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Noxubee County Confederate Monument

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Macon, Mississippi.

To our
Confederate
Dead.

Names listed on monument

Wm. Franklin Wm. Cason James Goodwin Ike Griffin Jasper Holmes Wm. Hurt B.T. Tatum Franklin Rogers A. Rickey Abe Ware J.O. Gavin Sam Connor Joe Robbins J. Luttrell S. Tyler ____ Grace D.W. Lagrone King Wiggans Wm. Stewart George Davis Thos. L. Elkin W.H. Hardin Judson Stewart B. Holmes M. Adams Henry Barton S.W. Head E. Crawford J. Stone J. Garner Wm Thomas W. Lagrone Jno Williams Alf Evans D. Vickers W. Ruff Joe Puckett C. Gary J. Tyler N. Fancher T. Stanton L. Gillespie Henry Holt Louis Stowers J.B. Rodgers David Crockett Wilkins Henry Martin Wilkins C.C. Freeman C.C. Freeman D.A. Featherston Alex Maneese Roland Thompson John Thompson Charles Turner Andrew Frazier Steven Frazier John Hutchison John Pierce Marion Christofer Nat Barnette C.E. Lindley A.S. Haynes H.E. Haynes Jno. A. Windham Jas. A. King R.G. Bryant Lieut. J.C. Connor Chesley Jarnagin Wm. E. Beasley Capt. C.K. Massey Richard Pierce Capt. T.J. Koger Sam Lay Willis Hunter Harris Mahorner Bernard Mahorner T.W. Freeman W.K. Wiggans H.P. Burton A.V. Barnhill T.A. Wilbanks W.J. Davis J.D. Feemster W.F. Hardy W.W. Massengale R.R. Pierce C.J. Stewart A.A. Greer J. Howell W.C. Nance J.R. Pendleton Jno. R. Beale Frank Childress Col. Jabez L. Drake Matthew Nelson H.O. Beasley Jerry Beasley Robt. Sanders F. Terrell E.W. Ferris George Lewis George Sutberry Lieut. Jas. Slaughter Max Chambers Dabney Gholson J.F. Brooks L.B. Windham W.F. Eiland Col. Norphleet Hunter Jas. R. Spann A.V. Connor Capt. Smith B. Coleman Wm. Nash Capt. C.W. Burrage J. Clarke J. Bateman J. Coluther J. Downing ____ Smith J. Thompson J.M. Guy T. Bateman N. McArthur E. Terrell D.J. Moore G.W. Rodgers Wm. Collidge J.A. Simmmons P. Coleman W.R. Bryant W.F. Herron Wm Lyle Joel Rives Mat Bell W.H. Simmons Thos. J. Chambers Lieut. Bates Joe Wiggans A.J. Farmer H.H. Cockrell Sgt. Asher Rogers F.A. Shands Geo. W. Hopkins Iley Fant Robt Welborn Jno Wiggans Capt. J.M. Macon J.E. Cullom T.J. Jones D.H. Pace R. Reed F.M. Burrage _____ Bonner H. Andre J.J.S. Smith J. Stewart F.L. Downing Wm. Stone L. Johnson T.J. Maxey W.R. Deering F.M. Christopher T. Coleman W.A. Davis C. Tole R. Luke J. Evans

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sumter County Confederate Monument

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Livingston, Alabama.

Our
Confederate
Heroes
For listing of names on monument - see below

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ocean Shore R.R. and Granada

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El Granada, California.
The whistle of the first Ocean Shore Railroad passenger train from San Francisco to Granada echoed of nearby hills 21 June 1908. On board were 500 San Franciscans, great, good-time-loving people, who were treated to free picnic lunches and sales pitches for building lots. The main Granada station was just a few hundred feet oceanward.
Granada, designed by Daniel H. Burnham, famed architect of the 1905 San Francisco plan, boasted curved streets lined with concrete sidewalks and new eucalyptus trees. When the last train whistle blew 16 August 1920 only a few homes had been built here on Burnham's magnificent boulevards.
The Ocean Shore R.R. never made it non-stop to Santa Cruz, its intended destination. The tracks stopped at Tunitas Creek, south of Half Moon Bay. Passengers road Stanley Steamers to Swanton and then another Ocean Shore train to Santa Cruz.
Ocean Shore's motto was "Reaches the Beaches," but the railroad was continually plagued by landslides along its ocean-bluffs route. It finally succumbed to the automobile. During the 12 years that it operated the Ocean Shore R.R. created a definite mark along the rugged San Mateo County Coast.

