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Outdoor Art Club

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Mill Valley, California.
The Outdoor Art Club was designed in 1904 by Bernard Maybeck; internationally known American architect. Particularly notable for its unusual roof truss system, the building exemplifies Maybeck's creative use of natural . . .

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

Grist Mill Stones

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Mill Valley, California.
found in Mill Valley at adobe home site of John T. Reed, first Mexican land grantee in Marin County. Donated by the family of John and Cora Gardner Burt

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Itinerant Miners' Cemetery

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Fraterville, Tennessee.
Itinerant miners worked in the Fraterville Mine alongside miners with long-term contracts and strong local ties. Bodies of the itinerant miners were not claimed after the 1902 explosion and were buried adjacent to the . . .

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

Village of Brothers

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Fraterville, Tennessee.
Major Eldad Cicero Camp, a Civil War Union veteran, U.S. District Attorney, and businessman, never used convicts in his mines. Instead, he established contracts with experienced miners. Fraterville, the name of Major Camp's . . .

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

Site of First School

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Schoharie, New York.
Site of First School In Schoharie Village Built About 1740

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

The Old Cumberland Presbyterian Meeting House

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Concord, Tennessee.
The first Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation in East Tennessee was organized c. 1822 and given the name Concord. The church building, often referred to as the "Old Meeting House", was located 2 miles SE of the present town . . .

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

Memorial for Cofounders of Campbell Station

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Farragut, Tennessee.
Colonel David Campbell Born 1753 - 1832 * David Campbell donated the land for Pleasant Forest Cemetery. David Campbell and Archibald McCaleb settled Campbell Station on March 7, 1787. By 1798 a small church and school was . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Vincent's School for Boys

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San Rafael, California.
In 1853, Timothy Murphy, Irish born pioneer of Marin County, gave 317 acres of land to Archbishop Alemany for educational purposes. Here the Sister of Charity in 1855 founded a school now called St. Vincent's School for . . .

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

Life Under Slavery

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stolen Some people trace their roots back many generations with letters, a family Bible that records events, and stories that connect them to the past or identify the place from which their family came. The descendants of . . .

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

Florida's First Bicentennial Park

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Crescent City, Florida.
Dedicated August 25, 1973 in honor of Thomas A. Dexter Crescent City Commission Bobby L. Wiltcher-Mayor Commissioners Jimmy Miller Dudley Sargent Jack Deacon Jerry Ellis

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

Snow's Battery

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Port Deposit, Maryland.
In the summer of 1861, in prosperous Port Deposit, men volunteered for an artillery battery to fight for their beloved Union. Cant. Alonzo Snow led the approximately 155-man unit. Organized in September, Snow's Battery left . . .

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

Lake St. Clair (Lac Sainte Claire)

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St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
French explorers discovered and named Lake Saint Clair on August 12, 1679. Among the party of 34 men were voyageur Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle and Roman Catholic friar Father Louis Hennepin. Aboard the Griffon, . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Waterways & Vessels • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Orange Park

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Orange Park, Florida.
Orange Park was the site of a cotton and citrus British plantation, Laurel Grove, which was established by William and Rebecca Pengree during Florida’s British Period (1763-1783). Following the American Revolution, Florida . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hickory Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery

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Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Hickory Grove Baptist Church was organized in 1863, and the church’s congregation first worshiped here in one of the earliest buildings constructed in Clay County. The church was named for a grove of hickory trees that grew . . .

(Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Chowenwaw

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near Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Created in 1932, Camp Chowenwaw (Cho’-wen-waw) derived its name from the Creek word for “sister.” Prominent Jacksonville resident Nancy Osborne, with support from local organizations such as the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, led . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Heilman

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Middleburg, Florida.
Fort Heilman, named after Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Julius F. Heilman, was built in the mid 1830´s at the spot where the north and south forks of Black Creek join. It was a temporary wooden stockade used during the First . . .

(Forts, Castles • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The House & the People Who Worked & Lived In It

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A Brief Timeline of Freedom and Slavery at this Site Before • For hundreds of years, Algonquian-speaking peoples lived here. 1682 • The city of Philadelphia was founded. 1767 • The house was built by Mary Lawrence Masters, a . . .

(Civil Rights • Man-Made Features • Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Penscola’s First Lighthouse

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Pensacola, Florida.
Site of Penscola’s First Lighthouse and First on Florida’s Gulf Coast Lighted: December 20, 1824-December 31, 1858 Architect: Winslow Lewis Tower: Conical 30-foot Brick Light: 10 Whale Oil Lamps in 7-foot Lantern Keepers: . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pelicans In Paradise

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Pensacola, Florida.
Germalican Designer 2nd German Air Force Training Squadron USA Artist Mrs. Lydia Davis Sponsor 2nd German Air Force Training Squadron USA “The Staff Crew of 2010” LtCol Frank Orkisz · Major Oliver Ruhe · Cpt Dirk . . .

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

Middleburg

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Middleburg, Florida.
Middleburg developed in the early 1800s as a transportation center linking the St. Johns River with the peninsular interior. Originally settled in the 1820s as Clark´s Ferry, a crossing on Black Creek, it became a major . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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