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The Salmon Ceremony at Ti'lomikh Falls

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Gold Hill, Oregon.
The Takelma, which means "People of the River," had a village here. According to legend, Ti'lomikh (Te lo meekh) is where Daldal, the Great Dragonfly, brought the Salmon Ceremony. Although the date of the first ceremony is . . .

(Native Americans • Churches, Etc. • Animals) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Salmon Ceremony at Ti'lomikh Falls

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Gold Hill, Oregon.
The Takelma, which means "People of the River," had a village here. According to legend, Ti'lomikh (Te lo meekh) is where Daldal, the Great Dragonfly, brought the Salmon Ceremony. Although the date of the first ceremony is . . .

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

Historic Oakland

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Oakland, Oregon.
Established in 1851 by Dr. Dorsey S. Baker. The town moved to the present site in 1872 when the O&C Railroad reached this point. Alonzo F. Brown founded the new town. Fires destroyed the wooden buildings. The existing brick . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4th Michigan Cavalry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text from the front side of the monument: Michigan To Her Fourth Regiment of Cavalry. Colonel Robert H. G. Minty. Major Horace Gray Commanding. Minty's Brigade, Crook's Division, Cavalry Corps. Text from the back side of . . .

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

The Mill-Pine Historic Neighborhood District

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Roseburg, Oregon.
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1985 The Mill-Pine neighborhood grew out of a need for housing close to the railroad. The Oregon-California railroad line was completed from Portland to Roseburg in 1872 and . . .

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

Jumonville Plantation

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Meraux, Louisiana.
Last plantation on east bank of Mississippi River below New Orleans to be involved in Battle of New Orleans. Captured by British and used as a hospital. Owned then by Charles Coulon Jumonville de Villiers.

(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4th United.States Cavalry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the front side of the monument: 4th U. S. Cavalry 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division Army of the Cumberland September 18th to 21st 1863 Text on the back side of the monument: The 4th U.S. Cavalry, Captain J. B. . . .

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

1988 SEC Champions

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Overall Record: 8-4 | SEC Record: 6-1 Head Coach Mike Archer The Tigers looked like champions early by thrashing Texas A&M then taking LSU's first win ever in Knoxville with a rout of Tennessee. After setbacks in road games . . .

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

A Day on the Santa Fe Trail

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Overland Park, Kansas.
The Trip Ahead The Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails proved to be both challenging and exhilarating for the travelers in the caravans passing near here. Letters and diaries are filled with the adventures, excitement, . . .

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

Nettie Asberry

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Tacoma, Washington.
In 1883 Nettie Asberry earned her doctorate degree in music. She helped establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Tacoma in the early 1900's.

(Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

British Settlers

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near Bloomington, Idaho.
Most early Bear Lake settlers came from Britain. One was the first woman convert to the LDS church in Europe. Born in Preston, England, Aug. 24, 1806. Ann Elizabeth Walmsley Palmer was baptized July 30, 1837. An invalid, . . .

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

The First Oregon Trail

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near Garden City, Utah.
The first covered wagons came into the Rocky Mts. in 1830, they made their way as far west as Fort Washakie in Wyoming. Efforts were made to find passable wagon trails through the Mountains to the Pacific Coast, which goal . . .

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

Sanders Tavern

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near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
Side 1 Henry Sanders, Jr., (1776-1844) settled in this county in 1795. Besides building Sanders Tavern, parts of which stood until about 1947, he also built "Clay Hill," the home of his son James Sanders. He assisted in the . . .

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

Henry Ford's Honeymoon House

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Garden City, Michigan.
Side 1 Henry Ford and Clara Bryant were married on April 11, 1888. Soon afterwards, construction of this house, known as both the Honeymoon House and the Square House, began in Dearborn. Ford built the one-bedroom house . . .

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

Morgan Held Prisoner In Pleasant Hill Church

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near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
September 1861 Morgan caught smuggling Confederate uniforms After Confederate forces occupied Columbus, a city in far western Kentucky, President Lincoln proclaimed that commercial trade with the Confederacy be stopped. . . .

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

Morgan's Revenge

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near Campbellsville, Kentucky.
January 31, 1862 Morgan captures Federal telegraphers Morgan did not forget his imprisonment in Pleasant Hill Church. Now a captain in the Confederate Calvary, John Hunt Morgan, with nine men and a guide, made his way from . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church 1895

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

World War II Air Commando / Chindit Memorial

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Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Center Panel 1st Air Commando Force At the Quebec conference in August 1943, President Roosevelt agreed to Prime Minister Churchill's request for U.S. air support of the British "Chindits" commanded by General Orde . . .

(War, World II • Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Okaloosa County Desert Storm Memorial

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Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
In honor of America's heroes in Operation Desert Storm

(Military • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fannie C. Paddock

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Tacoma, Washington.
Fannie Paddock moved from New York to Tacoma to build Tacoma's first hospital. Fannie died on her trip to Tacoma, but in 1882 the Fannie C. Paddock Memorial Hospital was dedicated.

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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