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  • “They ran off to Gretna Green to get married!”

    “They ran off to Gretna Green to get married!”

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    Impatient young (and not so young) lovers have known since 1754 that Gretna Green was the place to go for a quick wedding. All they had to do was outrun the irate parents to cross the small river bridge into Scotland. “Gretna Greens” in Aberdeen, Ohio and Elkton, Maryland followed in their footsteps.

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Ray Hahn
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United States Landmarks Quiz Two Welcome to the Postcard History United States Landmarks Quiz *   *   *   Part 2 of 5   *   *   * This is the second in a series of five quizzes. Each quiz will include ten challenges. There will be fifty challenges (questions). If you answer the 50 questions correctly, you will […]

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