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Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area

    Josiah Flagg

    IN THIS CHURCHYARD IS BURIED JOSIAH FLAGG 1763-1816   FIRST NATIVE BORN AMERICAN TO MAKE DENTISTRY HIS LIFE'S WORK AND THE FIRST TO CARRY TO ANY FOREIGN LAND EVIDENCE OF AMERICAN DENTAL PROGRESS...

    • south carolina
    • charleston
    • josiah flagg
    • grave
    • cemetery
    • dentistry
    • 1763
    • 1816
    • 1955

    The First Fort Des Moines

    This barracks well marks the first Fort Desmoines and was used by a detachment of Dragoons stationed here Sept 25-1834 to June 18-1837

    • iowa
    • lee county

    1861-1865 G.A.R.

    1861-1865  G.A.R.  One Country, One Flag, One Language

    • g.a.r.
    • iowa
    • civil war

    Keokuk National Cemetery

    Civil War KeokukKeokuk, Iowa, was a staging and training ground for seven Union regiments. The first soldiers mustered in at Camp Ellsworth in May 1861. Later, camps Rankin, Halleck, and Lincoln...

    • iowa
    • keokuk
    • lee county
    • national cemetery
    • veterans

    Water Route to Indian Territory

    This was a remote stretch of the Mississippi River when steamboats of Cherokee passed by on their way west to Indian Territory on the water route of the Trail of Tears. River traffic in 1838 was...

    • missouri
    • trail of tears
    • native american

    COL RAYNAL C. BOLLING S.C. USA.

    THIS GROVE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF COL RAYNAL C. BOLLING S.C. USA. LAWYER PATRIOT SOLDIER BORN 1 SEPT. 1872 AT HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS KILLED IN ACTION DURING THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE NEAR...

      N.C. SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

      Opened 1894 under superintendent Edward McKee Goodwin. Main building designed by A. G. Bauer.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full...

      • ncmarkers
      • north carolina

      Davies Manor

      Built near Old Stage Road about 1807, occupied by Logan Early Davies, James Baxter Davies & their descendants for over a century. Named for Zachariah Davies, soldier of the American Revolution. In...

      • shelby county
      • tennessee

      George Louis Crocket

      George Louis Crocket (1861-1936) was born in San Augustine, Texas, the youngest of five children. He attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, an Episcopalian liberal...

      • texas
      • san augustine
      • art
      • writer

      Site of the first Methodist Episcopal Church

      Site of the first Methodist Episcopal Church erected in the Republic of Texas. Corner stone laid, January 7, 1838 with the usages of the Masonic Order. The Reverend Littelton Fowler and General...

      • texas
      • church
      • religion

      Quarry Operations

       The rock face before you is not the natural bluff face. In 1905, the Union Sand and Material Company of St. Louis operated a lime plant here. Three quarries exist within the park; you are...

      • missouri
      • state park
      • industry
      • fossils

      California Mistakenly Claimed

        Chambers Chapel Cemetery

        Many early Shelby County settlers of the Arlington area and generations of their descendants are interred in the adjoining church cemetery. This cemetery is endowed for continuing use of...

        • shelby county
        • tennessee

        Sylvia

        Sylvia Age: Over 600 years Circumference: 26.3 feet Biggest tree in King County Toppled January 20, 1993 Submitted by @oranv