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Flatiron Building

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
Early history describes this building as a single structure, which when researched proves to not be entirely accurate. The structure is comprised of two separate entities joined together circa 1889. The first of these, the . . .

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

The Mill

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
Built in 1818 by William Hankinson the mill is a stone replacement for the Smith's Mills, a grist and a saw mill, built by Benjamin Smith, ca. 1760. Smith's Mills was also the first name of the Village. When Hankinson . . .

(Notable Buildings • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Rainbow Confectionery

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Blairstown, New Jersey.
This building was first known as the Bunnell building, built in the early-to-mid 1870s serving as a confectionery, ice cream and variety shop during most of its years. By 1877, Leslie Bunnell sold his business of dispensing . . .

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

Welcome to Colorado - Trinidad Country / Trinidad - Army of the West

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Trinidad, Colorado.
Panel 1 Welcome to Colorado Colorado's vast plains, rugged mountains and grand plateaus, so magnificent in their beauty and variety seem at times to overshadow the state's history and people. But look closely. The story . . .

(Natural Features • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • War, Mexican-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Margaret Peters and Roumania Peters Walker

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Washington, District of Columbia.
The families of the Peters Sisters, Friends of Rose Park, DC Department of Parks & Recreation, and the City of Washington, DC are proud to name the Rose Park Tennis Courts after the Peters Sisters who grew up in this . . .

(Sports • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tepee Fountain

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Thermopolis, Wyoming.
The “Tepee Fountain” was built in 1909 to vent steam from hot mineral water that was piped throughout the park. As water flows over the structure, it cools and deposits layer upon layer of travertine. This process is similar . . .

(Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emma V. Brown Residence

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Washington, District of Columbia.
3044 P Street, NW Emma V. Brown (1840-1902) was an accomplished poet and the first African American teacher to be employed by the DC Public Schools. Educated at Myrtilla Miner's school on N Street, NW, and at Oberlin . . .

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

Welcome To Historic Tangier Island

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Tangier, Virginia.
For almost 250 years the people of Tangier have wrested a living and a lifestyle from the waters that surround them. Most of their days have been occupied with family, work, church, and the other normal pursuits in which we . . .

(War of 1812 • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thermopolis Downtown Historic District

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Thermopolis, Wyoming.
National Register of Historic Places Wyoming Place No. 196

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Presbyterian Congregation in George Town,

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Washington, District of Columbia.
founded in 1780 and chartered by Congress in 1806, has the longest unbroken ministry in Washington. This building was erected in 1821 at what is now 30th and M, was moved to this site in 1873 and altered to a Victorian . . .

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

Ambassador David K. E. Bruce

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Washington, District of Columbia.
1405 34th Street c. 1810 Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown Easement acquired September 1996

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

Jackson's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Jackson's Brigade Cheatham's Division - Polk's Corps Brigader General John K. Jackson (September 19, 1863, noon.) 1st Georgia (Confederate) 2nd Battalion, - Major James C. Gordon. 5th Georgia - Colonel Charles P. Daniel. 2nd . . .

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

Grose's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Grose's Brigade. Palmer's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Colonel William Grose 1st Position. 84th Illinois - Colonel Louis H. Waters. 36th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver H. P. Carey. 36th Indiana - Major Gilbert . . .

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

24th Ohio Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of Monument: 24th Ohio Infantry, Grose's Brigade, Palmer's Division, 2ist Army Corps. Text on the Back Side of Monument: September 19th, 1863, this Regiment Colonel Daniel J. Higgins commanding was . . .

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

Rocky Mount Mills School

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Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
On this site stood the Rocky Mount Mills School Est. 1896 Closed 1946 Built and operated by Rocky Mount Mills to provide grades 1-7 for the benefit of the Mill Village children

(Education • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morrisville Depot

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Morrisville, Vermont.
Built c. 1872 by the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad, a division of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, this depot served as an important stop linking Portland, Maine and the Great Lakes for nearly a century. The . . .

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

Chittenden Mills

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Jericho, Vermont.
Named for Thomas Chittenden, first governor of Vermont and great-great grandfather of Frank Howe. Frank and his father Lucian rebuilt this mill in 1885 changing from grinding with millstones to the new gradual reduction . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Porter Farms

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Terrell, Texas.
Birthplace of agricultural (cooperative) extension, under lead of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, U.S. Department of Agriculture. On Feb. 26, 1903, from places offered, a special committee of citizens selected farm of Mr. and Mrs. . . .

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

Andrew Harris 1814-1841

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Burlington, Vermont.
"We consider it criminal in the sight of God and man, longer silently to submit to our indignities, or suffer them to be transmitted to posterity." Andrew Harris was one of the first African Americans to earn a college . . .

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

1993 National Champions

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
LSU won its second NCAA title in three years with an 8-0 victory over Wichita State in the College World Series final. Freshman right-hander Brett Laxton established a CWS championship-game record with 16 strikeouts in the . . .

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