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Prize-Winning Newspapers

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Columbus, Georgia.
Since the founding of Columbus in 1828, newspapers have played a vital role in the lives of area citizens. Both daily papers, "The Columbus Enquirer-Sun" (now "The Columbus Enquirer") and "The Columbus Ledger," are Pulitzer . . .

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Columbus Museums

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Columbus, Georgia.
Created in the early 1950s as the city's first comprehensive museum, the Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1251 Wynnton Road, features permanent exhibits of fine and decorative arts, southeastern Indian artifacts, and . . .

(Notable Buildings • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Four Chaplains Memorial

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Belle Harbor, New York.
Honoring the Four Heroic Chaplains who gave their life jackets that four soldiers might live. The S. S. Dorchester was torpedoed February 3, 1943. As it sank the four were seen linked arm in arm, heads uplifted in prayer. • . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Educational Institutions

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Columbus, Georgia.
Built in 1843, the Wynnton Male Academy (now Wynnton School Library) is considered the oldest such school facility in continuous use in the state. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. . . .

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

Pozo

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Santa Margarita, California.
In the 1850's Ynocente Garcia and sons recorded claims for the Rancho San Jose which included today's Pozo. In 1878, the area's first postmaster, George Lingo, was refused the name San Jose for the post office and accepted . . .

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Nancy Kelsey

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New Cuyama, California.
By being the sole woman to join the Bidwell - Barttleston Party. The earliest organized overland immigrant party into California. Nancy Kelsey became the first American woman to come across the plains and transverse the . . .

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

Grace Episcopal Church

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
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First Baptist Church

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
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The Creek Town of Coweta

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Phenix City, Alabama.
The town of Coweta was actually two separate Native American settlements and dozens of affiliated outlying communities occupied at different times in what is now northeastern Russell County. "Coweta Tallahassee" (old . . .

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

The Tallman Bridge

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
Dedicated 2011 in memory of Brigadier General Richard J. Tallman Born in Honesdale 1925 Killed in Action, Vietnam 1972 [Combat Infantry Badge, Third Award] Graduate of Honesdale HS and the US Military Academy he led . . .

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

The Stourbridge Lion

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
Near this site on August 8th 1829 The Stourbridge Lion the first locomotive to run on rails in America made its trial trip on the railroad of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company with Horatio Allen as engineer To . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Snubbing Post

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
from Hintze Lock Delaware and Hudson Canal The speed of a boat entering the lock was controlled by giving a line a turn around this post

(Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coweta: Center for International Diplomacy

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Phenix City, Alabama.
Coweta served as a critical place of interaction between Creeks and Europeans throughout the colonial era. Situated at the intersection of regional trading routes and the claims of expanding Spanish, English and French . . .

(Native Americans • Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Otoch Ma’ax Yetel Kooh Ramsar Site

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, Mexico.
Sitio Ramsar – Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Otoch Ma’ax Yetel Kooh Ramsar Convención sobre los Humedales (Ramsar, Irán 1971) Este sitio está ubicado en el Municipio de Valladolid, Yucatán y se inscribió a la lista . . .

(Native Americans • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Settlement of Iselanders in the United States

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Spanish Fork, Utah.
Leif Eriksson, an Icelander, discovered America in 100 A.D. Eight centuries later 1855-1860 sixteen pioneers from Iceland established in Spanish Fork, the first permanent Icelandic settlement in the United States. They were: . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Chapel of Our Lady of Carmen

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, Mexico.
Capilla de Nuestra Sra del Carmen 113 Aniversario - Playa de Carmen, Historia Viva Construida originalmente alrededor del año 1960 por las primeras familias de Playa del Carmen. Para su construccion se emplearon materiales . . .

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"Emperor" Brims, Mary Musgrove and Chief William McIntosh

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Phenix City, Alabama.
Coweta was the home of many influential Creek leaders, including three individuals who figured prominently in the history of the Creek people; "Emperor” Brims, Mary Musgrove, Chief William McIntosh. The Coweta chieftain . . .

(Native Americans • Notable Persons • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Flour Mill

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Appleton, Minnesota.
The Pomme de Terre river which flows through the city of Appleton provided valuable water power to the early settlers. At this point on the river, a dam was built to improve the water power for a flour mill which stood on . . .

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

LaFoon 1882 - 1891

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near Faulkton, South Dakota.
First county seat of Faulk County, when this area surveyed October 1882 by Albert Mellen, Louis Kniesel just south and F.M. McMullen, a mile west, were "squatting" on the land. First post office, Cecrops, Nora Reppy, . . .

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

Frank M. Byrne

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Faulkton, South Dakota.
Born Oct. 23, 1858 on a farm near Volney, Iowa. Homesteaded in McCook County, South Dakota in 1879. Moved to Faulk County in 1883 where he married Emma Beaver in 1888. The following year the first of five sons was born. Gov. . . .

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