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Missouri Motor Carriers Association Building

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Missouri, Cole County, Jefferson City

George W. Burruss, President
Robert W. Wilson, Vice-President
Dedication September 26, 2003

The Missouri Motor Carriers Association proudly dedicates this building in honor of these great men who have served the trucking industry with tireless dedication for nearly four decades.

We are grateful to have been associated with leaders whose commitment and passion have moved our industry to the pinnacle of respect.

Their efforts to improve Missouri's transportation system and promote highway safety have been exemplary.
We thank them for their service to our country, this state, our community and this trucking association.

(Industry & Commerce • Politics • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Tennessee House

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Missouri, Cole County, Jefferson City


Missouri State Capitol
Historic District
Entered on the
National Register
of Historic Places
Bicentennial
1776 - 1976

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

The Exchange National Bank Building

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Missouri, Cole County, Jefferson City


Missouri State Capitol
Historic District
Entered on the
National Register
of Historic Places
Bicentennial
1776 - 1976

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Calexico Carnegie Library

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California, Imperial County, Calexico
Completed in 1919, the library was constructed with a $10,000 grant from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Calexico's Woman's Improvement Club and the Farmers and Merchants Club encouraged the city to apply for the Carnegie funds. In order to receive a Carnegie grant, the city was required to demonstrate a need, provide a suitable site and agree to provide operating support through local taxes. Over 2500 library buildings were constructed worldwide with Carnegie grants.

The original master plan designed by the architectural firm of Allison & Allison called for this building to be part of a larger "Intellectual Park" that was to include the library, schools, churches, and civic buildings. The library, designed in the mission revival style, served as the city's public library from 1919 to 1986.

When threatened with demolition in 1993, preservationist and the citizens of Calexico united to save this building. In doing so, they reaffirmed the historic importance of the Carnegie Library and its significance for future generations.

(Education • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hotel De Anza

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California, Imperial County, Calexico
The Hotel De Anza was opened on May 28, 1931 by Will R. Conway, an experienced hotelman. The $48,000 cost was partly financed by Calexico citizens. It was opened with a big celebration after being built in only four month. The hotel featured three dance floors, inlaid tile, an innovative air conditioning system and plumbing for ice water. Hotel De Anza was frequented by Hollywood celebrities gambling in Mexico during prohibition in the USA. Following the end of prohibition in 1933 the hotel eventually fell into disrepair. In 1966 it was purchased by rancher Harold H. Johnson and his wife Alice who restored its charm. In 1997 it was converted to a residential and office complex.

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

United States Inspection Station

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California, Imperial County, Calexico
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

By the United States
Department of the Interior
United States Inspection Station
c. 1933



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

Camacho's Place and Café

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California, Imperial County, near El Centro
Camacho's Place was opened for business on December 12, 1946 by Richard Camacho and his wife, Juanita. It is erected on the site of a former Seventh-Day Adventist church and school that had been damaged and abandoned following a major earthquake on December 31, 1926.

The building is an early example of sustainable construction, with many discarded materials used in its construction. The concrete floors are reinforced with steel from old automobiles and bed springs. Walls and ceiling beams are formed from surplus railroad ties. The heavy doors used to secure the building originated with the El Centro railroad station.

From its beginning, Camacho's Place served the farm workers of the Imperial Valley, not only as a restaurant and bar but also as a mercantile and pool hall. The store and pool hall closed in 1964 and the large front room housing them was converted to an additional dining area.

The good food was discovered by the farmers, the people in town and local military. Locals can count on meeting their friends when they go to Camacho's. From a humble beginning in the country, their renowned food has been sent worldwide from the place that is "hard to find but worth it".

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cathedral Gorge

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Nevada, Lincoln County, near Panaca
More than a million years ago, a large freshwater lake covered all of Meadow Valley - the area along U.S. 93 between Caliente and Panaca. Later, uplifting and faulting of the terrain caused the waters to drain, leaving behind a thousand feet of sediments and gravel. During the most recent ice age, rivulets of rainwater and snowmelt began to carve gullies out of the softer sediments - siltstone and clay - resulting in the maze of towers, crevices, and canyons at Cathedral Gorge.

