Ripley Allen Arnold, U.S. Army officer was appointed to West Point in 1834 Arnold was brevetted major in 1846 for his role in the Mexican-American Wer. He served under General William Jenkins Worth through the battle of Monterrey. He was given . . . — — Map (db m293982) HM
During the period of 1839-1846, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) settled here in Lee County, Iowa and in Nauvoo, Illinois, on the opposite (eastern) side of the Mississippi River. Nauvoo was the . . . — — Map (db m179453) HM
Established 1847 by Bishop J.J. Chanche, S.S., first Bishop of Natchez. Mother church of Hancock County, third oldest Catholic parish on the Gulf Coast and fifth oldest in Mississippi. — — Map (db m108548) HM
Shieldsborough, now Bay St. Louis,
was founded in 1699 as a French
settlement. The area was claimed
by Spain in 1763 and then by the
British in 1780. Named for Thomas
Shields, who was an early settler,
Shieldsborough was incorporated
on . . . — — Map (db m243133) HM
[side 1] Patriot Captain in the Georgia Continental Line during the Revolutionary War. He came to the Mississippi Territory in 1810, purchasing two land sections in 1811, along the Pearl River's western bank, which was the . . . — — Map (db m276600) HM
These markers were funded with a grant from Federal Highway Administration through the National Scenic Byways Program.
The Hoosier National Forest - Then and Now
This area has been inhabited continuously by humans for 12,000 years. . . . — — Map (db m178232) HM
1936 The Rural Electrification Act (R.E.A.) signed by President Franklin Roosevelt provided loans for the purpose of construction of rural electrical generating plants.
1937, Feb. 10 - The Federated R.E.A. was incorporated forming together . . . — — Map (db m172575) HM
Forty acres of land were acquired by the Catholic church in the early 1830's from land in the Military Tract, which had been set aside for the veteran survivors of the War of 1812. Title to this land on the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast . . . — — Map (db m181443) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
