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A History of Firsts in Baltimore

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Baltimore, Maryland.
From its founding in 1729, Baltimore’s proximity to the Chesapeake Bay was the engine that drove commerce, trade and industry. The most inland port on the eastern seaboard, Baltimore boomed as a leading city, center of . . .

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

Wapatomica

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near Zanesfield, Ohio.
Historically a political center and site of several intertribal councils, Wapatomica is considered the most significant site of Shawnee history in Ohio. As such, the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma donated the funds for . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

United States Merchant Seamen Memorial

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Baltimore, Maryland.
To the memory of the United States Merchant Seamen who lost their lives serving the United States of America. Donations: National Maritime Union of America, International Organization of Masters Mates and Pilots, Seafarers . . .

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

Baltimore’s Part in Saving the Bay

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Baltimore, Maryland.
The promenade you are standing on lies within a very special space called the Critical Area. The Critical Area is the 1000 foot strip (about three city blocks) bordering the entire Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, . . .

(Waterways & Vessels • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Olmsted Legacy

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Think green and thank the Olmsteds as you walk along the Gwynns Falls Trail. If it weren’t for the Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects firm, the City of Baltimore would not be blessed with most of its large multipurpose . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Environment • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Port of Baltimore

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore was a late bloomer in colonial America. Chartered in 1729, the port grew rapidly after the Revolutionary War to become by 1800 the new nation’s third largest city. The harbor proved ideal for shipping grain from . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Relay House

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Halethorpe, Maryland.
On this site in 1830 a hotel with a waiting room and ticket office was built to serve passengers of the B & O Railroad. Here horses were changed for the final 5-mile trip to Ellicott Mills. Hence the name Relay House. As the . . .

(Notable Buildings • Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sutherland - Wilson Farm

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Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan.
Side 1 In the 1850s, Langford (1802-1865) and Lydia (1806-1892) Sutherland replaced their small log cabin with this Greek Revival house. Farm buildings from that era were built from locally harvested hand-hewn timber and . . .

(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hand Hall

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Stockton, California.
This building is dedicated to the memory of Clifford J. Hand Devoted teacher, administrator and friend whose many contributions to the progress of the University of the Pacific enriched the lives of the students, faculty . . .

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

Stockton Jewish Community Center

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Stockton, California.
Jewish Community Center 1926 Stockton’s “Architect Laureate” Glen Allen designed this culturally important edifice. Built by Louis S. Peletz, it served the Stockton Jewish community and Temple Israel until 1964 when . . .

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

The Ice Lakes

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Fort Ritchie, Maryland.
Until the mid-1920s, the Buena Vista Ice Company of Germantown (now Cascade), Maryland, was located on this site for the harvesting of natural ice used to preserve produce and dairy products during shipment. It was one of . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maryland Stadium Complex at Ostend and Warner Streets

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Today Camden Yards is synonymous with sports. It is the site of two stadiums that are the home of the National Football League’s Baltimore Ravens and the Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles. North of the stadiums is . . .

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

B-24 Bomber Crash Memorial

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near Waldo, Kansas.
On 22 September 1943 a B-24D "Liberator" bomber crashed into the hillside approximately four hunder yards west of this site amid inclement weather. That night eleven Army Air Force men lost their lives while in the service . . .

(War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism • Air & Space • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

José Maria Morelos y Pavón

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Stockton, California.
En conmemoración del Bicentenario de la Independencia de México y el Centenario de la Revolución mexicana, el Gobierno de México, a través del Consulado General de México en Sacramento, con el invaluable apoyo de la . . .

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

Stockton Veterans Monument

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Stockton, California.
WW I Gulf War 1990 to 1995 Dedicated To All Veterans By Veterans Luneta VFW Post 52 WW II Dedicated To The Veterans Of America Juky 5, 1981 Karl Ross Post 16 American Legion Korea Afghanistan War 2001 to Vietnam Iraq War . . .

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

Shenandoah Plaza

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Mountain View, California.
Shenandoah Plaza In Memory of the Fourteen Officers and men USS Shenandoah Lost September 3, 1925 Lord, guard and guide the men who fly through the great spaces in the sky. Be with them always in the air, in darkening storms . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pump House

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Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan.
[lat N42 11.965 lon W083 44.435] The Pump House is the small, square, one-story structure. The two-story garage and apartment was attached to the Pump House when the garage and apartment were constructed in the 1950s. The . . .

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

Lower Level of the Barn

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Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan.
[lat N42 11.929 lon W083 44.436] Here cattle would have been gathered for shelter from the severe winter cold. Later, when the farm established a small dairy enterprise, Jersey cows would have been brought here from the . . .

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

Ice House

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Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan.
[lat N42 11.957 lon W083 44.436] While this was used as the ice house for many years, this structure may have been one of the first buildings built on the farm. At one time it had a lean-to addition attached to the west . . .

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

Granger’s Reserve Corps

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Lakeview, Georgia.
Granger's (Reserve) Corps Major General Gordon Granger September 14, 1863, Morning 1st Division - General James R. Steedman 2nd Brigade (Morgan's Division) - Colonel Daniel McCook This corps was guarding the railroads and . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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