Mrs. Earl Godbe, an 1890s resident of nearby mining camp called Bullionville, was one of the first visitors to appreciate the drama of this sculpted landscape. Eroded siltstone spires reminded her of European cathedrals, prompting her to suggest the name Cathedral Gulch (later amended to Cathedral Gorge). Over the years, these buff-colored cliffs have also provided residents with a unique backdrop for Biblical pageants and other open-air dramas.

In 1911, Nephi and Elbert Edwards, two teenage boys from Panaca, began exploring the nooks and crannies of Cathedral Gorge. They and their brothers built a series of ladders through cave-like crevices and crawlways. In the early 1920s, the Edwards families led the movement to preserve and protect the Gorge, which became a state park in 1935.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the original camping facilities, including the stone water tower near the picnic area and the ramada at Miller's Point, one of the best observation points and trailheads in the park. Other facilities have since been added, including several nature trails, which offer excellent hiking and photographic opportunities.

(Environment • Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colonel Clinton McKamey Winkler

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Texas, Navarro County, Corsicana

   Eminent judge, for whom a Texas county was named. Born in North Carolina. Settled in 1840 in the Republic of Texas. Admitted to the Bar (1843), he served 1847- 49 in 2nd Texas Legislature. Raising 150 men for Hood's Brigade, he served four years in Confederate army; was wounded at Gettysburg.
   He was elected to 13th Texas Legislature. At creation of Texas Court of Appeals, he was one of three original justices. Married twice, he had eight children.

(Politics • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Glacial Valleys

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Oregon, Klamath County, Crater Lake
The collapsed volcano that now holds Crater Lake once stood more than a mile (1.6 km) above the present lake level. Called Mt. Mazama, this massive mountain of overlapping cones was high enough to support a cap of snow all year. During the Ice Age, snow often blanked the entire mountain—more snow than the summer sun could melt. The accumulated snow compacted to form glaciers, sluggish rivers of ice that carved out broad valleys as they inched down the slopes.

Eventually, the ice in the valleys melted. When the top of Mt. Mazama caved in about 7,700 years ago, the upper portions of the valleys collapsed with it. Today, you can see the remains of two “U” shaped glacial valleys on the caldera wall across the lake, Kerr Notch (left) an Sun Notch (right).

Graphic Illustrations:
1. Alternating eruptions of lava and cinders built Mt. Mazama to its maximum height.

2. Glaziers formed on the upper slopes, growing larger during the Ice Age.

3. Climatic changes and more eruptions melted the glaciers, exposing the excavated valleys.

4. The collapse of Mt. Mazama truncated the glacial valleys, leaving “notches” still visible today.

(Landmarks • Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Amache - Granada Relocation Center

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Colorado, Prowers County, Granada

Marker No. 1:
Amache
During the first months of World II, the United States Government ordered over 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent to leave their homes, and incarcerated them in remote, military-style camps. The government order came in response to a rising tide of racial prejudice against Japanese Americans and growing national security fears, which prevailed over the protection of individual civil liberties. Yet two-thirds of these individuals were American citizens and not one was ever convicted of espionage or sabotage.

From August 1942 to October 1945, more than 10,000 people lived behind barbed wire and under armed guard here at the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache.

"I have brooded about this whole episode on and off the past three decades for it is illustrative of how an entire society can somehow plunge off course."
S. Eisenhower, first Director of the War Relocation Authority, younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1974

Marker No. 2:
Behind the Fence: Daily Life
Standing behind the four-strand barbed wire fence here on a morning in the early 1940s, you would have seen the evacuees hurrying from their sleeping quarters, trying to be among the first in line for the mess halls, latrines, and showers. With more than 7,300 residents, the Amache camp was the tenth largest community in Colorado.

Internees from a variety of professional, vocational and educational backgrounds now worked at a limited range of jobs, including farming and staffing the camp hospital. All received a fraction of their former income. Some 2,000 children and teens attended camp schools.

At the end of the day, a family of six would gather in a 20'x24' portion of a barracks building. These quarters had no running water, no toilet, poor insulation, and a single light bulb. Furnishings consisted of canvas cots, thin cotton mattresses, and a coal burning stove for heat.

