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Church Street/Main Street

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Lake City, South Carolina.
Church Street Before the 1820s this intersection of two major roads, one from Georgetown to Camden and the other from Charleston to Cheraw, was popularly called "the crosswords." After Arron Graham built a house here ca. . . .

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

H.H. Singletary Building

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Lake City, South Carolina.
(side 1) This two-story commercial building was built in 1910 by Henry Horace Singletary (1848-1912) as the H.H. Singletary Company, with a grocery store on the first floor. Singletary, perhaps the most prominent businessman . . .

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

Palmetto State Bank Robbery

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Lake City, South Carolina.
(side 1) Constructed in 1907, this building originally housed Farmers and Merchants Bank. IN 1934 the newly formed Palmetto State Bank opened here. On Sept. 5, 1934 the bank was robbed by three armed men. The bank had larger . . .

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

W.T. Askins House

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Lake City, South Carolina.
This Folk Victorian house, with pierced brackets and fretwork on its two-tiered porch, was built ca. 1895 for William Thomas Askins (1859-1932). Askins, a merchant and farmer, built and operated five stores here beginning in . . .

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

Grand Gulf Military Park

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
In 1958 the Mississippi Legislature created the Grand Gulf Military Monument Commission to purchase 1and and develop the Grand Gulf site. The Grand Gulf Military State Park opened in May, 1962. Dedication ceremonies were . . .

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

The Buildup for War

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
By the use of flying batteries, the Confederates were so mobile that the Union troops had much difficulty in stopping fortification of bluffs behind Grand Gulf. Harassment forced Commodore David Farragut to convoy the . . .

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

War Comes to Grand Gulf

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
No town in Mississippi felt the sting of the Civil War worse than did Grand Gulf. In the spring of 1862, Commodore David Farragut sent his powerful ocean-going squadron up the Mississippi River. Baton Rouge and Natchez fell, . . .

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

The William C. Stover House

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Fort Collins, Colorado.
Certificate of Recognition Let It Be Known to All Persons That "The William C. Stover House" at 503 Remington Street Is Hereby Officially Accepted As A Local Historic Landmark June 4, 1996

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

Victories and Defeats - The Cost of War

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
Despite the estimated more than 2,500 heavy projectiles fired into the Confederate forts, there was little damage. The Confederates suffered three dead, including Colonel Wade, and eighteen wounded. Union losses totaled . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Grand Gulf Naval Battle

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
In May 1862, cannoneers of Brookhaven Light Artillery, commanded by Captain James Hoskins, reached Grand Gulf. Hoskins had gunners emplace and mask four 6-pounders on bluffs behind the village. The task was to harass the . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Second Grand Gulf Naval Battle

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
In April, 1863 Major General Ulysses Grant decide to alter his Vicksburg strategy by moving his troops down the Mississippi River. On April 29, 1863 the Federals launched a determined assault on Grand Gulf. The Confederates . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Spanish House

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Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
This house was built in the late 1790's of cypress, poplar and heart pine and put together with wooden pegs instead of mails. The Spanish built structure represents one of several homesteads erected by five different groups . . .

(Notable Buildings • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beaver Dick

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Rexburg, Idaho.
Beaver Dick This park is named for “Beaver Dick, “ a mountain man of late fur trade days, who lived on in this locality until 1899. He was born in England, and his real name was Richard Leigh. He came west as a trapper, . . .

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

Volcanic Calderas

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Ashton, Idaho.
Volcanic Calderas Some 2,000,000 years ago, massive eruptions of hot rock boiled for 60 miles from this high rim on across Yellowstone Park. An exceptionally large crater remained when that lava surface collapsed. Another . . .

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

Harriman State Park

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Island Park, Idaho.
Harriman State Park Started in 1902 as a large cattle ranch, Railroad Ranch soon became a summer retreat for wealthy easterners and eventually Idaho’s largest state park. Railroad magnate and diplomat W. Averell Harriman . . .

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

Unanimous Resolution

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Frederick, Maryland.
“It is the unanimous resolution and opinion of this court that all the business thereof shall and ought to be transacted in the usual and accustomed manner, without any inconvenience or delay to be occasioned from the want . . .

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

Hawkesbury Mills

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Hawkesbury, Ontario.
In 1805 Thomas Mears and David Patee leased islands in the Ottawa where they built a sawmill and a grist-mill. They constructed a dam across the channel to Hawkesbury West and there purchased 1,000 acres of land. In 1810 . . .

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

Moving Up To Cathedral Hill: Three Centuries of Change

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Saratoga Street marks your arrival at Cathedral Hill, a neighborhood packed with three centuries of architecture. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Baltimoreans built some of their finest mansions and churches on . . .

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

Site of Frederick County's First Y.M.C.A.

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Frederick, Maryland.
1907 Thru Mid 1960's The Old “Y” was the school for - Guidance, Discipline, Sportsmanship, Leadership, and Honesty, (It was the wind beneath our wings.)

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ashley Jewish Homesteaders Cemetery - Left Marker

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Ashley, North Dakota.
On November 17, 2015, the United States Department of the Interior officially named this site to the National Register of Historic Places. From the 1880s through the 1930s, 1200 Jewish farmers lived on over 250 homesteads in . . .

(Agriculture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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