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Grand Rapids Veterans Memorial and Honor Roll

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Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1941 - 1945 1950 - 1953 They Perished Defending Us Hundreds of names on several granet pillars in Veterans Park

(Military) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Andrews Hendricks

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
Plaque 1 Vice President of the United States with Democrat President Grover Cleveland, 1885 Born September 7, 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio Died November 25, 1885, Indianapolis, buried at Crown Hill Cemetery Represented . . .

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

Dorothy Hall

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
We also felt that we must not only teach the students how to prepare their food but how to serve and eat it properly. Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work Hospitality continues to reign in this building as it . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Joesting - Gorsuch House

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Street, Maryland.
Historic Joesting - Gorsuch House is an example of eighteenth and nineteenth century frame dwellings. Originally built in the late 1700s on property in Bel Air, the house was enlarged in the 1800s and was once part of an . . .

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

The Banner of Atotonilco

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, Mexico.
En esta plaza el 16 de Septiembre de 1810 el naciente ejercito insurgente procedente de el pueblo de Dolores enarbolo como bandera, un estandarte con la imagen de la Virgen de Guadalupe, tomando de este Santuario de Jesus de . . .

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

Schweinfurt Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial

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, Germany.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 10658 and VFW Ladies Auxiliary Schweinfurt, Germany This monument was planned, funded and built by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Ladies Auxiliary, Post 10658, with the generous support . . .

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

The Marriage of Ignacio Allende and Maria de las Fuentes

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, Mexico.
En el segundo centenario del matrimonio del Generalisimo Don Ignacio de Allende y Unzaga con Doña Maria de la Luz Agustina de las Fuentes En este venerable e histórico Santuario de Jesus Nazareno, el Colegio de Arquitectos . . .

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

Sanctuary of Jesus Nazarene of Atotonilco UNESCO World Heritage Site

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, Mexico.
La villa protectora de San Miguel y el Santuario de Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco han sido inscritos en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial en virtud de la Convención para la Protección del Patrimonio Mundial Cultural y Natural. . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Father Baraga 1846

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Schroeder, Minnesota.
Father Frederic Baraga, learning of a possible epidemic afflicting the Indians at Grand Portage in 1846, set out in a small boat from Madeline Island in Wisconsin with an Indian guide. An unexpected storm threatened them, . . .

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

Central Park's Ancient Egyptian Obelisk

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New York, New York.
For such a colossal object, this obelisk is well-travelled. Central Park is the third location for this 220-ton granite monument, which is the oldest public monument in New York City. Pharaoh Thutmose III commissioned this . . .

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

Miguel Hidalgo

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, Mexico.
Al Heroe de la Patria, Al caudillo de la Independencia Nacional erige este monumento la gratitud del Pueblo Queretano. Septiembre 16 de 1897. English translation: To the Hero of the Nation, the leader of National . . .

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

“Carmelites” Temple and Convent

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, Mexico.
Templo y Convento de Carmelitas La hermana María Magdalena del Espíritu Santo, fundó un beaterio para doncellas pobres desamparadas. Su ejemplo hizo que ingresaran las sobrinos del Br. Don Diego Colchado, quien donó el . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benjamin N. Velasco Military Institute

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, Mexico.
Instituto Militarizado Benjamin N. Velasco 1890-1971 Centro académico donde se forjaron generaciones de hombres libres y nacionalistas. 24 de agosto 1991 II Encuentro Nacional de Ex-Alumnos English translation: Benjamin N. . . .

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

Last Prison of Maximilian

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, Mexico.
Esta casa fue la ultima prision donde estuvieron el Archiduque de Austria Fernando Maximiliano Jose y los generales Miguel Miramon y Tomas Mejia, saliendo para el patíbulo la mañana del 19 de junio de 1867. English . . .

(Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benito Juárez in Querétato

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, Mexico.
En dos memorables épocas históricas estuvo alojado en este palacio el benemérito ciudadano, Benito Juarez. Presidente de la Republica Mexicana. 4 de junio de 1863 cuando atravesó el país para salvar la dignidad de la patria . . .

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

Gasoline Cotton Gin

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near Quitaque, Texas.
Cotton farmers began settling in this area in 1903. A water well was dug in 1906, attracting more farmers and increasing crop production. Because the nearest cotton gin was ten miles away in Turkey, three partners (M.E. . . .

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

Bob Wills

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Turkey, Texas.
This is an eight sided monument (on first side) Bob Wills (on second side) King of Western Swing (on third side) James Robert (Bob) Wills, born March 6 1905, Grosebeck Texas, first born child of John T. and Emma Foley Wills, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Plank Road

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Carthage, North Carolina.
This street is the route of Fayetteville-to-Salem plank road, a toll road 129 miles long, built 1849-54.

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Hunt Morgan's Code of Honor

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Versailles, Indiana.
The Morgan Raiders arrived in Versailles at 1 p.m., Sunday, July 12, 1863, and proceeded to rob the county treasury and to obtain fresh horses. The Raiders also captured and paroled 300 local men, who had assembled in hopes . . .

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

Union Noose Tightening

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Pierceville, Indiana.
As General Morgan neared Pierceville, an urgent message was sent to Governor Oliver P. Morton reporting the threatening situation. At the time,, what is now State Road 350 was a railroad bed. West of this location, . . .

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