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Chester Veterans Monument

Connecticut, Middlesex County, ChesterThere Was A Time When The World Asked Ordinary People To Do Extraordinary Things To The Man and Women of Chester Who Served Our Country Dedicated May 2004 ( left...

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Charlotte County / Prince Edward County

Virginia, Charlotte County, near Keysville(obverse) Charlotte County Area 496 Square Miles Formed in 1764 from Lunenburg, and named for Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. Patrick Henry and John...

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Keysville

Virginia, Charlotte County, KeysvilleIn June 1864, to deny Gen. Robert E. Lee the use of the South Side R.R. and the Richmond and Danville R.R., Gen. Ulysses S. Grant sent Gen. James H. Wilson and Gen....

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Danville Fortifications

Virginia, DanvilleDanville residents, feeling vulnerable to enemy attack because of the vast amount of commissary and quartermaster supplies stored in their town and the presence of the Confederate...

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Prison Number 6

Virginia, DanvilleBuilt for use as a tobacco factory and leased to the Confederate government, this building housed many Federal soldiers captured in the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in July...

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Confederate Prison No. 6

Virginia, DanvilleConstructed in 1855 as a tobacco factory by Major William T. Sutherlin, this renovated structure housed Union prisoners during the Civil War, 1861-1865. It was one of six Danville...

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Holbrook-Ross Historic District

Virginia, DanvilleThe Holbrook-Ross Historic District, named for two major streets, is significant as the first neighborhood in Danville for African American professionals. Lawyers, ministers, dentists...

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The Gibson Girl / Lady Astor

Virginia, Danville(side 1) The Gibson Girl Here stood the residence in which Irene Langhorne Gibson, 1873-1956 was born. Her beauty, charm, and vivacity captivated the artist Charles Dana Gibson who,...

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Lady Astor Birthplace

Virginia, DanvilleIn this house Nancy Witcher Langhorne was born 19 May 1879. As Lady Astor she became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons, serving from 1919 to 1945. Through the...

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Logan County Sandstone

Kansas, Logan County, OakleyThis native Logan County sandstone boulder is millions of years old. It was removed May, 1988, from outcroppings near Nickel Mine Spring on the Challis ranchland 12 miles...

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Stratford College

Virginia, DanvilleStratford College (1930-1974) and its constituent preparatory school, Stratford Hall (1930-1964), maintained the tradition of liberal arts education for women begun in 1854 at the...

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Frederick Delius

Virginia, DanvilleIn this building, on January 30, 1897, the composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934) and his traveling companions - Halfdan Jebe and the "stowaway" Princess de Cysteria - gave a public...

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Logan County War Memorial

Kansas, Logan County, Oakley [World War I Honor Roll] H.L. Wink • A.H. Radloff • L.L. Reid • L.M. Weller • J.R. Lahman • H.M. Rabideau • Roy Beaman • Fred Schaffer [World War II Honor Roll] J.K. Nelson...

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Schoolfield

Virginia, DanvilleSchoolfield, established in 1903 as a textile mill village, was named for three brothers who founded Riverside Cotton Mills, later Dan River Mills. By the 1920s, this company...

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Saponi Religious Beliefs Explained

Virginia, DanvilleOn 12-15 October 1728, Col. William Byrd II and his party camped just west of here while surveying the Virginia-North Carolina boundary. Bearskin, Byrd's Saponi guide, described his...

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Berry Hill

Virginia, Pittsylvania County, near DanvilleBerry Hill is situated 5¼ miles to the south on the Dan River. The original portion of the main house was built in 1745 and there have been several...

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Clerk's Office

Virginia, Pittsylvania County, CallandsSite of first County Seat of Pittsylvania County. The building that served as the debtor's prison,1767-1771, and later as the clerk's office, 1771-1777, remains....

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Rawley White Martin Residence

Virginia, Pittsylvania County, ChathamHere stands Morea, the home of Lt. Col. Rawley W. Martin (1835-1912), a physician who served with Pittsylvania County soldiers during the Civil War in the 53d...

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John Weatherford's Grave

Virginia, Pittsylvania County, near ChathamOne half mile west is the grave of Elder John Weatherford (1740?-1833) Baptist preacher for 70 years and early advocate of religious liberty. Jailed five...

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Hickey's Road

Virginia, Pittsylvania County, GretnaHickey’s Road, first laid off by court order in 1749, followed this general path. Named after John Hickey, a merchant who operated a store at its western limits and...

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