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James Monroe June 1819
Andrew Jackson June 1819
Alexis de Tocqueville December 1831
Washington Irving September 1832
Abraham Lincoln September 1841
Charles Dickens April 1842
Walt Whitman February 1848
Ralph Waldo Emerson June 1850
Oliver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C3M_defining-the-boundry-of-the-great-divide_Louisville-AB.html
Prior to 1913 the Alberta-British Columbia boundary was defined by the divide or watershed of the Rocky Mountains. The discovery of valuable coal deposits and the availability of marketable timber and the incursion of railroads and roads required …
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How many creeks do you know of that split, with each fork reaching a separate ocean, 4500 km apart.Here, Divide Creek forks on the boundary between Pacific and Atlantic watersheds, commonly called the Great Divide.Water in the left fork will flow …
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Erected in honor of Sir James Hector K. C. M. C. Geologist and explorer to the Palliser Expedition of 1857 - 1860 by his friends in Canada, the United States & England. One of the earliest scientists to explore the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He dis…
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Thornton and Lucie (also called Ruthy) Blackburn were slaves in Louisville, 1830-31. Thornton was hired out to Wurts and Reinhard's store at 4th and Main. When Lucie was sold to Virgil McKnight, the two escaped by steamboat. They were claimed two …
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This enslaved African American who lived most of his life in Louisville, went on Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific, 1803-6. York was the first African American to cross the U.S. coast to coast and made important contributions…
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A world-famed inn operated here from 1835 until it burned in 1865. Host to notables, such as author Charles Dickens, it was scene of assassination of USA Gen. Wm. Nelson, Sept. 1862, by USA Gen. J.C. Davis. Sherman and Grant met here March, 1864 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH7J_mary-noailles-murfree_Beersheba-Springs-TN.html
Described as "Tennessee's foremost woman writer of fiction." she used the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock for over thirty years. The Tennesee mountains and the Civil War were used as the settings for her novels and short stories, and she gathered…
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"Bloody Monday"Election day, Aug. 6, 1855, known as Bloody Monday due to riots led by "Know-Nothing" mobs. This political party was anti-Catholic and nativist. Attacks on German immigrants east of downtown and Irish in the west caused at least 22 …