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Romero Pass

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Chiriaco Summit, California.
California-Arizona Route 1824

(Natural Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Plaza of the Columns

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, Guatemala.
Plaza de las Columnas (Plaza B) El conjunto se ubica en el extremo norte de la Calzada de los Peregrinos. El lado Oeste lo ocupa un edificio en forma de Salón Abierto que tuvo 7 columnas circulares en la fachada de . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Huwald's Tennessee Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Huwald's Tennessee Battery 2 Mountain Howitzers, 2 2¼ Inch Rifles. Davidson's Brigade, Pegram's Division, Forrest's Corps. September 19, 1863. Captain Gustave A. Huwald Commanding. 1st Lieutenant D. Breck Ramsey. 2d . . .

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

First Ward Justice Courthouse and Jail

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Arabi, Louisiana.
Designed by Henry Daboval and built by J.C. Bourg in 1911. Court held here until 1923 by Justices of the Peace. Three small jail cells remained occupied through 1939. The jail was restored in 1985.

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

Warrant Officers Married Quarters / Logement de l'adjudant

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Victoria, British Columbia.
This building was constructed in 1897. It was built of brick to British Royal Engineer specifications and during its life it was subjected to several modifications. Originally it was to accommodate a Master Gunner and his . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, World I • War, World II • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hedrick-Fleming Hall & Post Office

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Overland Park, Kansas.
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(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Overland Park State Bank Building

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Overland Park, Kansas.
A landmark building designated by the O.P. Landmark Commission

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

Semuc Champey Pools

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, Guatemala.
Semuc Champey está hecho de piedra caliza muy frágil Las conchas y huesos de animales del mar, que murieron hace miles de años, se fueron convirtiendo en polvo. El polvo se convirtió en un tipo de piedra llamada caliza. Este . . .

(Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

José Mariano Mociño

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, Guatemala.
Ruta Quetzal Expedicion Argentaria Octubre 1993 A Jose Mariano Mociño Botanico naturalista de la Real Expedicion de Nueva España año 1793 En su memoria se bautizo al quetzal como “Pharamachrus - mocinno” English translation: . . .

(Environment • Exploration • Hispanic Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Giles County/Bland County

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near Bland, Virginia.
(obverse) Giles County Area 369 square miles Formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Tazewell, and Monroe, and named for William B. Giles, United States Senator and Governor of Virginia, 1827-1830. Mountain Lake is in this county. . . .

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

Johnson's Provisional Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Johnson's Provisional Division Hood's Corps Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson September 18th, 1863, 4 P.M. Gregg's Brigade - Brigadier General John Gregg McNair's Brigade - Brigadier General Evander McNair Johnson's . . .

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

Chester Alan Arthur

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New York City, New York.
Here on September 20, 1881, at 2:15 A.M., Chester Alan Arthur took his oath of office as 21st president of the United States upon the death of president James A. Garfield, killed by a disgruntled office seeker. Garfield's . . .

(Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

California-Arizona Maneuver Area

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Chiriaco Summit, California.
Training troops in desert warfare in preparation for Operation "Torch." The invasion of German held North Africa. The world's largest military installation, training 60 divisions and more than one million soldiers.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Centennial Bridge

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Cottage Grove, Oregon.
The Centennial Bridge was built in 1987 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Cottage Grove. It was built by volunteers with recycled timbers from the Brumbaugh and Meadows bridges, and paid for with donations. Its Howe . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

White River Trace portion of the Trail of Tears

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near Salem, Missouri.
The forced migration of the Cherokee Indians in 1837-1838 was a tragic episode in American history. As early as 1802, Thomas Jefferson proposed relocating southern tribes to land west of the Mississippi River, but it was not . . .

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

Wright County "Lest We Forget" Memorial

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Hartville, Missouri.
(Front Side) Lest We Forget World War I Bare, Roy W. • Baker, Ovie • Beckett, Frank • Branstetter, Marvin • Brazeal, Jesse • Chadwell, James • Clark, Alexander • Evans, J. Frank • Findley, George E. • Floyd, Samuel D. • . . .

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

City of Gold Hill

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Gold Hill, Oregon.
Gold discovered on hill across Rogue River in 1860. Land for Gold Hill donated by Thomas & Rose Chavner in 1884. Railroad built in 1887. Town Inc. Feb. 12, 1895. First school in Methodist Church in 1889. Electricity came . . .

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

Wright County

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Hartville, Missouri.
Wright County, in the Ozark Highland of Missouri, lies in a region ceded the U.S. by the Osage Indians in 1808. The first white settlers, mainly from Tennessee, came in the 1830’s. The county, named for Senator Silas Wright . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

*A Grateful Nation Remembers*

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Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Dedicated to the missing in action. America's sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who sacrificed to ensure the United States, the world's bastion of freedom, continues to flourish. Their devotion to duty, honor, and . . .

(Military • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Catapults

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near Chiriaco Summit, California.
The basic design of the catapult had been in use for hundreds of years before da Vinci embarked on improving it. He actually came up with different models. This particular design used a double leaf spring to produce an . . .

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