who in 1944 chose him President of the United States for his fourth term

(Politics • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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