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Dutch Folksong Tradition

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Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
The Dutch Country, like the rest of singinging [sic] America, has a two-fold folksong tradition: secular & religious. The Pennsylvania Spiritual is an original contribution to American hymns. Of the two folksong traditions . . .

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

East Cemetery

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Lima, Ohio.
Former location of East Cemetery relocated in 1996 to Greenlawn Cemetery American Township. In 1832 John East of Pickaway County came to Allen County with his wife, Elizabeth Huffer, and family Mary, Isaac, Abraham, . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Funeral Feasts

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Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Raisin pie is still known as leicht (funeral pie). This pie was a favorite at the gathering of family & friends which was held after the funeral services. In fact, raisin pie was rarely served except at these funeral . . .

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

New Hampshire’s First Meeting House

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Concord, New Hampshire.
On this historical site built – 1751 the first framed meeting house where the New Hampshire Convention ratified the Federal Constitution thereby assuring its adoption June 21, 1788 A memorial to the soldiers of this town who . . .

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

Lincoln County

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Stanford, Kentucky.
Benjamin Logan built Logan's Fort at St. Asaphs, mile to west, 1776. Kentucky County, Virginia, formed 1776. First land court, St. Asaphs 1779. Kentucky made into Lincoln, Jefferson, Fayette counties, 1780. In 1785 part of . . .

(Political Subdivisions) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cherokees in Kentucky

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Stanford, Kentucky.
Chiefs Oconostota, Attacullaculla, & Sewanooko signed the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals in 1775 which relinquished Cherokee claims to most of present-day Kentucky. It was the largest land cession in the history of the frontier, . . .

(Colonial Era • Native Americans • Patriots & Patriotism • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Cedars

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Stanford, Kentucky.
Side 1 This home was built in 1853 by Dr. Thomas Montgomery, son of James Montgomery, a judge and congressman. His wife, the former Evaline Whitley, was the niece of Gen. Benjamin Logan, founder of Stanford, and . . .

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

Camp Salmon / Texas Civil War Frontier Defense

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Eastland, Texas.
Front Camp Salmon C.S.A. Guarding the frontier during the Civil War, this camp was located 17 mi. west, 6 mi. north. Established as part of a chain of posts a day's horseback ride apart stretching from Red River to Rio . . .

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

Glockenturm / Belltower

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, Germany.
Die Erbauungszeit des erst 1578/79 urkundlich als „Glockhauß" erwähnten Gebäudes fällt wohl in die Jahre 1227/28. Zwei Deckenbalken im Erdgeschoss datieren schon auf 1143 bzw. 1154. Der 35,5 Meter hohe Turm mit seinem . . .

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

Luis Neri de Alfaro y Velázquez

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, Mexico.
In Memoriam del siervo de Dios Br. D. Luis Neri de Alfaro y Velazquez Pbro. de esta venerable congregación del Oratorio de San Miguel de Allende, Gto. y fundador del Santuario y la Casa de Ejercicios de Atotonilco, Gto. Luis . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Texas Monument

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near Mansfield, Louisiana.
Front Texas Remembers her sons by whose valor and devotion the federal enemy was defeated at Mansfield, April 8, 1864 and thereafter in several bloody engagements driven from the Red River valley. Thus was Texas saved . . .

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

House of Pedro Vargas

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, Mexico.
Don Pedro Vargas Nacio en esta casa el 29 de abril de 1906 San Miguel de Allende Gto. 29 de abril de 1990 English translation: Pedro Vargas Was born in this house on April 29, 1906 San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato April . . .

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

Armory of the Insurgents

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, Mexico.
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(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Allende's Independence Meetings

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, Mexico.
En el entresuelo de esta casa, con pretexto de bailes que se daban en la sala, D. Ignacio Allende y las personas comprometidas se reunian para tratar de los medios adecuados para lograr la Independencia Nacional. ----- El H. . . .

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Egon Cäsar Conte Corti

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, Austria.
Der Historiker und Schriftsteller Egon Cäsar Conte Corti wohnte im diesem Haus von 1933 bis 1953. Gewidmet von Schutzverband der österreichischen Schriftsteller im Verbund der geistig schaffenden Österreichs [English . . .

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

General Mariano Escobedo

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, Mexico.
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(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Life in a Lumber Town

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Thompson, Michigan.
Thompson is located 6 1/2 miles west of Manistique and began as a sawmill town. It was built by E.L. Thompson, president of the Delta Lumber Company. The town initially had three streets that were four blocks long, with a . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Meeting of Allen and Arnold

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Castleton, Vermont.
Marking The Meeting Place of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold on their Historic March to Fort Ticonderoga May 9, 1775 Dedicated 1941 Vermont Sesquicentennial

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Conflict at Fort Warren

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Castleton, Vermont.
Conflict – Site of Fort Warren 1777 – 1779 Erected under the auspices of Ann Story Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1904

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

“All Gave Some, Some Gave All”

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Palm Coast, Florida.
My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my Country’s way to show they care. If I could be seen by all mankind maybe peace will come in my lifetime.

(Military • Patriots & Patriotism • Peace) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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