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Kings Highway

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near Milam, Texas.
Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Texas A.D. 1918

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carl and Hilda Biehl House

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Galveston, Texas.
In 1902, Galveston was still recovering from the most devastating hurricane in recorded history. Many buildings were badly damaged, including the house at 1416 Broadway. In the early 1900s, Carl Christian Biehl immigrated to . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Daytona Beach, Florida.
Dedicated to the men and women of our great country who helped preserve us a free nation

(Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mount Elizabeth Mound

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Jensen Beach, Florida.
Mount Elizabeth Mound was constructed approximately 4,000 years ago during the Late Archaic Period by Florida bands who selected this site for a ceremonial shell midden-mound. It was occupied 4,000-800 years ago by ancient . . .

(Anthropology • Colonial Era • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sherman's March

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Wadesboro, North Carolina.
Kilpatrick's cavalry, a part of Sherman's army marching from Savannah to Goldsboro, passed through Wadesboro, March 3-5, 1865.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Egmont Plantation

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Fernandina Beach, Florida.
This site was part of an indigo plantation belonging to the estate of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont. After Lord Perceval’s death in 1770, his executors sent Stephen Egan to manage the East Florida estate. Under Egan’s . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gilbert's Bar Prehistoric Site

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Stuart, Florida.
Europeans arriving at Hutchinson Island in the 16th century found the island populated by hundreds of Native Americans living in settlements bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River. The rich marine environment . . .

(Anthropology • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Cannonball Trail

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Norfolk, Virginia.
Follow the Cannonball Trail through 400 years of Norfolk and American history. The Trail winds along the shoreline of the Elizabeth River and through the districts of downtown Norfolk. Walk the cobbled streets of West . . .

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Canadian Car & Foundry

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Thunder Bay, Ontario.
"Can Car" was the main plant of Canada's largest aircraft manufacturer during the Second World War. Here, workers built 1,451 of the reliable Hawker Hurricanes that won renown in the battle of Britain and 835 Curtiss . . .

(Air & Space • Industry & Commerce • War, World II • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Elizabeth Muriel Gregory "Elsie" MacGill

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Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Elsie MacGill made remarkable contributions to aeronautical engineering by introducing mass-production techniques for the Hawker Hurricane built here during the Second World War and later by developing international . . .

(Air & Space • Notable Persons • War, World II • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Memories of Conda - a company community

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
Only memories remain... In 1920, the ambitious Anaconda Copper Mining Company built the community of Conda to house its phosphate miners and their families. About 300 people resided in Conda during the mining heyday. The . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Conda Mine - A phosphate fortune unearthed

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
Southeast Idaho is a major phosphate-producing region and phosphate mining has been an important industry here since the turn of the 20th century. 1920s world-wide demand for metals and chemicals During the 1920s, . . .

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

The Dinkey Engine

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
This miniature locomotive played an integral part in the history of Caribou County. When the dam at Alexander Reservoir was built in 1924, it hauled supplies to the dam. Trapped by rising water, the locomotive was abandoned. . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coach History

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
In 1958, Dr. Evan and Lois Kackley donated the Yellowstone Coach to the City of Soda Springs. According to Dr. Kackley's written letters to the city council he stated, "This particular coach was used to carry Pres. Theodore . . .

(Natural Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Father Joseph Kentenich

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, Mexico.
Padre José Kentenich 1885-1968 Fundador de Movimiento Apostólico de Schoenstatt Dilexit Ecclesiam (Amó la Iglesia) 18 de octubre, 2005 English translation: Father Joseph Kentenich 1885-1968 Founder of the Apostolic . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Civil Rights • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

County Tax Office / La perception du comté

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Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick.
An original Shiretown building where County citizens made their remittances. The pressed tin interior is a Victorian era addition that contributes to the building's pleasant ambiance. À l'origine un édifice du chef-lieu du . . .

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

Calhoun County World War I Memorial

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Anniston, Alabama.
South side This tablet is erected in honor of the Soldiers and Sailors from Calhoun County Alabama who served in the Great World War 1917 - 1919 North side Calhoun County's Honor Roll "Better the shot, the blade, the . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. George's Church

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New York, New York.
St.George's was founded in 1749 as the first chapel of Trinity Church and was located at Beekman and Cliff Streets. Peter G. Stuyvesant donated part of his farm in 1846 and construction was immediately begun by a then . . .

(Churches, Etc.) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A New Beginning...

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
Claiming to have received "revelations" to warn Mormon leader Brigham Young that he was "wandering from the right course," a Welshman named Joseph Morris came under rebuke in 1862 for speaking out against Mormon doctrines. . . .

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

Law & Order On The Frontier

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Soda Springs, Idaho.
Excitement and anxiety mounted as emigrants prepared to launch their ox-drawn prairie schooners from St. Joseph and Independence, Missouri - bustling river ports at the edge of the frontier in the 1840s. To them, the great, . . .

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