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Harrison Amusement Park

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Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
From 1930,families flocked here, to a creekside beach and attractions on both sides of the road: Sporting fields, miniature railroad, carousel, stone skating rink, clubhouse, swimming pools, dining hall and penny arcade. The . . .

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

The First Fire Company and Clymer Library

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Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania.
The First Fire Company Built in 1935, the Pocono Pines Fire Company included offices for police, township supervisors and support staff. Its Goodwill Community Club offered space for public “meetings, suppers and various . . .

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

The First Schoolhouse

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Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
Our community pioneered public education before the state mandated it in 1834. A log schoolhouse was built in 1831, with Miss Sarah Winters as the first teacher. Few married women were employed in that era. By 1860, the . . .

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

The Great Swamp

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Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
The local landscape was formed over 11,000 years ago by the retreating Wisconsin glacier. As the ice melted, it left behind massive boulders and rocks, known as “drift deposits”. This geological event created vast areas of . . .

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

MA & PA Heritage Trail

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Bel Air, Maryland.
The History of the MA & PA Trail The MA & PA Railroad stretched between Baltimore at North Avenue & Howard Streets, on to Towson, through Long Green Valley into Harford County. It ended at Market Street in York, . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Senior Fence"

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Hanover, New Hampshire.
The College first erected a fence specifically designated as a gathering place for Seniors in 1897 on the east side of the Green in front of Dartmouth Hall. Three years later the College moved the fence across the Green, . . .

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

First Methodist Church of Lockney

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Lockney, Texas.
This church traces its history to 1890, when The Rev. R. M. Morris led about twenty-five Methodists in organizing a new congregation. The church members met for worship in the local schoolhouse and under arbors until a frame . . .

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

The J. A. Baker Store

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Lockney, Texas.
Opened 1894; one of the Texas South Plains' oldest mercantile houses still owned by founding family. James Artemas Baker (1859-1917), founder of this store and town of Lockney, was born near Dallas and lived in Hamilton from . . .

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

John Ellison Burns

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Lockney, Texas.
Trained as a blacksmith by his father in Alabama, John Ellison Burns (1853-1940) brought his hand-forged tools to Texas in 1874. He settled in the new town of Lockney in 1900 and opened a blacksmith shop. As his business . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Della Plain

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near Floydada, Texas.
A severe drought in the mid-1880s brought Baylor County rancher T. J. Braidfoot to this area in search of better conditions for his cattle. In 1887, with the support of J. R. McLain of Seymour, he founded the settlement of . . .

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

Commercial Hotel

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Floydada, Texas.
Alabama native William P. Daily (1865-1941) and his family arrived in Floyd County in 1911, settling briefly in the Muncy community (5 mi. N). After moving to Floydada to open a feed, coal, and wagon yard, Daily recognized . . .

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

Ithaca College

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Ithaca, New York.
founded as the Ithaca Conservatory of Music September 19, 1892 Ithaca was our earliest campus, we were at once scholars and citizens of this town that embraced us. Each of us they called by name and allowed us glimmers of . . .

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

Ithaca Conservatory of Music 31st Anniversary

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Ithaca, New York.
This tablet is erected on the thirty first anniversary of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music in appreciation of the vision[,] courage and determination of the co-laborers W. Grant Egbert President George C. Williams Manager . . .

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

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

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Louisville, Kentucky.
( inscribed around the base ) This monument to Thomas Jefferson was presented to the people of Kentucky July 4 1900 by Isaac W and Bernard Bernheim to perpetuate the teachings and examples of the Founders of the Republic ( . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

City and County Named / Jefferson County Courthouse

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Louisville, Kentucky.
City and County Named Louisville, at the Falls of the Ohio, was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark. Site first served as a military outpost; the city which developed was named for Louis XVI. Kentucky Co., Virginia, was . . .

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

DeWitt Park Historic District

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Ithaca, New York.
This historic district contains many of the City's earliest surviving residential, religious and public buildings. The park - originally known as the "public square" - and its surroundings were depicted in the original . . .

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

Louis XVI

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Louis XVI 1754 – 1793 King of France 1774 – 1793 This city was named Louisville in 1780 because of his support of the American Colonies in the Revolutionary War. The statue, sculptured by Valois in 1827, was given to . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tompkins County World War II Honor Roll

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Ithaca, New York.
[See photos for Honor Roll names]

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tompkins County World War I Roll of Honor

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Ithaca, New York.
Hanford M. Armstrong • Arthur E. Bouton Rylan E. Brillhart • Robert L. Burchfield Lorenzo D. Burgess • William R. Bush John B. Carey • Delmar D. Carpenter Frank E. Carrington • John R. Chadwick Ira Van O. Clark • Michael F. . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tompkins County Civil War Memorial

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Ithaca, New York.
In Memory of Civil War Veterans Tompkins County, New York Units from Tompkins County Infantry Regiments 19th • 23rd • 32 Co. D • 64 Co. E 109th • 137th • 143 Co. D • 179th Cavalry 15th • 21st • DeWitt Guard Artillery 3rd . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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