(Settlements & Settlers • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montgomery County Confederate Monument

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Winona, Mississippi.

To the
Confederacy
President
Jefferson Davis
And
the Soldiers
who fought
for States Rights

CSA

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hole N” The Rock, Utah

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Monticello, Utah.
This location has been a travelers’ resting place for two centuries. Beginning in 1829, horse teams on the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe and California stopped here for the abundant spring water and shade. After the settlement of Mormon Pioneers, stage coaches traveling between Moab and Monticello stayed here overnight. Early in the 20th century, the Christensen family of Monticello homesteaded 80 acres here. They blasted out a small cave in the rock where cowboys camped as they drove their stock toward the Colorado River. In 1945, brothers Leo and Albert Christensen expanded the cave and opened “American’s most unique dining room.” The Hole N” The Rock Diner was a watering hole for uranium miners and car tourists until 1955. The Christensens continued to excavate the cave until it reached its current size of 5000 square feet. Take a ten-minute guided tour of this unique and spectacular 14-room home as millions have done since 1957.

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

San Andrés was an extensive prehispanic settlement

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, El Salvador.

De acuerdo a las investigaciones, durante esa época San Andrés estaba formado por un centro monumental y una extensa zona residencial alrededor.
El primero estaba constituido por dos sectores: La Gran Acrópolis y un espacio amplio llamado la “Gran Plaza”.
El área residencial de San Andrés ha sido poco explorada, pero se considera que el sistema constructivo de las viviendas era muy similar al empleado en Joya de Cerén: paredes de bahareque sobre una base de plataforma.

Pie de dibujo: Esquema que muestra la extensión del asentamiento prehispánico, durante esa época, el área actual del parque abarcaba la zona monumental.

English:
According to research, during this time San Andrés was formed by a monumental center and an extensive habitation area.
The first was composed by two sectors: The Acropolis and a space called the “Great Plaza”.
The residential area at San Andrés has been barely explored, but it is considered that the constructive system of the houses was very similar to the one used at Joya de Ceren: bahareque walls on a platform base.

Caption:
Plan that shows the extension of the pre-Hispanic setttlement. The current area of the park includes the monumental zone.

(Man-Made Features • Anthropology) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Railroad Company Sees Potential For A Town Among The Slash Pines

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Ashland, Virginia.
Railroad transportation was still new in 1836 when the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac (RF&P) Railroad Company completed a single track from Richmond to a sawmill 20 miles north in rural Hanover County. At the same time, the RF&P purchased a 482-acre tract beside the newly-laid tracks near the sawmill to use as a source of wood and fuel for their trains.

On Saturday, February 13, 1836, Captain Blair Bolling was among the guests who took the inaugural train trip to Hanover and recorded this account. [The group of dignitaries] “embarked on board the cars propelled by a Locomotive Engine about eleven oclock A.M. and proceeded in fine style amidst the shouts and applause of an admiring and (in part) an amazed multitude. We arrived about one oclock at our place of destiny within three quarters of a mile of the South Anna River where we found a light but neat building, one of the appendages of the railroad and transferrable long it, upon a car, in which was a table spread, and loaded with the finest wines and liquors, …”
(From Captain Blair Bolling, diary entry for 13 February 1836, quoted in One Hundred and Fifty Years of History: Along the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad by William E. Griffin Jr.)

The new rail service brought high-speed transportation to the area. Now the trip from Richmond to Ashland was a quick two hours. By 1842 the RF&P completed the line through Fredericksburg to Aquia Creek. Eventually the railroad line ran 113 miles between Richmond and Quantico.

