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Hardin County Viet Nam Memorial

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Kenton, Ohio.
Front In honor of those who served in Viet Nam Back Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his country

(War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hardin County New Veterans Memorial

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Kenton, Ohio.
In honor of those who have served Lest we forget

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, Afghanistan • War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charley Patton

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Southaven, Mississippi.
Charley Patton has been called the Founder of the Delta Blues. He blazed a trail as the music’s preeminent entertainer and recording artist during the first third of the 20th century. Born between Bolton and Edwards, . . .

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

Po' Monkey's

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Southaven, Mississippi.
According to Willie “Po’ Monkey” Seaberry he opened a juke joint at his home in this location in 1963. Seaberry (b. 1941) worked as a farmer and operated the club, where he continued to live, at night. By the 1990s Po’ . . .

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

Hubert Sumlin

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Southaven, Mississippi.
Hubert Sumlin grew up in Mississippi and Arkansas hearing his churchgoing mother admonish him for playing “the devil’s music”—the blues. But he found out, after sneaking in some blues licks on his guitar in church, that the . . .

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

LaRue Veterans Memorial

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LaRue, Ohio.
Dedicated in memory of the men of the LaRue area who served their country in World Wars I and II, Korea and Viet Nam

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Basic Ingredients

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Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
Before the age of railroads, the basic ingredients of iron production needed to be nearby. That explains why furnaces were built in rural settings surrounded by the necessary raw materials. A source of iron ore was . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Making Iron

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Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
The ironmaking process was well-known and cold-blast furnaces built in 18th and 19th century America mimicked designs first used 400 years earlier. A thick stone furnace, shaped like a flat-topped pyramid served as the place . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Workers Pyramid

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Fayetteville, Pennsylvania.
It took hundreds of workers to produce iron, although only a few actually worked at the furnace. Fillers dumped carts or ore, charcoal and limestone into the seething tunnel head. The founder, assisted by a keeper, ordered . . .

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

Waiting Room and the "Wye"

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Orchard Lake Village, Michigan.
To change directions, trolleys had to turn around. At this location, at the back of what had been the parade grounds of the Michigan Military Academy, the Detroit United Railway (DUR) built a "wye." This Y-shaped track . . .

(Education • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Beaty Brahan Spring Park

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Huntsville, Alabama.
(side 1) Brahan Spring Park, formerly Beaty's Spring, was the site of Camp Beaty, the encampment of Andrew Jackson's army of volunteers and militia after their celebrated non-stop march of "32 miles in 5 hours" from . . .

(Native Americans • War of 1812) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wheeler Dam • Wheeler Reservoir/Locks

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Rogersville, Alabama.
Wheeler Dam Wheeler Dam is located south of here on the Tennessee River, between Lauderdale County on the north and Lawrence County on the south. It is located 275 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River at Paducah, Ky. . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Forest Gift Shop, Cisco Grove

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near Emigrant Gap, California.
History Before the coming of I-80 all traffic crossing Donner Summit came right through here. Cisco Grove was an active little community oriented to highway travelers. If you look closely here you will see the ruins of . . .

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

The Dawn of Freedom: Mitchelville

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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
During the civil War, Union forces defeated the Confederates on Hilton Head Island at the Battle of Port Royal on November 7, 1861. Cannon fire from that battle heralded a dawn of freedom for millions of African slaves . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Susan's Spot

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near Emigrant Gap, California.
Dedicated to Susan Cooley-Gilliom This was Susan's favorite spot for photographing and painting the South Yuba River, which she cherished in all season. When Placer Legacy first began negotiations to preserve this land, . . .

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

Hampton NH Honor Rolls

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Hampton, New Hampshire.
(left tablet) Honor Roll This tablet erected by The Town of Hampton in honor of the men serving in the 1861 Civil War 1865 ... Hampton men credited elsewhere ... * Killed in action (right tablet) Honor Roll This tablet . . .

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

Lincoln Highway

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near Emigrant Gap, California.
History "An uplifting of the soul is sure to follow this contact with Nature in her majesty, and Self becomes smaller and smaller as we realize the immensity of things in traversing this country." -- 1924 Complete Official . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr.

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near McAdoo, Texas.
Born in Hopkins county in east Texas, Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr., moved with his family to McAdoo (3 mi. N) when he was five years old and spent his adult life working for the betterment of this part of the state. educated . . .

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

Belvedere Film Productions

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, Austria.
In diesem Haus wurde 1946 Die Belvedere Filmproduktion von August Diglas Emmerich Hanus Elfi von Dassanowsky gegründet Dieses ersten Nachkriegs-Studio hat wesentliche Beitrage für den oesterreichischen Film geleistet . . .

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

Main Supply Camp on Historic Mackenzie Trail

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near Crosbyton, Texas.
Trail followed by Gen. Ranald Mackenzie, U.S. 4th Cavalry in 1871 frontier campaign. He camped at Dewey Lake after brush with Indians. In 1872, he was again ordered to ferret out the Comanches. From his main supply camp on . . .

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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