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General Miguel Barragán

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Al Gral. D. Miguel Barragan Benemerito de la Patria y a sus dignos compañeros de armas de 1825 a quienes se debio la rendición de este castillo, último reducto de la dominación española. La “Academia Mexicana de la Historia” . . .

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

The STAR

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Carville, Louisiana.
The Sixty-six STAR was born in 1931, with Stanley Stein as its editor. The name was selected by Carville patient and Texas pharmacist, Stanley Levyson (AKA Stanley Stein). It was first published as a mimeograph sheet dealing . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Indiana

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Company C, 4th Cavalry. Captain Joseph R. Leslie Captain Andrew P. Gallagher Escort at division headquarters during campaign and siege.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

23rd Wisconsin Infantry Camp

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
In Ravine Below Marker

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Free State Pub

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Baltimore, Maryland.
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol from 1920 to 1933. Maryland - nicknamed "The Old Line State" from George Washington's time - was the only state that . . .

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

Memorial Field at the Y

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Memorial Stadium formerly stood on this spot and was named in honor of those who did not return from World War I and II. In November, 2010 it is rededicated to serve youth in Baltimore City. Memorial Stadium opened in 1950 . . .

(Sports • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cal Ripken, Sr.

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Baltimore, Maryland.
Cal Ripken, Sr. signed his first baseball contract in 1956. Over the next 36 years, he served as player, coach and manager within the Baltimore Orioles organization. Every step of the way, Cal Ripken, Sr. led by example - . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tolson's Chapel

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Sharpsburg, Maryland.
In September 1862, in fields surrounding Sharpsburg, soldiers fought the deadliest battle the nation had seen. Four years later, African Americans here erected a simple log church - a building in which they would exercise . . .

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Indiana 1st Brig. 10th Div. 13th Corps

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Indiana 1st Brig. 10th Div. 13th Corps 60th Infantry Colonel Richard Owen, Guard at Perkins' Landing, Louisiana, from April 28 to about May 28. Engaged: Siege, June 1-June 22. Duty at Black River Bridge, June 23—July 4-1863. . . .

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

Indiana 8th Infantry

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Indiana 8th Infantry 1st Brig.14th Div. 13th Corps Sharpshooter Line May 23 - July 4, 1863.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stephen G. Burbridge

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Brig General U · S · Vols Commanding First Brigade 10th · Division 13th · Corps

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

Michigan Education Association / Michigan Association of Counties

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Lansing, Michigan.
Michigan Education Association When completed in 1928, this building marked the Michigan Education Association's seventy-fifth anniversary. The Lansing architectural firm of Warren Holmes-Powers Company designed the . . .

(Education • Government) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

E. Genevieve Gillette 1898-1986

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Lansing, Michigan.
Known as the “Mother” of Michigan State Parks system. Genevieve Gillette is remembered as one of the state’s most effective conservation lobbyists. In 1920, she was the only woman in the first landscape architecture class to . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

In Honor of Private Luke Quinn

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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
United States Marine Killed 18 October 1859 During the capture of John Brown Flagpole and gravesite rededicated by Marine Corps League Detachment 1143V 13 0ctober 2012

(Abolition & Underground RR • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Hospital

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Civil War Hospital Isaac Miller Farm Stuart's Cavalry Division July 3, 1863

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bellevue 1816

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Amherstburg, Ontario.
This house, one of the finest remaining examples of domestic Georgian architecture in Ontario, was commenced in 1816 and completed about 1819, by Robert Reynolds, the commissary to the garrison at Fort Malden. Bellevue was . . .

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Confederate Dead at Vicksburg Memorial

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Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Dedicated to the memory of the men who gave their lives in defense of Vicksburg

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

Confederate Dead Monument

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Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Front In Memory of the men, from all states of the South, who fell in the defense of Vicksburg during a siege of 47 days - May 18 to July 3, 1863. A defense unsurpassed in the annals of war for heroism, endurance of . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benito Juárez in Prison in San Juan de Ulúa

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, Mexico.
La Comision Nacional para la Conmemoracion del centenario del fallecimiento de Don Benito Juarez y el Instituto de la Juventud Mexicana, rememorando la prisión aquí sufrida en 1853, por el Lic. Benito Juarez victima del . . .

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

The Prison of San Juan de Ulúa

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, Mexico.
La prisión de San Juan de Ulúa Los presidios eran construcciones de avanzada militar ubicados en las zonas limítrofes del territorio de la Nueva España; se utilizaban para proteger a las poblaciones de enemigos extranjeros . . .

(Forts, Castles • Labor Unions • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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