The RF&P Railroad Establishes a Resort beside Its Tracks North of Richmond

When Edwin Robinson became president of the company in 1846, he thought the Hanover tract of land would be good for a resort community. It was mostly a slash (swampy area with slash pine trees) but it was the right distance from Richmond for a day trip and country picnics popular at the time, and it could serve as a convenient rest stop for rail passengers. Robinson's resort, Slash Cottage, grew to including cottages for guests, a hotel, a ballroom, a bowling alley and a gas house for lighting.

In 1854, the RP&P began dividing a portion of the land into residential lots. They enticed Richmonders to build permanent or vacation homes in the Village of Slash Cottage by offering the head of household a free or discounted train ticket on the Ashland Accommodation Train which ran between Ashland and Richmond several times a day.

Slash Cottage changed its name to Ashland in 1855 to honor native son Henry Clay, who had built an estate in Kentucky that he had named Ashland. In 1858, the Commonwealth of Virginia incorporated the town. The same year the resort incorporated as the Ashland Hotel and Mineral Well Company.

Reliable Railroad Transportation Spurs College Move to Ashland

After the Civil War, Randolph-Macon College in Boydton, Virginia, decided it needed to be closer to rail transportation to survive. It considered the Ashland Racecourse property for sale at the time but purchased the 13-acre Ashland Hotel and Mineral Well Company that was also for sale. The buildings already there could be used as lecture rooms and a dormitory. In October 1868, the college held its first classes on the new campus in Ashland.

From the 1850s to 1923, the train stations and freight depots were located across the street where the Randolph-Macon Coleg parking lot is now. The railroad “wye” was behind the station and depot. A y-shaped track configuration, it allowed the Ashland Accommodation Train to turn around and head back to Richmond. During the Civil War, the station was burned and rebuilt several times.

The RF&P built the existing train station on the west side of the tracks in 1923. W. Duncan Lee, a prominent Richmond architect, designed the Dutch Colonial style building. Local builder Aubrey Hunt constructed the station. Its divided floor plan, a historical reminder of the segregated South, had separate ticket windows and waiting areas for whites and blacks. The station was closed in 1967. The RFSP donated the station to the Town in 1985 for use as a visitor's center.

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Taken after the RF&P laid a parallel track through Ashland in 1903, this photo looks south toward the England Street intersection. The last train station built on the east side of the tracks is pictured at the far left. The track at the far left was part of the Accommodation Train wye track. Also on the left is one of the water towers constructed at regular intervals along the track to fill the trains' boilers. The tall poles on the right are the telegraph poles used to transmit signals from station to station. The short poles are kerosene streetlamps.

“We passed the village of Ashland, ‘the birthplace of Henry Clay,’… It presented the most singular collection of fairy lodging-houses any one can imagine. … There was a small fanciful hotel, built of wood, gaily painted, and decorated with abundance of Brussels lace borders of carved work, with little gables, little pinnacles, little colonnades, and little columns to match. … On the opposite side of the road was a long shed … Around a sort of green or common, dotted with ‘shade trees’ and seats, and everywhere else you looked, were scattered the strangest assemblage of little dolls’ houses and summer dwellings. … all open and airy and al intended for the out-of-doors life … .”
From Life in the South; From the Commencement of the War, by Catherine Cooper Hopley, Volume l, 1863, pp. 235-236.

William Clopton's 1854 survey for Slash Cottage (right) shows the RF&P plan for a residential community. Richmonders took advantage of the opportunity to move to the country including RF&P President Edwin Robinson, who owned a home at the south end of town. RF&P Treasurer C.W. Macmurdo built a home at 713 S. Railroad Ave. on the 10-acre lot #4.

Through deed restrictions, the RF&P required purchasers to build a substantial home within 18 months. By forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors, it was able to control the lucrative bar trade developing in town.

Unknown to RF&P directors, Robinson built the Ashland Racecourse southwest of town using company funds. Though not prosecuted when his embezzling was discovered, Robinson resigned, declared bankruptcy and left Virginia. He would form a new railroad company in South America.

