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Amos T. Akerman

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Georgia, Bartow County, Cartersville
Lawyer, U.S. Attorney for District of Georgia, 1869-70; U.S. Attorney General, 1870-71. Born Portsmouth, N.H., February 23, 1821; died in Cartersville, Georgia, December 21, 1880; buried Oak Hill Cemetery. Served as Confederate soldier in Georgia State Guard, 1864. As U.S. Attorney General in cabinet of President Ulysses S. Grant, organized Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted first civil rights violation case. His residence and law office was on this property.

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

Old Bartow County Courthouse

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Georgia, Bartow County, Cartersville
Has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of the Home of General James Longstreet

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Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville
Lee’s “Old War Horse.”

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Minisa" Bridge

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Kansas, Sedgwick County, Wichita


"Red Water at Sunset"
from the tribal tongue
of the Zuni Indians

Honoring
Thurlow Lieurance
Composer of "Minisa"

(Arts, Letters, Music • Bridges & Viaducts • Education • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Corsicana City Jail of 1908

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Texas, Navarro County, Corsicana
The city's first brick jail, this structure was erected in 1908 adjacent to the city hall on a lot purchased from Rebecca A. Croft, widow of Judge William Croft. On the lower floor were cells and on the top floor the police chief's office, occupied by Will S. Knight, Corsicana's first police chief, 1906-36. His office was moved to the new city hall in 1924 and two more cells added. The facilities were heated by gas in the winter and at times were crowded with as many as 80 prisoners. This building housed the city jail until 1974.

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

Randolph House Hotel

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Illinois, McDonough County, Macomb
Built in 1857, William H. Randolph opened this magnificent hotel with an elegance unknown at the time.

Abraham Lincoln was a guest on two occasions, August 25th and October 25th, 1858. Both during his senatorial campaign, rivaling Stephen Douglas. After Lincoln's assassination the room he stayed in became a local shrine for the grieving community.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Randolph House

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Illinois, McDonough County, Macomb
This building was in earlier times the Randolph House. During the campaign of 1858 Abraham Lincoln was a guest here on at least two separate occasions, August 25 and October 25.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jacques de Maleville

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Domme
Jacques de Maleville Mis et Pair de France Grand Officier de l’Ordré Royal de la Légion d’Honneur Un des Rédacteurs du Project de Code Civil Il était né à Domme le 19 juin 1741 Il y est décédé le 29 novembre 1824

[English translation by Google Translate (with modifications):
Jacques Maleville
Minister and Peer of France Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor One of the Editors of the Civil Code Project He was born in Domme June 19, 1741 He died November 29, 1824]

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


Georges Grant MacCurdy

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère
A la gloire du Professeur American Georges Grant MacCurdy 1865-1947 fondateur de la chaire de prehistoire française de l’Universite de Harvard et de la mission scientifique us des Eyzies et du prehistorien Louis Didon 1865-1927 de Perigueux pour leurs sensationnelles decouvertes dans cette region

[English translation by Google Translate (with modifications):
In honor of Professor George Grant MacCurdy 1865-1947 American founder of the chair of French prehistory of Harvard University and the U.S. scientific mission to Eyzies and prehistorians Louis Didon 1865-1927 Perigueux for their sensational discoveries in this region]

(Anthropology • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Les Gravures et Peintures Prehistoirques de Rouffignac

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reil
furent scientifiquement découvertes le 29 juin 1956 par le professeur Louis-René Nougier, directeur de l’Institut d’Art Préhistorique de l’Université de Toulouse Romain Robert, Président – Fondateur de la Société Préhistoirque de l’Ariège avec la collaboration de Charles et Louis Plassard, Propriétaires de Cro de Granville L’Abbé Henri Breuil, Professseur Honoraire au College de France – Membre de l’Institue confirma le 11 juillet 1956 la hauté valeur scientifique de la Grotte Claude Barriere, Chif du Travaux a l’Institue d’Art Préhistorique de Toulouse, dirigea les Fouilles 1957-1962 avec les etudiants toulousains Max Sarradet étant Conservateur des Monuments Historiques

[English translation by Google Translate (with modifications):
Prehistoric Engravings and Paintings of Rouffignac were scientifically discovered June 29, 1956 by Professor Louis René Nougier, director of the Institute of Prehistoric Art at the University of Toulouse.

