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Freight and Stage Road

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Keno, Oregon.
All freight and passengers between Pokegama and Klamath Falls transported over this road from 1903 to 1909.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Weyerhaeuser Camp 4

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Keno, Oregon.
A logging camp located near Long Prairie and Meadow 1934 - 1954

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Town of Bowers

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Bowers, Delaware.
The Town of Bowers, Incorporated March 9, 1907, was established as an early settlement along the Delaware Bay. Named Whitwell’s Delight in 1675, the town was renamed Bowers in 1734. Bowers is nestled between the mouths of . . .

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North American Phalanx

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Colts Neck, New Jersey.
Site of the 1844 cooperative agricultural community; founded by Albert Bisbane and modeled after the philosophy of French Socialist Charles Fourier. This communal experiment was a success until it was destroyed by fire in 1854.

(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tabo Creek

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near Dover, Missouri.
A ferry built by Adam Lightner in 1821 may have carried William Becknell's first trade expedition to Santa Fe in that year.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building

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Washington, District of Columbia.
First known as the State, War, and Navy Department Building (built 1871-1888), the Eisenhower Executive Office Building was rededicated in 2002 to honor former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who worked here between 1927 and . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Medal of Honor Recipients

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Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Medal of Honor Recipients World War II Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker · Aug. 1, 1943 - Ploesti, Romania Maj. Richard I. Bong · Oct. 10 - Nov. 15, 1944 - Southwest Pacific Maj. Horace S. Carswell Jr. · Oct. 26, 1944 - South China . . .

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

Fighting at Dandridge

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Dandridge, Tennessee.
(preface) In November 1863, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet led a force from Chattanooga to attack Union Gen. Ambrose E, Burnside's army at Knoxville. The campaign failed, and in December Longstreet's men marched east . . .

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

Museum Building

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
One of three remaining historical buildings on Brickell Avenue, the first commercial street in the City of Fort Lauderdale, constructed between 1924 and 1926, the building was used primarily as a furniture store (as Pace . . .

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

The Carpenters' Home

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Lakeland, Florida.
The Carpenters' Home was the retirement home for members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1929 to 1976. The Union completed the purchase of the 1,684 acre site in April 1924. Costing . . .

(Labor Unions • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Memorial to the USAF Dead in Operation Eagle Claw

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Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 On the night of April 1980, these men gave their loves in the gallant attempt to free the American hostages in Iran. In memory of . . .

(Notable Events • War, Cold • Military • Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lucio Marmolejo

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, Mexico.
El ateneo Doctor Jaime Torres Bodet, A.C. Guanajuato y la Universidad de Gto, como un homenaje al ilustre historiador y humanista Don Lucio Marmolejo en el 1er. centenario de su muerte Guanajuato, Gto. Septiembre – 1985. . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Smokehouse/Dairy

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near Charlottesville, Virginia.
In the long, three-celled wooden structure that stood here between ca. 1790 and 1809, Jefferson combined two of what he considered "indispensable" elements of a Virginia plantation, the "smoke house" and "dairy." His unusual . . .

(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers • Patriots & Patriotism • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ignacio Bartolache

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, Mexico.
En una casa de este callejón vivio en el año 1739 el ilustre Guanajuatense y matemático Dr. Dn Jignacio Bartolache Homenaje a su memoria H. Ayuntamiento Consti. 1944-45 English translation: In a house on this alley in 1739 . . .

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Charcoal

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Charlottesville, Virginia.
Wood charcoal fueled the forges in the nailery on Mulberry Row and heated the stoves in the kitchen. Charcoal was stored under lock and key in wooden sheds that once stood here. Built about 1794, these "coal sheds" likely . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Patriots & Patriotism • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Denison Archway

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Ann Arbor, Michigan.
So named in honor of him who suggested the idea of constructing it Professor Charles Simeon Denison, for forty-two years teacher of stereotomy, mechanism, and drawing in the University of Michigan. This tablet is placed here . . .

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

Whitehead Home

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near Chester, Texas.
Built 1856 for John S. whitehead, a teacher; in his family ever since. Of native, hand-hewn pine construction. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark-1967

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Tequesta

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Tequesta Indians and their ancestors lived and traveled along the New River for at least 5000 years. The Tequesta were Native Americans that lived in Southeast Florida in an area that extended from Boca Raton to Key West . . .

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

Quanah Parker Trail

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Goodnight, Texas.
The legacy of Quanah Parker and Charles Goodnight is that former enemies can become good friends Arrow Sculptor: Charles A Smith

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Town of Goodnight

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