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Tree of Saint Peter

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, Guatemala.
Árbol de Santo Hermano Pedro Nombre: Esquisuchil Nombre científico: Bourreira Huanita Familia: Boraginaceae Altura promedio: 9 Metros Sembrado el 21 de Agosto de 2016 Es un Brote Natural del árbol plantado por el Santo . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sergeant Littleton Tazewell Cordell

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Charles Town, West Virginia.
Serg't Littleton Tazewell Cordell Mar. 22. 1882 - Oct. 23. 1918. 110th. Bat. Mach. Gun Co. 29th. Div. Blue & Gray. Killed in Action at Battle of Etraye Ridge, Argonne Forest. France. "In life loved, in death remembered" By . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Ceremonial Avenue

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, Mexico.
Calzada ceremonial El acceso principal al centro cívico ceremonial en época prehispánica se realizaba a traves de una gran calzada de casi un kilómetro de longitud y entre 13 y 17 metros de ancho. Ésta se diseño con un trazo . . .

(Anthropology • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

House of Seven Porches

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Marietta, Ohio.
Built in 1835 by Marietta College Professor Diarca H. Allen. Was long known as the Buell, then the Kelso House.

(Architecture • Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Black Americans

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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
In memory of The Black Americans who fought here for freedom from human slavery June, 1976

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sylvania Heritage Museum

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Sylvania, Ohio.
This circa 1902 house was the home and office of Dr. Uriah A. Cooke. His physician's office is still intact. Adjacent to the office is a replica of an early 1900's apothecary. The three-story house features the original . . .

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

World War I Monument

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Suffolk, Virginia.
(front) In memory of the men of Suffolk and Nansemond County who gave their lives in the World War 1917-1919 They sought not glory, but their country’s good and died that right, which is more precious than peace, might . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Spanish War Veterans Memorial

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Suffolk, Virginia.
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(War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Norman's Mills Ford

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near Brandy Station, Virginia.
Serving the public as a crossing of Mountain Run on the Carolina Road (Raleigh to Philadelphia) from Colonial days until 1900, when a single lane, three span, steel truss bridge was constructed, just west of the dam. This . . .

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

Battle of Brandy Station

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near Brandy Station, Virginia.
After crossing at Kelley's Ford, Col. Duffie's division on their way to Stevensburg, were met by a small Confederate force just east of Stevensburg, on Hansboro Ridge. Duffie's huge force easily pushed through the . . .

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

The Erie Canal at Port Byron

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Port Byron, New York.
The Erie Canal at Port Byron When the original Erie Canal or "Clinton's Ditch" was completed here in 1819, Port Byron was transformed from a frontier settlement to a thriving canal town. Indeed, the local citizens were so . . .

(Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Port Byron's Lock 52

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Port Byron, New York.
Lock 52 on the Erie Canal was once a busy place. Built in 1851 and lengthened on the berm side in 1887 to accommodate two boats hitched together in tandem, the lock created a popular stopping point for canal boatmen. The . . .

(Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tanner's Dry Dock

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Port Byron, New York.
About two hundred feet from here was once the location of the D. B. Tanner Dry Dock, built in 1863 on the former Clinton's Ditch alignment. Craftmen built and repaired canal cargo boats in the dry docks that carried grain, . . .

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

Glaciers, Drumlins, and High Level Lakes

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Port Byron, New York.
During the ice ages of the last 2 million years, glaciers sculpted the land surface forming, amongst other features, the many rounded and elongated hills called drumlins that are seen from the Thruway between Rochester and . . .

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Prestley Barn"

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Manquin, Virginia.
James L. Townsend Sr. was a pioneer in the dairy industry in King William County, Virginia. His son, Guy O. Townsend built the barn which has been a landmark on the Richmond-Tappahannock Highway for almost 90 years. A later . . .

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

"Old Virginia Barn"

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Manquin, Virginia.
This early 1800's bank barn is of post and beam construction. Most of the timber was hand hewed. Livestock were confined to the ground level and grain and feed were stored on the main level. The property was part of The . . .

(Agriculture • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War & Gilmore Farm Trail

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Montpelier Station, Virginia.
Roundtrip: One mile of level woodland trails An easy walk through a Confederate winter camp to the Gilmore Farm, home of freed Montpelier slave, George Gilmore and his wife, Polly. Montpelier During the War After Dolley . . .

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

Clark-Berssant House

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St Marys, Georgia.
In this house Aaron Burr fleeing after duel with Alexander Hamilton, and later General Winfield Scott returning from Indian campaign in Florida, were entertained by Major Archibald Clark. W.P.A. 1936.

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Arco Veterans Memorial

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Arco, Idaho.
A Memorial To Those Whose Lives Were Lost In Defense Of Freedom, By Acts Of War Or Terrorism; And A Tribute To The Heroic Actions Of All Patriotic Americans

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

Battery F, 1st Ohio Light Artillery Marker

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Battery F. 1st Ohio Light Artillery. Hazen’s Brigade. 5:oo P.M. September 19, 1863.

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