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| Title | Description | Coordinates | LocationMem | URL |
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| Stoneboro | Originally called Russell Place for the Irish immigrant William Russell who settled near here on a branch of Beaver Creek in 1768. General William Tecumseh Sherman passed through Russell Place in 1865 on his way to North Carolina. In 1871 James Robert Magill moved here. Magill served in the S.C. House of Representatives 1887 ~ 88, and the S.C. Senate, 1889 ~ 1894. For several years around the turn of the 20th Century, the post office here was called Magill. In 1906, Stewart William Heath moved... | 34.539917, -80.736883 | On Twitty Mill Road, Stoneboro, (On the right when traveling west) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51641 |
| Stony Batter Birthplace of a President | Imagine stepping back in time to April 23, 1791. Packhorses and wagons were pulling into a bustling trading post owned by Scotch-Irish immigrant James Buchanan. There was probably a spring chill to the air. Perhaps the sun shone brightly overhead, for here in Cove Gap this would be a special day. Amidst all the commotion, James’ wife, Elizabeth was giving birth to young James Buchanan, who would become the 15th President of the United States in 1857. James senior called this place, Stony... | 39.871161, -77.953608 | On Stony Batter Road / State Forest Road, Cove Gap, | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=58655 |
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| Stratford Company | Northeast Mississippi's upholstered furniture industry began here in 1948. Founded by Morris Furtorian, a Russian immigrant from Chicago, the Stratford Company utilized assembly line methods developed by the automotive industry, an innovation that revolutionized the furniture business and transformed the area's economy. | 34.515303, -89.044316 | On West Bankhead Street (State Route 178) , near New Albany, (On the right when traveling west) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=102629 |
| Stuyvesant Polyclinic | In 1884 William Schickel designed this building as a health clinic for the city's German immigrants. It is an ornate version of Italian Renaissance design. the facade is enhanced by sculpted portrait busts of famous physicians and scientists, including English physiologist, William Harvey; Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus; French chemist, Antoine LaVoisier; and German naturalist, Friedrich von Humboldt. | 40.728611, -73.987778 | On 137 Second Ave, New York, | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=14376 |
| Suhr Bank Building | The Suhr Bank Building is an elegant example of the Italianate style applied to a commercial building. Designed by influential Madison architect John Nader, the building is of regularly coarse sandstone with a projecting cornice featuring pairs of scrolled brackets. The windows are ornamented with sandstone hoods and the main entrance has composite columns and a classical entablature. The building is also significant for its association with John Suhr, a German immigrant who established one of... | 43.074787, -89.381558 | On East Main Street, Madison, (On the left when traveling west) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=50132 |
| Sunset Crossing | This crossing, first noted early in the 1850s in journals and maps of explorers along the 35th parallel, is the only convergence of major travel routes on the Little Colorado River. It lies on the trail used by Mormon immigrants journeying from Utah to Arizona settlements during the 1870's. A rock ledge spanning the stream from bank to bank at this point made crossing by wagon possible. It is said to have been named after Sunset Pass located to the southwest. | 35.014836, -110.679056 | On East Second Street/Old Route 66 (State Route 66) , Winslow, (On the left when traveling east) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=32722 |
| Sutter's Fort | This marks the site of Sutter's Fort, one of the first major trading posts in post-Spanish, pre-United States California. Though the original fort collapsed, a replica was rebuilt and became a California State Park. | 38.572358, -121.471181 | Sutter's Fort State Historic Park | https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=485, http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/525 |
| Swampoodle | This is the western edge of what once was the rough, working-class Swampoodle neighborhood. In the early days the marshy Tiber Creek ran between what are now North Capitol and First Streets, NE. Legend has it that lingering rain puddles ("poodles") led to the neighborhood's nickname. Swampoodle's earliest residents, mostly Irish immigrants and free African Americans, helped build this city. Their hands crafted the White House and the Capitol, among other buildings.... | 38.897267, -77.003327 | On F Street, NE, Near Northeast, (On the right when traveling east) | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=71501 |
| Swante Palm | A native of Basthult, Barkeryd Parish, in the province of Smaland, Sweden, Swante Palm was a leader of early Swedish immigration to Texas. Influenced by his nephew, Swen Magnus Swenson, Palm came to Texas in 1844. He settled first in La Grange, where he served as postmaster and worked in Swenson’s general store. Both men moved to Austin in 1850 and continued their business relationship. In 1854 Palm married Agnes Christine Alm. Their son, Swante Sture, was born in 1855, but died in infancy.... | 30.275709, -97.727149 | Near Navasota Street, Austin, | https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=26190 |
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