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Cotton Gin & Grist Millstones

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Nocona, Texas.
Millstones used at Josh Howard Cotton Gin and Gristmill located ¼ mile west of Bonita, Texas Circa 1878-1900

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Paris Fire Department

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Paris, Texas.
Fire protection in Paris dates to the early 1870s, when a group of businessmen led by Willet Babcock organized a volunteer fire company. Known as Phoenix Fire Company No. 1, the volunteer unit continued in operation until . . .

(Disasters • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Union Station

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Paris, Texas.
Attempts to bring rail service to Lamar County began in the mid-1800s, but a line did not reach the city of Paris until one was built to the south side of town in 1875. Residents raised money to entice the St. Louis & San . . .

(Notable Buildings • Railroads & Streetcars • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Central National Road of the Republic of Texas

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Paris, Texas.
Designed as a military highway, intended to make linkage with United States military road built to the north of the Red River in the 1820s. This was part of the national effort of Republic of Texas to open a good road . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Riverside Park

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Oswego, Kansas.
Early Days This bluff on which the Riverside Park sits is steeped in history. Towering over the plains, this site was frequented by both American Indians and early Euro-American settlers. It served as a place to observe game . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Riverside Park

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Oswego, Kansas.
This point overlooks the historic Neosho Crossing for "The Old Indian Trail" between Missouri and the Osage buffalo hunting grounds in central Oklahoma. The ford was located about eighty yards above the present dam. Two . . .

(Native Americans • War, US Civil • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Green County Architecture Heritage History

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
Incorporated in 1794, Greensburg, the county seat of Green County, began as Glover’s Station, a wilderness settlement in the Kentucky Territory on the Cumberland Trace, an offshoot of the Wilderness Road. From 1800 to 1840, . . .

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

General Edward Henry Hobson

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
Edward Henry Hobson was born in Greensburg, Kentucky, on July 11, 1825. He was educated in the common schools of Greensburg and Danville, Kentucky. He worked for his father who was a successful merchant in Greensburg. In . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Greensburg Courthouse

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
One of the oldest public buildings still standing in Kentucky. Built between 1802-1804 by Robert Ball, Edward Bullock, Thomas Metcalfe, Walter Bullock and Daniel Lisle. Used as a courthouse for 135 years. Jane Todd Crawford Library on second floor.

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

Home of Gen. Edward H. Hobson

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
Home of Union Gen. Edward Henry Hobson, the captor of Gen. John Hunt Morgan at Buffington Island, Ohio The Federal style house was originally built for Hobson’s father, Capt. William Hobson, in 1823. The house is a brick . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Green Countians Memorial

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
In honor and memory of those Green Countians who served and died in defense of freedom and liberty. WWI Anderson, Jake • Barnett, Marshall • Cook, Eugene • DeWitt Sylvester • Donan, Jack • Goff, Carl E. • Grimsley, John • . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • War, Vietnam • War, 2nd Iraq) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Green County, 1792

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
Formed from parts of Lincoln and Nelson counties. The last of seven formed during first legislature. Named for Gen. Nathaniel Greene, who, in the Revolutionary War, commanded a unit at Boston, 1776; helped plan defense of . . .

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

Lincoln's Law Partner

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Greensburg, Kentucky.
Birthplace of William H. Herndon, 1818. Family moved to Illinois, 1820. An anti-slavery advocate and partner with Abraham Lincoln in practice of law, 1844-61. Herndon, Mayor of Springfield; State Bank Examiner. After . . .

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

Johnson's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Johnson's Division - McCook's Corps. Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson September 20th, 1863, until 6 p.m. 1st Brigade - Brigadier General August Willich. 2d Brigade - Colonel Joseph B. Dodge. 3d Brigade - Colonel Philemon . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Huggins' Tennessee Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Huggins' Tennessee Battery. 2 6 Pounders, 2 12 Pound Howitzers. Dibrell's Brigade, Armstrong's Division, Forrest's Corps. September 19, 1863. Captain A. L. Huggins, Commanding. 1st Lieutenant Edwin H. Douglas. 2d Lieutenant . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Path of the Setting Sun

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Dearborn, Michigan.
Guests of the Fords came from all walks of life, and the Great Meadow that greeted them remains. Its designer, Jens Jensen, used thousands of native plantings to create this vista he labeled, "The Path of the Setting . . .

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

Iron in Green County / Iron Made in Kentucky

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near Summersville, Kentucky.
(Side One) Iron in Green County Three iron furnaces built along Brush Creek after iron ore was found, 1815. Jacob Holderman and Charles Wilkins built furnace and forge, 1816, 10 miles downstream. Joseph Harrison erected . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lincoln's Mentor

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near Summersville, Kentucky.
Three miles west, birthplace of Mentor Graham, 1800-86, “The Man Who Taught Lincoln”. Sixty years a teacher. Green County 1818-26. After Illinois voted down slavery, moved to New Salem, 1826. There, from 1831-37, as tutor . . .

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

30th Indiana Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Thirtieth Regiment Infantry.(Hurd) Second Brigade. (Dodge) Second Division. (Johnson) Twentieth Corps. (McCook) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 3 P.M. to 7 P.M.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

19th Century Interstate Highway

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near Big Piney, Wyoming.
The Lander Trail, part of the Congressionally designated California National Historic Trail, was a shortcut of the main emigrant trails to California and Oregon, as well as to the new gold fields in Montana and Idaho. . . .

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