The Rebecca Emery Chapter NSDAR members participate in a wide variety of historic preservation projects as it is crucial to saving our history for future generations.
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On August 8, 1782, the English 16 gun-brig "Meriam" and the schooner "Hammond" entered the harbor and attempted to take a schooner and sloop as prizes.
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Old Emery Tavern where, in 1797, Louis Phillipe, King of France, stopped on the way from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Portland, Maine. Lafayette stopped here in 1825. The marker was placed October 18, 1926.
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A marker was placed by the Rebecca Emery Chapter NSDAR at the Jefferson Street Church, Biddeford, Maine, to honor Marquis de Lafayette.
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This original Fort Mary monument was placed by the Rebecca Emery Chapter NSDAR in 1907. It was made of stones collected from the area and then placed in cement.
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The old fort, known as “Browns Garrison," was built on land purchased by William Pepperell, Nathaniel Weave, and Patrick Humphrey Scammon of Saco, Maine, about 1720.
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Today on the Pool Road by the University of New England parking lot is the second marker placed by the Rebecca Emery Chapter NSDAR. In 1904, the chapter erected a marker on a boulder here marking the first city cemetery, now called the Old Burying Ground.
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A tablet was placed on what was called the Laconia Counting House in 1907 by the Rebecca Emery Chapter NSDAR.
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A marker was placed at the Thomas Emery School, located in Biddeford, Maine. Thomas Emery, a descendant of Rebecca Emery, had been a teacher in the ”Summer Street Grammar School.” He had studied medicine and had been an assistant to the surgeon of the 11th Maine Volunteers.
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Richard Vines, an agent of Sir Fernando Gorges, was sent to experience and report upon the climate of New England. He visited the Indians in their huts and survived the winter of 1616 at the present Leightons Point, a territory of Biddeford, Maine.
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