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First Independent Municipality of Mexico

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El 17 de Sept. de 1810 Hidalgo y Allende nombran e instalan el Primer Ayuntamiento del Mexico Independiente en este lugar. Presidido por el Lic Ignacio Aldama G En el 175 aniversario de la Independencia y 75 aniversario de . . .

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

Friar Juan de San Miguel

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1555 - 2005 El Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato El Honorable Ayuntamiento de San Miguel de Allende y pueblo en general rinden homenaje a su insigne fundador Fray Juan de San Miguel En los 450 años de su muerte Evangelizador . . .

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

Marianne Moore

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New York City, New York.
35 West 9th Street • Last home of Marianne Moore (1887 - 1972) Pulitzer prize-winning poet, baseball enthusiast and lifelong New Yorker

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S.S. Golet (SS 361)

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Keel Laid 27 January 1943 Launched 1 August 1943 Commissioned 30 November 1943 On 18 March 1944 the U.S.S. Golet departed Pearl Harbor to begin her first patrol. A severe combination of fog, rain, and ice prohibited her . . .

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism • Waterways & Vessels • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hart Crane

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New York City, New York.
The poet and author, one of the "Lost Generation" of writers, lived here while supporting himself as an advertising writer. Crane's poems "White Buildings" and "The Bridge" gave harmonious expression to the chaos of urban life.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Birthplace of Ignacio Allende

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, Mexico.
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(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S.S. Guavina (SS 362)

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Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Keel Laid 3 March 1943 Launched 29 August 1943 Commissioned 23 December 1943 On 6 April 1944 the U.S.S. Guavina departed Pearl Harbor to begin her first patrol off the Bonin Islands. By the end of the war the Guavina . . .

(War, World II • War, Cold • Patriots & Patriotism • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sinclair Lewis

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New York City, New York.
The first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature (1930), novelist and short story writer, Sinclair Lewis, born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, was a graduate of Yale University; his earliest published work was in . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Mendenhall House and Mill

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Built by James Mendenhall, for whom Jamestown was reportedly named. His family moved here from Chester, Pennsylvania, and built the house, a grist mill, and sawmill on the banks of the Deep River. The last Mendenhall . . .

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

Potter House

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Originally the site of Henry Humphries' saddle and harness shop, this simple one-room, v-notched cabin with a stone foundation and chimney was soon acquired by Isaac Potter for his own store, which operated until 1826. The . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Reece House

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Constructed in the period 1834-1844 by William Reece, local Constable. Stopping point on Charlotte to Goldsboro stagecoach trail. Birthplace of Joseph Reece, founder of Greensboro News and Record. Later home to J. Harper . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Politics • Roads & Vehicles • Animals) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jamestown Public School

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Jamestown Public School was designated by the General Assembly in 1907 as one of two standard high schools in Guilford County. In 1911, the General Assembly passed the Guilford County Farm Life School Act and Jamestown was . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Home of Dr. Shubal Gardner Coffin

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
The arrival of the railroad shifted the center of Jamestown eastward from the old town center where Dr. Shubal Coffin (1809-1881) had established a medical school in 1840. He built his new home here, overlooking the tracks, . . .

(Education • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Robbins-Holton Mill & House

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Mill may date from about 1825, built on land owned by Jesse Field. It is best known as Robbins Mill or Holton Mill, bought in 1853 by Rev. Alexander and Mary (Weatherly) Robbins. Mrs. Robbins operated it during the Civil . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Michigan Avenue Industry

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The early automotive industry came to Ypsilanti just after World War I. In 1919, Apex Motor Corporation built a small factory on River Street just south of Michigan Avenue to manufacture various "Ace" vehicles. But by 1925 . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oakdale United Methodist Church

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Oakdale United Methodist Church began as a brush arbor meeting at the entrance to the mill village, built by members of the community. After the Little Schoolhouse was built in the early 1880's, the church met here there. In . . .

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

Oakdale Cotton Mills

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
A grist mill operated on this site under a series of owners until 1865. A gun factory was also located on the property during the Civil War. The cotton mill, which would be incorporated as Oakdale Cotton Mills by Joseph . . .

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

Oakdale School

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Jamestown, North Carolina.
Built by Oakdale Mill and served by teachers from the county, this one-room schoolhouse operated until 1943 when it merged with the Jamestown School. The front sections on either side of the door provided separate boys' and . . .

(Education • Industry & Commerce • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Original New Iberia Fire Bell

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
First hung at Fire Company No. 1, Vine and Main Streets, circa 1868, this bell was moved to the Fire Station—City Hall—Central Market erected 1898 on Main. About 1900 the Bernard Blacksmith Shop, later the A.M. Bernard Wagon . . .

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

Camp Stokes

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
Confederate camp of instruction for conscripts and prison for deserters was located here in 1864-1865. When the war ended, 200 Union prisoners were held here. Camp Stokes was commanded by Major Jesse R. McLean of Greensboro.

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