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Theodore Roosevelt Lived Here

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New York City, New York.
30 East 62nd Street The 26th President of The United States, Theodore Roosevelt, lived on this site from 1895 to 1898.

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

Beatrix Farrand

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New York City, New York.
The landscape gardener lived here from 1872 to 1913. Her 192 commissions include the East Garden (1913) of The White House, and the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks (1922-41), also in Washington, D.C. The niece of the celebrated . . .

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

Horace Greeley

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New York City, New York.
Journalist who said "Go West, young man!" lived here when he was editor and publisher of the New York Tribune. An outspoken progressive reformer, he championed Western expansion and rights for women and young people.

(Communications • Civil Rights • Abolition & Underground RR) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stephanie-Martin Duralde House

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Arnaudville, Louisiana.
Martin Duralde, commandant at Opelousas Post from 1795 to 1803, was the leading political figure in southwestern LA the last years of the Spanish Era. Duralde occupied and developed a 1423 acre tract along the Upper Teche by . . .

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

Becoming New Iberia

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
In 1779, a group of about 500 Spanish settlers moved from Malaga, Spain to the banks of Bayou Teche and founded the city of "Nueva Iberia," named after their Iberian Peninsula. It is the only town still in existence in . . .

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

The Custis Tombs

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Cape Charles, Virginia.
Here lie... John Custis II 1628-1695 John Custis IV 1678-1749 National Historic Landmark

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Zanesville

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Zanesville, Ohio.
Zanesville, the county seat of Muskingum County, was named for Colonel Ebenezer Zane. In 1796 Congress commissioned Colonel Zane to build a road from Wheeling, Virginia (later West Virginia) to Limestone, Kentucky (present . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Barry Alvarez

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
A native of Pittsburgh, PA and a former linebacker at the University of Nebraska, Alvarez rose through the high school and collegiate coaching ranks, making stops at Iowa and Notre Dame, before taking over the Badger . . .

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

George Poage

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Graduate of the University of Wisconsin (1903). First black athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. First black athlete to medal in the Olympics, 1904 Olympic bronze medallist (200- and 400-meter hurdles). La Crosse native. Inducted - 1998

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

Jim Otto

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Center for the Oakland Raiders (1960-74). Named AFL's All-Time Center. Most honored offensive lineman in football. Played in 308 consecutive games, 12 All-Star games, 13 playoff games, six AFL/AFC title games and Super Bowl . . .

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

Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Born January 26, 1930 in Elkhorn, WI, Harry "Buddy" Melges, Jr. is recognized as one of the most successful competitive sailors in history with dozens of National and International Championships in many different classes. . . .

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

Sen. Herbert Kohl

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Born February 7, 1935 in Milwaukee, WI, Senator Herb Kohl was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988. Prior to his election to the Senate, Kohl helped build his family-owned business, Kohl's Grocery and Department Stores. He . . .

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

Guy M. Sundt

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His inspiring career as an athlete, coach and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin from 1918 through 1955, will remain indelibly impressed upon all who came within his respective spheres of brilliant leadership. . . .

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

Enrico "Hank" Marino

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Named "Bowler of the Half-Century" in 1951. ABC Doubles Champion in 1916. Captain, Heil Team, National Match Title holders, 1934-1938 and International Team Champions in 1936 at Berlin, Germany, where he won the All-Events. . . .

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

Tellez Delgado Gas Pump

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, Mexico.
Esta bomba fue instalada en 1943 por J. Cruz Tellez Delgado. Aprobo su restauracion para los Sanmiguelenses Guillermina Campos Hernandez Marzo 2009 English translation: This gasoline pump was installed in 1943 by J. Cruz . . .

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

William G. "Bunk" Johnson

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
Everyone's heard of Louis Armstrong, the most famous New Orleans jazz trumpeter, but few know the music that inspired Armstrong came from William "Bunk" Johnson in the 1910s. Thirty years later, Armstrong and other jazz . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Motels

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near Norwich, Ohio.
As motorized transportation developed, motels of all sizes became a fixture along the National Road. Automobile travel in the early 1900s was often an adventure. Overnight accommodations, in the form of hotels, were . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, World II • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Remains of the Insurgents

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, Mexico.
En este templo Franciscano, Antiguo Convento de San Antonio de Padua, paso la noche del 2 al 3 de septiembre de 1823 una urna, conteniendo los craneos de los pleclaros insurgentes * Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla * Don . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

House of Ignacio Aldama

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, Mexico.
Casa que habito el heroe Don Ygnacio Aldama. 1810-1910. English translation: The hero Ignacio Aldama lived in this house. 1810-1910.

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Here Independence was Planned

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, Mexico.
Aqui se Fraguó la Independencia de la Nueva España 1810 English translation: Here was planned the Independence of New Spain 1810

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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