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Sleepy Hollow

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East Lansing, Michigan.
Side 1 The small depression between Beaumont Tower and the Music Practice Building, known today as Sleepy Hollow, is the last vestige of a small, spring-fed brook entering the campus from the north and draining into the Red . . .

(Education • Native Americans • Natural Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Woodrow Wilson General Hospital

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Fishersville, Virginia.
Groundbreaking for the Woodrow Wilson General Hospital was June 26, 1942. The hospital was named after Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States and a native of the neighboring city of Staunton. The federal . . .

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

Woodrow Wilson General Hospital

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Fishersville, Virginia.
The U.S. Army, needing stateside medical facilities during World War II, broke ground for Woodrow Wilson General Hospital here in June 1942. Named for the former U.S. president born in nearby Staunton, the hospital consisted . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"That a Ladies Course be Organized"

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East Lansing, Michigan.
Side 1 The first women at the Michigan Agricultural College enrolled in 1896 in the "women's course," taught by Edith F. McDermott, Professor of Domestic Economy and Household Science. In 1899, the Michigan Legislature . . .

(Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Downtown

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Big Rapids, Michigan.
The Fairman and Newton Block replaced the Mason House after an act of arson burned down the wooden frame hotel in 1879. Ferdinand Fairman located his banking business in the basement of his brick building, while the upper . . .

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

17th Indiana Mounted Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Seventeenth Regiment (Mounted) Infantry. (Jones) First Brigade. (Wilder) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Friday, September 18th, 1863, 10 A.M.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Seventy-Second Regiment (Mounted) Infantry. (Miller) First Brigade. (Wilder) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Friday, September 18th, 1863, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.

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

Walthall's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Walthall's Brigade. Liddell's Division ...... Walker's Corps. Brigadier General Edward Cary Walthall. 24th Mississippi, - Lieutenant Colonel R. P. McKelaine. 27th Mississippi, - Colonel James A. Campbell. 29th Mississippi, - . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walker's Reserve Corps

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Walker's Reserve Corps. Major General W.H.T. Walker. September 19, 1863. 7 a.m. Walker's Division, - Major General W.H.T. Walker. Liddell's Division, - Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell. The Corps crossed the . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Liddell's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Liddell's Division, - Walker's Corps. Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell. September 19, 1863, 8 a.m. Liddell's Brigade, - Colonel Daniel C. Govan. Walthall's Brigade, - Brigadier General Edward C. Walthall. The Division . . .

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

Johnson's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Johnson's Division - Longstreet's Corps Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson. September 19, 1863. Johnson's Brigade, - Colonel John S. Fulton. Gregg's Brigade, - Brigadier General John Gregg. Gregg's Brigade, - Colonel Cyrus . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Longstreet's Corps

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Longstreet's Corps. Major General John B. Hood. September 18-19, 1863. Hood's Division, - Brigadier General Evander McIver Law. Johnson's Division, - Brigadier General Bushrod R. Johnson. These two Divisions under command . . .

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

Hood's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Hood's Division - Longstreet's Corps. Brigadier General E. McIver Law. September 19, 1863. Law's Brigade, - Colonel James L. Sheffield. Robertson's Brigade, - Brigadier General J.B. Robertson. Benning's Brigade, - Brigadier . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McNair's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
McNair's Brigade Johnson's Division, - Longstreet's Corps. Brigadier General Evander McNair Colonel David Coleman. September 18, 1863, 7 1st Arkansas Rifles, (Dismounted) - Colonel Robert W. Harper. 2d Arkansas Rifles, . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

17th Indiana Mounted Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Seventeenth Regiment (Mounted) Infantry. (Jones) First Brigade. (Wilder) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Friday, September 18th, 1863, 5 P.M., to 7 P.M.

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

72nd Indiana Mounted Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Seventy-Second Regiment (Mounted) Infantry. (Miller) First Brigade. (Wilder) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Friday, September 18th, 1863, 5 P.M. to 6 P.M.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lake County

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Baldwin, Michigan.
This county was originally set off in 1840 and first named Aishcum after a well-known Potawatomi chief. In 1843 the name was changed to Lake. For three decades it was attached to neighboring counties until 1871 when . . .

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

Swedish Lutheran Church

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Ludington, Michigan.
During the 1870s and 1880s, Ludington Swedes, Danes and Norwegians worshipped together as the Scandinavian Lutheran Society. In 1873 the society built a church where all three languages were spoken. The Swedes, who formed . . .

(Churches, Etc.) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hudspeth Cutoff

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near Soda Springs, Idaho.
Native Americans traveled and camped in the Soda Springs area for centuries before emigrants traveled the Oregon Trail. Sheep Rock (Soda Point) marked the junction of the main route of the Oregon-California Trail and the . . .

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

Fort Hall

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near Soda Springs, Idaho.
For over two decades (1834-1856), fur trappers and Oregon Trail wagon trains passed by the doors of this adobe fort. Nathaniel Wyeth, an ambitious Bostonian, built the post in 1834 but soon sold his holdings to the Hudson's . . .

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