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East District School

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Norwich, Connecticut.
East District School Once upon a time in Norwich... In 1789, when Norwich was the second largest city in the State, Thomas Leffingwell IV sold to the inhabitants of the East School District for 6 pounds, land “for the . . .

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

Leffingwell Inn

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Norwich, Connecticut.
Leffingwell Inn In 1675, Steven Backus built a simple two-room, side-chimney house. Over two centuries, it would be modified many times. Thomas Leffingwell, a founder of Norwich and friend of the Great Sachem, Uncas, bought . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Charles H. Osgood Fountain

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Norwich, Connecticut.
Dr. Charles H. Osgood Fountain Dr. Osgood was one of the original founding fathers of the Norwich Free Academy in 1854. The fountain was on his estate at the corner of Washington and Broad Streets. In 1957, Milton Green . . .

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

The Shattuck Building

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Norwich, Connecticut.
The Shattuck Building Dedicated To The Devoted Support Of The Humanities As Was Constantly Exhibited By George E. Shattuck During His Tenure As Principal 1940 – 1965

(Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

House of the Grinding Stones & House of the “Mestizas”

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, Mexico.
Casa de los Metates y Casa de las Mestizas Forman un complejo de cuartos con amplios pórticos conectados entre si que deben haber servido de residencia a personas o familias relacionadas con el mantenimiento y el uso . . .

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

The Observatory

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, Mexico.
El Caracol Estructura conocida también como "El Observatorio" debido a su forma y a algunas posibles asociaciones astrales, ya que para las tres ventanas de la parte superior se han propuesto una serie de alineaciones . . .

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

Caught in the Crossfire

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Morristown, Tennessee.
In 1861, Morristown was a small railroad town strategically located where the East Tennessee & Virgina Railroad crossed the road to the Cumberland Gap. Although much of East Tennessee was Unionist, Morristown's residents . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sun River Crossing

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Sun River, Montana.
When John Mullan built a wagon road across western Montana in 1860, he utilized a ford across the Sun River just a few yards west of here that had been used by the Indians for generations. In 1862, the crossing was the site . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Shaw

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Fort Shaw, Montana.
Barring fur trading posts, the first important white settlements in Montana were the mining camps in the western mountains. Everything to the east belonged to the plains Indians and was buffalo range. To protect the miners . . .

(Native Americans • Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cascade County Courthouse

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Great Falls, Montana.
Spirited revelry in the streets of Great Falls greeted news of the creation of Cascade County in 1887. Named county seat, Great Falls grew quickly, with county offices located in various downtown buildings. In 1891 voters . . .

(War, World II • Man-Made Features • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ouija Board

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Front Yes-No, Letters A through Z & 1 through 0, Good bye Back Elijah Jefferson Bond, Patentee of the Ouija Board; Born January 23rd 1847 Died April 14th 1921.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Humane Society Fountain

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Lincoln, Nebraska.
This fountain was donated by the National Humane Alliance in 1908 after formation of Lincoln’s Humane Society in January, 1907. It is one of at least 70 similar fountains placed in communities throughout the United States. . . .

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

Ghosts of Convict Miners

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Rocky Top, Tennessee.
In 1877, convicts replaced striking Welsh miners in the Knoxville Iron and Coal Company Mine, located in the hollow to the south. Prison records show that 131 convict miners died there from 1877 to 1893, while others were . . .

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

Fort Anderson

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Rocky Top, Tennessee.
The Tennessee National Guard built Fort Anderson on Militia Hill in 1892 to restore order during the Coal Creek War. The fort is located off Vowell Mountain Road, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Why Miners Fought

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Rocky Top, Tennessee.
Agricultural land in the region was owned and being farmed by 1880. Younger sons of farmers sought opportunities in mining, learning new job skills from experienced Welsh miners. Mining also offered opportunities for . . .

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

Coal Creek War

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Rocky Top, Tennessee.
Welsh miners from the Knoxville Iron and Coal Company began mining coal at the foot of this hill in 1867, but were replaced by convict laborers during a strike in 1877. After convicts were brought to a mine in Briceville in . . .

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

Convict Lease System

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Rocky Top, Tennessee.
After the Civil War, southern states leased convicts to private industry to cope with a growing number of convicts and dwindling state budgets. The system degenerated to where primarily young African-Americans were being . . .

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

William Ashby McCloy

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Norwich, Connecticut.
William Ashby McCloy (1913-2000) Aspirations, 1976 Core-ten steel 174 inches high Commissioned with funds from The Connecticut Commission on the Arts William Ashby McCloy was born in Baltimore and studied at Phillips . . .

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

John F. Slater

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Norwich, Connecticut.
Nov. 4 A.D. 1886 This Building Dedicated to the Education of the Young And Commemorative of John F. Slater Is Erected by His Son William A. Slater And by Him Presented to the Norwich Free Academy In Grateful Recognition Of . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Defense of the Nation

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Fort Lee, Virginia.
In World War II, over 450 members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) were assigned to a secret experiment. It called for the creation of coastal gun battery, comprised of both men and women, with the mission to . . .

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