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Desha County Seat

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Watson, Arkansas.
Watson became the county seat of Desha County after Napoleon was abandoned to the Mississippi River. Lewis W. Watson donated the land and built the courthouse near this site. The county seat was moved to Arkansas City in . . .

(Government • Notable Places • Political Subdivisions • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Town of Napoleon

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near Kelso, Arkansas.
This important river port, county seat of Desha County from 1838 to 1874, was located 24 miles east at the junction of the Arkansas River with the Mississippi. The town was finally abandoned after most of it washed into the Mississippi River.

(Disasters • Notable Places • Political Subdivisions • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ann Arbor Railroad

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Howell, Michigan.
Howell raised $20,000 in 1885 to induce the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michigan to enter town. Many believed the town, already served by one railroad, would boom with a second line. Early in 1886 a right-of-way dispute . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1673

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
In 1673 Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet let the first French expedition down the Mississippi. Joliet was the explorer; Marquette was the missionary and chaplain. The French hoped to find a rumored big river to the . . .

(Colonial Era • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1735

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Sieur Jean Baptiste Girardot established a trading post in the vicinity of Cape Rock in the middle of the 18th century. This remote outpost became a gathering place for river travelers. By 1765, maps of the Mississippi River . . .

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

1793

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
In 1793 Spanish officials in St. Louis named Louis Lorimier the Commandant of the District of Cape Girardeau. Shortly thereafter, he received Spanish land grants totaling several thousand arpents (1 arpent= .85 acres).In . . .

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

1803

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Between 1803 and 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led President Jefferson's Corps of Discovery to the great American West. On November 23, 1803, they stopped at Cape Girardeau to deliver letters of introduction to . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1804

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
In 1803 the Mississippi River Valley was an important area in international diplomacy and intrigue. Napoleon's brothers, Lucien and Joseph, sought to dissuade him from selling the entire Louisiana Territory to the newly . . .

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

1821

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
When the territory of Missouri asked for statehood, it sought admission as a slave state since there were already many African-American slaves in the territory. Missouri was granted permission, but would be the only area in . . .

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

1838

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
In 1830 the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act which led to the forced removal of eastern tribes to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi (later the state of Oklahoma). In the autumn of 1838, sixteen separate . . .

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

1870

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
St. Vincent's Young Ladies' Academy was founded in 1839 by the Sisters of Loretto as a school for young women. Located at the corner of Spanish and Good Hope streets, it was one of the first schools for women west of the . . .

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

1875

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Before the coming of the railroad, the Mississippi River was the commercial lifeline of Cape Girardeau. The arrival of the packet boats, loaded with goods for local and regional residents, was an exciting event in the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1880

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
After earlier attempts to build a railroad to Cape Girardeau failed, local attorney Louis Houck made an arrangement with creditors to bring a railroad into the city by midnight of January 1,1881. If he could do so, he would . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Origins of 4-H in Virginia

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near McKenney, Virginia.
F. Southall Farrar, farm demonstration agent for Southside Virginia, organized the state’s first corn clubs for boys in 1909. Such clubs, a feature of the nation’s emerging agricultural extension movement, had originated in . . .

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

Concord Massachusetts Spanish American War Memorial

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Concord, Massachusetts.
Concord places this stone honouring the memory of Corporal Ralph P Hosmer • Private Charles A. Hart • Private George Adams of Concords Company I Sixth Massachusetts Infantry. They died at Utuado Puerto Rico in the service . . .

(War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Concord Massachusetts War Memorials

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Concord, Massachusetts.
The monument on the left honors three residents killed in Korea and one lost in Iraq. Howard Francis Heyliger • James Edward Smith Jr. • Wilfrid Wheeler, III • Brian M. McPhillips The monument on the right honors five . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I-II Memorial

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Woodbury, Tennessee.
A tribute of love to the memory of those we must not forget-World War I-Army- World War II-Navy Eternal rest grant unto them oh Lord and let light shine upon them. World War I-II erected by Veterans of Foreign Wars, . . .

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

Spirit of 1775

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Less than half mile eastward is the famous spring around which, from their rendezvous on lands of Morgan and Bedinger, July 17th, 1775 Captain Hugh Stephenson’s Company of Virginia Riflemen, 98 volunteers started on their . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

N.C. Wyeth House and Studio

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Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America World renowned illustrator N.C. Wyeth purchased this property in 1911. . . .

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

First Baptist Church (Centralia)

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Chester, Virginia.
In 1867, the African American members of nearby Salem Baptist Church separated and founded Salem African Baptist Church. The new congregation held worship services under a brush arbor before constructing a building here on a . . .

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