Robert Roman, President - Founder of the Society of Ariège Préhistoirque in collaboration with Charles and Louis Plassard, owners Cro Granville. L'Abbé Henri Breuil, Honorary professor the College de France - Member of the Institute, July 11, 1956, confirmed the high scientific value of the cave. Claude Barriere, Chief of work, Institute of Prehistoric Art of Toulouse, led the excavations 1957-1962 with Toulouse students. Max Sarradet was Curator of Historical Monuments

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

L’Émergence du Christianisme

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère
Déjà au Ve siècle, sur le site d’une villa gallo-romaine, une première église se reflète dans les eaux de la rivière. L’eau – mireir des bâtiments, réserve de pêche et voie de communication- est, à l’époque gallo-romaine, un élément décisif pour l’inplantation de la villa où, autour d’une cour,sont regroupées la maison d’habitation et les dépendances argricoles. Celle de Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère,, contruite vers le IIIe ou le IVe siècle, s’étend du bord de la rivière jusqu’à l’actuelle place de l’église. On en a retrouvé les vestiges, en 1961, ainsi que les foundations d’une premiere église, probablement édifiée vers le Ve siecle. Des murs avec des moillons couverts d’enduits à fresques, une colonne de marbre et des tessons de céramiques ont été dégagés. Les materiaux romains de l’église antique furent sans doute réemployes jusque’au XIe siècle. La nef, préromane, possède des bais à grand cintre qui dateraient de l’époque de Constantin, premier emperour romain à reconnaître le christianisme au IVe siècle. Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère témoigne de la longue histoire de la chrétienté en Périgord. Avec la Révolution, commence le déclin de la pratique religieuse. Faute d’entretien, l’édifice est déjà fort délabré quand on le classe monument histoirque en 1942. Une absidiole s’écroule en janvier 1960; en octobre de la même année, une inondation ébranle dangereusement la construction. Grâce a une intelligente restaurantion menée entre 1961 et 1966, cette église harmonieusement composée a retrouvé sa dignité.

[English]
The Emergence of Christianity
Water – a mirror for buildings, fishing preserve, and means of transportation – was, during the Gallo-Roman period, a decisive factor for chosing the spot to establish the villa where a house and agricultural outbuildings were grouped together around a courtyard.

Already in the 5th Century, on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa, the first church was reflected in the river’s water. The villa of Sanit-Léon-sur-Vézère, built around the 3rd or 4th centuries A.D., stretched out along the river bank as far as the present church square. In 1961, vestiges and the foundations of the first probably built around the 5th Century, were discovered. Wall with rubble stone covered by a coating for frescos, a marble column, and ceramic shards have been unearthed. The Roman building materials of the ancient church were undoubtedly reused until the 11th Century.

The nave, from the pre-Romanesque period, has openings with large arches that date from the time of Constantine, the first Roman emporer to have accepted Christianity in the 4th Century.

Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère attests to the long history of Christianity in the Périgord. The decline of religious practice began with the French Revolution. Due to lack of upkeep the edifice was already badly dilapidated when it was classified as a national Historic Mounument in 1942. An absidiole crumbled in January 1960; a flood dangerously weakened the structure in October of the same year. Thanks to intelligent renovation work done between 1961 and 1966, this well-balanced church building recovered its former dignity.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eglise Saint-Sacerdos

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Sarlat-la-Canéda
Edifiée sur les foundations de l’église romane de l’abbaye fondée au IXe siècle. Tour-clocher en grande partie romane. Orgue de Jean-François L’Epine (1752).

[English translation by Google Translate (with modifications):
Built on the foundations of the Romanesque church of the abbey founded in the ninth century. Bell tower largely Romanesque. Organ Jean-François L'Epine (1752).]

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Palais Épiscopal

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Sarlat-la-Canéda
Construit sur les vestiges du premier palais érigé au XVe siècle (façade nord), le palais du XVIIe siècle fut entièrement remanié en 1900 pour devenir un théâtre.

[English translation by Google Translate (with modifications):
Built on the ruins of the first palace built in the fifteenth century (north side), the palace of the seventeenth century was completely redesigned in 1900 to become a theater.]

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

Chateau Feodal de Beynac

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France, Aquitaine, Dordogne, Beynac-et-Cazenac
Forteresse du XIIe-XIIIe Siècles Baronne du Perigord La survie du patrimoine historique tient à deux facteurs: sa mise en valeur et sa restauration. Ce témoignage de notre civilisation et de notre histoire nous permet aussi de reconsitituer la passé au quotidien: c’est la tache la plus difficile à mettre en oeuvre. Elle s’avere pourtant indispensable si l’on veut que cet héritage culturel soit ressenti comme un élément de l’énvironnement naturel dans lequel nous vivons. Rien n’est plus désolant que d’ouvrir les portes d’une demeure où tout semble figé, où un étre humaine ne saurait s’épanouir. Dans ce lieux n’oublions pas que des hommes et des femmes ont vécu, avec leurs joies, leurs peines, leurs ambitions et leurs activitiés quotidiennes. Essayons de recréer cet aspect vivant du patrimoine, afin que l’imagination puisse percevoir, â travers lui, ce qu’à été l’existence de nos prédecesseurs. L’ouverture ne doit pourtant pas aller à l’encontre du respect que nous devons témoigner envers le passe. Telle est la mission delicate à laquelle tous ceux qui ont la charge d’un monument qu’il soit public ou privé, doivent porter toute leur attention. Que ceux qui ouvrent leurs demeures sachent les rendre accueillantes et vivantes afin que pour les visiteurs, elles ne soient pas étrangères mais qu’ils ressentent, à travers le filtre du temps passé la présence évocatrice de chacune de ces pierres. Au cours de XIIe, XIIIe, XIVe siècle la forteresse à été un temps Française puis Anglaise, et à nouveau Française en 1453.

