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Buy Where You Can Work Campaign & Higher Education

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Although the Pennsylvania Avenue of the 1920s was Baltimore’s premier shopping district for African Americans, many of the businesses that served them were owned by whites who refused to hire African Americans from the . . .

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

Constitution Oak

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Ashford, Connecticut.
In commemoration of the Connecticut Constitutional Convention of 1902 Delegate. Thomas K. Fitts marked 1953

(Horticulture & Forestry • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Robinson Buck

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Barkhamsted, Connecticut.
Dedicated to Henry Robinson Buck 1876-1934 whose friendly nature and work for public recreational areas endeared him to all his associates. This trail was located by him and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. May 18, . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Valor in Combat

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The highest award that the United States Air Force can bestow upon an individual for heroic action during combat is the Air Force Cross. A pilot from the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, earned that . . .

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Desert Storm

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
For more than a decade, the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron conducted routine A-10 training missions which included numerous deployments and exercises. That routine came to an abrupt end in August 1990, when the 354th . . .

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt Col Colin Arnold Clarke

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Lt Col Colin Arnold "Arnie" Clarke was born on August 31, 1935, in Seattle, Washington. Lt Col Clarke accumulated several hundred flying hours in United States Air Force aircraft, most notably the F-100 Super Sabre and the . . .

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

Mr. Fred Nash

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Mr. Fred Nash, at age 71, distinguished himself by heroism involving voluntary risk of life on August 18, 1958 at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. On that date, Mr. Nash observed an Air Force T-33 aircraft crash land and burst . . .

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

The Cuban Missile Crisis

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
By many accounts, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the nearest the world has come to nuclear war. In the summer of 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to install intermediate range ballistic missiles in . . .

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

The Berlin Crisis 1961

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The four fighter squadrons of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing were intimately involved in the Cold War from the time the Wing became combat ready until it was deployed to the Pacific Theater during the Vietnam War. From 1958 . . .

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

First Meeting House

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New Hartford, Connecticut.
On this plot was raised in 1739, the first meeting house of New Hartford and on these very foundations the second church was built in 1829. After 1854 it was no longer used as a place of worship and was finally removed in . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Killingly World War II Monument

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Killingly, Connecticut.
Roll of Honor in tribute to Anderson, Edward E. • Barriere, Alphonse • Berube, Joseph E. • Bishop, Joseph L.• Bolduc, Alfred N. • Buteau, Norman • Calouri, Ernest • Carroll, Bryan A. • Chandlier, Kenneth H. • Comtois, Joseph . . .

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

Engine 1809

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Slaton, Texas.
September 15, 1955 The Santa Fe Railway Company officially dedicated the steam-powered Engine 1809 to the City of Slaton. Presented by W.A.J. Carter, Superintendent of the Slaton Division of Santa Fe, the engine was accepted . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Killingly Civil War Monument

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Killingly, Connecticut.
Erected A.D. 1878, by the Women’s Monument Association and Town of Killingly, in Honor of the Soldiers and Sailors who served in the War of 1861 for the Preservation of the Union.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cold War - Dominican Republic

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
In 1961, Dominican Republic Dictator Raphael Trujillo was assassinated. In the following years, turmoil and conflict were the order of the day on the island. President John F. Kennedy made it clear that it was time for . . .

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

21st Illinois Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: Illinois 21st Infantry. 2nd Brigade - Carlin. 1st Division - Davis. 20th Army Corps - McCook Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Commanded By Colonel - John W. S. . . .

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

Vietnam

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
From 1968-1970, the 113th Tactical Fighter Wing trained F-100 pilots for combat in Vietnam. Non-combat pilots were upgraded to F-100 fighter pilots in this RTU Replacement Training Unit. In 1968, the 355th's "Fightin' . . .

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

22nd Illinois Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: Illinois 22nd Infantry. 3rd Brigade - Bradley. 3rd Division - Sheridan. 20th Army Corps - McCook Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Commanded By Lieutenant Colonel - Francis . . .

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

St. James' Memorial Church

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Kemptville, Ontario.
This Church was erected "to the honour of Almighty God and in memory of the late Venerable Archdeacon Patton, first Rector of this Parish." The cornerstone was laid on 28th. May 1878 by the Rt. Rev. John Travers Lewis, Lord . . .

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

100th Illinois Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: Illinois 100th Infantry. 1st Brigade - Buell. 1st Division - Wood. 21st Army Corps - Crittenden Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Commanded By Colonel - Frederick H. . . .

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

Brigadier General Thomas Merrit Knoles III

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Brigadier General Thomas M. Knoles, a command pilot in the United States Air Force, was born in 1927 in Flagstaff, Arizona, and graduated from Flagstaff High School in 1945. He attended the University of Arizona prior to . . .

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