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Chicago West Building

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California, Placer County, Roseville
Between 1916 and 1924, a series of costly and destructive fires leveled many of the original wooden structures on Roseville's north side.

Built in the 1920's by J.H. Herring, this brick structure rose during a wave of rebuilding that followed those fires.

Acquired in 1998 by Feather River 75, exterior improvements were made in 2005.

The City of Roseville and Roseville Chamber of Commerce recognize the owners for their property improvements.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Railroad Hobbies Building

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California, Placer County, Roseville

1907 Site of one of Roseville's first auto garage

1910 Re-modeled to be the Doris Theater

1912-1913 Daytime use for Roseville High classes

1914-1922 Saugstad Brothers Automotive Garage

1932 Building destroyed by fire

1939-1960 Present building erected as a Purity Market

1962 Acquired by Smilanick Brothers from Purity Market

1970-1974 Isaac J. Joseph's Food Fair Market

1975-1993 Roseville Auto Parts Store

1995 Acquired by Railroad Hobbies from Smilanick Brothers

Special recognition to Michael Schroedle for 1995 renovation

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Johnson-Doran Building

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California, Napa County, Napa
"Sewing Machine Johnson" - built this carriage house with the expectation that his sewing machine, horse drawn buggy & bicycle business would soon be relocated and transformed into a luxury automobile showroom and repair shop. In 1914 James H. Johnson was awarded the Packard dealership, and in 1934 his widow Mary Johnson sold the property. In 2006 the building was seismically retrofitted, updated and restored by the Doran Family in honor of past glories and future generations. This historic building is dedicated to the people of Napa Valley and shall continue to serve as a gathering place for friends and commerce.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Randall County Courthouse

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Texas, Randall County, Canyon
Second for county created 1876, organized 1889. First, a frame house, was site first school in county. On its tin roof cowboys held dances. This building was erected in 1909, on eve of opening of West Texas State University.

Recorded Texas Historical Landmark – 1965

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Wagon Yard

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Texas, Randall County, Canyon
Ranchman's headquarters in town; slept in bedroll in his wagon or in room above the office. Cooked over campfire in yard.

Overnight charges: 10 ¢ a horse; 50 ¢ a man. Feed and coal were sold, water was free. Hands were hired, horses doctored here. Yard existed about 1890 to 1921.

(Agriculture • Animals) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Canyon Fire Department

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Texas, Randall County, Canyon
Prior to 1909, volunteers used buckets and homemade ladders to fight fires in Canyon and the surrounding area. The city addressed the need for fire protection by organizing a department and choosing 21 men for duty. The city also obtained a horse-drawn engine with two gasoline-driven pump motors from the Howe Engine Company. Soon, the apparatus was used in 1910 by fire fighters who stopped a blaze at the Victoria, Canyon's largest hotel. Although the hotel burned to the ground, First National Bank and other downtown buildings were saved. The new fire department serviced an immediate area of six hundred square miles, including grass-covered prairies, Palo Duro Canyon, the communities of Canyon, Happy and Umbarger, and nearby rural dwellings. It led to the establishment of Canyon's first system of water works, modernizing the community.

Through the years, the department has successfully made adjustments to meet challenges of the area's growth. The establishment of grain elevators, feed yards, and Buffalo Lake Wildlife Refuge, and the passage of trains carrying hazardous materials through Canyon required additional training and equipment. In 1962, the department formed an emergency unit and in 1971, introduced a snorkel unit to fight fires at tall institutional buildings, like those of West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University). In 1973, Canyon Annual Fire Control School opened, providing training to firefighters throughout the Texas Panhandle. Today, the Canyon Fire Department continues to offer personal protection for residents of this community and rural areas, as well as for thousands of visiting students, educators and tourists.

(Government) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Little House of Fellowship

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Texas, Randall County, Canyon
Canyon city Episcopalians began holding worship services in 1910. By 1928, plans were drawn for construction of a student center to meet the needs of a growing church congregation and student population at West Texas Normal College. Opened the next year adjacent to the church's chapel, The Little House of Fellowship became a social and religious center for students. After the congregation moved closer to campus in 1964, the side-gabled, running bond brick little house became available for commercial use. Its main facade features a potted chimney, a central door flanked by windows with stone springers on semicircular arches, and two other pairs of semicircular arched windows.

Recorded Texas Historical Landmark – 2010
Marker is property of the State of Texas


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Trail End

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
National Register of Historic Places
Wyoming Place No. 33

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General George Crook

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
Dedicated to the memory of
General George Crook
his gallant soldiers and
scouts who, in June, 1876,
camped in the valley of
the Goose Creeks on the
present site of Sheridan
while waiting for their
Crow and Shoshoni allies

(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Cabin in Sheridan

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
Site
of the first cabin
built in
Sheridan
1878 - 1914.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bozeman Trail

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
Marked by the
State of Wyoming
1914

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eagles

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis

The Eagles installed on the Convention Center Plaza are artifacts removed from the 1927 era Auditorium which was located on the nearby site now occupied by the new Minneapolis Convention Center. The old Auditorium was bounded by Grant Street on the north, and Third Avenue on the east. The Eagles were part of four inscriptions which were located high on each corner of the Auditorium. The four inscriptions read:

Participation in the rights of citizenship presumes participation in the duties of citizenship

Built for a community knit together by common needs and with a common devotion directing its common life

The highest expression of life is cooperative service for the common good

Every citizen owes his city constructive interest in his city's affairs

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features • Sports • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Woman's Club of Minneapolis

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis

Built 1927 By Leon Eugene Arnal

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Loring Park: The Devil's Backbone

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis

Surveys conducted in the early 19th Century identified several significant geological features of the area now known as the Loring Park neighborhood. One was "The Devil's Backbone," a long ridge located about one mile south of the Mississippi River at the Falls of St. Anthony. Later to be known as Lowry Hill, Native Americans had long followed migrating buffalo along a trail which cut across the ridge bending to the northeast around a spring fed pond. The trail would later become today's Hennepin Avenue, and the pond, the center piece of today's Loring Park.

