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Kevin Minter

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A finalist for the Butkus Award and All-American in 2011, he led the team in tackles with 130, including 15 for losses. He was named National Defensive Player of the Week vs. Texas A&M. He ranked third in the SEC in tackles . . .

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

Van Ausdal-Donohoe House

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Eaton, Ohio.
This mid-19th-century structure, built in the Federal style with Italianate detail added later, was once owned by town pioneer and merchant Cornelius Van Ausdal. It was later the home of his daughter Lucinda, her husband . . .

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

Valley Savings Bank

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Middletown, Maryland.
Built in 1888, this Queen Anne building was constructed to house the Valley Saving Bank (VSB) until 1923, and then served as a U.S. Post Office until the 1960s. When the Post Office relocated, the building began functioning . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bunker Hill House

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Fair Haven, Ohio.
Side A The Bunker Hill House, previously the Bunker Hill Tavern, was built in stages between 1834 and 1862. The building is one of Ohio's best representations of Federal-Greek Revival style "pike town" architecture. This . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • Architecture • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Stanley Overlook

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Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
William Stanley (1858-1916) devised an innovative electric distribution system using an alternating-current transformer. His laboratory was in Horace Day’s rambling, vacant rubberwear factory, the foundation of which is just . . .

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

The Niagara Movement

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Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
The Niagara Movement was Du Bois’s first attempt to form a civil rights organization. This was the first substantial Black-organized protest movement of the twentieth century. It led to the founding of the NAACP in 1909. The . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W.E.B. Du Bois: Champion of Rivers Around the World

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Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Kindled by his love for the Housatonic River, W.E.B. Du Bois became a champion of rivers around the world. Harlem Renaissance writer and poet Langston Hughes composed “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” when he was only eighteen . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W.E. B. Du Bois Birthsite

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Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
“I was born by a golden river and in the shadow of two great hills, five years after the Emancipation Proclamation.” Birthsite of W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) Premier architect of the American Civil Rights Movement Erected by . . .

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

Birthplace of Lucy Stone

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West Brookfield, Massachusetts.
1818-1893 “Labor unceasingly until every woman will possess equal and full justice in all things.” An early advocate and leader in the long struggle for Equal Rights, Lucy Stone was born in a farmhouse 0.3 mile from this . . .

(Civil Rights • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Birthplace of Lucy Stone

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West Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Lucy Stone’s determined vision for girls’ and women’s equality was incubated in her home at this site. A young girl who resented her mother’s life of drudgery and no respect, Lucy helped with the housework and resolved to . . .

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

St. John The Baptist Catholic Church

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Oceola Township, Michigan.
Irish immigrants founded a Catholic mission in Livingston County in 1843. The following year, two acres of land were purchased here and a log structure was erected for worship services. As the congregation grew it required a . . .

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

Concord Massachusetts Civil War Memorial

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Concord, Massachusetts.
West Face The Town of Concord builds this monument in honor of the brave men whose names it bears, and records with grateful pride that they found here a birthplace, home or grave. 1866. East face They died for their . . .

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

Oxford Female Institute / Caroline Scott Harrison 1832-1892

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Oxford, Ohio.
Oxford Female Institute Chartered in 1849, the Institute was the first of three women's colleges established in Oxford. The original brick building was completed in 1850, and forms the core structure. The Reverend John . . .

(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Concord Massachusetts World War I Honor Roll

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Concord, Massachusetts.
At the green’s south end, a large boulder features a plaque honoring 25 residents who died in World War I. The plaque also includes poetry verses writted by Concord resident Ralph Waldo Emerson. World War II. Frank Arnold . . .

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

Wanted by the FBI / Captured by G-Men

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West College Corner, Indiana.
Wanted by the FBI On August 16, 1935, FBI Special Agents Nelson B. Klein and Donald C. McGovern spotted car thief George W. Barrett here. Barrett, a convicted criminal, ran a scam stealing cars, altering them, then selling . . .

(Notable Events) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George W. Lee House

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Howell, Michigan.
This c. 1846 Greek Revival house, among Howell's oldest, was home to prominent citizen George W. Lee (1812-1882). Lee moved from New York State to Michigan in 1836. A bussinessman and public servant, Lee helped establish the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Politics • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

D-Day Monument

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Bedford, Virginia.
This monument’s representation of these distinct phases of the events around D-Day is particularly evident from this position. In the distance straight ahead, a formal garden planted in the design of the Supreme Headquarters . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1863

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Cape Giradeau, Missouri.
An exciting incident occurred at the "Battle of Cape Girardeau" on April 23, 1863 when Confederate forces attacked from the west and south of town. During the battle several Confederate cannon balls pierced the roof of the . . .

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

1861

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Cape Giradeau, Missouri.
This view of the Mississippi River is from Fort A, one of the four forts constructed by Union forces in the summer of 1861. These forts, which encircled Cape Girardeau, provided protection from attack from either land or . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Trinity Episcopal Church

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Trinity Episcopal Church was first established in 1745, and its congregation worshiped in three buildings built on the site one block north on Church Street. In 1854, under the leadership of the Rev. Charles W. Andrews, DD, . . .

(Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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