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Saugus Korea/Vietnam Memorial

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Saugus, Massachusetts.
For those who served Korea 1950-1955 Vietnam 1961-1975

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lovers' Leap

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near Berkley Springs, West Virginia.
Beautiful panorama of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. It overlooks the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal which was started by George Washington and associates in order to improve communication with the west.

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Terrell Elementary School

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Terrell, Texas.
This location has been home to a school building for the students of the Terrell area since 1901. The site was selected to serve the children living north of the Texas and Pacific Railway tracks nearby. A two-story building . . .

(Education • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

S. M. N. Marrs

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Terrell, Texas.
On January 2, 1862, Starlin Marion Newberry Marrs was born in Gauley Bridge, Fayette County, Virginia (now West Virginia). At 16, he began teaching in rural schools, working in coal mines to make ends meet. He moved to Texas . . .

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

First Christian Church of Terrell

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Terrell, Texas.
Organized in 1876 with 18 to 20 charter members, this church met in borrowed quarters until its first sanctuary was built on this site in 1881. That building had become inadequate by 1895, as the membership had grown . . .

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

Curvy Course

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near Varina, Virginia.
(panel 1) Curvy Course Navigating the curving meanders of the river above Jamestown was tedious for boaters in John Smith’s day. Too difficult to sail, men had to row through long stretches known as the oxbows. Yet the . . .

(Native Americans • Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

No Outlet

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Fredericksburg, Virginia.
(panel 1) No Outlet Smith explored several Chesapeake rivers hoping to find a water passage to the Pacific Ocean. Instead, he discovered that even the longest rivers reached a point—a fall line—where higher ground and rocky . . .

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

The Middle Passage

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Fredericksburg, Virginia.
If the Atlantic were to dry up, it would reveal a scattered pathway of human bones, African bones marking the various routes of the Middle Passage. -Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) From 1502 to 1860, the trans-Atlantic . . .

(Colonial Era • Waterways & Vessels • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Original Lancaster Methodist's Bell

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Lancaster, Ohio.
...commissioned in 1849 to ring the praise of Almighty God from the steeple of the old M.E. Church on South Jackson (High) Street, this bell was relocated by the congregation to their present church in September 1907. . . .

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

Manistee City Library

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Manistee, Michigan.
In 1885 a group of Manistee Ladies formed the Lakeside Club, whose primary goal was to create a library. In 1902 the club joined forces with the local literary society and successfully campaigned for a public library. The . . .

(Education • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Manistee County War Memorial

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Manistee, Michigan.
In memory of those from Manistee County who gave their lives in the Civil War [Roll of Honored Dead] in the Spanish American War [Roll of Honored Dead] —————————— In memory of the Sons of Manistee County who gave their . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • War, Vietnam • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Our Saviour's Lutheran Church

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Manistee, Michigan.
Organized as a Scandinavian congregation in 1868, Our Saviour's became a Danish church in 1875 and served the American Evangelical Lutheran Synod until 1962. First used for worship in 1869, the building escaped damage in the . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The May Farm

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Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
The 400-acre May Farm, with its steam-powered grist mill, was used as a recruiting post and staging area by the region’s leading secessionists. In September 1861, Jack May, Hiram Hawkins, Ezekial Clay, James M. Thomas, . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Brookhouse Home for Aged Women

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Salem, Massachusetts.
Home for aged women given by Robert Brookhouse 1861 This house was built about 1811 for Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1772-1851, member of Congress and Secretary of the Navy under Madison and Monroe. Here was born William . . .

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

Great Salem Fire Centennial

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Salem, Massachusetts.
In commemoration of the enterprise and resolute spirit with which Salem arose from her ashes looked calamity in the face and rebuilt her walls on this spot in the pathway of the great fire of June 25, 1914. Which swept from . . .

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

St. Joseph's Parish War Memorial

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Salem, Massachusetts.
There are three sides of inscription: Time will not dim the glory of their deeds Then a panel that says Erected by Laurier Associates and dedicated to the 2105 volunteers of St. Joseph Parish

(War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I Memorial

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Salem, Massachusetts.
Roll of honor 1917-1918 Then two rows of names World War I Donated by the city of Salem Rededicated by Mayor Anthony V. Salvo November 11, 1986

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial Honor Roll

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Lynn, Massachusetts.
In honor of the men and women of Ward Six who served in World War II and dedicated to those who made the supreme sacrifice to God and country Their memory perpetuated by the McDonaugh Square Associates 1941-1945 Reverse . . .

(War, World II • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Slave Ship Othello

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Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Virginia Fredericksburg Augt 25th 1773 Messrs. Samuel &William Vernon Gentlemen You will by this opportunity be advised by Capt. Jno. Duncan of his Arrival here, & valuing himself on Col. John Thornton for his Services in . . .

(Colonial Era • Waterways & Vessels • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Broadalbin Methodist Episcopal Church

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Broadalbin, New York.
Erected 1824-25 Broadalbin Methodist Episcopal Church Enlarged 1840- Raised 1868 Parsonage Built 1871 Oldest Church In Broadalbin Broadalbin Historical Society

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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