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The Cathead...

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San Francisco, California.
This timber to support the anchor ready for "letting go" has been a fixture on shipboard for hundreds of years. As the ship approached port, the anchor was hung from the cathead by a chain called a ring stopper. One end of . . .

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Thomas Monroe Campbell

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

The Oaks

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. —Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery The Oaks . . .

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

Historic Quadrangle

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
When school is in session, the broad expanse in front of you—the university's main quadrangle—buzzes with activity just as it did in the early 1900s, but life was much more regimented then. Students received demerits if they . . .

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Balclutha

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San Francisco, California.
was built in Scotland for the San Francisco grain trade. From the time of her launching, in 1886, until 1890 she was employed in transporting the grain harvests of California's interior valleys to the ports of Europe. . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of Xtoloc

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, Mexico.
Templo del Xtoloc Recibe su nombre del Cenote Xtoloc, el segundo gran cenote en el centro de Chichén Itzá, junto al cual se situa. Su función probable fue el culto religioso, quizá relacionado con el cenote, y su . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Herb Scott

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Wexford, Pennsylvania.
• Auto racing stock car champion and life long resident of Wexford • Racing career spanned four decades, 1948-1979 • 10 time Pittsburgh Racing Association champion • 3 time Dapper Dan Club of Pittsburgh sports award winner • . . .

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

Sacbeob 5 & 15

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, Mexico.
Sacbeoob 5 y 15 El sacbé 5 es un camino que comunica la Plaza Norte con el El Caracol. Existen tres épocas de construcción: las dos primeras tenían por límite una sencilla hilera de piedras y la tercera, muros un poco más . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles • Anthropology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Managing the School

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
. . . the school is not dependent upon the presence of any one individual. The whole executive force . . . is so organized . . . that the machinery of the school goes on day by day like clockwork. —Booker T. Washington, . . .

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

Great Philanthropists

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
I will be very glad to pay the bills for the library building . . . and I am glad of this opportunity to show the interest I have in your noble work. —Andrew Carnegie Carnegie Hall is named for Andrew Carnegie, one of many . . .

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

Dining and Social Center

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
The young women all seated first, and then the young men march in. But no conversation is allowed until . . . a simple grace is chanted by the chorus of a thousand voices. —Booker T. Washington, The Working Hands Gold-domed . . .

(Notable Buildings • Education • Notable Persons • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Campus Architect

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
. . . I should consider it a far-reaching calamity for us to lose Mr. Taylor at Tuskegee. —Booker T. Washington Look at the buildings around the main quadrangle. Much of what you see is the work of Robert R. Taylor, the . . .

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

Up From Slavery

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
I determined when quite a small child . . . I would in some way get enough education to enable me to read common books and newspapers. —Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington changed the name of this . . .

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

Platform of the Tombs

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, Mexico.
Plataforma de las Tumbas Esta estructura tuvo un uso funerario, probablemente sirvió para almacenar huesos humanos desenterrados de otras tumbas. Se hallaron varias puntas de flecha, navajillas de obsidiana, cuentas de hueso . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Platform of Venus and Round Platform

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, Mexico.
Plataforma de Venus y Plataforma Redonda La Plataforma de Venus es muy similar a la del mismo nombre en la Plaza de El Castillo. En sus relieves se encuentra, al centro de los paneles, un Hombre Pájaro-Serpiente, que se . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Presbyterian Church

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Niagara Falls, New York.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United Stated Department of the Interior

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The Ossuary or Tomb of the Great Priest

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, Mexico.
El Osario o Tumba del Gran Sacerdote La importancia de este edificio de cuatro escaleras con alfardas formadas por serpientes entrelazadas, radica en estar construido sobre una profunda cueva. Su función original no fue . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Birth of Trades Program

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
We shall prosper . . . as we learn to dignify and glorify labor and put brains and skills into the common occupations of life. —Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute's vocational training program began in this building in . . .

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

Carver's Laboratory

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
The primary idea in all of my work was to help the farmer and fill the poor man's empty dinner pail . . . —George Washington Carver George Washington Carver taught classes and developed new products from peanuts, sweet . . .

(Agriculture • Science & Medicine • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Enhancing Health Care

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Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.
Let our societies spend less money in taking care of the sick, and much more money in promoting the health of the race . . . . Let us make health contagious in every community rather than disease. —Booker T. Washington, . . .

(Education • Science & Medicine • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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