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Lake Pontchartrain Basin

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Kenner, Louisiana.
Lake Pontchartrain began forming about 5,000 years ago when North America glacier melts caused the Mississippi River to swell and shift to the east. The river deposited sediments into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a broad . . .

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

"Strike!"

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Students of the 1930s and '40s protested lynchings nationwide and DC businesses that snubbed African Americans. In the early 1960s students organized sit-ins, registered voters in the South, and discussed pan-African . . .

(Education • Civil Rights • War, Vietnam • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Catoctin Mountain Geology

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Thurmont, Maryland.
· Mountain age: 500 million years old · Highest local mountain peak: Quirauk Mountain - 2,145 feet tall · Commonly found rocks: Metabasalt, quartzite, limestone, metarhyolite The Catoctin Mountains were once similar in size . . .

(Natural Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Terre-Aux-Boeuf

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Saint Bernard, Louisiana.
Here, in "Land of Oxen," in 1788 Governor Bernardo de Galvez appointed Commandant Pierre Phillippe de Marigny to parcel land on the bayou for Canary Islanders. Later, Creole planters bought large estates on the bayou.

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

Battle of Hartville Confederate Monument

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Hartville, Missouri.
(Front Side) On This Site as a Result of the Battle of Hartville 11 January 1863 Lie the Remains Of Our Fallen Comrades Shelby’s Brigade Gordon’s Regiment Captain James Garrett, Co. E • Private James M. Gaulthing, Co. E • . . .

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

Stories of City Park

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Cast Iron Columns The cast-iron columns which supported the former Picnic Hill pavilion structure were originally part of an old Baton Rouge market pavilion that was built in 1859 and razed in 1954.The columns have been . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Civil Rights • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walter Pierce Park

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Washington, District of Columbia.
The Rock Creek Valley, once home to Native Americans, had attracted European settlers by 1703. Before he became president in 1825, John Quincy Adams purchased Adams Mills on Rock Creek from his cousin. The mills, just down . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Defensible Wall / Mur défensif

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Victoria, British Columbia.
This wall protected the battery from attack from the rear. It was both a protected position for riflemen and an obstacle. Barbed wire entanglements and natural cliff faces provided additional defence along the remainder of . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, World I • War, World II • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pierce Plantation

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Pierce Plantation 1820-1840 Cultivated fields and orchards spread out on the more than 1,200-acre tract above the creek. The spring house, family home, distillery, and flour mill remains as evidence of this large working . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Man-Made Features • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Trial Of Benjamin Benson

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
Benjamin Benson, a free African—American who lived in Deleware, was kidnapped and sold as a slave to John Thompson of Greensboro. In 1817 Benson filed a suit against Thompson in Guüford County Superior Court to reclaim his . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Albion Tourgee

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
Albion Winegar Tourgee, a native of Ohio and veteran of the Union Army, moved to Greensboro in 1865 and led a campaign to secure justice for African—Americans. He was an organizer of the Republican Party in NC, a delegate to . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Frye

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
Henry Ell Frye, attorney, legislator, businessman and judge, has played a major role in local and state history since 1968 when he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. The first African—American member . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Civil Rights • Politics • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Underground Railroad

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Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Underground Railroad was a system of trustworthy people and marked routes used by African—Americans to escape from slavery. Thousands of men, women and children guided by "conductors" traveled on foot or in special . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saint Peter's College

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
On this site stood the 1885 Gothic Revival home of John Marsh Henshaw, purchased by Monsignor Jean Marie Langlois in 1913, Saint Peter's College began educating boys on September 9, 1918. A school building was constructed . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
St. Peter's College, a Catholic boys' school, opened on September 9, 1918, and educated young men in grades 1-12. The first commencement was held on June 20, 1922. Inaugural faculty members were Brother A. Arsenius . . .

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

The Rev. Paymus Nutt

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near Callao, Virginia.
The Rev. Paymus (Pyramus) Nutt, born into slavery, helped organize four African American churches in Northumberland County after the Civil War. In 1866 he co-founded First Baptist. Shiloh Baptist, established in 1867, called . . .

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

Freedom for Slaves of Robert Carter III

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Heathsville, Virginia.
On 5 Sept. 1791, Robert Carter III (1728-1804), one of the wealthiest men in the United States, filed a deed of manumission at the Northumberland County Courthouse. This document eventually freed more than 500 enslaved . . .

(Antebellum South, US • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

69 Slaves Escape to Freedom

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near White Stone, Virginia.
About 2,400 enslaved African Americans in Virginia escaped to the British during the War of 1812, encouraged in part by a proclamation issued on 2 Apr. 1814 offering them freedom and resettlement in “His Majesty’s Colonies.” . . .

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

Dr. Copter — Flying Medicine to Tangier

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Topping, Virginia.
Every week for more than thirty years Dr. David Buell Nichols made the voyage from Hummel Field in Middlesex County to Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay to administer health care to those in need. For an island with no . . .

(Science & Medicine • Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Orchards, Fields, Gardens, Pastures

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Even in the mill's heyday, the Peirce family ran a diversified farm. They grew vegetables, tended bees, raised livestock for meat and dairy and cultivated fields of wheat, corn, rye, and oats. On this hillside they . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Horticulture & Forestry • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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