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AshlandMuseum.org/tour
More information about Ashland's history and places of historical significance included on the Ashland Museum Inside Out tour is available on the Ashland Museum website.
Ashland Museum Inside Out is funded in part by a grant from CultureWorks championed by Altria.

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

Town Of Ashland Historic District

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Ashland, Virginia.
The Town of Ashland has two historic districts: the Randolph-Macon College Historic Campus that was made a district in 1979 and the larger Ashland Historic District established in 1983.

The Randolph-Macon College Historic Campus encompasses three original brick buildings of the campus built in the 1870s just after the College moved to Ashland from Boydton, Virginia. The styles include Italianate and Gothic Revival.

The periods covered in the larger Ashland Historical District start in antebellum period through the post-World War II building boom. Dates include the 1850s through the 1920s. Types of buildings include higher education, dwellings, commercial buildings, churches, and local government buildings. Styles include Antebellum Vernacular and Greek Revival (1850s-1860s), post-Civil War Italianate (1870s), Second Empire (1870s), Eastlake or Stick Style (1880s-1890s), Queen Anne (1880s-1890s), Colonial Revival or Georgian Revival (1900- 1920s), Craftsman (1900-1920s), and Neo-Classical (1900-1920s). The College buildings included here, but not in the 1979 College historic nomination, are Georgian Revival.

The historic district is highlighted on the map. Not all buildings in the historical district are considered historical or "contributing structures." A contributing structure is one that was built within time period, 1850s through the early 1930s, and has not been altered significantly since the 1930s. Most of the structures within the contiguous boundary of the district had to be at least 50 years old when the district was established.

The Hanover Arts and Activities Center

Prior to the Civil War, all the white Protestant congregations shared a small church built cooperatively in 1853 that they called Union Church or Ashland Free Church. Located at 212 England Street, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Episcopalians shared the space.

The Baptist congregation was the first to build its own church (above) at 500 S. Railroad Avenue, (now Center Street) in 1859. Constructed in a Greek Revival style with "board and batten" siding and an impressive cupola, this was the only church built before the Civil War, and it served as a hospital for wounded soldiers. After the war, the cupola was sold to pay a pastor's salary. Around the turn of the 19th century, the congregation added two side wings and the full front porch with columns giving it a Colonial Revival look. In 1957, a two-story Sunday school addition was added at the back. By 1967, the congregation had outgrown the building and sold the historic building to the non-profit Hanover Arts and Activities Center.

Early Ashland Homes

You will find examples of a variety architectural styles as you explore the historic district. Many of the houses tell stories about life in Ashland.

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805 S. Center St. - Longtime conductor of the Ashland Accommodation Train, Charles Blakey built this home about 1890. The Eastlake or Folk Victorian style house, pictured here in the 1920s, has Queen Anne style touches like the porch with turned posts and spindlework detailing.

713 S. Center St. - RF&P Treasurer C.W. Macmurdo built this Greek Revival home on 10 acres in 1858 (seen in this photograph taken about 1900). It was lot #4 on the original RF&P layout for the town. Macmurdo and his wife raised their 10 children here and frequently hosted soldiers during the Civil War. Although the lot is smaller, the house looks much the same today as it did when built including the entry porch with prominent columns.

904 S. Center St. - This Queen Anne style home was built in 1886 and purchased in 1887 for a widower and his two daughters by his mother-in-law. Proposed plans for remodeling in the 1940s would have stripped the Queen Anne detailing to reflect the more popular style at the time, Colonial Revival.

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AshlandMuseum.org/tour
More information about Ashland's history and places of historical significance included on the Ashland Museum Inside Out tour is available on the Ashland Museum website.
Ashland Museum Inside Out is funded in part by a grant from CultureWorks championed by Altria.

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

Downtown Business Growth Fuels Ashland Expansion

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Ashland, Virginia.
Ashland's business district developed after the Civil War around the intersection of England and Thompson streets and Railroad Avenue. The train station was on the east side of the tracks north of England Street, with a passenger shed on the west side along with the stationmaster's home. Along Railroad Avenue south of England and Thompson streets was the greatest concentration of general stores and shops.

