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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: July 31, 2011
Caption: Battle Acre
Additional Description: "Houck's Acre" as it was known was dedicated on September 13th 1914 "in commemoration of the last important land engagement before Peace was declared." Dr. Houck owned the nearby Monument Hotel. In 1838, he deeded this one acre lot to the State of Maryland "for the purpose of erecting a monument thereon".
Submitted: September 10, 2013, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p253978
File Size: 1.049 Megabytes

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