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Welcome to Seneca Falls

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Seneca Falls, New York.
The Seneca River—the Cayuga Indians called it "Sha-Se-On-Se" or "Swift Waters". In Seneca Falls the Seneca River was a winding, rapid-filled waterway that became an important carrying place on the route from Albany to Geneva . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stanton's Busy World

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Seneca Falls, New York.
The landscape in front of you looked vastly different in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's day. Instead of a serene lake, mills and factories lined the much narrower Seneca-Cayuga Canal and Seneca River. Canal boats plied the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Suffrage Park

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Seneca Falls, New York.
In grateful recognition of filmakers Ken Burns and Paul Barnes, the community of Seneca Falls dedicates Suffrage Park in tribute to the film "Not For Ourselves Alone" for bringing national focus to the birthplace of Women's . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Seneca Falls, New York.
Dedicated to the men and women from Seneca Falls who served their country in the Armed Forces. [Armed Services Emblems]

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Sampson State Park Experience

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near Romulus, New York.
Sampson State Park offers adventure for those who seek it. Within its 2,000 acres, the park provides visitors with opportunities to swim, boat, camp, hike, bicycle, picnic, sun bathe, hunt, cross-country ski, and snowmobile. . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, World II • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hoyt Garrod Post and Family History

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Ann Arbor Township, Michigan.
University of Michigan Graduate, Naturalist & Gardener Hoyt Garrod Post loved to walk the banks of the Huron River. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School in 1907, Hoyt spent many enjoyable hours hiking this . . .

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

Sarah "Sally" J. Rooke / New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative

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Folsom, New Mexico.
Front Sarah "Sally" J. Rooke (1843-1908) Heroine of the Dry Cimarron Flood On the night of August 27, 1908, while working as a telephone operator, Sally received a call that a wall of water was rushing down the Dry . . .

(Disasters • Heroes • Notable Persons • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Bel Air

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Bel Air, Maryland.
Walking Tour North (60 min) 1. Bel Air Methodist Episcopal Church, 20 North Main Street 2. Graham Crocker House, 30 North Main Street This nicely preserved building's exterior is typical of the houses constructed during the . . .

Includes complete text, location, directions, 15 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gober-Barron-Williford House

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Paducah, Texas.
Late Victorian structure, has fine glass and gingerbread trim. Built 1896 and lived in by first (1892-1898) Cottle County Sheriff, Joe L. Gober. At that time, many townspeople lived in dugouts. Building materials had to be . . .

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

The Gray and The Blue

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Paducah, Texas.
Into the western part of Texas about 1885 came Civil War veterans of the Gray and the Blue, to tame the wilderness. They grazed cattle where drought parched the grass. Lived in dugouts. Found daily existence a siege that . . .

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

Cottle County Courthouse

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Paducah, Texas.
The Texas Legislature created Cottle County in 1876 and named it for George Washington Cottle, who died defending the Alamo forty years earlier. Stage routes connected early ranches, including the OX, SMS, and Matador, to . . .

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

Quanah Parker Trail

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Paducah, Texas.
Quanah's tie to Paducah: Cousin Charlie Hart – chore boy, trusted friend & Burnetts' Ranch manager Arrow Sculptor: Charles A. Smith

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cottle County

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Paducah, Texas.
Created in 1876, organized in 1892, in area where the Pease and Little Wichita Rivers break level terrain. Named for George Washington Cottle (1798-1836), an 1832 settler in DeWitt's Colony, who after fighting in 1835 Battle . . .

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

Garden of Memories Cemetery

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Paducah, Texas.
This cemetery dates to the early days of Cottle County, which was formally organized in 1892. The oldest marked grave, that of infant Cyrenia Rickard, dates to the same year. In 1906, the Paducah Ladies Cemetery Association . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tee Pee City

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near Matador, Texas.
Tee Pee City At the junction of the Middle Pease River and Tee Pee Creek (8 mi. NNE), is the site of Tee Pee City. In the 1870s, traders established an outpost there to take advantage of the area's buffalo hide trade. The . . .

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

Teepee City

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near Matador, Texas.
Camp of early buffalo hunters. Only settlement west of Henrietta, north of Fort Griffin and south of Fort Elliott (now Mobeetie), 1875-1880. Headquarters of Texas Rangers under Captain G.W. Arrington at intervals, 1879-1881. . . .

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

T-2C Buckeye

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near Romulus, New York.
The T-2 Buckeye first entered service in 1959 as a jet trainer for the U.S. Navy. This particular plane is the T-2C version, of which 231 planes were produced beginning in 1968. This aircraft is on loan from the National . . .

(Air & Space • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Cold) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jets Go To War

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near Romulus, New York.
Bolstered by the success of the air assaults during World War II, United States Air Force leaders aggressively pursued upgrading the air fleet to the latest jet-propulsion technology. The Leap to the Jet Age Two years after . . .

(Air & Space • Man-Made Features • War, Cold • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Anchors Aweigh

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near Romulus, New York.
At the onset of World War II, new naval stations were needed to train the numerous recruits expected to enlist. The area that is presently Sampson State Park was a desirable inland location for the station. It had sufficient . . .

(Education • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Portal to Air Power

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near Romulus, New York.
On June 25, 1950, four years after the Navy left the Sampson Training Center and while it was home to Sampson College, Communist North Korea invaded its neighbor to the south, the Republic of Korea. At the time Lackland Air . . .

(Air & Space • Education • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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