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Site of Frisbie's Ferry

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Romulus, New York.
Site of Frisbie's Ferry a now extinct hamlet with store, mills, distillery, tavern, and ferry to Aurora, 1796.

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

Denison House

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Erected in 1874-1875 James Denison (1837-1910) Denison was the first Deaf principal of the Primary Department, later known as the Kendall School, and served for almost 50 years. He and his family lived here from 1875-1909. . . .

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

Helen Fay House

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Erected in 1874-1875 Helen Bradshaw Fay (1881-1957) Class of 1904 (Certificate of Graduation from Normal Department) Born in Washington, D.C., Fay lived her whole life on Kendall Green. In 1907, she taught at Kendall School . . .

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

Ballard House

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Erected in 1867 Melville Ballard (1839-1912) Classes of 1886 (B.S.) & 1870 (M.S.) Ballard was the first undergraduate to receive a bachelor of science degree in 1866 from the National Deaf-Mute College, now Gallaudet . . .

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

The Edward Miner Gallaudet Residence

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Erected in 1867-1868 Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917) Gallaudet became the first superintendent of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind in 1857, and in 1864, was named the first president of the . . .

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

Laurent Clerc

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Washington, District of Columbia.
First deaf teacher of deaf students in America Presented to our alma mater by grateful alumni to commemorate Gallaudet's move to university status on October 24, 1986. This bust is a copy of the Clerc Memorial at the . . .

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

The Lively

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Surfside Beach, Texas.
First vessel with emigrants to Austin's colony landed here December 23, 1821. The Battle of Velasco was fought here June 26, 1832. Public and secret treaties of peace between the Republic of Texas and General Santa Anna were . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Peace • Waterways & Vessels • War, Texas Independence) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Freeport National Bank

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Freeport, Texas.
The Freeport Sulphur Company was instrumental in the founding and early development of the city of Freeport and the region. It was incorporated on July 12, 1912, and then organized the Freeport Townsite Company with the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Merchants Savings & Trust Company

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
"The Merchants Savings & Trust Company failed to open for business today. I.C. Swigart, State Bank Examiner, took over the bank, at 1410 Fifth Avenue, to protect depositors, he announced. While a few days ago the bank was . . .

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

Frazarville

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near Eagle Lake, Texas.
Near this site once stood the community of Frazarville, founded in 1857 by Dr. Isaac James Frazar and his father, Col. James Watson Frazar. A locust infestation and Comanche raids forced them to move from Cibolo Creek in . . .

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

Leading the Way

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near Moran, Wyoming.
Togwotee (pronounced "TOE-go-tee") Pass lies at the head of the Wind River, astride the Great Divide. This 9,658-foot pass was an ancient travel route for the Tukudika people, who lived among these high, rugged peaks and . . .

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Joseph and Rachel Rabb Newman

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near Eagle Lake, Texas.
Joseph (c. 1787-1831) and Rachel Rabb (1790-1872) Newman were married in 1806 in Ohio. Following Joseph's service in the War of 1812 in Illinois, they lived in Arkansas Territory on the Red River before moving into Texas in . . .

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

Wharton County Courthouse

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Wharton, Texas.
The Texas legislature created Wharton County in 1846, incorporating part of Stephen F. Austin's original land grant from Mexico. The William Kincheloe family donated land on the east bank of the Colorado River for a . . .

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

The Great Divide

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near Moran, Wyoming.
You are perched on one of the most geographically significant lines in North America -- the Great Divide, sometimes called the Continental Divide. This line of high terrain at the crest of the continent forms the boundary . . .

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

Site of World War II Prisoner of War Camp

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Wharton, Texas.
Included in a land grant awarded in 1824 to Martin Allen, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" colonists, this property has had a long and varied history. In the 1840s Allen's heirs sold most of his land to Albert . . .

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

Phillips Family Cemetery

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near West Columbia, Texas.
Zeno Phillips, one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colonists, acquired land here in 1829. Zeno and his brothers John Clark, Sidney, and James Ray (J.R.) Phillips, served in the Republic of Texas Army. The cemetery began . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Texas Independence) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Quintana

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Quintana, Texas.
Named for a Mexican general. Early as 1532 a thriving village. Port of entry in Republic of Texas. Strategic fort in Civil War. Industrial area, cattle and cotton shipping point, 1870-1900. Fashionable summer colony, 1884 . . .

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

Bay City Post Office

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Bay City, Texas.
An election in the fall of 1894 resulted in the relocation of the Matagorda county seat from the city of Matagorda to Bay Prairie (now Bay City). D.P. Moore, the postmaster at the nearby small town of Elliott, owned property . . .

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

El Campo Library Building

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El Campo, Texas.
The El Campo Library Association began the city's first library in 1902. A public library opened at the downtown fire station in 1927. After a branch of the Wharton County Library was established in El Campo in 1939, this . . .

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

El Campo

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El Campo, Texas.
Begun as a camp on the New York, Texas, and Mexican Railroad in 1882, El Campo initially was known as Prairie Switch and served as a supply and shipping center for area ranchers. By the 1890s the town had grown to include a . . .

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