First Congregational Church

August 3, 2014, 7:08 am

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Wisconsin, Rock County, Janesville
First Congregational Church
in
Janesville, Wisconsin
is listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
May 17, 1990
This plaque donated in loving memory of
Robert Rockenfield by his family

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Abraham Lincoln

August 3, 2014, 7:16 am

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Wisconsin, Rock County, Janesville
On October 2, 1859 Abraham Lincoln worshiped with the members of the First Congregational Church which stood on the site of this edifice, 1848 - 1868

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Aftermath of a Tragedy

August 3, 2014, 1:27 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Oriskany

After the Revolutionary War, Oriskany Battlefield’s landscape began to change dramatically. As New York’s frontier pushed westward, the impact of constructing new settlements, canals, railroads, and modern highways altered the battlefield’s character. Starting in 1795, the battlefield’s dense forest was gradually clear cut, creating open fields and pastures extending from this high ridge north to the banks of the Mohawk River. The historic military road alignment became obscured. Soon, the only features to remain untouched were the larger farm land forms left by ancient glaciers and a small grove of descendent hemlocks on the northeast edge of the bloody ravine. From 1861 to 1952, a second era of agricultural use and new land divisions further modified the battlefield’s appearance.

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Steuben State Memorial Park

August 3, 2014, 2:23 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
Dedicated September 12, 1931
by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
governor of New York

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Steuben State Memorial Park

August 3, 2014, 2:42 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
Includes fifty acres given
in 1804 by Col. Benj. Walker,
friend and aid of Steuben
to Second Baptist Church.

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This Park

August 3, 2014, 3:04 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
was created in memory
of Friedrich Wilhelm Baron
Steuben, Major General in
the War for Independence.

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Sacred Grove

August 3, 2014, 3:21 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
is the name given in 1804
to these woods hallowed
by associations with
Baron Steuben, the
American patriot.

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This Monument

August 3, 2014, 3:42 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
covers the remains
of Baron Steuben.
Governor Horatio Seymour
laid cornerstone June 1, 1870.
Erection completed 1872.

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Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar"

August 3, 2014, 3:58 pm

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New York, Niagara County, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station


This cold war transport entered the Air Force inventory in 1949, its nickname referring to its blocky fuselage and cargo carrying capability. The C-119F displayed here (serial #22105) was built in 1953 by Fairchild Aircraft in Hagerstown, MD. It served with the Royal Canadian Air Force until 1965, and afterwards fought forest fires in the U.S. northwest before becoming a static display in 1989 at General Mitchell Air Reserve Station in Milwaukee (440th AW).

The aircraft, on loan from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, was moved to Niagara Falls ARS in 2006. It honors a 440th TCW C-119G aircraft and crew that vanished over the "Bermuda Triangle" without a trace in June of 1965, and is painted to represent that plane, serial number 51-2680. The 328th Troop Carrier Squadron flew eighteen C-119G Boxcars at Niagara Falls Municipal Airport from 1958 to 1971, when they converted to the C-130A "Hercules."

Specifications
Wing Span: 109 feet 3-1/4 inches
Range: 2,000 miles
Cruise Speed: 200 mph
Length: 86 feet 5-3/4 inches
Maximum Weight: 74,000 pounds
Service Ceiling: 30,000 feet

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German-American Organizations

August 3, 2014, 3:59 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
German-American
organizations assisted by
State of New York erected
this tomb in honor of their
great fellow countryman.

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Steuben Grant

August 3, 2014, 4:12 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
of 16,000 acres by the
State of New York, June 27, 1786
for service in the Revolution.
He cleared sixty acres near here
for home site (1788-1793).

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General Baron Frederick William von Steuben

August 3, 2014, 4:48 pm

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New York, Oneida County, Remsen
In grateful recognition of the care and
reverence bestowed upon the grave of
General Baron Frederick William von Steuben
by the Welsh settlers and their descendants
through their churches Chapel Isaf and the Baptist Church of Remsen Oneida County New York from AD 1804 to AD 1930 this tablet is presented to the people of the townships of Steuben and Remsen and the Baptist Church of Remsen New York by the units of the
New York State Council
of the
Steuben Society of America
with the cooperation of the State of New York
on the 31 day of May 1952

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Biltmore Hotel

August 4, 2014, 12:58 pm

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Coral Gables
Biltmore Hotel
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark

This site possesses national significance
United States of America

1996
National Park Service
United States Department of Interior

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Charles Ellet, Jr.

August 4, 2014, 1:19 pm

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling
This notable American engineer designed
the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, completed in 1849.
Ellet’s other engineering accomplishments included:
improving flood control and navigation of mid-western rivers;
planning the layout of railways in Virginia, and
developing the naval steam ram used by Union forces during the Civil War.

Ellet’s daughter, Mary Virginia Ellet Cabell, served as the only
President Presiding, 1892 – 1893, of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.

Marker placed by
Wheeling Chapter, DAR,
1999

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Utica Area

August 4, 2014, 1:23 pm

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New York, Herkimer County, Frankfort

          Situated on the important Mohawk Valley route between the Hudson River and the Great Lakes, Utica has long been a travel crossroads. Indian trails converged there, and Fort Schuyler was built on the site in 1758. The community which grew around the fort's ruins became the village of Utica in 1798.

