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Hitchcock Hall

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Bay View, Michigan.
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Vernor Hall

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Bay View, Michigan.
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Temple II

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También se conoce como Templo de las Máscaras. Fue construido cerca del año 700 después de Cristo, por el gobernante Jasaw Chan K´awiil I, como monumento mortuario para su esposa Señora Kalajuun Une´ Mo´. English: Temple II . . .

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Library

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Bay View, Michigan.
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Post Office

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Bay View, Michigan.
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Speaker's Stand

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Bay View, Michigan.
First Public Building

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Home of James Monroe

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Built in 1802 This house was the home of James Monroe Lieutenant-Colonel in the American Revolution While Secretary of State and of War under Madison, and for the first six months of his administration as fifth President of . . .

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First Bay View Fire Hydrant

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Bay View, Michigan.
Now disconnected this hydrant was the first one in use in Bay View around 1883

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Rivers of Grass

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Tappahannock, Virginia.
High-Quality Housing These rare habitats, dominated by native warn-season grasses such as little bluestem, Indian grass, and eastern gamma grass, provide food and cove for wildlife year around—even standing up to snow and . . .

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Hutchinson Tract

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Tappahannock, Virginia.
The Hutchinson Tract of the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge consists of 727 acres of restored grasslands and mixed hardwood forests which complement the forests that buffer Mount Landing Creek. The . . .

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National Wildlife System

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Tappahannock, Virginia.
The National Wildlife Refuge System is a collection of United States lands and waters managed specifically for wildlife. Units of the system stretch across the continent, from the icy north shore of Alaska to the balmy . . .

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Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve

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Kilmarnock, Virginia.
Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve is situated on a small peninsula on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. The preserve contains tidal and non-tidal wetlands, and exemplary undeveloped beach and low dunes, and upland . . .

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Riverside Cemetery

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Asheville, North Carolina.
Graves of Thomas Wolfe & "O. Henry," authors; Zebulon B. Vance, governor; Thomas L. Clingman and Robert R. Reynolds, U.S. senators. One-half mile W.

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O. Henry

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Asheville, North Carolina.
William Sydney Porter, whose pen name was O. Henry, rented an office nearby in 1909-1910. Popular for his short stories, especially "The Gift of the Magi," he was inspired to write "Let Me Feel Your Pulse" by a visit to an . . .

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O. Henry

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Lunsford Richardson

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Semmes Heritage Park

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Semmes, Alabama.
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U.S. Arsenal Officers' - Surgeons' Quarters and Barracks 1833 - 1875

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Dearborn, Michigan.
Two of the eleven brick buildings that comprised the arsenal stood in an east-west line with this marker. The Officers' Quarters, similar but smaller than the still-standing Commandant's Quarters, and the Barracks, second . . .

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A Desperate Fight, but Few Casualties

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near Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
Compared to battles fought later in the war, Middle Creek produced very light casualties. Though more than 3,000 participated in the fight, only fifteen men were killed. Union losses at Middle Creek were three killed and . . .

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Monroe's Bayonet Charge Wins the Battle

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near Prestonsburg, Kentucky.
The battle’s turning point came when Garfield ordered Lt. Col. George W. Monroe and a detachment of the 22nd Kentucky to charge up the steep ridge opposite Graveyard Point and drive the Confederate sharpshooters back to . . .

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