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Coal Miners' Memorial

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Trinidad, Colorado.
Southern Colorado Miners Memorial 1996 Ben Johnson Artist

(Industry & Commerce • Natural Resources) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Clash of Cultures

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Trinidad, Colorado.
In the late 1860s, directly across the street stood the Colorado Hotel, a two- story adobe building fronted by a wooden arcade. It was the station for the Denver Santa Fe Stage Line and, for several days, the refuge of some . . .

(Notable Events • Notable Places • Hispanic Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Walter Mullally Crossing

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Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On the evening of October 11, 1920, James Walter Mullally, a crossing tender on the Boston & Maine Railroad at the North Cambridge station, which was located nearby, lost his life in a vain attempt to rescue the aged Mrs. . . .

(Heroes) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Fourth Ward Memorial

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This memorial is dedicated in sincere tribute to the living and dead whose valiant efforts and unselfish sacrifices have made America great. God grant that the liberty of humanity won only by brave souls and vigilantly . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sweden Furnace

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Sevierville, Tennessee.
5 miles northwest, this was first called Short Mountain Furnace, using local orebank ore. Started about 1820 by Robert Shields; William K. Love and brothers operated it about 1830. Micajah C. Rogers bought it and changed its . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Knoxville National Cemetery

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Knoxville, Tennessee.
Civil War Knoxville In an 1861 referendum, 81 percent of East Tennessee voters rejected secession. Many in Knoxville, the region's largest city, supported the Union. During the Civil War, 30,000 East Tennesseans joined the . . .

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ludlow Tent Colony Site Memorial

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Ludlow, Colorado.
In Memory of the men, women and children, who lost their lives in freedom's cause at Ludlow, Colorado April 20, 1914.

(Industry & Commerce • Landmarks • Labor Unions • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Ludlow Massacre

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Ludlow, Colorado.
On April 20, 1914, the State Militia unleashed an un-warranted attack on striking coal miners and their families living in a tent colony at this site. Eleven children and two women suffocated in a cellar beneath a tent . . .

(Labor Unions • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dugout of W. M. Dye

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near Claude, Texas.
William Miles Dye was born in Kentucky in 1864 and moved to Texas with his parents in 1870. He settled in this area in 1891, one year after the organization of Armstrong County. By hauling rock from Palo Duro Canyon, Dye . . .

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

Christiaan Andriessen

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

Celebration & Sorrow

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Ludlow, Colorado.
A day of festivity was followed by one of the darkest in American Labor history. The state militia was on guard Because tensions between the strikers and the company had been steadily escalating, the state militia was . . .

(Notable Events • Labor Unions • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battle of Red River

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near Wayside, Texas.
In the opening battle of the U.S. Army's 1874 Indian campaign against the Southern Plains Indian Tribes, a force of 744 soldiers under Col. Nerlson A. Miles fought a 5-hour running battle with the Cheyenne, Comanche and . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Vigo Park Methodist Church

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near Tulia, Texas.
The Indiana-Texas Land Company planted a town at this site in 1906, naming it for adjoining counties in western Indiana. It was to be a shipping point on a new railroad line. C. R. Gardner and J. C. Stitt of Terre Haute, . . .

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

The J. W. Carter Family and the 7-Up Ranch

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near Dimmit, Texas.
The first permanent settlers in Castro County, the James W. Carter family moved to this area in 1884. A tent and dugout served as home until a house was constructed (100 yds. W). Their cattle, which they brought with them, . . .

(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers • Animals) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Badhuis Diamantbuurt (Public Baths)

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, Netherlands.
[Top panel:] Architect Arend Jan Westerman (1884-1966) Opdrachtgever Gemeente Amsterdam Bouwjaren 1925-1926 Middenin de Diamantbuurt werd in 1926 dit voormalig gemeentebadhuis geopend. Destijds hadden de huizen in de . . .

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

Joods Verzetsmonument /Jewish Resistance Monument

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, Netherlands.
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(Churches, Etc. • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bethlehemite Convent in Guanajuato

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, Mexico.
Aquí estuvieron desde 1727 el hospital, hospicio, escuela y convento de Belén Ayuntamiento 1989-91 English translation: Here, since 1727 was the hospital, nursing home, school and convent of the Bethlehemites City Council of . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Von Rechtswegen über das Menschenblut zu richten / A Legal Process Driven by Human Blood

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, Germany.
Die Richtstätte auf dem Galgenberg Weit außerhalb der Stadt liegt der Galgenberg: Dort wurden Todesurteile vollstreckt. Volkach war seit 1432 Hochgerichts-bezirk. Das Salbuch zeigt einen Hochgerichtsprozesses gegen einen . . .

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

Peter Ochs, Metzler / Peter Ochs, the Butcher

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, Germany.
Metzger im Spätmittelalter Der Metzger Peter Ochs und sein Geselle Jobst Beutel sind bei ihrem blutigen Handwerk zu sehen. Der Metzger zerlegt den Ochsen, während sein Geselle einen Hammel schlachtet. Geschlachtet wurde im . . .

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

Peter Geist

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, Germany.
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(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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