Evacuees remember the lack of privacy as one of the most oppressive aspects of camp life. The regimented, communal life of the camp diminished the older generation's traditional leadership role and disrupted the family unit, impacting Japanese American communities and families for years after the camp closed.

Today
After the internment camp closed near the end of World War II, hundreds of Amache buildings were removed or demolished. The site lay abandoned and largely ignored for decades. But the former internees did not forget - and in 1976, after decades of silence, they found their voice: they began an annual pilgrimage to Amache as a way to preserve the memory of their internment.

Many people and organizations have been involved in preserving the site. The Amache Historical Society and the Denver Central Optimist Club (reorganized today as the Amache Club) have played key roles in preserving the site since the 1970s.

A younger generation of local residents is now making sure that this chapter of American history is not forgotten. Granada High School students formed the Amache Preservation Society in 1990 and now work in partnership with the internees and their descendants, the Town of Granada (current owners of the site) and nonprofit organizations to maintain and protect the site and to increase public awareness about what happened here. Students have re-landscaped the camp cemetery, installed signs, collected historical documents and artifacts, recorded oral histories, and are largely responsible for maintaining the historic site and cemetery.

Exploring Amache
At first glance, one may think that nothing remains of the Granada Relocation Center. But even though over 560 buildings were removed or demolished after the center closed in 1945, much can be seen of the facility.

Can you see the road network and the concrete building foundations? They provide an unusually clear image of the size and layout of the compound, giving a strong sense of the strict military regimentation of the site.

Beyond this developed area, over 9,500 acres of the relocation camp were used for a variety of agricultural undertakings. That land, located south of the Arkansas River, extended two to four miles west, north and east.

Please respect the private property that surrounds Amache today.

(Asian Americans • Civil Rights • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Abo Ruins

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New Mexico, Torrance County, Mountainair

In English:
Crossroads
In the 17th century, an ancient trade route that linked the Rio Grande to the Great Plains shared this fragile mountain valley with a bustling pueblo full of people who spoke Tompiro. When a single Spanish priest walked into town in 1622, a spiritual, material, and cultural revolution started in Abo. Nothing would ever be the same again.

In Spanish:
El cruce
En el siglo XVII, una antigua ruta comercial que unía el río Grande a las grandes llanuras compartió este valle de montaña frágiles con un bullicioso pueblo lleno de gente que hablaba Tompiro. Cuando un sacerdote español solo caminó a la ciudad en 1622, una revolución cultural, espiritual y material comenzaron en Abo. Nada iba a ser el mismo.

Graphic Illustration:
In English:
For the Tompiro’s, the well-known trail across Abo pass had always brought tradegoods, travelers, and new ideas this way. Who could have foretold that the arrival of a single friar might change their world forever?

For a Spanish priest, Abo was the remote edge of a vast and growing empire that included outposts in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

In Spanish:
Para pasa de la Tompiro, la ruta conocida a través de Abo siempre trajo nuevas ideas, viajeros y tradegoods así. ¿Que podría haber predicho que la llegada de un fraile solo puede cambiar su mundo para siempre?

Para un sacerdote español, Abo fue el borde remoto de un vasto y creciente Imperio que incluye puestos de avanzada en Asia, África, América y Europa.

(Churches, Etc. • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pueblo Grande De Nevada

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Nevada, Clark County, Moapa Valley
Existing today as a 30-mile series of adobe ruins, this “Lost City” was once the home of an ancient Anasazi Indian civilization. Beginning with the basketmakers (300 B.C.-A.D.700) & followed by the Pueblos (A.D.700-1150) this valley was inhabited by a sedentary population of Anasazi farmers. They grew corn, beans, squash and cotton on the valley floor. (The high ground was used for housing) Watered by the Muddy River which sources at Warm Springs, 25 miles north of here, living in pithouses and later, multi-room adobe pueblos, these people maintained a rich culture as manifest by archaeological records they left behind. The Lost City Museum was built in 1935 to preserve the remains of this great civilization which suddenly disappeared ca. A.D. 1150. possibly due to severe, widespread drought.

