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John L. Levitow Memorial Lane

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Middletown, Connecticut.
John L. Levitow Memorial Lane Dedicated - November 28, 2000 In Memory of: Sergeant John L. Levitow, U.S. Air Force Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of . . .

(War, Vietnam • Heroes) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Killingworth

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Killingworth, Connecticut.
Killingworth In 1663 the General Court in Hartford founded the plantation of Hammonasset, encompassing the present-day towns of Killingworth and Clinton. The Court named the town Kenilworth in 1667 after the birthplace in . . .

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

PFC Jack H. Curry USMC

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Killingworth, Connecticut.
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(War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Killingworth Veterans Monument

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Killingworth, Connecticut.
( south side ) George A. Butter · George H. Cook · George Elovzin · Henry Gutt · Elville L. Harris · Albert E. Hartmann · Walter E. Hartmann · Norman M. Hatch · Eugene Huetter · Frank Kroupa · William Kroupa · George M. . . .

(War, World I • War, World II • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Keeping the Cherry Trees Healthy

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Washington, District of Columbia.
Flowering cherry trees need constant care to keep them growing and blooming well. They are pruned once a year to remove damaged or diseased limbs. A second annual pruning shapes the trees. Soil that has been compacted – one . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of La Merced

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, Mexico.
Templo de la Merced El hospicio y templo de religiosos de Nuestra Señora de la Merced de la Provincia de la Visitación de México, fue fundado en 1736 por Fray Francisco Niz de Santa María. Según las crónicas, la construcción . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Horses & Mules

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near Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Eagle. Peacemaker. Tecumseh. Bremo. Wellington. Diomede. These were the six carriage and saddle horses, plus one mule, stabled here in 1821. As many as 30 riding and carriage horses, workhorses, and mules were stabled at . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Patriots & Patriotism • Animals • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clinton

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Clinton, Connecticut.
Clinton Settled in 1663 and then known as Homonoscitt Plantation, this shoreline and rural community soon thereafter was given the name Kenilworth and later Killingworth. In 1735 the First and Second Ecclesiastical . . .

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

Clinton Veterans Monument

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Clinton, Connecticut.
The People Of Clinton Honor Those Who Served Their Country These Are They That Gave Their Lives · · That Men Might Live In Freedom World War I Kozlik, Henry · Stevens, Giles F. · Hilliard, Howard G. World War II Burnes, . . .

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

Yale College

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Clinton, Connecticut.
The Earliest Senior Classes Of Yale College Were Taught Near This Spot By Rector Abraham Pierson 1701 to 1707 ( inscribed around the top ) I Give These Books For Founding A College ( back ) In Memoriam Abraham Pierson . . .

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

Tuskegee Chapel

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
. . . I always make it a rule to read a chapter [in the Bible] or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day. —Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery The chapel, designed by Paul Rudolph and . . .

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

Booker T Washington

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
[Center] He lifted the Veil of Ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry [Far left] We shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify labor [Far right] And put . . .

(Education • Industry & Commerce • Notable Persons • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George Washington Carver

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happi- ness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the South . . .

(Agriculture • Notable Persons • Science & Medicine • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Risdon Square

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Fostoria, Ohio.
This monument marks the square of the village of Risdon founded in 1832. The land was owned by John Gorsuch, who settled here with his family in a clearing along the Portage River in 1831. He had a plat of the area made by . . .

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

State's First Female Lawyers

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Tiffin, Ohio.
Side A In 1873, Tiffin's Cronise sisters became the first women admitted to the Ohio Bar. At that time, Ohio did not provide for the admission of women attorneys. On April 4th 1873, Nettie Cronise applied to the district . . .

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

The Canal House

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Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In 1852 John Brown, a stonemason, built this last remaining vestige of the early canal era in FortWayne. A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Brown came by canal boat to Allen County in 1847 with his wife Mary. He and his . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Crescent Theater

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Minster, Ohio.
This large 2-story brick structure served as the only Minster movie house for over 60 years. It opened in 1933 and boasted a stage, orchestra pit, and seating for 611 patrons. The first show was an animated Mutt & Jeff short . . .

(Entertainment • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Log Church

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Minster, Ohio.
This was the site of the first Stallostown Mission Catholic Church in Minster, completed in 1835. The brick wall surrounding the gazebo is representative of the footprint, measuring approximately 40 feet wide and 60 feet . . .

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

Cholera Marker

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Minster, Ohio.
In pious memory of all our cholera victims over 300 especially of the year 1849 Eternal rest grant unto thee O Lord Erected in 1937

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Patrick Catholic Church

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Fort Loramie, Ohio.
St. Patrick Catholic Church was organized as a parish in 1862. The first church, made of logs, was built in 1863. At that time, the community was mostly Irish. The second church, a wood frame building, was erected in 1874. . . .

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