The Flower Garden

December 10, 2013, 1:23 pm

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Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington
Mrs. Robert E. Lee took special interest in the flower garden, and she helped shape its final design. In the center stood a large, latticed arbor, its walls covered with flowering jasmine.

The Lees used the arbor for summer entertaining and as a restful place to read and paint. In 1884, the garden was destroyed to make space for a cemetery memorial. It is now being restored to its 1861 appearance.

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70th Ohio Infantry

December 10, 2013, 6:58 pm

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
70th Ohio Infantry.
Cockerill's Brigade, Ewing's Division, 15th Corps
Major William B. Brown.
November 25, 1863
On the morning of November 24th, this Regiment with its Brigade crossed the Tennessee River and advancing with General Sherman's column in the afternoon, occupied the ridge beyond the north end of Missionary Ridge without opposition.

During the 25th, the Regiment supported a battery which was engaged with the enemy's artillery on Tunnel Hill. On the 26th, the regiment took part in the pursuit as far as Graysville.

The Regiment suffered no loss.

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Veterans Memorial

December 10, 2013, 7:05 pm

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Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Rockledge

This Flag Memorial
is dedicated to the memory of
United States Veterans
of all wars at rest in
Mount Peace Cemetery
Lawnview Cemetery
Lawnview Memorial Park
Pine Grove Memorial Park
and those formerly interred in
Monument Cemetery (1824-1956)
Odd Fellows Cemetery (1848-1950)
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They served that liberty and justice
may be preserved

Dedicated June 16, 1973

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Gilbert Motier DeLafayette

December 10, 2013, 7:25 pm

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Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Rockledge


He served as citizen soldier of American liberty, the cherished friend of Washington - by whose side he fought and bled, in defence of a great principle that the only legitimate government is that which derives its authority from the governed.

A patriot, fearless and firm in days of terror. A man of unchanging integrity under changing dynasties. The constant supporter of constitutional freedom.

Like Washington - he died in voluntary retirement, leaving a name that belongs to history, the lesson of his life to future generations, his most revered memory to every American.

Originally dedicated in 1869

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George Washington

December 10, 2013, 7:50 pm

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Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Rockledge


First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

As a warrior, her served refusing pay and led in the achievement of our independence.
As a statesman and lawgiver, his guiding wisdom assisted in framing the fundamental law.
As the first president of the United States, he governed with firmness and moderation.
As a patriot, he bequeathed his bright example and earnest counsel and immortal legacy to his country.
As a man, his character stood supreme in its grand equipoise of noblest qualities.
Modest as great, prudent as brave, he gave the best years of his life to the public weal and died in voluntary retirement.
The brightest star in the constellation of the great men of all time.
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Originally dedicated in 1869

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53rd Ohio Infantry

December 11, 2013, 3:15 am

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
53rd Ohio Infantry.
Cockerill's Brigade, Ewing's Division, 15th Corps.
Colonel Wells S. Jones.
November 25, 1863
On the morning of November 24th, this Regiment with its Brigade crossed the Tennessee River and advancing with General Sherman's column in the afternoon, occupied the ridge beyond the north end of Missionary Ridge without opposition.

During the 25th, the Regiment supported a battery which was engaged with the enemy's artillery on Tunnel Hill. On the 26th, the regiment took part in the pursuit as far as Graysville.

The Regiment suffered no loss.

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46th Ohio Infantry

December 11, 2013, 4:18 am

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
46th Ohio Infantry
Corse's Brigade, H. Ewing's Division, 15th Corps.
Colonel Charles C. Walcutt.
November 25, 1863.
This Regiment with its Brigade moved down the slope of the hill next north of this position early in the morning of the 25th, being exposed to a plunging fire of artillery and musketry.

Reaching the crest it charged upon the works in front of this position, finally withdrawing to the edge of the crest in the rear from which it continued to fight until withdrawn toward the close of the afternoon.

Casualties: killed 1 officer, 3 men; wounded, 4 officers, 31 men; missing, 1 man; total 41.

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Joseph Carter Corbin

December 11, 2013, 6:04 am

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Arkansas, Jefferson County, Pine Bluff
In 1875, Joseph Corbin the son of former slaves, became the founder and principal of Branch Normal College (now UAPB) where he served until 1902. A profound mathematician, outstanding musician, linguist, and holder of bachelor and masters degrees from Ohio University, Corbin was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Arkansas Industrial University (now the UA system). He served as principal of Merrill School in Pine Bluff until the time of his death in 1911.

