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Daytona 500

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Daytona Beach, Florida.
2005 Daytona 500 Champion Jeff Gordon #24

(Entertainment • Sports) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Innovation Continues at STCC

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Springfield, Massachusetts.
Innovation Continues at STCC The armory legacy of innovation lives on at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC). Founded in 1967 just before the armory closed down, STCC is located on 35 acres of the Springfield . . .

(Architecture • Charity & Public Work • Education • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grand Hotel

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Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Opened on July 10, 1887, the Grand Hotel was built by the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Michigan Central railroads and the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company through the efforts of Sen. Francis B. Stockbridge. It is . . .

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

Mackinac Conference

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Mackinac Island, Michigan.
On September 6, 1943, Michigan’s Republican United States Senator, Arthur H. Vandenberg, chaired the meeting of the Post War Advisory Council. Republican National Committee Chairman, Harrison Spangler, created the council to . . .

(Politics • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Amargosa Valley's Clay Industry

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Amargosa Valley, Nevada.
Near here is the site of the Bradford siding on the Death Valley Railroad spur of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. This siding was used by the extensive clay quarries active in the Amargosa Valley from the 1920's until . . .

(Environment • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Jack Longstreet

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Amargosa Valley, Nevada.
Jack Longstreet's life before 1880 is unknown. In 1880 Longstreet staked mining claims in Northern Arizona, claimed a Native American Wife, and two years later opened a saloon and drug store in Moapa, Nevada. By 1888, . . .

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

The Underground Railroad in Crawford County

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Bucyrus, Ohio.
Side A Runaway slaves used a web of routes through Crawford County, most going through the city of Bucyrus. Present-day State Route 98 to State Route 4, laid out in 1822 from Norton in northern Delaware County through . . .

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

Forging Arms for Our Nation

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Springfield, Massachusetts.
In 1795, Springfield Armory began manufacturing muskets for the United States Military, on a site where General George Washington authorized weapons to be stored during the Revolutionary War. Within decades, Springfield . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ecore A-Fabre or Fabre’s Bluff

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Camden, Arkansas.
John Nunn, a pioneer settler, donated a square at Fabre’s Landing in 1842, on which was created the first court-house in Ouachita County. The name of the settlement was soon afterwards changed from Fabre’s Landing to Camden. . . .

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

The American Revolution

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Port Jervis, New York.
In honor of the brave patriots who sacrificed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, and whose wisdom, determination, and fortitude brought forth a new nation under God, dedicated to liberty and freedom. "We the People" . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Korean War Memorial

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Port Jervis, New York.
In honor of all the men and women who served our nation in Korea from 1950 - 1953 In Memoriam to those men and women from the Tri-State Area who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country [Roll of Honored . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stephen Crane

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Port Jervis, New York.
In this park Stephen Crane interviewed men of the famed Civil War Orange Blossoms regiment and then wrote The Red Badge of Courage, published in 1895

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vietnam War Memorial

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Port Jervis, New York.
In honor of all the men and women who served our nation in Vietnam from 1959 - 1975 In Memoriam to those men and women from the Tri-State Area who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country [Roll of Honored . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War on Terrorism Memorial

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Port Jervis, New York.
This monument is dedicated to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country in the war against terrorism [Roll of Honored Dead] Brian L. Pavlich, SSgt, US Army, 3/11/2003 Irving Medina, Spc, US . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pentwater Wire Products

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Pentwater, Michigan.
Prior to 1887 Sands & Maxwell owned the two story framed blacksmith/wagon shop. 1887 Jonathan Halsted covered the wooden walls and erected two brick buildings, manufacturing carriages, wagons and sleighs. 1893-1895 It . . .

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

The Lumber Industry

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Pentwater, Michigan.
If you stood on this spot in 1866 you would have been in the midst of a bustling lumber town, boasting three sawmills, two shingle mills, one barrel-stave mill, a planing mill, and one foundry. Tall stacks of drying lumber . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Scout Barracks / Parade Ground

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Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Scout Barracks In 1929, Park Commissioner Roger Andrews invited eight Eagle Scouts, including future President Gerald Ford, to serve as the “Governor’s Honor Guard” and tour guides at Fort Mackinac. Scouts raised and lowered . . .

(Forts, Castles • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Man-Made Features • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mary Lemist Titcomb

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Hagerstown, Maryland.
Titcomb began her career in library science in Concord, Massachusetts. in 1901, she became the first director of the newly-created Washington county free library on Summit Avenue. She served for over 30 years. Titcomb was an . . .

(Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Preston Lane, Jr.

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Hagerstown, Maryland.
William Preston Lane was elected Maryland's attorney general in 1930. When local officials did not act, he personally supervised the investigation of a lynch mob in Somerset county. Although prosecution was unsuccessful, it . . .

(Civil Rights • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Othello Wilson

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Hagerstown, Maryland.
Born and raised in Hagerstown, Wilson enlisted in the 9th U.S. Cavalry (“Buffalo Soldiers”) in 1889. on December 30,1890 (the day after the battle of Wounded Knee), Corporal Wilson was in a party escorting a supply train . . .

(African Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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