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Hazen's Brigade

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Chickamauga, Georgia.
Hazen's Brigade Palmer's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Brigadier General William B. Hazen. September 19, 1863, Morning. 9th Indiana - Colonel Isaac C.B. Suman. 6th Kentucky - Colonel George T. Shackleford. 41st Ohio - . . .

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

Grose's Brigade

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Chickamauga, Georgia.
Grose's Brigade. Palmer's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Colonel William Grose September 19, 1863, Daylight 84th Illinois - Colonel Louis H. Waters. 36th Indiana - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver H. P. Carey. 36th Indiana - Major . . .

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

Cruft's Brigade

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Chickamauga, Georgia.
Cruft's Brigade Palmer's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Brigadier General Charles Cruft. September 19, 1863, Morning. 31st Indiana - Colonel John T. Smith. 1st Kentucky - Lieutenant Colonel Alva R. Hadlock. 2d Kentucky - . . .

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

Winston Mutual Life Insurance Building

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Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
On August 6. 1906, the Winston Industrial Assoc. was established by African—American leaders to provide insurance for African—American tobacco workers. The association merged with Mountain City Mutual Life Ins. Co. in 1915 . . .

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

Honorable Hamilton McMillan

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Pembroke, North Carolina.
Sponsored legislation in 1885 establishing public schools for Indians of Robeson County. In 1887 he introduced legislation to establish Croatan Normal School — now Pembroke State University.

(Native Americans • Education • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Municipality of Frontenac (established in 1882)

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near Frontenac, Quebec.
In 2003, a group of scientists from the University of Montreal discovered typical Paleo-Indian artefacts in the municipality of Frontenac. This very discovery propelled the region to the foreground of archaeological history . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary • Anthropology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Valley Church of God in Christ Jesus

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Fort Valley, Virginia.
This building was erected in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine by the Brethren of the Church of God in Christ Jesus, organized November 2, 1878 at Dry Run Meeting House. It was dedicated to God by Elder . . .

(Churches, Etc.) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grand Canyon Depot

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Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
In 1901, the screech of train brakes and the blast of a train whistle signaled the arrival of a new era in Grand Canyon Village. The railroad provided the most comfortable means of transportation to the canyon for more than . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Maryland Mine

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Potomac, Maryland.
The building in front of you was a processing mill, where gold was extracted from quartz. The quartz was dug in the Maryland Mine, one of over 30 mines that once dotted the landscape here. During the Civil War a Union . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Boats Passing By

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Potomac, Maryland.
In days past, while standing on the edge of the canal one would see a variety of boats float by. During the peak operating years of the C&O canal in the 1870's, as many as 550 freight boats were in use on the canal carrying . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pouppeville

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Rayne, Louisiana.
English Side Side A Named for the merchant Jules Pouppeville and dating back to the 1850s, Pouppeville was once a stagecoach stop. The town was disassembled, carried north by oxen one mile to meet the railroad, and rebuilt . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salmon Lusk Wright

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Crowley, Louisiana.
Developed at this site the world's best seed rice which revived that industry by insuring wider markets. His varieties that are used today for breeding purposes are Blue Rose, Louisiana Pearl, Early Prolific Edith, and Lady Wright.

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

Le Premier Puits de Pétrole

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Jennings, Louisiana.
Le 21 septembre 1901 á Evangéline, á 5 milles au nord-est, le forage du puits no. 1 Jules Clement de la compagnie "Jennings Oil" fut terminé par W. Scott Heywood et ses associés. C'est ainsi que commença l'importante . . .

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

In Remembrance of the Holocaust

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Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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(War, World II • Civil Rights • Disasters) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Negley's Division

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near Chickamauga, Georgia.
Text on the first of two tablets: Negley's Division, - Thomas' Corps. Major General James S. Negley. September 19th, 1863, Morning. 1st Brigade, - Brigadier General John Beatty. 2nd Brigade, - Colonel Timothy R. Stanley. . . .

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

Chinese 1976 Bicentennial Monument

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Stockton, California.
The Chinese community of Stockton dedicates this monument to the city of Stockton to commemorate the bicentennial year of 1976, in memory of the contributions which the Chinese have made to Stockton. The ingenuity of the . . .

(Peace • Asian Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stockton Women Veterans Tree

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Stockton, California.
With Eternal Gratitude This Beautiful Sequoia Tree Is Dedicated to Honor All The Women of Stockton And San Joaquin County Who Have So Admirably Served In The Armed Forces of The United States of America June, 1996 Stockton . . .

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

Ort J. Lofthus Crosstown Freeway

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Stockton, California.
Ort J. Lofthus Crosstown Freeway This outstanding civic leader rejected the prospect that Stockton would settle for a ”freeway to nowhere.” He organized the FOCUS (Finish Our Crosstown-Unite Stockton) committee and . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot, 1972

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Mountain View, California.
IEEE Milestone In Electrical Engineering And Computing Shakey: The World's First Mobile Intelligent Robot, 1972 Stanford Research Institute's Artificial Intelligence Center developed the world's first mobile intelligent . . .

(Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Computer History Museum

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Mountain View, California.
IEEE Special Citation In Electrical Engineering And Computing Computer History Museum, 1979 The Computer History Museum's mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the Information Age. . . .

(Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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