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Garden to Graves

December 11, 2013, 6:26 am

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Virginia, Arlington County, Fort Myer
The dead from three years of Civil War filled all burial spaces in the area. In 1864, President Lincoln charged General Montgomery Meigs with locating a site for a new national cemetery. Arlington's high elevation and aesthetic beauty made it ideal, the Lee's abandoned their home by May of 1861.

Lee and Meigs had much in common: both graduated from West Point; Meigs worked under Lee in 1834 in St. Louis. Meigs had even visited Arlington House on several occasions; he could not forgive Lee for joining the Confederacy.

On June 15, 1864, General Meigs ordered that 200 acres surrounding the mansion be set aside as a cemetery. He personally supervised the burial and placing of headstones of 22 soldiers in Mrs. Lee's flower garden.

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Eliza Muller State Monument

December 11, 2013, 7:17 am

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax
The State
of Minnesota to
the Memory of
Mrs Eliza Muller
1877
Her valor and her devotion to the care of the sick and wounded soldiers and refugees during and after the Sioux Indian outbreak of 1862 will forever be cherished in the hearts of a grateful people.

Mrs. Eliza Muller • Wife of Dr. Alfred Muller • Born in Berne, Switzerland Apr. 21, 1831 • Died Sep. 26, 1876 — • — Thy Mission on earth was unbounded Charity. Thy Reward is Eternal Peace!

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World War II Honor Roll

December 11, 2013, 12:47 pm

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Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, Rockledge


[Honor Roll of Rockledge Veterans]

Greater Love Hath No Man Than This
[Roll of Honored Dead]

John Bernhardt • Francis J. Gillespie, Jr.
William Allen Keightly • Charles W. Lutz
George Reimenschneider
Harold Lester Wood

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World Wars Memorial

December 11, 2013, 6:42 pm

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Tyrone, Moy

The Great War 1914-1918
In Memoriam
Aird A. • Allen R. • Allen W. • Allen W.J. • Bradley F.E. • Bradley F.H. • Bradley R.I. • Carson R. • Carson W. • Coleman G. • Davies C.C. • Duke W. • Fullerton J. • Gray J. • Hagan T.J. • Harkin C. • Herron C. • Hetherington J.W. • Igoe H. • Jones R.J. • Kilpatrick W.R. • Lutton G. • Morrison J.D. • McGuigan H. • McGuigan J. • Proctor J.C.B. • Reid J. • Rose-Cleland A.M.B. • Stafford J. • Tottenham E.L. M.C. • Tottenham A.H. • Watson E. • Watt J. • Weir A. • Whitley J. • Whitley W. • Williamson T. • Walker I.

"The men of Ulster, on many fields, have proved how nobly they fight and die."
King George V.

[Honor Roll of Great War Veterans who Served]

1939-1945 [Roll of Honored Dead]
Sister R.H. Dickson, Q.A.N.S.
Atkinson F.W. • Black I.H. • Bradley J. • Chapman H. • Frazer C.M. • Greeves H. • Grimley A. • Laverty R.A. • Lucas C.J. • Lutton F.J. • McMullan W.J. • Rainey J. • Rolston F.L. • Steel-Nicholson J. • Trotter W. • Turkington J. • Williamson F. • Williamson R. • White R.G. • Wray H. • Wylie S.D.

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World Wars Memorial

December 11, 2013, 8:05 pm

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Garvagh

The Great War 1914 - 1918
"The Fallen"
Faithful unto death
Black H.C. • Bradley J. • Bradley P. • Caldwell, W. • Caskey M. • Collins R. • Dale T. • Dempsey J. • Faith J. • Gavin R. F. Capt. • Hall T. Cpl. • Hazlett J.B. • Lynch J. Cpl. • Macausland O.B. Lieut. • Maclean J.G. • McCooke J. • McCurdy W. • McElfatrick S. • McIlwrath M. L/C. • McIlrath R. L/C. • Morrison J.D. L/C. • Mulholland J. • O’Kane D. • O’Kane T. • Patton W. • Stewart W. • Thompson W.J. • Torrens J. • Torrens T. • Toyo R.E., C.Q.M.S. • Weir E.A. Sgt. • Weir W.J • Workman W.J.

