Benton, Kentucky.
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For John Marshall, 1755-1835, Chief Justice of the United States, 1801-1835, "principal founder of judicial review and of American system of constitutional law." Area first settled about time of the Jackson Purchase in . . .
(Churches & Religion • Political Subdivisions • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
For John Marshall, 1755-1835, Chief Justice of the United States, 1801-1835, "principal founder of judicial review and of American system of constitutional law." Area first settled about time of the Jackson Purchase in . . . (Churches & Religion • Political Subdivisions • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
One of many kettles made in this area by William Kelly, used for making sugar down South. In 1851, Kelly discovered process, known as Bessemer, for manufacture of steel. An Englishman, Bessemer, obtained patents on same . . . 
Suwanee Furnace Built by 1851, 200 yds. NW, by William Kelly, whose experiments there perfected his invention of the so-called Bessemer method of making steel, for which Kelly was granted the patent. The blast furnace was a . . . 
Leading packhorses, the Lewis and Clark Expedition followed their Shoshone guide Toby up Tower Creek on August 31, 1805. The Indian road went northwest from here across the foothills to the North Fork of the Salmon. Behind . . . 
New Union Forge Stood ¼ mile SE. Built 1846-47 on site of older facilities by Wm. Kelly to process pig iron from nearby blast furnaces. Kettles to refine sugar, boiler-plate iron among products. Here Kelly began to develop . . . 
Clark's "Pirimids" are lessons in erosion and deposition. Looks closely at the columns to see layers of sediment: sandstone, gravel, and larger rocks that were eroded from ancient hills and deposited in valleys millions of . . . 
The 102nd Kentucky county. Formed from a part of Caldwell, it was named for Col. Chittenden Lyon. Born in Vermont, 1787. Came here with father, Col. Matthew Lyon, in 1801. Had large mercantile and farming interests. Member . . . 
Commercial Apple Orchards in Jackson County. The first commercial apple orchards were established in Jackson County in the late nineteenth century, although legend has it that Johnny Appleseed planted the first apple trees . . . 
This cabin was built by Erle Embley. Erle was born in 1885 and raised in Michigan. He came to the Tower Creek (originally "Boyle Creek") in 1906 and worked as a ranch hand. Erle met and married his wife Lula Thornburg and . . . 
En hommage et à la mémoire des pionniers et navigateurs de Berthier-sur-Mer qui, depuis 1672, ont contribué à la culture, à la vie sociale et à l'economie de cette localité de la Côte-du-Sud. [Dévoué] 29 juin 1997 . . . 
Sur terre et sur mer Berthier toujours plus fier ———————————————————— [Proclamation française sur les armoiries non transcrite / Coat of Arms Proclamation in French not transcribed] Description des armoiries La conception . . . 
Officier de milice, médecin, homme politique, né et décédé à Montmagny. Pendant la guerre de 1812, il servit à Châteauguay et à Plattsburg. Médecin en 1819, il s'établit dans sa paroisse natale et, en 1841, fut élu député de . . . 
Por Decreto de 29 de septiembre de 1954, San Jerónimo Aculco, llevaría en lo sucesivo el apellido del filántropo Ignacio Espinoza, originario del propio pueblo. Patrimonio Cultural del Edo. de México, 1980. English . . . 
Horse drawn steam fire engines first appeared in the United States in the early 1850's. The steamers pumped 500 to 1,000 gallons of water per minute. They weighed as much as ten tons using three horses to pull them. Along . . . 
During the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, a million people fled their homeland. Most came to America. Among them was 22 year old John Donley of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary. He landed in New York City in 1848. John . . . 
Built in 1887, this structure formerly served as the First Congregational Church. When the congregation merged with St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1973, it sold the building to the Richmond Community Theatre. . . . 
Sanford Stone Sanford Stone (1828-1888) came to Richmond in 1843. In 1875 he platted "Sanford M. Stone's Addition to the village of Richmond," which included Jefferson and Washington Streets between Ferguson and Beebe. Stone . . . 
East China Township was set off from China Township in 1859. In 1868 Harriet J. Comstock, an heir of pioneer Andrew J. Westbrook, sold a parcel of land to School District No. 2. A frame school, built on the site prior to . . . 
Hommage à Pierre Richard Marié à Françoise Miville Né en 1646 à Saint-Georges-des Coteaux en Sàintonge, France Arrivé en Nouvelle-France en 1670, il a vécu sur cette terre de 1673 à 1719. Ses héritiers ont donné ce terrain à . . . 
Pine Grove was once a rural community of sprawling farmlands before it was enveloped by the rapidly expanding vacation city of Pigeon Forge in the early 1980s. The frontier settlement first became known as Fort Wear in the . . . 
