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Morris Claiborne

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Winner of the 2011 Jim Thorpe Award, given to the nation's top defensive back, he was also the SEC Defensive Player of the Year and named All-American and All-SEC. He led the nation in interception return yards in 2011 as he . . .

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

Freedom Light

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Clarksville, Tennessee.
Dedicated to those patriots who lit the flame of freedom with their lives and to those who continue to fuel the flame with selfless sacrifice and service to our country. May this light lead them home.

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

Beale Street #4

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Memphis, Tennessee.
"Saturday night was the fabulous night on Beale street. Our parents kept the store opened late. We were children; we used to sit on little chairs outside the store and watch. If we got sleepy, they would put us to sleep on a . . .

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

Beale Street #3

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Memphis, Tennessee.
During the great wave of immigration around the turn of the century, Jews, Italians, Greeks and Chinese came to Beale Street to pursue their fortunes. They established pawnshops, clothing stores, restaurants, produce stands, . . .

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

Duke the Hereford

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Brighton, Michigan.
Duke was raised to provide beef. Herefords are brown and white and could be found in the 1870s. Sometimes cattle and cows were found in the Old Village Cemetery eating grass. These animals apparently left the safety of their . . .

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

Beale Street #1

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Memphis, Tennessee.
392 Beale Avenue "There were two types of culture, I guess you could say, on Beale Street. There were the sinners and there were the saved. You had your professional people, your doctors and business folk. Then you had those . . .

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

World Treasure Saved

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Bowling Green, Kentucky.
"All of this offers exceptional opportunity for developimg a great national recreational park of outstanding service in the very heart of our nation's densest population." Southern Applachian National Parks Coommission The . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Alvira Gilluly

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Brighton, Michigan.
Alvira and her husband, John, lived on Hamburg Road, south of Brighton with their two girls, Carrie and Lucy. John taught school in the Village of Brighton before being admitted to the University of Michigan Law School in . . .

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

Confederate Dead

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Erected to the memory of our Confederate Dead by the S. S. M. Association of Shepherdstown ——— June 6, 1870

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Elmwood Cemetery Vault

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
It is believed this unique brick structure was built shortly after Elmwood Cemetery was established in 1867. Newspaper accounts from 1892 verify that the vault was used for temporary storage of bodies awaiting interment. In . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pope Field

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Spring Lake, North Carolina.
Est. 1919. Named for Lt. Harley Pope, Army aviator. Became Air Force base in 1948. Since 2011 part of Fort Bragg. 1½ mi. W.

(Military) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

1959-1975 The Vietnam War

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Youngstown, Ohio.
1959-1975 The Vietnam War This memorial is dedicated by the people of Mahoning County to honor forever those who served, those who gave their lives, and those who remain missing in action. As we walk away at peace the . . .

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

Old Guide's Cemetery

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Bowling Green, Kentucky.
This cemetery, known as 'Old Guide's Cemetery," probably began as a slave cemetery. Others buried here were early visitors to Mammoth Cave. They share this resting place with cave guide Stephen Bishop, who died in 1857 and . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Trolley Station

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Myersville, Maryland.
This Building Served As The Last H & F Trolley Station To Serve This Community H & F Trolley Service To Myersville Extended From 1898 To 1945.

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

Macon County War Memorial

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Lafayette, Tennessee.
Dedicated to the memory those veterans of Macon County, Tennessee who gave their lives in the service of our country. World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, Vietnam Era 1917-1975. “If we break faith we shall have died . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

POW and MIA Memorial

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McMinnville, Tennessee.
Dedicated to the Prisoners of War; and those Missing in Action, whose supreme sacrifice helped keep America Free. (seal) American Ex-Prisoners of War-moh solum armis. Luther A. Solomon • Joe H. Green • J.E. Ferrell • . . .

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

The Great World War Memorial

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This tablet is erected by grateful citizens in honor of the men who offered the supreme sacrifice and of the women who forever glorified womanhood and made victory possible in the Great World War for the Freedom of Mankind . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Center Square

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The site of this City Hall was originally Center Square, one of the five squares given by William Penn to the city when he founded Philadelphia. During the Revolution, regiments of Patriots drilled here. In September 1781, . . .

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

Declaration of Independence Signators

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
To the memory of five of its members James Wilson Thomas McKean George Ross John Witherspoon Philip Livingston who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 The St. Andrew’s Society of Philadelphia organized in 1747 . . .

(Colonial Era • Politics • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Philadelphia Fire Department Memorial

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
10 memorial markers are dedicated to the members of the Philadelphia Fire Department who died as a result of the Charles W. Berg Laboratories explosion on October 28, 1954. In memory of Deputy Chief Thomas A. Kline (October . . .

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