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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9A0_william-r-geddings-fish-culture-house_Tamassee-SC.html
Dedicated in memoryofWilliam R. "Randy" GeddingsS.C. Department of Natural ResourceFisheries Biologistfor his 26 years of serviceto theprotection and conservationofS.C.'s trout resources.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99Z_fort-wayne_Detroit-MI.html
No hostile shots have ever been fired from this star-shaped fort built in the 1840s to guard against a British invasion from Canada which never came. This third bastion to protect the river approach to the city was named for General "Mad" Anthony …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99Y_oglethorpe-university_Atlanta-GA.html
Chartered in 1835 by Georgia Presbyterians near Milledgeville, Oglethorpe University was the first denominational college established in the Deep South.It perished during the Civil War and was briefly revived from 1870 to 1872 in Atlanta. Thornwel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99X_eloise-poorhouse-hospital_Westland-MI.html
(Front):In 1839 Wayne County purchased the Black Horse Tavern, a stagecoach stop, Located here on the Chicago road, for use as a poorhouse. Early on the poorhouse accepted not only the county's indigent, but the infirm and mentally ill as well. Du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99W_mansfield-soldiers-orphan-school_Mansfield-PA.html
In memory ofProfessor F.A. Allenerected byformer pupils of theMansfield SoldiersOrphan SchoolHis words of wisdom and tenderadmonition have provided a guideand inspirationThis tablet marks the site of the school, 1867-1889
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99V_rural-electrification_Mansfield-PA.html
In 1936 seventy-five percent of Pennsylvania farms had no electric service. During the next five years, with Federal support, 14 consumer-owned cooperatives were formed in the State. Tri-county Rural Electric Cooperative, serving much of north-cen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99U_gen-james-m-gavin_Mt-Carmel-PA.html
US Army officer; he rose to lieutenant general, 1955. Military tactician & strategist of airborne operations and limited wars. In World War II a paratrooper, regimental & division commander, 82nd Airborne Division; was in Sicily, Salerno, Normandy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99T_mt-zion-society_Winnsboro-SC.html
A social and benevolent group dedicated to the promotion of education, the Mt. Zion Society was organized in January 1777 at Charleston S.C. John Winn was its first president. By the 1780s the society had founded a school for boys in Winnsboro. Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99S_first-methodist-church_Winnsboro-SC.html
First United Methodist Church was established in 1808 under the leadership of the Rev. James Jenkins, an early circuit-riding minister, and John Buchanan, a captain in the Revolution. Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury visited here f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM99R_freeman-marker_Henrico-VA.html
This is one in a series of 61 markers erected beginning in 1925 to identify the battlefields around Richmond. The tablets were the work of the Battlefield Markers Association, a group of historians committed to commemorating the Richmond battlefie…