[English translation by Google Translate with modifications:
Feudal castle of Beynac
Fortress of XII-XIII Centuries
Baroness du Perigord
The survival of heritage due to two factors: its development and enhancement and restoration. This testimony of our civilization and our history also allows us to reconstruct the past: it is a most difficult task to implement. Yet it proves essential if we want our cultural heritage seen as an element of the natural environment in which we live. Nothing is more disappointing than opening the door to a house where everything seems frozen, where a human can not be flourish. In this place we must not forget that men and women have lived with their joys, their sorrows, their ambitions and their daily operations:. Trying to recreate this aspect living heritage, so that our imagination can perceive, and through it, the existence of our forebears. The opening should not however go against the respect we show towards the past. That is delicate mission in which all those in charge of a monument whether public or private, should focus their attention. That those who open their homes to make them aware and alive so welcoming to visitors, they are not foreign but they feel, through the filter of time the evocative presence of each of these stones. During the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth century this fortress was at times French, then English, and French again in 1453.

(Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Van Gogh at the Ravoux Inn

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France, Île-de-France, Auvers-sur-Oise
Le peintre
Vincent van Gogh
vécut
dans cette maison
et y mourut
le 29 juillet 1890 Translation: The painter
Vincent van Gogh
lived
in this house
and died in it
the 29th of July, 1890


(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Army "Sailors," Navy "Soldiers"

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Maryland, Baltimore
The defenders who manned the heavy cannons in front of you represented a unique combination of soldiers and sailors. One unit, the U.S. Sea Fencibles, included civilian sailors. Wearing the clothing of their trade, they were issued muskets, drilled as soldiers and considered part of the U.S. Army.

The United States Chesapeake Flotilla served as part of the U.S. Navy. Most of these men were sailors and included free African-Americans. During the summer of 1814 they fought several engagements in the Chesapeake Bay and ultimately on land where they staged a rear-guard action in an unsuccessful defense of the nation's capital.

(War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Guns that Won the Battle

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Maryland, Baltmore
The gun deck in front of you is a partial representation of the forts 1814 Water Battery. Made up of 26 cannons in two tiers, the Water Battery comprised the fort's primary means of defense.

The Cannons that stood here fired shot weighing 18 and 36 pounds almost a mile and a half. Heated cannonballs known as "hot shot" proved especially devastating to wooden ships.

During most of the battle the British kept their distance to avoid the return fire of the fort.As a result, most of their bombs and rockets missed the target. By dawn's early light on September 14, the British withdrew, unwilling to come within range of the fort's guns.

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French 36 Pounder Naval Gun
Weight 10,000 pounds
Velocity 1,600 feet per second
Charge 12 pounds of black powder
Penetration of oak at 400 yards 42 inches
Crew 21
Maximum effective range 1.5 miles
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An artist's rendering of the upper and lower Water Batteries. The hot shot furnaces can be seen behind them.

(War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Capitol

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Virginia, Williamsburg
The historic site was the seat of Virginia's colonial government for 75 years. Here in May, 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act and on May 15, 1776, a Virginia Convention unanimously proposed that the Continental Congress "declare the United Colonies free and independent states." On June 12, 1776, a Virginia Convention approved George Mason's Declaration of Rights and on June 29 adopted the first constitution for the new Commonwealth of Virginia.

(Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wetherburn's Tavern

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Virginia, Williamsburg
This original eighteenth-century building, expanded to its present size after 1751, housed one of the best known taverns in Williamsburg. It bears the name of its builder and first owner, Henry Wetherburn, who previously operated the Raleigh Tavern across the street. A distinguished clientele was attracted by the good food, drink, and festive social life. An inventory of Wetherburn's fine furnishings guided their replacement. The tavern has been restored to its appearance of about 1760.

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Anderson's Armoury

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Virginia, Williamsburg
James Anderson, Blacksmith and Public Armourer, conducted his business on this site between 1770 and 1798. During the Revolutionary War, the Armoury employed as many as forty workmen -- blacksmiths, gunsmiths, tinsmiths, nailers, and gunstockers -- maintaining arms and equipment for Virginia and Continental forces.

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