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First Congregational Church

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North Collins, New York.
First Congregational Church Congregation organized by the Rev. John Spencer, a journeying minister, and John Stanclift on June 11, 1817. This is the third church building on this site.

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

Town of Brant Memorial Park

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Brant, New York.
Town of Brant Memorial Park Originally named Sampton in 1820, Morse's Corners in 1835, and organized as BRANDT on Mar. 25, 1839 after the Mohawk Chief Col. Joseph Brandt. His Indian name, Pha-wan-da-nee-gah, meant "Wood . . .

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

In Memory of the Sons

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Brant, New York.
In memory of the sons of this community who gave their lives for freedom in the Second World War. [6 names]

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

Town Brant Honors

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Brant, New York.
Town of Brant honors its men and women who have served their country in its hour of need

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

Tarhe

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Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Distinguished Wyandot chief and loyal American Tarhe Died here in Cranetown 1818

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

5 & 10 Cent Store

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Northville, New York.
Founded 1907 as R.G. Dewitt & Co. General Store. Moved to Willard Building in 1914. Later merged with J.J. Newberry.

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

Historic Oak in Sycamore, Ohio

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Sycamore, Ohio.
The International Society of Arboriculture and the National Arborist Association jointly recognize this significant tree in this bicentennial year as having lived here during the American Revolutionary period 1776 1976

(Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Quakers Practicing their Faith in Montgomery County

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Sandy Spring, Maryland.
The Civil War profoundly affected county residents because of their proximity to Washington, D.C. —the Union Capital— and Virginia, the northern reach of the Confederate States of America. No community in Montgomery County . . .

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

Patio of the Curtain or Dry Well

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, Mexico.
Patio de la cortadura o foso seco Esta explanada, que se encuentra entre el muro de las argollas y la cortadura de San Fernando, fue un foso sin agua cuya función era servir de protección en caso de invasión y ataques . . .

(Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General George Rogers Clark

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Louisville, Kentucky.
General George Rogers Clark by Felix W. de Weldon A Gift to the People of Louisville by the Hillman-Hopkins Family ( inscribed in the stones on the terrace ) In the spring of 1778, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark led a small . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

York

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Louisville, Kentucky.
York (ca. 1772 - before 1832) Member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806) to the Pacific Ocean York was the first African American to cross the United States from coast to coast. Born a slave belonging to the Clark . . .

(African Americans • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Clark (1770-1838) / Lewis And Clark In Kentucky Louisville

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Louisville, Kentucky.
William Clark (1770-1838) Born in Va.; bro. of Geo. Rogers Clark; came here in 1785, in Ky. Militia & US Army, where he met Meriwether Lewis. Together they led 1803-1806 mission to Pacific. Stayed in govt. service; moved to . . .

(Exploration • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Irene Dunne (1898-1990)

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Irene Dunne (1898-1990) Born in Louisville, this actress appeared on Broadway in 1920s and then starred in forty-one comedy, dramatic, and musical films of the 1930s and 40s. nominated five times for an Academy Award. Her . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hilton Capitol Center

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
One of 200 Historic Hotels of America, the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center was first built in 1927 as the Hotel Heidelberg, the city's first luxury hotel and site of noteworthy social and political events. Governor Huey P. . . .

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

Belle of Louisville

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Belle of Louisville The Belle of Louisville, built in Pittsburgh in 1914, is the oldest continuously operating steamboat in the U.S. Warfboat LSS#10 is the only remaining inland Coast Guard Station in the U.S. Both were . . .

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

Captain John F. Gilooly

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Captain John F. Gilooly Louisville’s most famous life saver at the Falls of the Ohio, Captain John F. (Jack) Gilooly (1855 - 1926), assisted in or effected the saving of 6,312 persons, property valued at $5,500,00, and . . .

(Heroes) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Triumph At Carville: A Tale of Leprosy in America

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Carville, Louisiana.
In 1894, The Louisiana Leper Home was established at an abandoned plantation south of Baton Rouge, near a town eventually known as Carville. That November, the first seven patients, transferred from a "pest house" in New . . .

(Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bastion of San Pedro

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, Mexico.
Baluarte de San Pedro Esta es la construcción más antigua de la fortaleza; se tiene registro de su existencia desde 1535, como una pequeña torre no más alta que un hombre. Antes de que se erigiera el muro de las argollas, . . .

(Colonial Era • Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Daughters of Charity

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Carville, Louisiana.
In 1895, the Louisiana Leper Home Board of Control needed to secure nursing services for the first patients. They approached a Catholic nursing order with the promise of furnishing sleeping and living arrangements. The . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ohio Ninety Sixth Infantry,

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Front Ohio Ninety Sixth Infantry, Lieut. Col. Albert H. Brown Col. Joseph W. Vance. 1st Brig.10th Div.,13th Corps. Rear This regiment was ordered to remain at Perkins' Landing, Louisiana, when its Corps crosses the . . .

(War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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