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

Berenda

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California, Madera County, Madera
June 1872 a former Fresno County Sheriff Leroy Dennis erected a store and hotel. Feb. 12, 1873 the first official Post Office of Madera County opened. Service stopped on Mar. 23, 1919 and USPS renamed the town Berenda "Female Antelope". The Central Pacific Railroad came through and Berenda became a farming community with several hotels, blacksmith shops and saloons. Cattle ranchers Miller and Lux built and donated a school house. As a gateway to Yosemite, Berenda's boom days were in the late 1880's when Yosemite tourism was by stage. After a wet winter in 1885-1886 stages crossing wet range lands caused delays for tourism from Berenda to Raymond thus creating a new gateway to Yosemite. As the Madera area grew larger and more industrial Berenda began to shrink. The boom time was over and all that remains are a few buildings and this old schoolhouse.

(Education • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Railroads of Chowchilla

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California, Madera County, Chowchilla

Southern Pacific Railroad - Before the townsite was created the train stopped at Minturn. Chowchilla was known as McNears Crossing. After it was founded the company moved the train station to a site just south of Robertson Blvd. Twenty passenger trains passed this station daily. When shipping by train was no longer practiced, the station was moved to its present location where it is used as the VFW Hall Post 9896.

Chowchilla Pacific Railroad - The thirteen mile Chowchilla Pacific Railroad was built by O A Robertson in 1913 and served the area for 40 years. Household belongings, farm stock and children were its primary cargo. The Hall Scott Coach, also knows as the Chowchilla Terrific, had a six cylinder 150 horsepower engine and weighed 76,000 pounds. Had the railroad been in operation today it would be considered one of the shortest operating lines in the nation.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ward Charcoal Ovens

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Nevada, White Pine County, Ely
These ovens were constructed during the mid 1870's and are larger and of finer construction than most other ovens found in Nevada. They are 27 feet in diameter and 30 feet high with a capacity of about 35 cords of wood which was burned for a period of 12 days to produce about 50 bushels of good solid charcoal per cord.

The charcoal was used in the smelters at nearby Ward, about 30 to 50 bushels being required to reduce one ton of ore.

Each filling of one of these ovens required the total tree crop from 5 or 6 acres of land. During the late 1870's the hills and mountains around many mining camps were completely stripped of all timber for a radius of up to 35 miles.

As railroads penetrated the West charcoal was replaced by coke made from coal, and the charcoal industry faded.

"The real worth of the old charcoal ovens is their historical function in remining present day Americans of now-vanished industry, without which the great silver and lead bonanzas of the early West could not have been harvested." - Nell Murbarger

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

Franklin County, 1795

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Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort
Taken from portions of Woodford, Mercer and Shelby counties. Ky. had become a state 3 years earlier, with Frankfort as capital, 1792. First meeting of the legislature's second session met here, 1793. Frankfort made county seat, 1795. Named for Benjamin Franklin, one of the leaders for independence and creation of United States.

(Political Subdivisions) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Civil War Reprisal

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Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort
Near here on Nov. 2, 1864 four innocent Confederate prisoners were executed in reprisal for the murder of Union supporter, Robert Graham of Peaks Mill, Franklin Co. All Kentuckians: Elijah Horton of Carter, Thomas Hunt and John Long of Mason, Thornton Lafferty of Pendleton counties. Hunt's body reburied at Maysville, others in the Frankfort Cemetery.

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

State Arsenal

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Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort
Erected 1850 to replace Arsenal, on Old State House grounds, that burned in 1836. It was seized by Confederates in Sept., 1862, but recaptured by Union in Oct. Scene of a second skirmish, 1864. Fire destroyed building, 1933, but outer walls remained intact. Rebuilt and used by the Department of Military Affairs until conversion to Military History Museum, 1973.

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

First Christian Church

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Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort
Organized Dec. 2, 1832, by noted minister and educator Philip S. Fall, aided by John T. Johnson. Services held at various locations until 1842 when church erected on this site. Alex. Campbell preached here. Church burned , 1870; Emily T. Tubman gave money to erect second building. Part of it utilized in present edifice, completed, 1924.
Presented by First Christian Church

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