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Plaza A of Iximche

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, Guatemala.
The marker is trilingual: Kaqchikel, Spanish and English Kaqchikel: Re jun wi nim rulewal akuchi’ yek’ul k’iy winaqi’ Wawe’. Jalajoj wi taq samaj xeb’an, achi’el ri’ kinimaq’ij ri molaj taq ch’ob (politica), nimab’al k’u’k . . .

(Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sotz'il Palace

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, Guatemala.
The marker is trilingual: Kaqchikel, Spanish and English Kaqchikel: Popab’äl 1, ja reri nim jay k’o Iximche’. Nib’ix chi ja re ri nimalaj wi kochoch ri qati’t qamama’ Sotz’il, ja rije’ yalan kejqualem chupam ri tinamit. Ruma . . .

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

Temple 5 at Iximche

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, Guatemala.
The marker is trilingual: Kaqchikel, Spanish and English Kaqchikel: Junam rik'in ri K'oxtun 3, rik'in jub'a' re jun k'oxtun re' xk'atzin richin xemayoxin rik'in ri ajaw Tojil. Español Al igual que el Templo 3, este templo . . .

(Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Xajil Palace

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, Guatemala.
The marker is trilingual: Kaqchikel, Spanish and English Kaqchikel: Popab’äl jay, nib’ix chi ja re rochoch ri Xajil, kik’in ri Sotz’il junam xesamaj chupam ruchanpomal ri tinamit. Niqajunamaj rik’in ri Popab’al jay kichin ri . . .

(Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Natural Landmark Shelving Rock

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near Robert Lee, Texas.
Archeological findings at an overhanging rock ledge on Walnut Creek show that the spot, midway between the Colorado and North Concho Rivers, was for hundreds of years campsite or village of nomadic Indians who sought the . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Divide Cemetery

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near Robert Lee, Texas.
In 1896 the Smith and Chapman families donated 4 acres here for a cemetery and church lot. A sanctuary for all faiths was built on the site the same year to serve the scattered ranches along the divide between the watersheds . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Welcome to Williamsport

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Williamsport, Maryland.
Early History Williamsport was along the heavily traveled "Indian Trail" and occupied by the Iroquois, Delaware, Catawba, Algonquin and Massawomenkes tribes. The settlement was known as Conococheague, an Indian name meaning . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The C&O Canal in Williamsport

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Williamsport, Maryland.
Though the C&O Canal construction started in 1828, it did not reach Williamsport until 1833. During that year of construction a Cholera epidemic broke out that took the lives of 33 people. The following year the Canal and . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baker Cemetery

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Kemp, Texas.
John Baker, his wife Eliza, and their family migrated to Texas from Illinois in 1835, settling on land granted to him. Baker Cemetery began as a family burial site with the death of their infant son William in 1848. . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nelson Wheeler Whipple House

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Salt Lake City, Utah.
This substantial two-story house was built in 1854 by Nelson Wheeler Whipple at a cost of approximately $2,000. Whipple was a Mormon immigrant from New York who arrived in Salt Lake City in 1850. During his long career in . . .

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Kemp

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Kemp, Texas.
This community can trace its origins to 1851, when the U.S. Postal Service approved a station named Kemp with Levi Noble as first postmaster. In the years prior to the Civil War, Kemp was primarily an agricultural community, . . .

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

Y.A. Title

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Louisiana State University, 1944-47 Baltimore Colts, 1948-50 San Francisco 49ers, 1951-60 New York Giants, 1961-64 A native of Marshall, Texas, Yelberton Abraham Title played four seasons at LSU including an MVP performance . . .

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Steve Van Buren

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Louisiana State University, 1941-43 Philadelphia Eagles, 1944-51 A native of Honduras, Steve Van Buren was orphaned when he was young and sent to New Orleans. He earned a scholarship at LSU where he played three seasons and . . .

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Jim Taylor

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Louisiana State University, 1956-57 Green Bay Packers, 1958-66 New Orleans Saints, 1967 After starring at Baton Rouge High School and earning All-American honors at LSU, Jim Taylor became one of the greatest players in Green . . .

(Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bear Creek Community

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Irving, Texas.
Settlers began arriving in this area, once a part of Robertson’s Colony, in the 1850s. Early families included the Casters, Borahs, Sowers and Haleys. Following the Civil War, freedmen moved to the area, and friends and . . .

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

Pyle Prairie Cemetery

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Kemp, Texas.
John Pyle, a veteran of the Republic of Texas Army, arrived in this area with his family in the 1850s. According to family tradition, this cemetery was begun in 1854 with the death of Pyle's son-in-law J.P. McFarland. The . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

M.N Baldwin Co.

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Lander, Wyoming.
Major Noyes Baldwin and his wife, Josephine Wright Baldwin, were some of the earliest settlers in the Lander Valley. Before establishing the dry good store in Lander, he had a trading post near Hudson, Wyoming, a log trading . . .

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

Noble Lane Building

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Lander, Wyoming.
This building was the second home to the Noble and Lane Mercantile Business. The face of the mercantile building has changed. It was originally built by Worden P. Noble and Albert D. Lane in 1891. The stone building next . . .

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

Noble Hotel

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Lander, Wyoming.
The Noble Hotel has been a landmark in downtown Lander since it was built in 1918. The grand hotel was built to serve visitors from the East on their way to Yellowstone. Harold Del Monte bought the hotel in 1929 and set out . . .

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

Lone Oak Cemetery

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Kemp, Texas.
In 1858 passing strangers lost a son by sudden death. Befriending them, Weaver A. Cotton (1822-96) provided gravesite at a tree near log school-church building. Later he gave community burial ground; deed was recorded 1883. . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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