          During the American Revolution, patriot militia under General Nicholas Herkimer at Oriskany on August 6, 1777, halted an invasion by the British compelling them to raise the siege of Fort Stanwix (Rome). Tories and Indians raided Mohawk Valley communities until 1781. With peace, land speculators reopened the area to settlement.

          Governor De Witt Clinton at Rome in 1817 started the construction of the Erie Canal, completed in 1825. The Erie Canal, its Chenango branch to Binghamton (1836) and railroad service (1837) increased Utica's importance as a transportation center, and the area prospered. Industrial production started early with textile mills along Sauquoit and Oriskany Creeks. At Ilion, Eliphalet Remington pioneered in manufacturing firearms. Rome became famous for its iron, copper and brass works.

          Makers of electrical and electronic equipment have replaced textile factories, while fertile farmlands continue to provide dairy products.

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The Hernandez-Capron Trail

August 4, 2014, 1:28 pm

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Florida, Brevard County, Melbourne
The Hernandez-Capron Trail parallels I-95 here in Brevard County. Laid out in 1838 by U.S. Army during Second Seminole war, it linked King's Road in St. Augustine and forts along St. John's River with Ft. Capron, 4 mi. north of present Ft. Pierce. Branches went to Ft. Dallas (Miami) and Ft. Brooke (Tampa). Named for Capt. Erastus Capron, Brevard section also honored Gen. Joseph Hernandez. Later it was the only inland trail available for settlers. Cattlemen used it up to the 1930s.

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Alabama's First Statehouse

August 4, 2014, 1:34 pm

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Alabama, Dallas County, Cahaba
Alabama's first statehouse stood on this lot, but no drawing by a person who actually saw it has been found. It was built in 1819 and destroyed in 1833, before the invention of photography. There are many drawings of the statehouse, but all are pure conjecture.

Compare these drawings to instructions given to the builders of the capitol in 1819. Then you decide which is best.

The building to be two story, fifty-eight feet long, and forty-three feet wide; each story to be twelve feet in the clear. The interior to be divided above and below stairs by a passage fourteen feet wide, …Two chimnies and eight windows are to be provided at each end and twelve windows on each front of the building; to be commenced two feet below the surface of the earth, and to be two brick and a half thick to the first floor (which must be three feet above the surface of the earth), and from thence two brick. …The shingles are to be of cypress or heart pine.

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Steuben Memorial

August 4, 2014, 1:39 pm

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New York, Herkimer County, Frankfort
(Three miles northwest of Remsen, Oneida County)

Home and grave of Baron Frederick William von Steuben
(1730-1794)

Drillmaster of the American Revolution
          Arriving at Valley Forge in February, 1778, this German-born officer found “an army of skeletons . . . naked, starved, sick, discouraged,” -and undisciplined. By day he drilled them for the victorious campaigns of that summer. By candlelight he wrote a MANUAL OF ARMS which is still the basis for the discipline of our armed forces.

          “His services were indispensable to the achievement of American independence.”

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Leesylvania

August 4, 2014, 1:43 pm

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Virginia, Prince William County, near Woodbridge
Located along the Potomac River between Nebasco and Powells creeks and extending inland to include lands west of U.S. Route 1, this vast tract was patented in 1658 by Gervais Dodson. Henry Lee II (1729-1787) inherited the acreage upon his father’s death in 1747 and established a plantation here which he named Leesylvania, meaning Lee’s Woods. Prior to his death and burial at Leesylvania, Henry Lee II held the office of County Lieutenant for Prince William, presided As a Justice, and served prominently as a member of the House of Burgesses and State Senate. Born at Leesylvania, Henry Lee III (1756-1818) gained fame during the American Revolution as cavalry commander “Light Horse Harry” Lee. He subsequently served as Governor of Virginia and fathered Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The Lee mansion burned down in 1792 and Henry Fairfax acquired the estate in 1825. Leesylvania State Park now occupies part of the original acreage

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Footprint of a Church

August 4, 2014, 1:53 pm

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Alabama, Dallas County, Cahaba

St. Lukes Episcopal Church was built at Cahawba in 1854 but was dismantled and moved sometime after 1884 but before 1888. It was reassembled fifteen miles away in a rural community called Martin's Station. The raised outline before you indicates the original location of this church.

Archeology

Finding the original location was not easy. In 1906 a former resident Anna Gayle Fry published her memories of Cahawba. Her book states that St. Luke's was located on the corner of Pine and First North Street. This must have been a typographical error, because the actual location was here at the corner of Vine and First South. Archaeologists were able to confirm this location, by discovering the buried "footprint" of the missing church.

In this photograph of the excavation, the dark linear stain in the soil indicates where the north wall of the church once stood.

The Church Returns! - Original Stained Glass Discovered

In 2008, architecture students from Auburn University's Rural Studio program dismantled the church and brought it home to Cahawba. It could not be put back here on it's original location because of the threat of flooding. So it stands today on higher ground near the park's visitor center.

The students numbered and mapped every piece of the church so it could be accurately reconstructed. They also found artifacts hidden with the walls, including several broken pieces of colored, enameled and stenciled glass windows. Two stenciled examples are pictured here. The glass found in the walls matches matches historical newspaper accounts of the original stained glass windows in the church.

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