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Arizona Sun Country Circuit AZ4
In 1972, Ruth Adams proposed a circuit of shows in Arizona for American Quarter Horses. Ruth's enthusiasm and the support of Rick Johns, eventual AQHA President, compelled others to rally around the idea. Over lunch at Mag's Ham Bun in Scottsdale, Rick Johns, John Hoyt, and Jim Paul Sr. named the circuit. Jim drew the logo on a paper napkin. In 1973, exhibitors from 24 states and Canada, competed in six shows plus a youth show, with 461 horses. With more than 3,000 entries, the classes were so large that two shows ran more than 25 hours. The shows alternated between Paradise Park at McCormick Ranch and Yale Siminoff's Stables, in North Scottsdale. The location of the circuit has rotated between Scottsdale, Phoenix and Tucson through the years The Sun Country Circuit founders were class sponsors for the inaugural American Junior Quarter Horse Association Convention and National Finals in 1972. The Arizona Quarter Horse Breeder's Association has continued the tradition of sponsorship primarily with Sun Country Circuit proceeds. Performances during the circuit's early years raised expectations for future competitors. In 1974, spectators gathered three deep at the rail as MAGNOLIA GAY and OPIE'S PRIDE competed in the aged mare class. The two mares vied for the World Championship title later that year. In 1976, fans witnessed a duel of flawless reining between CORONA CODY and EXPENSIVE HOBBY. In 1984, Superhorse REPRISE BAR stunned audiences with his versatility. The gelding was named halter Grand Champion, and took first place honors in calf roping, heading, heeling and working cow horse competitions.
Site of Union Pontoon Bridge 1E72
A pontoon bridge at the foot of Central Avenue enabled Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, U.S.A., to hold the heights on the south side of the river during the siege of Knoxville, November, 1863. They were called, from left to right, Sevierville Hill, Fort Stanley (end of Gay Street), and Forts Dickerson and Higley.
Battery Wiltsie 1E83
A large Federal earthwork was located back of Vine Avenue between Gay and Walnut Streets when Gen. James Longstreet besieged Knoxville, Nov. 17-Dec. 4, 1863. The Federal defense line ran along this ridge from Fort Hill, (Surrey Street and Saxton Avenue) 2400 yards east, to Fort Sanders, (17th Street and Laurel Avenue) 1400 yards west. Ten forts crowned these heights, five east and four west of this point.
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor TX6004
(1793-1873) R.E.B. Baylor, for whom Baylor University is named, was a prominent leader in diverse arenas of public service: military, judicial, political, educational, fraternal and religious. A Kentucky native, he served in the War of 1812 and the Creek Indian War, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Following successes in law and politics in Kentucky and Alabama, he moved to Texas in 1839 and taught school at La Grange, later settling at Gay Hill (7 mi.W), where he built his home, Holly Oak. Baylor was judge of the Third Judicial District and associate justice of the Republic of Texas Supreme Court, 1841-45. He continued as district judge during statehood, retiring in 1863. A Mason, he was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Texas. It was perhaps as a Baptist leader that Baylor received his greatest recognition. Converted to Christianity in 1839, he helped found the Texas Baptist Education Society in 1841. With W.M. Tryon and J.G. Thomas, he worked to start a Baptist university. Chartered in 1845 as Baylor University, it opened at Independence the following year and included a female department later chartered separately as Baylor Female College. Baylor served as a trustee for both institutions and taught law classes, accepting no pay for teaching. Judge R.E.B. Baylor died on Dec. 30, 1873, with burial here on the Windmill Hill campus. The university moved to Waco in 1886, and in 1917, reburial of his remains occurred at Baylor Female College (now Mary Hardin-Baylor University) in Belton. This marker commemorates the judge's productive years here, from which his influence spread worldwide and is still in evidence today.
Fort San Ferdinando 4E28
Hereabouts, in 1795, the Spanish built Fort San Ferdinando de Barrancas. It was here that Don Miguel Gayoso de Lamos, first governor, hoisted the flag of Spain for the first time, and took possession of the territory in the name of his sovereign.
Gays Mills Apple Orchards WI23
Farmers in this area learned early that the land on both sides of the Kickapoo River offered excellent conditions for apple growing. In 1905, John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or ten farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit at the State Fair. The exhibit won first prize, then went on to capture first honors in a national apple show in New York. This experience prompted the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society to urge a project of "trial orchards" around the state to interest growers in commercial production. The Society examined a site on High Ridge and planted five acres with five recommended varieties. By 1911, the orchard had grown so vigorously that an organization was formed in Gays Mills to promote the selling of orchards. Today more than a thousand acres here produce apples nationally known for their color and flavor.
Civil War Monument IL113
TO THE MEMBERS OF MAJ. SAM. HAYS POST 477 G.A.R. DEPT. OF ILL. AND OTHER COMRADES WHO FOUGHT TO KEEP OUR COUNTRY UNDIVIDED AND OUR FLAG MAINTAINED UNSULLIED
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