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The Arrival of the Spanish in Cozumel

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fue a 3 dias del mes de Mayo cuando avistamos esa Tierra Nueva y por ser dia de la Santa Cruz asi le llamamos”… Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Cronista de la Conquista. El capitán Juan de Grijalva al mando de 4 navios descubrió . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Long Beach, California.
[Panel #3] This Veterans Memorial is Dedicated by the Employees of McDonnell Douglas Corporation to Honor the Sacrifices of the Men and Women who Have Served Our Nation in War and Peace. More than 12,000 McDonnell Douglas . . .

(War, World II • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Boeger Winery

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Placerville, California.
This fieldstone building was built by Giovanni N. Lombardo in 1872 from stones cleared to plant vineyards on the property. The lower cellar was used to produce wine for the local community. The grapes were crushed in the . . .

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

Petrified Forest

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Calistoga, California.
The petrified forest, dating from the Eocene Period, is the only known example of a petrified forest in California. Its size, scope and variety of petrification is unique in the world. Opalized wood, obsidian, quartz . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Environment • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clark Memorial Bench

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Alameda, California.
Donated to the city of Alameda in 1920 by Park Avenue resident Isabella Derby Clark, this concrete bench was designed by Myrtle Maillot. Mrs. Clark was a proponent of animal welfare. The inscription "In memory of my dumb . . .

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

Tuscola County Fair

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Caro, Michigan.
On March 11, 1882, thirty-three years after the nation's first state fair was held in Detroit, the Tuscola County Fair was organized as the Caro District Agricultural Association. On September 19-22, 1882, the fair hosted . . .

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

Jessamine Flowers Link

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Tampa, Florida.
In 1913, Jessamine Link established Magnolia Troop One, the second Girl Scout Troop in the United States. This was just one year after Juliette Gordon Low organized the country's first Girl Scout troop in Savannah, Georgia . . .

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

Rough Rider Encampment

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Tampa, Florida.
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, this area was the campsite of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard Wood (Medal of Honor recipient) and later Lieutenant Colonel Theodore . . .

(War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Caro Masonic Temple

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Caro, Michigan.
This two-story Italianate commercial building was erected in 1879. One of the first brick buildings on Caro's main street, the structure was built by businessman and philanthropist Charles Montague as a bank and general . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clayton Vocational Institute

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Manor, Texas.
In 1903 the Rev. Joseph E. Clayton was called to be principal of Manor's first black school. Under his leadership, the educational program included vocational and mechanical training, as well as the study of languages, arts, . . .

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

First Meeting of the Caro Rotary Club

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Caro, Michigan.
On this site at the Hotel Montague, the first meeting of the Caro Rotary Club was held on October 9, 1925. Twenty businessmen gathered for the charter meeting of the Caro Rotary Club. Rotary is an international organization . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Dunbar High School

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Baltimore, Maryland.
The striking architecture of Baltimore’s original Dunbar High School complements the school’s role in community empowerment and educational equality. Dunbar’s educators, students, and alumni worked to achieve the “equal” in . . .

(Education • Arts, Letters, Music • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Roger B. Taney Monument

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Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1836, Roger Brooke Taney became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and served in this position until his death in 1864. In 1857, he wrote the Dred Scott decision, which stated that African American—enslaved and . . .

(War, US Civil • Politics • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

800-810 Cathedral Street Row Houses

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Baltimore, Maryland.
This structure has been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey of the United States Department of the Interior for its archives at the Library of Congress.

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

Peninsular Sugar Refining Company

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Caro, Michigan.
The beet sugar industry in Michigan began growing rapidly in the late nineteenth century. The declining lumber industry had cleared thousands of acres of land suitable for the cultivation of sugar beets. In 1897 farmers were . . .

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

Delaware & Hudson Gravity Railroad Coal Wagon

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
This coal wagon is a full sized replica of the wagon used on the D&H Gravity Railroad to transport anthracite coal from Carbondale to Honesdale from 1828 until 1898. The loaded wagons traveled a distance of 15.5 miles. The . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Man-Made Features • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Presbyterian Church of Caro

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Caro, Michigan.
Twelve persons organized the First Presbyterian Church of Caro in December 1878. The Reverend Edward P. Clark, the Presbyterian minister at Vassar, conducted the organizational meeting with the assistance of the Reverend . . .

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

Lockheed T-33.

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, Mexico.
Avión de fabricación norteamericana de propulsión a reacción producido por la “Lockheed Aircraft Company”. En febrero de 1961 llego a México el primer T-33 y se mantuvo en operación durante 46 años salvaguardando el espacio . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

North American T-28A Trojan

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Avión North American T-28A Trojan de fabricación norteamericana producido por la compañía “North American” En 1958 fueron adquiridos los primeros T-28A Trojan y se mantuvieron en operación hasta 1982. Con estas aeronaves . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tuscola County Courthouse

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Caro, Michigan.
Peter DeWitt Bush (1818-1913), the second permanent resident of the village of Caro, donated this site for the county courthouse square in 1866. Then he, along with two other pioneer settlers, moved an old frame church to . . .

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