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The Lure of Gold

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near Baker City, Oregon.
Beginning in 1843, thousands of Oregon Trail emigrants trekked through this region toward new lives in the West. This epic journey indelibly etched the landscape with wagon ruts, such as those near by. When Henry Griffin, a . . .

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

Ruts of the Oregon Trail

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near Baker City, Oregon.
Of the 2170 miles of the Oregon Trail, approximately 300 miles of ruts remain. Swales created by thousands of wagon wheels and the trampling of draft animals are deep in some areas, shallow in other places. Much of the trail . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salmen Lodge

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Slidell, Louisiana.
Affectionately called Salmen Lodge by the Scouts, this French Creole cottage was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and is one of a few early structures preserved along Bayou Liberty. Built by one of . . .

(Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. John's United Church Cemetery

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Wallace, Nova Scotia.
[List of burials]

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rosa B. Scott (Anderson)

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Opelousas, Louisiana.
On June 20, 1994, an assault occurred at Fairchild Air Force Base by a gunman during which 4 personnel were killed and 23 wounded. Rosa B., a civilian nurse at the base hospital, risked her life as a first responder to . . .

(African Americans • Heroes • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Naval Encounter at Tatamagouche

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Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia.
In this harbour Capt. David Donahew of New England with three armed vessels surprised Lieut. Paul Marin's allied force en route from Annapolis Royal to Louisbourg. He drove them ashore, disheartened the Canadian Indians and . . .

(Colonial Era • Native Americans • Patriots & Patriotism • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World’s First Public Passenger Flight

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Arlington, Virginia.
On September 9, 1908, near this site, Orville Wright carried aloft in public his first passenger, Lt. Frank P. Lahm, for a flight lasting 6 minutes and 24 seconds. Three days later, he took Major George O. Squier on a flight . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baker

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Baker City, Oregon.
In October 1861, a group of prospectors in search of the mythical Blue Bucket Mine, made camp on a creek six miles southwest of here. That evening, Henry Griffin discovered gold in the gulch which bears his name. That . . .

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

L’Ouverture Hospital

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Alexandria, Virginia.
Named for Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian revolutionary. L’Ouverture Hospttal opened early in 1864 near the Freedmen’s barracks in Alexandria to serve sick and injured United States Colored Troops (USCT). Designed by the . . .

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

The Oregon Trail

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Baker City, Oregon.
Wagons and cattle of the Great Migration, led by Marcus Whitman in 1843, descended Sept. 25 into Lone Pine valley. After nearly a month of travel over the hot dry Snake river plains from Fort Hall near Pocatello, Idaho, the . . .

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

Baker City Chinese History

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Baker City, Oregon.
Chinese were prominent working on railroads & gold mines in Baker County. The Baker City Chinatown was located by Powder River on Auburn Avenue where a Joss House was built in 1883. Chinese gardens on the east bank of Powder . . .

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

Infinity Eagle

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Pearlington, Mississippi.
It took technology for our natural occurring species to take wings and leave the earth. This sculpture is yet another gift to the people of the Mississippi Coast from renowned artist Marlin Miller and his son, Preston. All . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Government • Man-Made Features • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chinese Shrine

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Baker City, Oregon.
This Chinese prayer house was used to honor the departing spirits by burning incense and prayer papers. The prayer papers were brown paper with some million little pinholes & pushed through the alter window. In traditional . . .

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

War Memorial

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Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia.
In memory of those who gave their lives in the Great War 1914 - 1918 Alexander Henderson • George McIntosh Freeman McLellan • Harry McLellan George Powers • Arthur Rose • William Tattrie Roy Weatherby • George Weatherby . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Afghanistan • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gwilliam Brothers Bakery

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Baker City, Oregon.
In October 1940 Gwilliam Brothers Bakery celebrated the business’s new building with a grand opening. Designed for high-volume bakery operations, the brick structure had a delivery truck garage in the rear and a large . . .

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

Miller's Lunch Building

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Baker City, Oregon.
This stucco-over-clay block building was constructed in 1923 as a "temporary" structure after a fire destroyed another building on the site. A block store first occupied the building, then an ice cream parlor. Glenn Miller, . . .

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

America's First Iron Puddling Furnace

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Smock, Pennsylvania.
In 1817 ironmaster Isaac Meason and Welshman, Thomas Lewis built a puddling furnace and bar rolling mill here using a process from Wales that revolutionized the iron industry. It removed carbon from brittle pig iron creating . . .

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

Fair Oaks

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near Aldie, Virginia.
Fair Oaks, built ca. 1881 as the home of Alexander Moore, is a vernacular interpretation of the Italianate architectural style. From 1835 to 1971, six generations of the Moore family owned and operated nearby Aldie Mill, . . .

Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New Jerusalem Lutheran Church

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near Lovettsville, Virginia.
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church, formally established in 1765, was among Virginia’s earliest Lutheran congregations east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its founders were Palatine Germans who immigrated to this area from . . .

(Churches, Etc. • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Duncan MacLanders and Johanne Faulkner

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Brule Corner, Nova Scotia.
Within this iron fence lies Duncan MacLanders 1788 - 1870 and Johanne Faulkner 1788 - 1876 First of the line to leave the shores of Scotland and seek a freer and fuller life in the New World. Erected by descendants in . . .

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