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Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Brighton Village Cemetery

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Brighton, Michigan.
Side 1 The Brighton Village Cemetery began as a burial ground for the family of William A. Clark, D.D., an Episcopal minister from New York City, who settled with his family in Brighton Township in 1837. Clark acquired many . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Since its completion 30 years after construction began in 1871, City Hall has dominated the center city Philadelphia skyline. At Penn Square, the building is still the world’s . . .

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

William Penn’s Prayer for Philadelphia

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William Penn’s Prayer for Philadelphia 1684 “And thou, Philadelphia, the virgin settlement of this province – named before thou wert born – what love, what care, what service and what travail, there have been to bring thee . . .

(Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Adams War Memorial

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Adams, Tennessee.
Dedicated to the honor and sacrifice of our men and women who served our country. PVT Oscar Porter, WWI • USN1 Lester Whitehead, WWII • Tech/4 George R. Walling WWII • PFC Mack D. Cavender Korea • LCPL Russell B. Corbin, . . .

(War, 2nd Iraq • War, Korean • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Calhoun County Blues

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Bruce, Mississippi.
Front The musical heritage of Calhoun County was illuminated in 2014 via international acclaim for longtime Bruce resident and Sabougla native Leo “Bud” Welch, The guitarist and vocalist began playing blues in his teens and . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fish Tales

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near Cherokee, North Carolina.
Rainbow and brown trout, stonerollers, hogsuckers, sculpins, river chubs, and other fish live here in the lower reaches of the Oconaluftee River. But these are just a few of over 85 species found in the Smokies. The park's . . .

(Animals • Environment • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cut and Run

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near Cherokee, North Carolina.
You hardly ever left a tree of any size standing and all the little 'uns was torn down. Raymer Brackin Standing her in 1910 you would have seen a far different landscape than today. You might have seen the Champion Fibre . . .

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

Middletown in the Path of War

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Middletown, Maryland.
Union soldiers marched through Middletown by the thousands in September 1862 to repel Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. Middletown citizens turned out to cheer them on. The Union army Would face Confederate forces . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tangier Island Veterans Memorial

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Tangier, Virginia.
In honor of the men and women of Tangier Island who have faithfully served their country.

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

Tangier Island World Wars I and II Memorial

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Tangier, Virginia.
In honor of the men and women of Tangier Island who faithfully served their country in World Wars I and II World War I *Crockett, William L. *Crockett, Tubman World War II *Charnock, Ray H. *Crockett, Charles A. Jr. . . .

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

Tangier Island Veterans Memorial

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Tangier, Virginia.
In honor of the men and women of Tangier Island who have served their country faithfully since World War II

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

"Livin' at Lula"

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Lula, Mississippi.
Front The Lula area has been home to legendary Mississippi blues performers Charley Patton, Son House, Frank Frost, and Sam Carr. Patton immortalized Lula in the lyrics of his recordings “Dry Well Blues” (1930) and “Stone . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hernando De Soto Commemorative Bridge

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near Dundee, Mississippi.
The Hernando de Soto expedition to explore and claim the Southeast for Spain crossed the Mississippi River on June 18, 1541, at a point in northwestern Mississippi between Sunflower Landing in Coahoma County to the south and . . .

(Exploration • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salomon Mounds

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near Coahoma, Mississippi.
When first recorded, Salomon Mounds had three (possibly four) large platform mounds and as many as eight smaller mounds arranged around a central plaza. The smaller mounds have been plowed away, while one of the large mounds . . .

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

St. Paul's

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Brighton, Michigan.
When the Reverend William A. Clark, D. D., purchased his land in Brighton Township, he set aside an acre as a church site and established a cemetery near it. In 1837 he organized an Episcopal group and conducted its first . . .

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

"Little Italy"

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Greenville, Mississippi.
By 1920 this southern section of the city of Greenville was known as "Little Italy" by the Italian-speaking immigrants who settled in the Miss. Delta. These immigrants endured social as well as physical hardships in . . .

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

Holt Collier

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Greenville, Mississippi.
Born a slave in 1846, Collier served as a Confederate sharpshooter and cavalryman. Famed as a bear hunter, he guided Pres. Theodore Roosevelt on a hunt near Onward, MS. in 1902. When Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear Collier . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gamwyn Park

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Greenville, Mississippi.
A planned, park-like neighborhood established in 1926, Gamwyn Park was based on a design concept by Mary L. Gamble and Margaret B. Wynn, prominent citizens of Greenville. Gamwyn Park includes well-maintained streetscapes and . . .

(Natural Features • Notable Places • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Courthouse Arboretum

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Greenville, Mississippi.
In 1895, Dr. Orville Blanton, son of Harriet Blanton Theobald, "the Mother of Greenville," designed and planted an arboretum on the grounds of the Washington County courthouse featuring native specimens. The Greenville . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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