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Aurora

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Aurora, New York.
Throughout the history of the area, Cazenovia Creek has played a vital role in the industry and natural beauty of the Town of Aurora and the Southtowns. Connecting the Town. Aurora, as it is today, would not have existed in . . .

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

Olds Returns to Lansing

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Lansing, Michigan.
After fire destroyed the new Olds Motor Works plant in Detroit on March 9, 1901, the Lansing Business Men's Association offered Olds land originally acquired in hopes of permanently hosting the State Fair. He took it. His . . .

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

Sandy Beach and the Big Band Era

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Russells Point, Ohio.
At the turn of the century, the area around Russells Point harbor was owned by the Ohio Department of Conservation, was leased as several separate tracts and operated as picnic grounds. Samuel “Pappy” Wilgus held the leases . . .

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

Interurban Transportation

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Russells Point, Ohio.
In the early 1900’s, advertising could be found in major newspapers proclaiming “Hourly service to Indian Lake, Russells Point and Lakeview.” Interurban Railway Cars were designed by the Ohio electric Company to save gas and . . .

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

Honor Roll

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Aurora, New York.
Honor Roll By duty done is honor won. A tribute to our sons who participated in the Second World War for humanity. In cherished memory of Joseph Pusztay Donald Fox Burtell Suhr

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dedicated to Those Who Served

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Aurora, New York.
Dedicated to Those who served in the armed forces of the United States of America. Becasue of them we live in freedom. God bless them all.

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

Miami- Erie Canal / Lewistown Reservoir

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Russells Point, Ohio.
As a result of the success of the Erie Canal in New York, the Ohio General Assembly decided to build two canals to promote business and travel between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. The Miami & Erie Canal, built in three . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ransom Eli Olds Breakthrough

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Lansing, Michigan.
P.F. Olds founded a prosperous machine shop here on River Street, repairing and building steam and gasoline engines. His was one of many Lansing Manufacturing plants that produced small engines, carriages, windmills and . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Events • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Olds Horseless Carriage

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Lansing, Michigan.
Near this site in 1886, Ransom Eli Olds designed, built, and first drove a steam powered horseless carriage. In 1803, he brought out his first automobile using gasoline engine power. In 1897, he organized the Olds Motor . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Events • Notable Persons • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Michigan Retail Hardware Association

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Lansing, Michigan.
Side 1 With the philosophy, "in union there is strength", twenty Michigan hardware retailers convened in Detroit on July 9, 1895, and organized the Michigan Retail Hardware Association. Frank S. Carlton of Calumet was . . .

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

In Memory of Alfred M. Kalinowski

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Colden, New York.
This gazebo was made possible by Alfred's generous gift to our town. Al was a husband and father devoted to his family, his hometown, and his country. Al proudly served with the US Marine Corps during the Korean War as a . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Education • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Buffum Inn

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Colden, New York.
Buffum Inn Built in 1828 by Richard Buffum. First settler in 1810. Built first grist mill 1814 giving area name of Buffum's Mills.

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

Buffum Homestead

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Colden, New York.
Buffum Homestead —•— Site of and original frame building in Township of Colden. Built in 1810 by Richard Buffum for home and first inn. Became post office in 1833 as well as meeting place for Livingstone Lodge No. 255 F.& A. . . .

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Colden United Methodist Church

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Colden, New York.
Colden United Methodist Church Organized in 1849. This first church building in Colden built and dedicated in 1859 on land donated by Richard Buffum.

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

A Bold Plan

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Frederick, Maryland.
In June 1864, with Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant intent on destroying Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army, Lee developed a bold plan to capture Washington, D.C. He sent Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early with . . .

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

Complex A The House of the Thirteen Heavens

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, Mexico.
Complejo A La Casa de los 13 cielos Es la principal estructura del centro cívico ceremonial ya que fue el punto de observación de fenómenos celestes. Está integrado por un patio hundido, un basamento piramidal y tres . . .

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

House of Mariano Lara

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, Mexico.
En esta casa estuvo la imprenta de Don Mariano Lara, en la que, por primera vez, se imprimió en 1848, el Tratado de Paz entre México y los Estados Unidos de Norte América. Querétaro, Qro., junio de 1947. Comisión Local de . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • War, Mexican-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lincoln’s Ties To Kentucky

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Louisville, Kentucky.
1809 Abraham Lincoln born at Sinking Spring farm, in present-day Larue County, Kentucky. 1816 Lincoln family moved from Kentucky. 1841 Abraham Lincoln visited his friend Joshua Speed at Farmington, the Speed family . . .

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

Slave Trading In Louisville / Garrison Slave Pen Site

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Slave Trading In Louisville By the 1850s, Kentucky was annually exporting between 2500 and 4000 of its slaves down river to the large plantations further south. To prevent runaways, traders operating near the Ohio River . . .

(Antebellum South, US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emiliano Zapata

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, Mexico.
Emiliano Zapata "Quiero morir siendo esclavo de los principios, no de los hombres" José Juan Espinosa Torres Presidente Municipal Esperanza Estela Chilaca Muñoz Síndico Municipal Ignacio A. Molina Huerta Secretario de . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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