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Recent Markeroni Challenge Landmarks

Archie E. Stevenot
by TCM

Robinson's Ferry
by TCM

Columbia
by TCM

Judge Frank Daniel Foley
by ember39

Daniel Foley was a pitcher for the legendary 1908 UGA Baseball team who won the Southern Championship. (pre-SEC days) This was the first time Georgia won the championship. The baseball stadium at the University is named for him.

Abraham Baldwin
by ember39

This monument is located in front of the oldest building on the University of Georgia campus. The building is called Old College. Abraham Baldwin was one of the founders of the university as well as being one of Georgia's signers of the Constitution.

James A. Sledge House
by ember39

One of many beautiful homes along Cobb St. This is a five minute walk from where I live.

Nearby Yews
by ember39

Just a note this monument is a little difficult to find. It's actually behind one of the bus shelters at the main campus bus stop on Broad Street.

Cobb-Treanor House
by ember39

There's no record of when this house was built but local history has the original owner giving it to his daughter as a wedding present in 1841. It now belongs to the University of Georgia.

Jacob Thompson
by Scribe

Snarfed with Wandering Raleighite while in Caswell County. I couldn't resist getting a shot in with a Confederate secret agent. This photo is not a case of me being theatrical I was standing on an incline and grabbing the pole so as not to fall.

Fort Scott National Historic Site
by flingo98

Fort Scott, now the Fort Scott National Historic Site, was established on the rolling prairie in 1842 and named for General Winfield Scott, who was insulted to discover he was the namesake of such a little outpost

Fort Scott National Cemetery
by flingo98

Started by the community as Presbyterian Graveyard in 1861, it was one of the 12 original United States National Cemeteries named by Abraham Lincoln on November 15, 1862.
Burials in Fort Scott National Cemetery include many Civil War casualties, including 13 Confederate soldiers, 63 Colored Troops and 16 Indian Troops. Other graves of particular interest are group graves used for WW2 flight crews where the individual bodies could not be identified.

http://www.kansastravel.org/fortscottnationalcemetery.htm

Eugene Ware Elementary School
by flingo98

Ware, Eugene Fitch (Ironquill), lawyer and poet, was born at Hartford, Conn., May 29, 1841, a son of Hiram B. and Amanda Melvina (Holbrook) Ware. His parents moved to Burlington, Iowa, in his childhood and he was educated in the public schools of that place. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E, First Iowa infantry; reënlisted in Company L, Fourth Iowa cavalry, was mustered out as captain of Company F, Seventh Iowa, in June, 1866, having during the latter part of his service been aide-de-camp successively to Gens. Robert B. Mitchell, C. J. Stolbrand, Washington R. Ellett and Grenville M. Dodge. He took a section of land in Cherokee county, Kan., in 1867, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Fort Scott and to the United States supreme court;entered the law firm ofMcComas & McKeighan at Fort Scott; in 1874 married Miss Jeanette P. Huntington of Rochester, N. Y., and was for many years editor of the Fort Scott Monitor. His political career consisted of two terms in the Kansas legislature, 1879 to 1883, and three years as United States pension commissioner—1902 to 1905