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Sheffey’s Sheepskin

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From Willard Barbery in 1950: It was Mrs. Suiter who showed us the sheepskin, in the Davidson home, formerly used by Bro. Sheffey and made mention of in another place in these writings. That sheepskin was given to Rev. Peter Rayburn Suiter, local preacher in the Methodist church for many years in Bland county and an associate of the itinerant preacher. Bro. Sheffey Read more...
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Windsor Martyrs

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Beyond this site the following were martyred for their faith Henry Filmer Anthony Pierson Robert Testwood Burnt at the stake 28th July 1543 Read more about them at Foxes Book of Martyrs Photographed by Stephen Palmer, March 5, 2023, HMDB.org Read more...
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Lewes Martyrs

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From Wikipedia: The Lewes Martyrs were 17 Protestants who were burned at the stake in Lewes, Sussex, England, between 1555 and 1557. These executions were part of the Marian persecutions of Protestants during the reign of Mary I. On 6 June 1556, Thomas Harland of Woodmancote, near Henfield, Sussex, carpenter, John Oswald (or Oseward) of Woodmancote, husbandman, Thomas Reed of Ardingly, Sussex, and Thomas Avington (or Euington) of Ardingly, Sussex, turner, were burnt. [1][2][3] Richard Woodman and Read more...
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Paul and “The Place of Hearing”

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Acts 25:23 “And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.”   Text of Marker: “For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse Read more...
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Pontius Pilate Replica Stone

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Discovered in 1961, this is the only contemporary record of Pilate outside of the Bible Inscription: “(Po)ntius Pilatus, the prefect of Judaea, (erected) a (building dedicated) to (the emperor) Tiberius”. Replica. The original inscription, found in secondary use during the excavations of the theater, is on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Pontius Pilatus was the Roman prefect who Read more...
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Circus of Nero

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Many early Christians were burned alive to illuminate Nero’s horse races. From Phillip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church: To divert from himself the general suspicion of incendiarism, and at the same time to furnish new entertainment for his diabolical cruelty, Nero wickedly cast the blame upon the hated Christians, who, meanwhile, especially since the public trial of Paul and Read more...
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Arch of Titus

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From Wikipedia: The south inner panel depicts the spoils taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. The golden candelabrum or Menorah is the main focus and is carved in deep relief.[23] Other sacred objects being carried in the triumphal procession are the Gold Trumpets, the fire pans for removing the ashes from the altar, and the Table of Showbread.[21] These spoils were likely originally colored Read more...
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Temple of Peace

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Many of the Jewish artifacts such as the Table of Shewbread and the Menorah were taken from the Temple to Rome, specifically here! From Wikipedia: The Temple of Peace (Latin: Templum Pacis), also known as the Forum of Vespasian (Latin: Forum Vespasiani), was built in Rome in 71 AD under Emperor Vespasian[1] in honour to Pax, the Roman goddess of peace. It housed artifacts such as the Table of Shewbread and the seven-branched menorah from Read more...
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Flight to Pella

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Pella is the namesake for such places as Pella, Iowa, founded by Dutch Reformed Christians. The story of Pella is found in church history. From Wikipedia: The fourth-century Church Father Eusebius of Caesarea and Epiphanius of Salamis cite a tradition that before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the early Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River. And when ye shall see Read more...
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Adoniram Judson Birthplace

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From Judson, the Pioneer: “HI, boys, there goes the Bell Rock alarm! Come on !” The boys of Maiden, Massachusetts, in the old Colonial days were always listening for the Bell Rock alarm. It was a church bell, but it wasn’t in a church tower. It was swung in a wooden frame on a rounding ledge of rock, where now Read more...
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Old Briery Church

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Samuel Davies was the pastor of Patrick Henry, and later President of Princeton University, before he died at age 37. Text: Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about Read more...
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Dissenter’s Glebe of Samuel Davies

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Samuel Davies was Patrick Henry’s pastor growing up. Marker: Just west was Polegreen Church’s 18th-century glebe, a farm and residence provided for the benefit of its pastor. Polegreen was a congregation of Presbyterians dissenting from Virginia’s established Church of England. The Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761), a leader of the Great Awakening in the South, was Polegreen’s first pastor (1748-1759). A Read more...
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Samson’s Tomb (Traditional)

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Tell Zor’a is the traditional site of Samson’s Tomb. Times of Israel did a story recently on the area Photo – Matson Photo Service Read more...
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Jerusalem Prayer Center

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Home to Bertha Spafford’s original Steinway piano. From the website: The house was built by an Arab family in 1890, one of the first homes built outside the Jerusalem old city walls near the Damascus Gate, during the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1905 it became part of the American Colony as the home of Bertha Spafford Vester, with her husband Read more...
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A. Vest & Sons Funeral Home

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“When the time had arrived to seek out some place to spend the night, Sheffey would seek a home where he could find those comforts which his heart and body craved. He enjoyed sleeping in a bed with a white counterpane over the covers. At the home of Aurelius Vest, where he spent his last days and where he was Read more...
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Colonel James White House

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Boyhood home of Rev. Robert Sheffey, “The Saint of the Wilderness”, legendary circuit-riding frontier preacher who gave up wealth and social position to spread the Word and Spirit of God. Built in 1820 by James and Elizabeth White. Partially burned in 1864 during the Civil War. Restored 1866. Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 23, 2022, HMDB.org Read more...
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Abingdon Tavern

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Can’t confirm this is THE tavern, but this tavern dates to 1779 and is the oldest surviving building in Abingdon. “In January of [1839] young Sheffey and a group of his drinking buddies, left an Abingdon tavern to go to a small revival meeting being held on an upper floor in Grenway’s Storehouse along Main Street, with the intention of Read more...
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Evangelist Lester L. Roloff

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Youngest son of Harry A. and Sadie Roloff born at Dawson, Texas on the old Blackland Farm where he spent his boyhood days, he learned the discipline of hard work and of frugal endeavor. Equipped with the word of God. The courage of the American frontier and the homespun philosophy of the common people, Brother Roloff embarked on the road Read more...
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Evangelist Billy Graham’s Crusade for Christ

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This plaque commemorates the 1963 Crusade for Christ with a total attendance of 920,927 highlighted by the concluding session on Sunday, September 8th. Citizens from every walk of life occupied every seat and spilled onto the playing field grass to establish a record turnstile attendance for a single event in the Coliseum of 134,254. An additional 20,000 people were estimated Read more...
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Dakota Missions on the Frontier

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In the 1830s and 1840s Christian Missionaries came into Indian Country, which included Bloomington, with the purpose of converting Dakota Indians to Christian beliefs and white person’s ways. This included farming, owning property, receiving a formal education and establishing a money-based economy. Missions established to serve the Dakota were located in proximity to rivers or lakes by permanent Native American Read more...

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