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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LG0_camp-william-penn_PA.html
Here was Pennsylvania's only training camp for African American soldiers — and the largest of 18 in the nation — during the Civil War. Comprising over 10,000 men, 11 regiments of U.S. Colored Troops were trained here: the 3rd, 6th, 8th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LFR_beth-sholom-synagogue_PA.html
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built with the collaboration of Rabbi Mortimer J. Cohen, this National Historic Landmark was completed in 1959. Wright's only synagogue evokes the biblical Mt. Sinai in modern materials of concrete, steel, alumin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CA0_george-washington_Tenterfield-PA.html
First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen. As a warrior, her served refusing pay and led in the achievement of our independence.As a statesman and lawgiver, his guiding wisdom assisted in framing the fundamental law…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9X_gilbert-motier-delafayette_Ransomville-PA.html
He served as citizen soldier of American liberty, the cherished friend of Washington - by whose side he fought and bled, in defence of a great principle that the only legitimate government is that which derives its authority from the governed. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C9V_veterans-memorial_Chattanooga-PA.html
This Flag Memorialis dedicated to the memory ofUnited States Veteransof all wars at rest inMount Peace CemeteryLawnview CemeteryLawnview Memorial ParkPine Grove Memorial Parkand those formerly interred inMonument Cemetery (1824-1956)Odd Fellows Ce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPX4_first-assembly-of-abington-friends-meeting_Shiloh-PA.html
The first religious meeting hereabout, now known as Abington Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers) was held here in 1683. This was the home of Richard and Joan Wall who came from Hasfield near Cheltenham England in 1682. Their granddaughter,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWN_shoemaker-bosler-mill-site_Madison-PA.html
The first mill on the site erected in 1746 was owned and operated by Dorothy Penrose Shoemaker, a descendant of Richard Wall. In 1847 their neighbor and employee Charles Bosler, whose business was hauling grain to the mill and flour to the city, b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWM_shoemaker-bosler-mill-site_Madison-PA.html
In 1746 a corn-grist mill powered by a water wheel was erected here on a mill race of Tookany Creek. It was owned and operated by Dorothy Penrose Shoemaker, a descendant of Richard Wall, in partership with Richard Mather and John Tyson. Eventually…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWJ_wall-house-the-ivy_Madison-PA.html
Original section, dated from 1682, was built by Richard Wall on land granted by William Penn. An early meeting place of the Society of Friends, 1683-1702. Additions were built about 1725 and 1805. Sarah Wall married George Shoemaker, 1694, and the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPWH_st-pauls-episcopal-church_Athens-PA.html
Oldest church building in Cheltenham Township, consecrated 1861. Founder was Jay Cooke (1821-1905), "financier of the Civil War." Cemetery, laid out 1879 and enlarged 1905, contains his mausoleum and graves of prominent area residents. Church orig…
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