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Mary Morris Burnett Talbert

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Buffalo, New York.
Mary Morris Burnett the youngest daughter of Cornelius and Caroline Nichols Burnett, was born in Oberlin Ohio. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1886 at the age of nineteen. Ms. Burnett moved to Little Rock Arkansas . . .

(Education • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Well Cemetery

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Duck River, Tennessee.
Land donated by Richard "Kettle Dick" Anderson from 2,000 acre land grant he settled in 1810. Named "Old Well" for well at NW corner of cemetery dug by Andrew Jackson's army returning from the battle of New Orleans. Early . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early Civil Rights Era

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Baltimore, Maryland.
In pre-Civil War Baltimore, African Americans—such as Frederick Douglas, Daniel Coker, and William Watkins--- wrote some of the earliest and most important abolitionist treatises. After the Civil War, African Americans . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp White

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Barkhamsted, Connecticut.
To honor the men of Camp White Company 106 established 1934 Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942 created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt renewing the country’s natural resources and challenging the human spirit of a . . .

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

Austin Hawes Memorial Campground

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Barkhamsted, Connecticut.
In this Area in the Past..... The Austin Hawes Memorial Campground is located in an area once known as the “Greenwoods,” where until the late 1700’s large pine and hemlock trees grew along the Farmington River. From 1800 . . .

(Man-Made Features • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Park Arthur

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Muskego, Wisconsin.
This city park is named in honor of Arthur Henry Thiesenhusen (1898-1990) by his wife Myrtle. He farmed this land until his retirement in 1966. Arthur was the son of William Johann and Henricka "Ricka' (Garbe) Thiesenhusen - . . .

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

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran (Kirche) Church

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Muskego, Wisconsin.
In 1857, twelve German families started a Protestant Mission church. They brought their Christian faith and German language from the old country to what is now Muskego. Their services were conducted in German and held once a . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Do I Smell Pizza-Burgers?"

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Muskego, Wisconsin.
This property was originally platted to Anson Taylor by President Martin Van Buren in 1840, then subsequently sold to William Pratt in 1854, this being platted as part of Plattsburg in 1856. In 1866 this property was sold to . . .

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

The Devil's Teapot

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Muskego, Wisconsin.
In 1904, the coming of the interurban electric railway (TREM&L) made railroad travel possible between downtown Milwaukee and East Troy, WI. At this very location, a railroad trestle was constructed to bridge a two-acre . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dawson Dawson-Watson

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Burlington, Connecticut.
The Artist A charismatic Englishman with the unlikely name of Dawson Dawson-Watson came to Hartford in 1893, fresh from Giverny and its aura of Claude Monet, and set to work introducing the radical French art called . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

58th Indiana Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: 58th Regiment Indiana Infantry. 1st Brigade - Buell. 1st Division - Wood. 21st Corps - Crittenden. Text on the Back Side of the Monument: Indiana Tribute To Her Fifty-Eighth . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George Rogers Clark At Locust Grove / Lewis and Clark in Kentucky - Locust Grove

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Louisville, Kentucky.
George Rogers Clark At Locust Grove George Rogers Clark moved to Locust Grove in 1809 following amputation of his right leg. He lived here with his sister Lucy and her husband William Croghan until Clark's death in 1818. . . .

(War, US Revolutionary • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

8th Indiana Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
8th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery. 4 6 Pounders, 2 12 Pounder Howitzers. Buell's Brigade, Wood's Division, Crittenden's Corps. September 19, 1863. Captain George Estep, Commanding (wounded slightly). 1st Lieutenant . . .

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

World War II Missions Performed at Myrtle Beach Army Air Field

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
One of the first missions to be carried out at the base was that of coastal defense in the wake of the United States' entry into World War II. The dominant wartime mission of the base was training air crews for combat duty. . . .

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

Activation of the 354th Fighter Day Wing

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
In the Fall of 1956, officers and airmen from the United States Air Force were assigned to newly constructed Myrtle Beach Air Force Base to start a new fighter wing. Their task was reactivation of the famous World War II . . .

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

354th Fighter Group World War II History

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The 354th Fighter Wing has a long and distinguished past. The wing saw action in every major conflict in which the United States was involved, except for the Korean War. Activated at Hamilton Field in California on November . . .

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

354th Fighter Group World War II History

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The 354th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) had its genesis as the 354th Fighter Group (FG) in November 1942 at Hamilton Field, California. In October 1943, it was moved to England and began aerial combat operations flying P-51s. . . .

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

354th Fighter Group History

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
On November 19, 1956, the Air Force resurrected the unit as the 354th Fighter-Day Group and stationed it at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. It was then re-designated the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing in July 1958, flying the . . .

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

Splinter City

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
In March 1942, units of the United States Army Air Corps opened formal operations at what was named the Myrtle Beach Bombing and Gunnery Training Range, which also encompassed the Beach airport. Construction began to meet . . .

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

Reactivation of 354th Fighter Day Wing

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Address by General O.P. Weyland, United States Air Force Commander, Tactical Air Command at Reactivation of 354th Fighter Day Wing Ceremony Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina December 7, 1956 Governor . . .

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