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Greenup Association of Baptists

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near Argillite, Kentucky.
In the log meeting house of Palmyra Baptist Church, once located near here, Greenup Association was formed in 1841. John Young (1764–1855), early settler on Little Sandy River and Palmyra’s pastor, enlisted two other . . .

(Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Keller's Mill Bridge

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near Millway, Pennsylvania.
A New Home for the White Bridge White is an unusual color for covered bridges in Lancaster County. In fact, this bridge is the only one of the county's covered bridges that is not painted red. This same bridge once spanned . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple of Apollo

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, Greece.
The Temple of Apollo, god of music, harmony and light, occupied the most important and prominent position in the Delphi Sanctuary. The edifice with the partially restored colonnade visible today is dated to the 4th century . . .

(Anthropology • Architecture • Churches & Religion • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to John Wise

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Famous pioneer aeronaut of America, who was born in Lancaster in 1808 and lived most of his life near this spot. Beginning in 1835 he completed, from many towns, 462 balloon ascensions during his lifetime. John Wise lies in . . .

(Air & Space • Disasters • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Landis Graveyard

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Herein lie the remains of the following who were interred here in the past (front) Anna Binkley 1783-1847 • Barbara Hershey 1769-1828 Johannes Eby 1800-1822 • C. H. -1771 A. F. -1822 • E. H. -1771 Anna Stibges Frank . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Melville B. Cox

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Raleigh, North Carolina.
Minister of Edenton St. Methodist Church, 1831. First American Methodist Missionary to Africa, 1833. "Let a thousand fall before Africa be given up.

(Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The (Delphi) Theatre

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, Greece.
The best preserved monument at the archaeological site of Delphi testifies to the intellectual and cultural acme of Apollo's sanctuary. It was constructed at the amphitheatrical location with a magnificent view to the valley . . .

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McCarn Hill

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near Clayton, New York.
Site of log cabin belonging to Elijah McCarn first president Village of Clayton, Inc. 1872

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

Wolsingham War Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
Remember With Thanksgiving The True and Faithful Men Who In The Great War Went Forth From This Parish For God and the Right The Names of Those Who Returned Not Again Are Here Inscribed To Be Honoured For Evermore 1915 — 1919 . . .

(War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Millenium Window

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, United Kingdom.
Wolsingham Parish Council The Millenium Window designed and built by Sandra Milivojev of Sunderland University was unveiled by Mrs. Grace Salter and Master Thomas Stephenson of Wolsingham on Saturday 1st April 2000 at 1.00 . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rookhope War Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
“For Home and Country” Erected to the Memory of the Men from this Parish who Served in the Great War 1914 – 1918. Those Who Fell Richard Bell Adamson. · Robert Hodgson Adamson. · John Christopher Baty. · John Edward . . .

(War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Workshops

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, United Kingdom.
Workshops fabricae vel officinae These buildings, flanking a major roadway through the village (vicus), were 3rd century industrial workshops. Excavated in 2004, they appear to have been used in the initial stages of iron . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The village and fort

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, United Kingdom.
You are approaching the edge of the village (vicus), looking east towards the heart of the settlement where the vicus met the walls of the fort. Where you are standing today was the main temple precinct in the 3rd century. . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Tecumseh Sherman Monument

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New York, New York.
The William Tecumseh Sherman monument by August Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was the artist’s last major monument and his crowning achievement. Architect Charles McKim designed the granite base for the monument and . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morgan Enters Indiana

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near Maukport, Indiana.
On Tuesday, July 7, 1863, the first units of General Morgan’s cavalry command arrived at Brandenburg, Kentucky. Their mission was to capture boats to be used for ferrying Morgan’s two thousand men across the . . .

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Downtown Corydon

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Corydon, Indiana.
On July 9, 1863, Colonel Lewis Jordan, Commander of the 5th Regiment, Indiana Legion units (Home Guard) had established a defensive position south of Corydon by 12:30 p.m., General Morgan’s cavalry forces successfully . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Frakes’ Mill

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near Laconia, Indiana.
On the night of July 8t, 1863, Morgan’s 1st Brigade, commanded by Colonel Basil W. Duke, camped in this area. This brigade, ferried across first, rode northward from Morvin’s Landing, skirmishing along the way with the . . .

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Palmyra

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Palmyra, Indiana.
On the night of July 9, 1863, Morgan’s cavalrymen camped in the fields in this vicinity. Following an afternoon of looting in Corydon, they reached this point via two parallel roads by early evening. This site is . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morgan Plans to Attack Salem

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near Salem, Indiana.
In the early morning of July 10, 1863, General Morgan assembled his cavalry troops and met with his officers at this point. He dispatched a patrol to a railroad four miles to the east. This patrol followed the tracks north, . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Canton Plundered

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Canton, Indiana.
On the afternoon of July 10, 1863, General Morgan’s men looted Canton stores and confiscated fresh horses. The raiders continued east from there toward New Philadelphia, crossed the middle fork of the Blue River, and . . .

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