Pryor Creek Bridge

Chelsea, OK

Chocolate Workers' Sit-Down Strike

Hershey, PA

Captain Charles Floyd

Savannah, GA

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Gold Mines

Dillwyn, VA

This was the most notable gold-mining region in the country before the California gold rush in 1849. The Morrow Mine here, opened before 1835, was one of the earliest gold mines in which underground mining was employed. Profitably worked fo… more »

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Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary

Pomaria, SC

Here in 1830, in the house of Colonel John Eigleberger, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina and Adjacent States opened a seminary which grew into the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary now located in Columbia, S.C.… more »

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Christopher H. Payne

Montgomery, WV

Born in slavery in Monroe Co., Sept. 7, 1848, he worked as servant in the Confederate army. Served as teacher and ordained Baptist minister; estab. West Virginia Enterprise, Pioneer, & Mountain Eagle papers; later a lawyer. First African Am… more »

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