Image and Text Source: In the Shadow of the City, A History of the Loring Park Neighborhood

(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Loring Park: Historic Districts and Buildings

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis

Loring Park has 14 historically designated buildings as well as the Harmon Place Historic Auto District. Some of the designated buildings include the Minneapolis Woman's Club, the Basilica of St. Mary, the Loring Theater, the Wesley Methodist Church, Swinford Apartments and the former site for the MacPhail Center for Music.

Harmon Place Auto District, which was dedicated in 2001, includes the area from Hennepin Avenue to 11th Street south along both sides of Harmon Place. The Leslie Fawkes building (1911) now known as Café Lurcat was the first automobile showroom in Minneapolis. Mr. Fawkes built and sold bicycles and used his skills to hand make one of the first cars in Minnesota. One mansion, the home of H. Alden Smith (1886), now called the Wells Family Center on the Community College Campus is the last of the grand mansions that lined Loring Park from the late 1800s until approximately 1910 when "Automobile Row" began to develop. After WWII, the suburbs began to be the place to sell cars. The area then began to attract notable historic figures such as Billy Graham and Curtis L. Carlson who both started their organizations on Harmon Place.

[Photo caption reads]
H. Alden Smith Residence (now called the Wells Family Center), 1403 Harmon Place, circa 1974

Image Source: Minnesota Historical Society. Photographer Charles W. Nelson. Photograph Collection 6/1974. Text Source: Minneapolis Historic Commission and Landscape Research.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Loring Park: Basilica and Churches

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis

Construction on the Basilica of Saint Mary, 88 North 17th Avenue, began in 1907. It is the country's first Basilica and acts as an anchoring landmark on the north side of Loring Park.

The church was planned by French architect Emmanuel Masqueray, who also designed the St. Paul Cathedral. This Beaux Arts classic is built of Minnesota granite with a 187 foot-high dome. The interior is filled with a splendid variety of church art, statues, frescoes and stained glass.

Other churches surrounding Loring Park which enliven the urban landscape are Cathedral Church of Saint Mark, 519 Oak Grove Street, and Hennepin Avenue Methodist Church, 525 Groveland Avenue.

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Basilica of St. Mary, Sixteenth and Hennepin Avenue, circa 1925
Hennepin Methodist Church, circa 1939

Image Sources: From the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Basilica of St. Mary, Sixteenth and Hennepin, Minneapolis, Photograph Collection 7/25/1925. Stained glass window in Hennepin Methodist Church, Minneapolis, Photographer: Norton & Peel, Photograph Collection 5/17/1939. Text Source: In the Shadow of the City, A History of the Loring Park Neighborhood.

(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Willow Creek Slide

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Idaho, Shoshone County, near Mullan
A spectacular avalanche, Feb. 10, 1903, swept away part of a trestle—300 feet high—that let Northern Pacific Railway trains descend from this pass since 1890.

An engine that plunged 80 feet was buried in 30 feet of snow; a passenger car dangled over open space; and a caboose with 8 people dropped into a deep snowbank. Miraculously, everyone aboard survived that terror-stricken trip. But a new, less hazardous route replaced that trestle route.

(Railroads & Streetcars • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Black Diamond Trail

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
Stretching north from Sheridan for about 15 miles, the Black Diamond Trail highlights Sheridan County mining districts that were integral to the settlement and development of the city and county of Sheridan. Although the peak of activity was the 1910s and early 1920s, commercial mining took place here from the 1890s through the 1990s, and mining communities existed here until 1977. However, even today the boom and bust cycle continues as planning for new mining in the area started once again in 2012.

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Pipe of Peace

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Wyoming, Sheridan County, Sheridan
The warfare and enmity which existed for generations between the
Cheyenne and Absaroka Nations
was solemnly terminated here on July 20 1932 when the chiefs of both Nations smoked the Pipe of Peace and took each others hands in friendship.
May this friendship endure forever.



(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Woodward Avenue Cultural Heritage Tour

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Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit
In the earliest days of Detroit, Campus Martius, which means "military ground," served as a drill ground for militia. When Judge Augustus Woodward created his street plan for Detroit in 1807, he began at Campus Martius.

Campus Martius became the "town square" of Detroit as development moved north from the river along Woodward Avenue. It became the place to quickly spread news and information to the citizens.

Campus Martius has been the site of numerouse public gatherings, ceremonies, rallies, and memorials. In 1861, the First Michigan Infantry Regiment departed for the Civil War in a public ceremony at Campus Martius. Over the centuries, two City Hall buildings have stood at Campus Martius, as well as dozens of public fountains and monuments, including the Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument.

In 2004, Campus Martius Park was dedicated, restoring Campus Martius' distinction as "Detroit's Gathering Place."

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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