There are few official records of businesses before 1891. From the few business licenses, City Directories and news reports, we know by the late 1880s and early 1890s there were seven doctors and druggists, no less than 21 general stores/grocery stores and barrooms, two blacksmiths, two lawyers, two livery stables, a photographer, two undertakers, an ice company, five hauling companies, a florist, an insurance agent, a jewelry store, a wheel wright, a bakery, a stationary-tobacco store and several real estate agents. At least one hotel and several boarding houses catered to Randolph-Macon students and professors. Ashland was booming!

Fire! Fire! ... Businesses on the West Side of the Tracks Go Up in Flames

Early in the morning of July 26, 1893, a major fire destroyed or heavily damaged most of the businesses on the west side of the tracks. For all the damage the fire did, it did not spread to the residential section of town nor did it spread to the east side of the tracks. The fire changed the makeup of the business community and the physical appearance of downtown.

Owners who started over after the fire built new structures that were more fire resistant, built of brick with metal shutters at the windows. The country was going into a depression in 1893 and many Ashland merchants weren't able to begin again. Insurance covered about $7,000 worth of losses, but another $40,000 in losses wasn't covered. The block began to solidify between 1894 and 1913, and it looks much same today.

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The 1893 fire started in a stable behind Mrs. Sinclair's new millinery and jewelry shop, but she did not return. Where her store had been, J.G. Hughes built a two-story building for his drug store. He had opened his store in 1889 on England Street, and in 1901, he moved into his new building at 106 S. Railroad Ave. Look up at the roofline and you can still see his name carved in a cement plague. Then Hughes built a second two-story brick building beside his drug store. The post office moved from N. Railroad Avenue beside Barnes Drug Store into the new building Hughes built at 104 S. Railroad Ave.

Brothers Herbert J. and Walter N. Cross opened their grocery store at 107 S. Railroad Ave. on May 12, 1912. The original frame structure was replaced with the brick building pictured above, and since then Cross Brothers Grocery has been enlarged four times.

At the northeast corner of Robinson Street and Railroad Avenue, French immigrant Louis Delarue operated a combination saloon and grocery store in a building that he had purchased from Charles Stebbins in 1869. He expanded in the 1880s after buying the property north of his store. This block on the east side of the tracks wasn't damaged by the 1893 fire, but Delarue's store is the only building (above) on the block built before 1900 that is still standing today.

The photo above shows most of the 100 block of S. Railroad Avenue, on the west side of the tracks, after the 1893 fire. The first brick building on the left is Nat Lancaster's meat market and grocery. It was the southern-most building burned and he rebuilt. This building and the four houses south of it have been torn down. Notice the street is still a dirt road.

The next building north belonged to D.B. Cox. He had started a general store beside his home on the east side of the tracks in 1867 and expanded to a second store here on the west side at 108 S. Railroad Ave. in 1869. After the 1893 fire, he rebuilt his store and was open for business again in this location by 1899. Then with his nephew, James M. Cox, he purchased two adjoining lots on the north end of the block at Thompson Street. On this corner at 100 S. Railroad Ave, Cox built Ashland's first department store in 1913 (pictured in the small photo).

Hughes Drug and the post office are pictured in the middle of the block. The yellow building is Meyberg's general store, known for its penny candy. After clerking in several stores, L.E.W Meyberg opened his store in 1894 in this newly-constructed building at 102 S. Railroad Ave.

Businesses expanded beyond Railroad Avenue. Clinton Winston, a former slave, established his blacksmith shop on Hanover Avenue. Customers entered the blacksmith shop through the double doorway in the middle. On the second floor was an undertaker and Alice Trotter's beauty salon.

In the same area near Winston's blacksmith shop, James N. Luck and his brother, S. Apollos Luck Jr., established The S.A.&J.N. Luck Livery, Board & Feed Stable in 1906. As cars became prevalent, he started the J.N. Luck Motor Company, a Chevrolet dealership, in 1916 on England Street across from the Ashland Theatre.

Charles Stebbins Jr. established his general store (above left) in 1883 on the northwest corner of Thompson Street and Railroad Avenue. Beside the building was a tie lot where farmers tied their horses and wagons while they shopped in downtown. Even today, it's known as Stebbins Corner.

