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Prospect Park

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
In 1842 this site became Ypsilanti's second cemetery, and at one time approximately 250 people were buried here. However, when Highland Cemetery opened in 1864, the use of this site began to decline. Inspired by a nationwide . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Barracks / Ypsilanti in the Civil War

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The Barracks When the Civil War began in 1861, this corner site housed a commercial building called the Norris Block. Its location across the street from the railroad station made it an ideal place for short-term lodging . . .

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

Winameg Mounds

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Winameg, Ohio.
This site(approximately 6 acres) contains 12 low mounds which each averaged 3 foot hgih and 35 feet wide. They contain adult, children, and animal remains and cremains, altars, and personal belongings of pre-historic mound . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

Birdseye Marble Quarry

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Birdseye, Utah.
Looking east to the red ledges you can see the quarry, originally operated by the Mormon Church and others in the 1880's to the 1940's as the Nebo Rock Works, Thistle Rock Works and Birdseye Marble Quarry. The stone . . .

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

Korean and Viet Nam Veterans Memorial

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Dundalk, Maryland.
In honor and eternal memory of the men and women of this community who served in the Korean and Viet Nam Wars 1950-55, 1961-75. They answered their country’s call and made the supreme sacrifice.

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Two World Wars Veterans Memorial

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Dundalk, Maryland.
In honor and eternal memory of the men and women of this community who gave their lives in the two World Wars 1917-18, 1941-45. “They do me wrong who say I come no more when once I knocked and failed to find you in. For a . . .

(War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Community Public Library

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Dundalk, Maryland.
This tablet place here by the citizens of Dundalk in greatful appreciation to the Bethlehem Steel Company for making this building available as a Community Public Library

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

Robber's Roost

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Huntington, Utah.
Robber's Roost was a popular outlaw hideout located along the Outlaw Trail in Southeastern Utah. Sandwiched between the Colorado, Green and Dirty Devil Rivers, the roost is a savage stretch of land crisscrossed with . . .

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

Princess Place Estate

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Palm Coast, Florida.
In 1791, the King of Spain offered a 1,100-acre land grant to Francisco Pellicer. Henry Mason Cutting purchased the property in 1886, renaming it Cherokee Grove. Featuring local materials including tabby block cladding, . . .

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

Sherman's Right Wing Arrives at Bentonville

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Four Oaks, North Carolina.
You are facing east towards Green Flower's farm, where lead elements of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Right Wing clashed with Confederate cavalry late in the morning on March 20. The previous evening, the Right Wing, . . .

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

Johnston Establishes His Headquarters

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Four Oaks, North Carolina.
On the eve of the battle, Confederate General Joseph Johnston established his headquarters in the field in front of you on property belonging to John Benton, Bentonville's namesake. Summoned from retirement by Gen. Robert E. . . .

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

95th Infantry Division Memorial

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Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.
The U.S. 95th Infantry Division was stationed at Indiantown Gap Military Reservation from February to July 1944, preparing for combat service in France and Germany, as an important part of the victorious American Forces. . . .

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary

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, Mexico.
Capilla de Nuestra Señora del Rosario del Hospital de San Juan de Dios Patrimonio de la Nación En esta manzana ubicada al norte de la Catedral estuvo el convento y hospital de la orden de San Juan de Dios, institución que . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Peninsular Athenaeum

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, Mexico.
Ateneo Peninsular Patrimonio de la Nación El Ateneo Peninsular se encuentra en el edificio del siglo XVII que fue sede del Palacio Episcopal, y que ocupó el costado izquierdo de la Catedral de San lldefonso. Ente los siglos . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Arts, Letters, Music • Wars, Non-US • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Little Rooster

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, Mexico.
El Gallito Calle 63 No. 502 x 60 Patrimonio de la Nación Esta edificación se inició en el siglo XVIII, sustituyendo a una construcción más austera. Durante la intervención francesa, fue residencia temporal de la Emperatriz . . .

(Communications • Man-Made Features • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Working Together to Save Wetlands

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Grand Island, New York.
The water level of the Niagara River and Buckhorn Island Marsh has been lowered over time due to the diversion of water for power and industrial use, decreasing the quality of the marsh habitat. State and Federal agencies, . . .

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

Chester Depot

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Chester, Vermont.
The first public train arrived here on July 18, 1849, and in December, the Rutland & Burlington Railroad opened the first rail line across Vermont linking the Connecticut River valley at Bellows Falls and Lake Champlain at . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Desert Lake-Victor

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Huntington, Utah.
Desert Lake, about 8 miles east of here, was first settled in 1885 by settlers building an irrigation ditch from Huntington Creek to the townsite and a reservoir to store the water for farming. In 1896 the dam broke, nearly . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Dundalk, Maryland.
In honor of all veterans who served this great country on land, sea, and in the air, and foreign soil so freedom, justice and democracy may prevail. May the living be blessed and the departed rest in peace. Amen.

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

Fort Sisseton Military Reservation, Dakota Territory

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near Lake City, South Dakota.
In February 1871, President Grant approved an 82,000 acre parcel of land measuring nine miles by fifteen miles as the Fort Sisseton Military Reservation. The land was set aside for use by the military for training exercises . . .

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