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Bank of Villa Rica

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Villa Rica, Georgia.
The Bank of Villa Rica was Carroll County’s oldest financial institution, and one of the oldest financial institutions in the State of Georgia. The bank was chartered with $15,000 of capital when it opened in 1899. This was . . .

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

Intersection of Washington and South Pearl streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
The two matching brick houses at the corner (behind you) date to 1901 and stand on the site of a brick chapel (no longer standing) built in 1849 by the First Presbyterian Church. The chapel held Wednesday evening prayer . . .

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

Erie Turntable

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Port Jervis, New York.
Built in 1854 and used by the railroad until ca. 1987 Restored to full operating condition in 1996 it is one of a few left in the nation

(Man-Made Features • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Erie Depot

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Port Jervis, New York.
Built in 1892, enlarged in 1912, this building served as the Delaware Division's largest station until its closing in the mid 1970's. Dedicated July 4 1986

(Man-Made Features • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Dixie Highway

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Mackinaw City, Michigan.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, two main roads brought tourists to Northern Michigan. These roads were the East and West Pikes and they converged in Mackinaw City. In 1915 the East Pike became part of the Dixie . . .

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Graveyard of the Deep

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Mackinaw City, Michigan.
The Griffin, the first ship on the Upper Great Lakes, disappeared on its maiden voyage in 1679. Since then the Lakes have swallowed over 10,000 vessels. Early wooden ships were often lost to on-board fires. Many others were . . .

(Disasters • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Black High School in Frederick County

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Frederick, Maryland.
Founded by Mr. John W. Burner Supervisor of All Black Schools in Frederick County Principal Mr. Maurice Reid Sponsor Frederick Chapter NAACP

(African Americans • Education) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saints Street

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Frederick, Maryland.
“Saints Street was to Blacks ‘What's Happening now.’” — Adelaide Hall, 1995 For many decades preceding the civil rights movement, Saints Street was the commercial and social center within a segregated Frederick, boasting a . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ulysses Grant Bourne

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Frederick, Maryland.
In this Property at 30 West All Saints Street Ulysses Grant Bourne (March 17, 1873 - July 15, 1958) practiced medicine from 1903 to 1953. Founder & first President of the Maryland Negro Medical Society; co-founder Frederick . . .

(African Americans • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Embarrass Co-op

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Embarrass, Minnesota.
The Embarrass Cooperative Association was formed in 1909 by a small group of residents in response to economic insecurity and low prices for their produce. It sold food, supplies, clothing, hardware, and even forest and farm . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Alma Norha Playhouse

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Embarrass, Minnesota.
This log playhouse was constructed about 1902 by Juha Tupanen Norha for nine year old Alma. Alma, her mother, Maria, and her grandmother, Elizabeth, arrived in Embarrass from Finland in 1901 to join her father, Samuel, at . . .

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chazy Central

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Chazy, New York.
This marker is to signify that Chazy School was the first central school in the state of New York and the U.S.A. Nov. 14, 1916.

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

Seafaring Sons of Yarmouth County

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Yarmouth Bar, Nova Scotia.
On this, the site of the first launching in the county, 1764, this monument is erected in proud memory of all the seafaring sons of Yarmouth County who, "going down to the sea in ships," by their outstanding seamanship and . . .

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

Hanby House

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Westerville, Ohio.
While many American families defended slavery in the early nineteenth century, Benjamin Hanby’s family did not. Benjamin Hanby was born in July 1833 in Rushville, Ohio to Bishop William Hanby and Ann Miller Hanby. Ben’s . . .

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

Darling Nelly Gray

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Westerville, Ohio.
In 1856, Benjamin Hanby published his first song, Darling Nellie Gray, a tale of fugitive slave Joe Selby, who was en route to Canada. Selby died in the Hanby’s Rushville house in 1842. Selby had hoped to buy the freedom of . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • Arts, Letters, Music • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Matthias William Baldwin

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
During Philadelphia’s reign as a mighty manufacturing center, one of its industrial giants was the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A former jewelry maker, Matthias Baldwin designed the first U.S.-made steam locomotive in 1831. . . .

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

The Welsh Society

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Organized March 1, 1729 Cogoniant I Dduw Glory To God Commemorating the Welsh contributions to the founding of the city of Philadelphia the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States of America William Penn, . . .

(Colonial Era • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

German Tricentennial Anniversary

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In Commemoration of the tricentennial anniversary year of German settlement in America and of the state visit of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany Karl Carlstens to the United States of America in October 1983 . . .

(Notable Events • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

173 West All Saints Street

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Frederick, Maryland.
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(African Americans • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The News

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Frederick, Maryland.
“We are conscious that it is a considerable undertaking to assume the task of editing a daily newspaper. The duties of the position are rather laborious, requiring constant attention: yet we have fully calculated the chances . . .

(Communications • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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