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Wilbarger County WWI Memorial

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Vernon, Texas.
Front Wilbarger County Remembers This memorial is lovingly dedicated December 5, 1926 to her valiant sons 1917 — 1918. We hold them in our grateful hearts with reverence and honor forever. Albert E. Robinson Grady Miller . . .

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

Battery F, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Battery F, 1st Ohio Light Artillery 4 James, 2 12 PDR. Howitzers. Hazen's Brigade, Palmer's Division, Crittenden's Corps. September 19, 1863. 1st Lieutenant Giles J. Cockerill, Commanding. 1st Lieutenant Norval Osborn. 2d . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washakie's Bath House

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near Thermopolis, Wyoming.
Site of Bath House used by Chief Washakie

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

Battery F, 1st Ohio Light Artillery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Battery F, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Hazen's Brigade. 12:30 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. September 19, 1863.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

White Sulphur Springs

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Thermopolis, Wyoming.
White Sulphur Spring is one of many attractions in the park. In the early 1890s a bathhouse and dance pavilion were built nearby. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed the buildings in 1899. Early settlers in the area recognized . . .

(Natural Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Smith's Mississippi Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
C.S.A. Smith's Mississippi Battery, 1 Gun Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division September 19, 1863, 2 P.M. Lieutenant W.B. Turner.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

M Street - A Road Well Traveled

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Washington, District of Columbia.
M Street has always been heavily traveled. In 1795 this prompted passage of the first local speeding law, making it illegal to gallop horses on M Street. Back in 1634, things were quieter. Then, Englishman Henry Fleet wrote . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ross and Getty House

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Ross and Getty House No. 1, c. 1810 Foundation for Preservation of Historic Georgetown Easement acquired October, 1975 Accepted, March, 1976, by National Trust for Historic Preservation Additional marker: 1210 30th Street, . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montana

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Williamsburg, Virginia.
Capital-Helena Fur trappers worked in the region as early as the 1740s. Acquired as a portion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Lewis and Clark explored the area in 1805. The region offered American fur traders a . . .

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

Axford-Coffin Farm

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Oakland Township, Michigan.
This complex of buildings began as the farmstead of John Axford, who built the Greek Revival house during the 1840s. Farmer Jacob Kline purchased it in 1848, and his descendants operated the farm until 1925. During the Great . . .

(Notable Buildings • Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Skytsborg

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, US Virgin Islands.
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(Forts, Castles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Henry Burnett

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Terrell, Texas.
In the 1880s Presbyterian missionary Alexander R. Wilson began conducting school in the rural South Prong community of Ellis County. One of his pupils was a promising black farm boy named William Henry Burnett. Through . . .

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

Washington

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Williamsburg, Virginia.
Capital-Olympia Washington was explored in the 18th century by Spanish, American and British travelers, specifically Captain George Vancouver in the 1790s. Lewis and Clark opened the area for American activity in their 1805 . . .

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

Idaho

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Williamsburg, Virginia.
Capital-Boise Lewis and Clark blazed a trail through Idaho in 1805, followed by English and American fur traders. Thousands of pioneers followed the Oregon Trail through southeast Idaho in the 1830s and 1840s, although the . . .

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

Wyoming

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Williamsburg, Virginia.
Capital-Cheyenne Wyoming was home to more than a dozen Indian tribes when the first American traders entered the area. The region was acquired in portions by the United States: the east in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, . . .

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

Utah

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Williamsburg, Virginia.
Capital-Salt Lake City Although the Spanish first explored the area, English and American fur traders soon entered the region. Mass migrations of Mormons driven from eastern states began in the 1840s. In 1848 the territory . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Highway for the Ages - Trail Days / Palmer's City - Pinon County

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near Pueblo, Colorado.
Panel 1 A Highway for the Ages Though less famous than the trails that brought American pioneers westward, the north-south route along the foot of the Rockies covers far greater distances in space and in time. This . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles • Animals • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Presbyterian Church of Blairstown

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
In March of 1839, the citizens of Blairstown (then Gravel Hill) and vicinity convened for the purpose of electing trustees of a Presbyterian church. John I. Blair was made chairman and Dr. John Albright secretary. Prior to . . .

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

Simeon Cook Residence

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
Built prior to 1819, the residence before you is recognized to be the oldest homestead in the village of Blairstown. The longest continuous residents of this place were the Simeon Cooke family who lived here from the mid . . .

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

Dr. John C. Johnson Residence

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
This center-hall Colonial, constructed circa 1850, was the home of Dr. John Couse Johnson and his family. Dr. Johnson was born on October 21, 1828, in Wantage Township, New Jersey. He received his degree in 1850 at the New . . .

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