Second World War 1939 - 1945
The Fallen
Fleming T. A.C.I. • Gray R.A. Sgt. • Robertson R. F/O • Toner P.

"Wherever a son of Ulster is honour and glory shall aye be his."

"Great hearts that sprang to duty's call"

[Rolls of Serving Veterans]

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The Domestic Slave Trade/Slave Transportation to Montgomery

December 12, 2013, 6:48 am

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery
Side 1 The Domestic Slave Trade
Beginning in the seventeenth century, millions of African people were kidnapped, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Americas as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In 1808, the united States Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa. At the same time, the high price of cotton and the development of the cotton gin caused the demand for slave labor to skyrocket in the lower South. The Domestic Slave Trade grew to meet this demand. Over the next fifty years, slave traders forcibly transferred hundreds of thousands of enslaved people from the upper South to Alabama and the lower South. Between 1808 and 1860, the enslaved population of Alabama grew from less than 40,000 to more than 435,000. Alabama had one of the largest slave populations in America at the start of the Civil War.

Side 2 Slave Transportation to Montgomery
In order to meet the high demand for slaves in Alabama in the early 1800s, slave traders chained African Americans together in coffles and forced them to march hundreds of miles from the upper South to the lower South, including Montgomery. The overland transportation of enslaved people by foot was slow and expensive. By the 1840s, slave traders began to take advantage of two new modes of transportation: the steamboat and the railroad. Steamboats carried slaves from Mobile and New Orleans up the Alabama River to Montgomery. Rail routes constructed with slave labor connected Montgomery’s train station to West Point, Georgia and lines extending to the upper South. hundreds of enslaved people began arriving by rail and by boat each day in Montgomery, turning the city into a principal slave trading center in Alabama. Enslaved people who arrived at the riverfront or at the train station were paraded up Commerce Street to be sold in the city’s slave markets.

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Chief Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee State Monument

December 12, 2013, 6:54 am

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax
Erected by the State of Minnesota in recognition of, and to commemorate the loyal and efficient services rendered to the State by Chief Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee and the Chippewa Indians during the Sioux out-break and the civil war.

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The Montgomery Slave Trade/Warehouses Used in the Slave Trade

December 12, 2013, 6:56 am

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery
Side 1 The Montgomery Slave Trade
Montgomery had grown into one of the most prominent slave trading communities in Alabama by 1860. At the start of the Civil War, the city had a larger slave population than Mobile, New Orleans, or Natchez, Mississippi. Montgomery attracted a growing number of major slave traders whose presence dominated the city’s geography and economy. The Montgomery probate office granted at least 164 licenses to slave traders operating in the city from 1848 to 1860. Slave trader’s offices were located primarily along Commerce Street and Market Street (now Dexter Avenue). Over time, Montgomery became one of the most important and conspicuous slave trading communities in the United States. After the Alabama legislature banned free black people from residing in the state in 1833, enslavement was the only legally authorized status for African Americans in Montgomery.

Side 2
Warehouses Used in the Slave Trade
Commerce Street was central to the operation of Montgomery’s slave trade. Enslaved people were marched in chains up the street from the riverfront and railroad station to the slave auction site or to local slave depots. Warehouses were critical to the city’s slave trade. Slave traders confined enslaved people in warehouses until they could be sold during slave auctions. At 122 Commerce Street was a very large warehouse owned by John Murphy, who provided support to slave traders in the city and built the Murphy house on Bibb Street. The Commerce Street warehouse was used in the 1850s by slave traders like H.W. Farley, who advertised the sale of enslaved children, such as a boy “about fourteen, very likely and sprightly.” The warehouse remained in the hands of owners involved in the slave trade until the end of the Civil War.

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Dixon Memorial Swimming Pool

December 12, 2013, 7:07 am

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Illinois, Lee County, Dixon


(Plaque 1:)

This Pool given by the citizens of Dixon, Illinois in Memory of the Men & Women who served in World War II. Erected & Dedicated 1950

This pool, which was completed in 1950, also includes a two-tier diving platform. It was dedicated by local native and then-Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, in memory of war veterans. The Dixon Park District closed the pool in 2000, citing maintenance costs. It has no plans to reopen the pool, which could become subject to demolition by neglect. Only a handful of these above-ground pools, which were based on plans by architect Wesley Bintz, remain throughout the United States. These pools feature a raised patio overlooking the central pool basin and integrated bathhouses on the ground floor.

