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Site of First Settlement

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near Sheridan, New York.
Site of first settlement in town of Sheridan by Francis Webber Aug. 1804. Erected Aug 25, 1904

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

Ehmke Family Home

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Silver Creek, New York.
Howard Ehmke, 1894-1959, lived here. World series star. Pitched for SC High School, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia. 1929 Series win and record.

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

Birthplace of Willis Haviland Carrier

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Angola, New York.
Teacher - Engineer Man of Science Inventor of Air-conditioning

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

Pratt House

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Boonville, New York.
Built in 1875 by architect A.J. Lanthrop for the Clark Dodge family. Sold in 1894 to the Charles Walter Pratt family.

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

In Honor of Walter D. Edmonds (1903-1998)

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Boonville, New York.
Born in town of Boonville. Renowned author. Best known for 1936 classic "Drums Along the Mohawk"

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Boonville

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Boonville, New York.
Settled 1795, named for Gerrit Boon, native of Leyden, Holland, agent of Holland Land Co., town formed 1805, village incorporated 1855.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Out in the Orchard

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Dearborn, Michigan.
Fruit orchards were planted in various locations around the estate consisting of apples, pears, cherries, and other varieties of fruit. The open lawn next to the weeping beech tree was previously an apple orchard with fruit . . .

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

From State Fair to Fair Lane/Peony Garden

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Dearborn, Michigan.
From State Fair to Fair Lane Henry Ford had the miniature farmhouse, along with a miniature barn, steam engine and threshing machine, constructed for the 1924 Michigan State Fair to educate children living in an urban area . . .

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

Reverend John D. Pierce

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
This boulder marks the site of the house where Reverend John D. Pierce, founder of the public school system in Michigan, lived from 1867 to 1880.

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

Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression

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Washington, District of Columbia.
902 T Street, NW The Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression, which operated in this building from 1903 until 1960, was one of DC's earliest African American arts institutions. Harriet Gibbs-Marshall . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Louise Burrell Miller Residence

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Washington, District of Columbia.
1204 T Street, NW Louise Burrell Miller led a group that successfully sued the DC Board of Education in 1952 to have deaf African American children educated within the District. Until Miller v. the Board of Education, the . . .

(Education • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Wesley Cromwell Residence

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Washington, District of Columbia.
1439 Swann Street, NW Lawyer, scholar, and publisher John Wesley Cromwell (1846-1927) lived here from 1894 until his death. Born enslaved in Portsmouth, Virginia, Cromwell moved to Washington in 1871 to study law at Howard . . .

(Education • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Georgia Douglas Johnson Residence

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Washington, District of Columbia.
1461 S Street, NW During the 1920s and 1930s, this house hosted a Saturday evening literary salon, welcoming such luminaries as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Angelina Grimké, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Kelly Miller, and Jean . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Politics • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

To The Confederate Dead 1861 - 1865

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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress . . .

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

This section of 15th St.

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Washington, District of Columbia.
This section of 15th St. and the east-west blocks meeting it were developed mainly from 1874 to 1887 by a group of speculative investors. The house at the corner of 15th and Q Sts. was built earlier, in 1864. St. . . .

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

Confederate Burials in the National Cemetery

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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
Military Prison in St. Louis St. Louis had two small Civil War prisons, each housing several hundred persons. Gratiot Street Prison was the former McDowell Medical College, located near Eighth and Gratiot streets and the . . .

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Victims of the Japanese Massacre

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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
These U.S. prisoners of war of the Japanese were on the island of Palawan, P.I. as slave laborers building an airfield for the Japanese military. Believing that an invasion by the U.S. forces was imminent, the prisoners were . . .

(War, World II • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wynkoop Street RR Bridge

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Denver, Colorado.
Denver's first settlement was along the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek. Arapahoe Indians named Cherry Creek for the wild chokecherries they harvested here in the fall. They respected the stream's power . . .

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

Navy Seabees

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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
With willing hearts and skillful hands the difficult we do at once The impossible takes a bit longer Seabees Can Do

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

United States Marine Corps

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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Missouri.
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(War, US Revolutionary • War, World II • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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