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Admiral Federico Rómero Ceballos

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, Mexico.
1909-1991 En esta casa nació el ilustre Almirante de la Armada de México, Federico Rómero Ceballos Prominente Navegante Guanajuato, Gto. 7 de Diciembre de 1991 English translation: 1909-1991 In this house was born the . . .

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Adrian's Prominent Leaders

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Adrian, Michigan.
Thomas Cooley was the greatest lawyer and judge ever to come out of Lenawee County and is generally considered the finest legal mind Michigan produced during the nineteenth century. During the 1840s and 1850s, Cooley . . .

(Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Club Ebony

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Southaven, Mississippi.
Club Ebony, which opened for business around 1948, was built over a period of years by John Jones, who purchased the property in November of 1945 with his wife Josephine. In a 1948 memoir, Jones wrote: "It is said to be the . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pocono Pines Assembly

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Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania.
An independent “Chautauqua” was organized in 1902 by followers of Rev. Rufus W. Miller. Occupying 300 acres, it was initially named “Naomi Pines Assembly and Summer Schools”. Hotels. Auditorium and a library provided . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Churches, Etc. • Education • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stewart Holbrook 1893-1964

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Ferdinand, Vermont.
Stewart Holbrook was a logger, a nationally recognized author, and self-taught historian whose topics included Ethan Allen, railroads, and the timber industry. Holbrook, believed to have coined the term “tree farm,” was . . .

(Environment • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cherry Hill School

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
(Front) This one-room frame school, built ca. 1937, was the first separate school building constructed for African-American students on Hilton Head Island. It replaced an earlier Cherry Hill School, which had held its . . .

(African Americans • Education • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

African Methodist Episcopal Church Beginnings

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Early A.M.E. Missionaries to South Carolina, Rev. James H.A. Johnson and Rev. James A. Handy, arrived at Hilton Head on the Steamship Arago at 3:18 p.m. Friday, May 12, 1865. Rev. James Lynch, also an A.M.E. Missionary, . . .

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

First African Baptist Church

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Oldest Baptist Church On Hilton Head Island Organized August 17, 1862 In The Town Of Mitchelville With 120 Members Building Was Moved To Present Location Later And Rebuilt In 1966 Rededicated October 30, 1988 Rev. C.W. . . .

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hilton Head Island

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
This marker has been erected as a lasting tribute to the following men who envisioned Hilton Head Island as a place where man could commune with Nature and the Forest and all things that dwell therein. These men determined . . .

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

Thomas P. Huff Farmstead

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Hillsborough, New Jersey.
Constructed circa 1870, the Thomas P. Huff House exemplifies the Victorian era Tuscan Villa style. The site also includes a circa 1800 three-bay Dutch Barn, 1870 corn crib and other agricultural buildings. The farmstead . . .

(Agriculture • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Robert E. Lee

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Brooklyn, New York.
Then Captain, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A. resided on this site 1841-1846 Presented by New York Division United Daughters of the Confederacy

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Grand Army of the Republic

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Lansing, Michigan.
THIS MEMORIAL was erected in memory of and dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic by the Department of Michigan Women's Relief Corps. Jun 11, 1924. "Ever in the realms of glory shall shine your starry fame. Angels have . . .

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

12-Pounder “Napoleons”, Model of 1857 (Reproductions)

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Brooklyn, New York.
Based upon a French design, the Model of 1857 “Napoleon” was a bronze gun capable of firing a 12 pound shot nearly one mile. Although few were produced prior to 1861, large numbers of the Napoleons were ultimately employed . . .

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

Site of the Nansemond Indian Public School #9

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Chesapeake, Virginia.
Historic Landmark Site of the Nansemond Indian Public School #9 1890’s-1928 Norfolk County School District #1 Dedicated July 28, 1985

(Education • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

East Meets West

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near Carthage, North Carolina.
Sen. Harris Blake and Dr. Lian Xie have worked tirelessly since 2006 to maintain good will between the U.S. and Hunan Provence, China. Both countries fought together to defeat Japan in WWII. 60 years after the war, a . . .

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ret. SFC Zeb D. Harrington and The "Junkyard Dog"

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Carthage, North Carolina.
Zeb Harrington was raised in Chatham County N.C. Near Moncure. He was a young boy during WWII and was always fascinated by anything military, especially airplanes. He grew up and married his wife, Martha, and raised four . . .

(Air & Space • Man-Made Features • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Biography of Robert Hoyle Upchurch

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near Carthage, North Carolina.
Lieutenant Robert Hoyle Upchurch was born in the rural community of High Falls, North Carolina on August 23, 1923, where he grew up in a large, close family. The second youngest of eleven children, he was known by his family . . .

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Rogers McConnell

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near Carthage, North Carolina.
In January 1915 James Roger McConnell left Carthage, N.C. For N.Y. And sailed to France. He volunteered in the American Ambulance Service as an ambulance driver. He was awarded the much coveted Croix de Guerre for Bravery . . .

(Air & Space • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James McConnell

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near Carthage, North Carolina.
-Translation- To the American Sergeant Pilot Aviator James McConnell Voluntary Enlisted Man in the French Aviation on December 27th, 1915 Killed in Action on March 19th, 1917 in Aerial Combat The country of France will . . .

(Air & Space • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt. Robert "Hoyle" Upchurch

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near Carthage, North Carolina.
23rd Fighter Group, 74th Squadron US Army Air Corps MIA/KIA Oct. 6th, 1944 A Member of the Famous Flying Tigers Home at Last, April 8th, 2006 Dedicated April 7, 2012

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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