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Ignacio Ramírez

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Ignacio Ramirez Constituyente en 1856-57 Nacio en S. Miguel el Grande Gto. 1818 Alumno del Colegio de S. Juan de Letran Ministro de la S. Corte de Justicia filosofo, poeta orador y polemista extraordinario Fallecio en Mexico . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Michigan Central Railroad Gardens

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The triangular plot of land along River Street was originally called "Cass Plat" in honor of Governor Lewis Cass. It later became a children's playground. The Ypsilanti Depot Gardens were the pride of the Central Railroad . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Standing at the Crossroads 1861

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Franklin, Tennessee.
Pre-war Middle Tennessee thrived. Residents free and enslaved grew copious amounts of corn, wheat, timber, cattle, and horses, and no area of the South produced more mules and hog. Toads, rails, and telegraph wires webbed . . .

(African Americans • Agriculture • Railroads & Streetcars • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Becoming the Front Line 1862

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Franklin, Tennessee.
"Throughout 1862 first one army would be encamped in town, then the Federals. Raids were frequent, then we would run down in our cellar to get out of the range of the bullets. Sometimes we would spend a whole night there. . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Crucial War Zone 1863

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Franklin, Tennessee.
For the Union, 1863 brought the Emancipation Proclamation, victory at Gettysburg, and the capturing of the Mississippi River. Federal forces continued their drive toward Atlanta in hopes of ending the war altogether. But on . . .

(African Americans • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maj. Gen. William W. Loring's Division

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Franklin, Tennessee.
During the Battle of Franklin this Confederate division composed of three brigade commanded by Brig. Gens. Winfield Scott Featherston, Thomas Moore Scott,and John Adams, swept past Carnton as it approached the Federal line . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Edward Hastings Ripley

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Mendon, Vermont.
Born in Rutland, Ripley enlisted in the 9th Vermont in 1862 and fought at Harper’s Ferry, Chaffin’s Farm and Second Fair Oaks. As brigade commander of the Army of the James, the general led the first Union troops into the . . .

(Animals • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Archaeological Remains

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Baltimore, Maryland.
For the past 300 years, wharfs have jutted into Baltimore harbor, and been home to commercial and residential buildings. What is known today as Chase’s Wharf, where you are standing, had long been a bustling site with one . . .

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

Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park and Museum

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Welcome-The Living Classrooms Foundation is a non-profit organization, operates for the benefit of the community at large, providing hands-on education and job skills training to students from diverse backgrounds, with a . . .

(African Americans • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Achsa W. Sprague (1827-1862)

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Plymouth, Vermont.
Achsa Sprague was born and lived in Plymouth Notch, teaching in the stone school by age 12. At 20, she contracted a mysterious disease and spent seven years bedridden, waking one day miraculously cured. Attributing recovery . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • Arts, Letters, Music • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pittsford's Iron Industry

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Pittsford, Vermont.
Side 1 In 1791, Israel Keith built an iron blast furnace two miles east of here, adjacent to what is now Furnace Brook. Materials for the smelting process included iron ore, manganese, and charcoal from Chittenden, with . . .

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

Sled Springs Stage Station

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near Enterprise, Oregon.
Early day travelers used the clearing west of this sign as a stop-over and resting place during their journeys from Lost Prairie, Flora, Paradise and other points north to Elgin. Travel was by saddle horse, stagecoach, or . . .

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

Columbia Building

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Columbus, Ohio.
This Property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Company A, 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment Memorial

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Frederick, Maryland.
In special tribute to those who participated in the "D" Day Invasion-Normandy France, June 6, 1944 Since 1775 Dedicated to all those past and present who have served in peace and war as members of Company A, 1st Bn, 115th . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, Cold • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Muskingum Academy / Marietta College

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Marietta, Ohio.
Muskingum Academy, 1797, Birth of Higher Education in Ohio. In April 1797, a committee of Marietta citizens, led by General Rufus Putnam, met to establish an academy suitable for preparatory instruction for their youth. . . .

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

World War II Veterans Memorial

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Frederick, Maryland.
We honor our men and women who served in World War II Killed in Action Frank W. Albaugh • Garfield H. Ambrose • Benjamin W. Anderson • Charles W. Andrews • Sherman E. Axline • John S. Baer • Franklin E. Baker • Gerald L. . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 15 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Manuel Cepeda Peraza

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Manuel Cepeda Peraza Gob. de Yucatan Nacio en Merida en 1828 Militar valiente y distinguido Lucho por la causa Liberal Goberno su estado con talento y con patriotismo Murio en el año de 1869 English translation: Manuel . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Newton County War Memorial

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Covington, Georgia.
In Loving and Grateful Memory of Those Citizens of Newton County Who Gave Their Lives In The Defense Of Our Country {Honor Roll of World War I, II, Korean War, Vietnam & Gulf War dead of Newton County, Georgia}

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

To The Confederate Dead of Newton County

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Covington, Georgia.
West side Their gallant and heroic deeds like monumental shafts arise from out the graveyard of the past, and mark the tombs where valor lies. _______ South side No sordid or mercenary spirit animated the cause . . .

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

Michigan Central Railroad Depot

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Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The railroad came to Ypsilanti in 1838. The inaugural ride was truly a distinguished party that included the 19 year old "Boy Governor," Stevens T. Mason and John D. Pierce, the first State Superintendent of Education. Their . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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