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Vietnam War Memorial

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Geneva, New York.
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(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I Memorial

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Geneva, New York.
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(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maiden Springs Fort

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near Liberty, Virginia.
On the hillside to the west stood Maiden Springs Fort, also known as Reese Bowen’s fort. It was garrisoned in Dunmore’s War, 1774. Reese Bowen, the founder, fought at Point Pleasant, 1774,and was killed at King’s Mountain, 1780.

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Canadian River

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near Canadian River Breaks, Texas.
A travel route and dwelling site for over 12,000 years, the Canadian River supported stone and adobe Indian villages from the 12th to the 14th Centuries. This waterway was also one of the first interior rivers of the U.S. . . .

(Exploration • Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Great Spanish Road / First Ranch in Potter County / First Store in Potter County

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near Canadian River Breaks, Texas.
Great Spanish Road Near course of the Canadian River, early as days of the American Revolution, men from Santa Fe went past this spot on trips to meet traders from San Augustine, Nacogdoches, and other Spanish towns of East . . .

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

Panola County

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Carthage, Texas.
Formed from Harrison and Shelby Counties Created March 30, 1846 Organized July 13, 1846 Named for an Indian word meaning "cotton" County Seat, Pulaski, 1846 Carthage, since 1848

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

Margie Neal

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Carthage, Texas.
A native of Panola County, Margie Elizabeth Neal began her career as a teacher in 1893. She became editor and owner of the East Texas Register newspaper in 1904. A respected educator and leader in the woman suffrage . . .

(Education • Notable Persons • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Founding of the Listín Diario

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, Dominican Republic.
120 Aniversario Listin Diario Aquí se fundó Listin Diario El periódico de los dominicanos El 1ro. de agosto de 1889 por Don Arturo J. Pellarano Alfau Apóstol del periodismo nacional English translation: 120th Anniversary . . .

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

The Tomb of the Jade Head at Altun Ha

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, Belize.
Tomb at Altun Ha Discovered deep within the huge stair block at the top of the Temple of Masonry Altars (Temple B4) of Altun Ha, was the tomb of an elderly priest along with the largest carved jade artifact ever recovered . . .

(Anthropology • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kilauea

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Volcano, Hawaii.
A caldera has likely existed at Kilauea’s summit for as long as has the volcano. Collapse occurred repeatedly as magma swelled the summit area and then drained rapidly through the flanking rift zones. Large fault blocks have . . .

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Fall and Rise of the Fleet

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Honolulu, Hawaii.
More than two thousand Americans were killed on December 7, 1941, almost half of them aboard USS Arizona. Military installations around the island were attacked and nineteen ships were sunk, beached, or badly damaged. . . .

(Disasters • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beukendaal. 1748

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Glenville, New York.
Dutch Word Meaning Beechdale. DeGraff House Where 40 Schenectady Militia Fought Off French- Indian Raiding Party Town of Glenville

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

Sacandaga Road

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Glenville, New York.
New York Sacandaga Road Cut Through The Primitive Forest By Early Settlers Along An Indian Trail Leading To The Sacandaga Region And Canada.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stations Upon the Road

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
After the defeat of General Edward Braddock at the Battle of Monogahela in July of 1755, (the battle that launched the French and Indian War in North America,) (sic) French and Native American forces unleashed a series of . . .

(War, French and Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Specialist Fourth Class Robert D. Law

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Robert D. Law was born on September 15, 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas. Law joined the Army at Dallas, Texas, in 1967 at the age of 23. He served in the Tinh Phuoc Thanh province of the Republic of Vietnam as part of the Company . . .

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

Colonel Robert W. Black

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Colonel Robert W. Black was born on June 15, 1926 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He grew up on a farm between Carlisle and Gettysburg. He enlisted in the regular Army after High School, volunteered for the Airborne and completed . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lieutenant Colonel William Orlando Darby

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
William Orlando Darby was born on February 9, 1911. He grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was a former Boy Scout and was an excellent student. Darby attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in . . .

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

General Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Francis Marion was born in 1732 on his family’s plantation in St. John’s parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. Marion became famous for his highly effective use of guerilla warfare and he served as a model for the future . . .

(War, French and Indian • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Moore Family

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near Boissevain, Virginia.
Black Wolf and a group of Shawnee Indians attacked militia captain James Moore’s nearby home on 14 July 1786 during a campaign to deter white settlement of the Ohio Valley region after the American Revolution. They killed . . .

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

Captain James Moore Monument

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near Boissevain, Virginia.
Erected to the memory of Captain James Moore, a soldier of the Revolution, having commanded a company at Cowpens, Guilford Court House, and Kings Mountain; killed by Indians July 14th, 1786. To Martha Poague Moore and Jane . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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