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300 Block of Martin Luther King Street

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Natchez, Mississippi.
300 North Martin Luther King Street (above) is home to the city's oldest funeral business. Robert D. Mackel (below) opened Bluff City Undertaking in 1898 at the corner of Jefferson and North Rankin Streets. About 1911 he . . .

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

Rowena

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Rowena, Texas.
Rowena was originally laid out by Paul J. Baron in 1897. A Santa Fe Railroad section house known as Rowena Station had been established in the area in 1888; however, the post office officially denied this name as it too much . . .

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

In Recognition of 200 Years of Freedom and Dedication

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Williamsburg, Ohio.
This monument is dedicated to the pioneers who early in the year 1796 braved many dangers and suffered numerous hardships in order to establish the small settlement of Lytlestown, later to be named Williamsburgh, along the . . .

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

Organized Resistance - the Free Groups of Amsterdam

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, Netherlands.
In dit pand werd in september 1944 de Vrije Groepen Amsterdam (VGA) opgericht; een federatie van verzetsgroepen die zich tijdens de oorlog toelegde op de Joodse onderduik. Lange tijd is onopgemerkt gebleven dat van de . . .

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

Camp Dennison

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Camp Dennison, Ohio.
In memory of those organizations which were mustered in or out of the U.S. Service at this camp during the Civil War 1861 - 1865 First Three Months Service April 1861 Infantry 4th-5th-6th-7th-8th-9th-10th 11th-12th Infantry . . .

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

Ferdinand Bol

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, Netherlands.
hier woonde Ferdinand Bol Schilder 1672 [English translation:] Here lived Ferdinand Bol, the painter, 1672.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tennessee AMVETS Veterans Memorial

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Ardmore, Tennessee.
Tennessee AMVETS dedicates this memorial to all veterans living or deceased who have honorably served their country that freedom may reign April 4, 1998 Governor Don Sundquist

(Military) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Intersection of Jefferson and North Union streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Ethel Clagett and Mabel Porter were among the first women in America to own a car dealership that was not inherited from a male spouse or relative. They opened their dealership in 1914 on Main Street and moved to a larger . . .

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

Chief Big Foot Massacre Monument

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Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
This monument erected by surviving relatives and other Ogallala and Cheyenne River Sioux Indians in memory of the Chief Big Foot Massacre December 29, 1890. Col. Forsyth was in command of the U.S. Troops. Big Foot was a . . .

(Disasters • Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George Washington

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Queens, New York.
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(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Column of Gerash

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Queens, New York.
King Hussain of the Hachamite Kingdom of Jordan presented this 30 foot-high marble column to the New York World’s Fair Corporation and City of New York on the occasion of Jordan’s participation in the New York World’s Fair . . .

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

San Jose Woman's Club

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San Jose, California.
In December 1894, nine women met to form the San Jose Woman's Club . Supporting temperance and suffrage, the members also promoted education, community improvements and the arts. The club was opened to women of all creeds . . .

(Architecture • Charity & Public Work • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sugar Maple

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Milford, Pennsylvania.
One of the oldest trees on the estate, this giant sugar maple was planted in the late 1800s by General William Tecumseh Sherman, a friend of James Pinchot and frequent house guest. We don't tap this tree, but did you know it . . .

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

Fort Stanton Cave

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Fort Stanton, New Mexico.
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(Environment • Natural Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Battle of Jackson Crossroads

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Jackson, Louisiana.
At noon, June 20, 1863, at the crossroads, a long Union wagon train, escorted by 300 cavalry and 500 infantry, from the 52nd. Mass, Vols., the 2nd. Rhode Island, and Grierson's 7th Ill. cavalry, was ambushed by a Confederate . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pulaski, Georgia

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Pulaski, Georgia.
Side 1: Named after Polish Count Casimir Pulaski, the Town of Pulaski was established in western Bulloch County in 1900. It was a railroad town and in 1901 was included in the passenger train service from Savannah to Dublin. . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Centenary State Historic Site

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Jackson, Louisiana.
The East Wing dormitory was the first of the campus structures to be built. Built between 1832 and 1833, the building was designed by Captain Delafield, and constructed by Alexander Smith of Wilkinson County, Mississippi at . . .

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

Wise County Messenger

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Decatur, Texas.
Started by William Forster in 1880, the "Messenger" was published in Paradise (10 mi. SW) and Alvord (11 mi. NW) before a permanent move to Decatur in 1885. Early editions included poems, love stories, and lists of strayed . . .

(Communications • Settlements & Settlers • War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Decatur Baptist College

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Decatur, Texas.
World’s first institution to be planned (in 1898) as a junior college. This hall was built in 1892 for an earlier school. (plaque) Entered in the National Register of Historic Places

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

Texas Ranger Captain Ira Long

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Decatur, Texas.
Dedicated and courageous. Born in Indiana; reared in Missouri. Wounded twice in Confederate service during the Civil War. On reorganization of Texas Rangers, 1874, was commissioned first lieutenant; promoted 1875 to captain, . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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