Next to Stebbins at 102 N Railroad Ave., pharmacist C.A. Barnes established his drug store in 1899. The original post office can be seen beside Barnes' building before it moved into a new building on S Railroad Avenue.

In 1903, The Hanover Bank opened its first office (far right) north of the old post office. In 1913, the bank built a new Beaux Arts style building at 104 N. Railroad Ave.

Of the group of buildings pictured here, only the Barnes Drug Store building remains.

(sidebar)
AshlandMuseum.org/tour
More information about Ashland's history and places of historical significance included on the Ashland Museum Inside Out tour is available on the Ashland Museum website.
Ashland Museum Inside Out is funded in part by a grant from CultureWorks championed by Altria.

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

Indigo Production at San Andrés

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, El Salvador.

En San Andrés funcionó una hacienda añilera durante la época colonial
De acuerdo a algunas fuentes, en las haciendas añileras de la época colonial se conjugaba la producción de añil, el cultivo de granos básicos y la ganadería.
La primera actividad orientada a la exportación y las otras dos al consumo propio y comercio local, la hacienda que funcionó en los terrenos que ahora ocupa San Andrés no fue la excepción.
Durante la erupción del Playón en noviembre de 1658, Opico y sus alrededores quedaron cubiertos por una numbe de arena y el obraje fue soterrado hasta su descubrimiento en 1995.

Pie de dibujo:Recreación del traslado de añil a nivel local.

English:
An indigo producing hacienda functioned during Colonial times at San Andrés
During Colonial times, indigo haciendas also included the production of basic grains and cattle.
The first was oriented for exportation and the others for local consumption and local commerce, the hacienda that existed in the property where today is San Andres was not the exception.
During the eruption of Playon volcano in November 1658, Opico and its surroundings were covered by a cloud of sand and the indigo factory was covered until its discovery in 1995.

Caption: Recreation of indigo transportation at a local level.

(Man-Made Features • Anthropology) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Kings Highway ~ Road to Yorktown

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near Triangle, Virginia.
In the late 18th century, armies made the most use of the King’s Highway. Merchants preferred to move goods such as tobacco over the Potomac River since land travel was difficult. The road became a main transportation route after the Revolutionary War.

In 1781, Generals George Washington and Jean-Baptiste de Rochambeau traveled with cavalry and baggage wagons along the King’s Highway to Yorktown, Virginia. They rested and gathered supplies at Mount Vernon, then rode south on September 12, 1781. Rochambeau’s Quartermaster General wrote that after passing the Marumsco Creek “…you proceed through the woods, passing Blackburn House [Rippon Lodge] on the left.” The Generals mapped their route. One month after they traversed Prince William County, they defeated British forces at Yorktown and won America’s independence.

Improvements Needed!
General George Washington ordered Colonel Harry Lee to improve the King’s Highway in preparation for troop movement to Yorktown. In a letter dated September 17, 1781, Lee described work undertaken to accommodate the baggage train’s passage through Prince William County. He wrote that 285 militia were

…on severe duty in repairing the roads which were impassable for the Baggage Wagons, Artillery, and mounted escorts…and in a few days I am in hopes will be completely accomplished which will open a direct way from Georgetown to Dumfries and shorten the distance many miles, besides being a much better road, and well supplied with forage, being a fine fertile Country well improved with Meadows.

(War, US Revolutionary • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Wanapums

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Royal City, Washington.
Until recent times the Wanapum Indians inhabited the banks of the Columbia River from Beverly Gap to where it is joined by the Snake River near Pasco about 75 miles south. The Wanapums were a very religious and peaceful people living on fish, venison, berries, and roots. They were expert fishermen, using nets, spears and woven willow traps. The Wanapums Indians had never fought the whites and as a result they signed no treaties and thus received no special territorial rights. Although numbering in the thousands at one time, the Wanapums are now virtually extinct.

(Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Legend of Dead Horse Point

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Moab, Utah.
You are standing at “the neck,” about to cross out onto the high promontory called “Dead Horse Point.” Before you do though, take a few moments to ponder the horses. What happened here? How did such a beautiful place get such a grim name? As you look down at the precipitous cliffs surrounding you, you might have some idea of the fate that befell the horses. Your idea might not be too far off… Around the turn of the last century, wild mustangs roamed the mesatop around Dead Horse Point. Cowboys were always looking for ways to catch these sturdy, fleet-footed equines. One of the best ways they found to capture the clever beasts was to herd them into a trap such as a box canyon. Dead Horse Point was a custom-made horse trap, like a box canyon only in reverse. With sheer cliffs straight down on all sides and only a narrow strip of land for access, it made a perfect place to keep horses. All the cowboys had to do was herd the horses across the neck and out onto the “point.” They would then build a fence of pinyon and juniper branches across the neck and they had a natural corral! Here the cowboys could sort through the horses, choose the ones they wanted, and let the culls or “boomtails” go free. Legend tells that one time a band of broomtails was accidentally left corralled on the waterless point. There the horses died of thirst within a view of the Colorado River. The 2,000 feet to the river must have seemed like 2,000 miles.

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

Edward D. White House

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Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Edward D. White House
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
This site possesses a National significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America

1978
Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
United States Department of the Interior

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

Lieutenant Hooper Road

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Alexandria, New Jersey.
Was named for 2nd Lt. Josiah (Joe) Hooper. As chief pilot of a B-24, he flew many WWII bombing missions from Italy over the oil centers of Southeastern Europe. He and his crew were lost over Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1945 when shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oregon’s Rocky Shores

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Otter Rock, Oregon.
Below you is the spectacular Devil’s Punch Bowl which was formed when the roof over two sea caves collapsed. You can watch the ocean waves crash through openings in the sandstone, continually sculpting this unusual formation.

At high tide, the waves churn through the openings below the water’s surface, filling the cavern and creating the formation appropriately named Devil’s Punch Bowl.

Enjoy these activities here: Tidepool Viewing, Marine Mammal Viewing, Bird Watching, Whale Watching, Shore Angling, Picnicking.

Devil’s Punch Bowl / Otter Rock. This site is part of a Marine Garden. To your right is the southern tip of a Marine Garden that extends one mile north to the Otter Crest State Scenic Viewpoint. This large area offers many opportunities to enjoy and learn about marine ecosystems.

Because this area is designated as a Marine-Garden, no collecting of clams, mussels, or any other marine invertebrates is allowed, except the fishermen, who may collect single mussels for bait.

Please enjoy the tidepool creatures where they live and be careful where you step. To learn more about his productive and fascinating marine ecosystem, please read the signs to your right overlooking this rich habitat.

(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Roy Bower and Jack Chambers Memorial

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Depoe Bay, Oregon.
In Memoriam. From this harbor — in storm — departed Roy Bower and Jack Chambers fisherman of the Trolling Fleet October 4, A.D. 1936 on a mission of rescue.

(Waterways & Vessels • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Vancouver Farm

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Vancouver, Washington.
Fort Vancouver was the first large scale farming operation n the Pacific Northwest. Beginning in 1825, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a number of farms and dairies in the area to reduce the high cost of importing food from England.

Agriculture at the fort extended for thirty miles along the Columbia River and ten miles inland. The farms included over 1,400 acres of cultivated fields, thousands of acres of pastures, seven to nine acres of formal gardens, and a five-acre orchard. Numerous barns, stables and sheds sheltered a wide variety of livestock including cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, goats, and poultry.

The products from the farms and dairies provided food for Fort Vancouver employees, a number of other Hudson’s Bay Company forts in the region and the crews of supply ships. The bountiful surpluses from these operations also allowed the company to feed thousands of starving Oregon Trail immigrants and sell goods to the Russian American Fur Company in Alaska.

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

Inn of William Bettys

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Ballston, New York.
This Building
Was A Public Inn
During the Revolution.
William Bettys, Proprietor


(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McDonalds Site

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Ballston, New York.
At Shore of Ballston Lake
½ Mile From This Spot
Brothers Michael And
Nicholas McDonald Built
Log Cabin in 1763.

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