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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Argentine Township Cemetery
In 1838, Halsey Whitehead, a veteran of the War of 1812, buried his two-year-old daughter Rebecca here on land he settled in 1837. He offered burial plots for others until 1843, when he donated...
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Central Title Service Building
On August 6, 1845, the first graduation ceremony for the University of Michigan was held in this building, which was then the First Presbyterian Church. Founded in 1817 in Detroit, the...
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N. C. School for the Deaf
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Slovenians, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence
Slovenians, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence...In his copy of of Bodin's "Republic" Thomas Jefferson had initialed two pages. On one page was Bodin's definition...