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Manchester NH General Pulaski Monument

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Manchester, New Hampshire.
Main inscription Brigadier General Kasimir Pulaski Born 1748 Died 1779 Marshall General of Poland Front Charleston • Savannah • Germantown Side Script Father of American Cavalry • Chief of Dragoons • Continental Army • . . .

(War, US Revolutionary • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montebello

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Originally the estate of Major General Samuel Smith (1752-1839). In 1881 Lake Montebello began service as a drinking water supply for Baltimore when connected by tunnel with Loch Raven reservoir. Montebello water filtration . . .

(Science & Medicine • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Citizens Banking and Trust Company Building No. 2 1910

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Ashland, Oregon.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service and is subject to the provisions of the Oregon Special Assessment Program ORS . . .

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

Sons of Hermann Lodge

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Rowena, Texas.
Organized in 1904 as Rowena Chapter of the Sons of Hermann, worldwide benevolent fraternal organization. Named for German national hero and tribal leader Hermann the Defender (18 B.C. - 19 A.D.), who helped break Roman . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

SPJST Lodge No. 49

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Rowena, Texas.
On May 2, 1904, eighteen charter members organized SPJST Lodge No. 49 in Runnels County. Founded just eight years after the SPJST’s organization, Lodge No. 49 continued the Czech-Texan benevolent society’s goals of promoting . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sweet Home School

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near Rowena, Texas.
The need for education in this rural area was met in 1902, when a two-room school was started on Emil Helm’s farm (1.5 mi. NW). The name “Sweet Home” was chosen by Henry Kriegel, one of the first trustees. In 1922 the school . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

San Clemente Mission

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near Ballinger, Texas.
The first mission known to have been established in Texas east of the Pecos River, San Clemente was a hastily built, two-room structure located on a hill about 17 mi. S. of present Ballinger. (Some historians place the site . . .

(Native Americans • Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Theodore Roosevelt resided in a number of houses in Dupont Circle. Two still standing are 1215 19th St. and 1820 Jefferson St. In 1898, he lived at 1810 N St. (below, since razed). That year he led a volunteer cavalry called . . .

(War, Spanish-American • Man-Made Features • Politics • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Illinois Remembers POW/MIA

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near New Baden, Illinois.
LTC Donald Parsons, Sparta Capt Roger Partington, Sparta SSG Oral Terry, Mascoutah

(War, Vietnam • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

100th Anniversary of the Cross of San Bartolomé Becerra

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, Guatemala.
1895 16 octubre 1995 Primer Centenario de la Cruz Hermandad de la Consagrada Imagen de Jesus Nazareno de la Caida y Santisima Virgen de Dolores de San Bartolome Becerra. Periodo Social 1994-1998 La Antigua Guate. 16 octubre . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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La Grange, Kentucky.
Dedicated to those who died in the service of their country that the spirit of liberty and freedom might live Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord Leonard Brumback • Winslow Couch • Raymond Gehring • Louis S. Gibson Virgil . . .

(War, World II • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

104 East Main Street

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La Grange, Kentucky.
This property is on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

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

Astronomical Observatory

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Volcano, California.
On the knoll behind this marker, George Madiera built the first amateur astronomical observatory of record in California and there discovered the great comet of 1861 with a three-inch refractor telescope.

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Leifr Eiriksson

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Newport News, Virginia.
Arriving in the year 1001, Liefr Eiriksson is believed to be the first European to set foot in North America. This sculpture was presented to The Mariners' Museum by the Eiriksson Memorial Committee of the National League of . . .

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Dr. Edward H. McCleery

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near Kane, Pennsylvania.
A medical doctor by profession, McCleery established a wolf park nearby to breed and care for lobo wolves, a subspecies of gray wolf. Subject to a 1920s elimination program, this wolf was saved from extinction through his . . .

(Science & Medicine • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In 1795, Darius and Joseph Mead

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Youngsville, Pennsylvania.
Sons of Darius, came from the Mead Settlement, now Meadville, Pennsylvania into the wilderness of the Brokenstraw Valley. One mile west on the banks of the Brokenstraw Creek they built the first grist mill in Warren County. . . .

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

Jacob Fowler's Lookout - Fountain City

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Pueblo, Colorado.
This tablet is the Property of the State of Colorado —— The hill one block east is Jacob Fowler's Lookout. Later called Sugar Loaf Hill. Near it in a log house Fowler and his trappers lived in Jan., 1822. —— Fountain City . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Fort and Stockade

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Colorado Springs, Colorado.
This marks the site of the Old Fort and Stockade built by Pioneers of Colorado City used in defense against the Indians in 1864 and 1868 Constructed of logs set on end _____ Erected by Old Colorado City Historical Society . . .

(Native Americans • Forts, Castles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William T. Barbour House

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La Grange, Kentucky.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

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

A Masonic Leader

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La Grange, Kentucky.
Home of Dr. Rob Morris, 1818-88. In 1884 "crowned Poet Laureate of Freemasonry." Founded the Order of the Eastern Star. He was born near Boston, Mass., lived 28 years here. From 1861 to 1865 president of the Masonic College, . . .

(Education • Arts, Letters, Music • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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