Lake Huron
This, the fifth largest lake in the world, was the first of the Great Lakes seen by white men. By following the Ottawa River route, Samuel de Champlain in 1615 came to the “Freshwater Sea.” It was...
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Battlefield of 1814
Here in this area on August 4, 1814, an American force battled the British in a vain attempt to recapture the island which the British had seized at the outbreak of the War of 1812. Coming...
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North East Quay
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Christmas (Noel) Dagenet
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Surratt Boarding House
A HISTORICAL LAND MARK "SURRATT BOARDING HOUSE" 604 H STREET, N.W. (THEN 541) IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN WHERE THE CONSPIRATORS PLOTTED THE ABDUCTION OF U.S. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1865 ...
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Dundee Bombed in World War II
DUNDEE BOMBED IN WORLD WAR II ln the sky over 50th and Underwood, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on April 18, 1945. The incendiary device flared brightly in the night, but caused no damage....
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Eastern State Penitentiary World War I Veterans
TO THE EVERLASTING HONOR OF THOSE INMATES OF THE EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY WHO SERVED IN THE ARMY AND NAVY DURING THE WORLD WAR [List of inmate numbers] Note that on this WWI...
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Civil War General John T. Wilder
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North Lake Methodist Church
The Reverend Charles Glenn organized the first Methodist class here in 1836, and for the next ten years the group met in the home of his brother, John. In 1846 the brothers presented...
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