(Plaque 2)

Dixon Park District
Edward Vaile, Pres.
Commissioners
Louis Pitcher
John R. McDaniel
Esther M. Barton
L. W. Miller
Olaf V. Rees, Sec.
James R. Bales, Treas.

Built by
Clinton Engineering Co.
Clinton Iowa

Wesley Bintz Consulting Engineer
Swimming Pool Designs
Bintz Pool Pat. No. 1.573.463
Lansing Michigan
1950


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Marquis de Lafayette

December 12, 2013, 7:07 am

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery
On this site stood, until December 1899, the house in which Marquis de Lafayette was given a public reception and ball, April 4, 1825, while on his last tour through the United States.

This tablet is placed by the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Alabama in lasting memory of this illustrious patriot and soldier of the Revolution, the friend of Washington and the youthful champion of liberty.

April 4, 1825 - April 4, 1905

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Oasis Park

December 12, 2013, 7:33 am

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Florida, Pinellas County, Dunedin

This Park contains an original Stage coach road known as Old Road 37

This was once the main road than ran from Clearwater to Tarpon Springs and dates back to the early 1920’s

Please come explore the old road

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Welcome to Garvagh

December 12, 2013, 8:54 pm

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Garvagh


The town of Garvagh owes its 17th century origins and subsequent development to the Canning family. George Canning was the first family member to come to Ireland when, in September 1614, he arrived at Agivey on the banks of the Bann as an agent for the Ironmongers' Company of London.

He established the hamlet of Ballinameen to the south of the town in 1620, but this was destroyed during the 1641 rebellion. The hamlet was re-established in subsequent years and is still known as Ballynameen today.

George Canning's son Paul acquired ownership of the lands from the Irish Chief O'Cahan in 1659 and established Garvagh on its present site in 1660. One of the first buildings he erected was St. Paul's Church in 1659, probably as a private chapel for the family.

The family home, Garvagh House, was also erected at this time. It was located in a 670 acre estate, which today largely comprises Garvagh Forest. Having originally been a fairly modest dwelling, Garvagh House was rebuilt in 1813 and continued to be occupied by the family until 1921 when, upon their return to England, the House and estate was sold to Edward Stronge.

The grand old house was demolished in the early 1960s to make way for Garvagh High School, still present today. It is worth noting that the gates beside this panel, although now in a different location, are the original gates from the entrance to Garvagh House, dating from the 1820s.

The Canning family was elevated to the peerage in 1818, taking the title Lord Garvagh. During the early 19th century Lord Garvagh embarked on a Grand Tour of Egypt. Mightily impressed by the pyramids, upon his return he had one built in Garvagh. Known locally as 'The Vault', it was never used, and can still be seen today in Garvagh Forest, a short walk from the forest car park. The entrance to the forest car park is at Ballynameen Bridge, at the southern end of the village, approximately 300m from this panel.

Just over 200 years after arriving in Garvagh, one of George's descendants, also called George Canning, became Prime Minister in 1827. He died a few months after his appointment and was buried alongside his old friend, William Pitt, in Westminster Abbey.

War Memorial
The War Memorial is one of the most prominent landmarks on Garvagh's Main Street. A somber construction, as befits its subject, it was designed by a local man, Thomas Johnston and was unveiled by Captain Charles E. Stronge on 27 March 1924.

Standing 40 feet high and built of local stone, it commemorates the 32 men from the district who lost their lives fighting in the Great War of 1914-1918, as well as those who died in the Second World War, 1939-1945. The men and women who served in these wars are also commemorated.

Garvagh Museum
The Museum houses a unique collection of almost 2000 artefacts, which trace the history of the Bann Valley from 3000 BC through to the 20th Century. It provides a fascinating insight into life in the home, the farm and the town.

Further interpretation panels and local information can be found on Main Street and Bridge Street. For further visitor information please contact Coleraine Tourist Information Centre (Tel: 028 7034 4723)

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