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Addie M. Graham

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Graham, Texas.
Born in Indiana in 1843, Agnes Mary ("Addie") Kinter married Edwin Smith Graham in 1865. Upon hearing of the opportunities for land development in Texas, Graham traveled to Texas many times during the 1870s. In 1872, he and . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Flood of 1916

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Belmont, North Carolina.
Devastated western N.C. and western Piedmont; destroyed homes, crops, mills, bridges. Ten lives lost, July 16, in washout of trestle 1 mile south.

(Disasters) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Goshen Presbyterian Church

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Belmont, North Carolina.
Established 1764. Rev. Humphrey Hunter, the first minister, arrived in 1796. Moved to present site, 2 mi. NW, in 1956.

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Belmont Abbey College

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Belmont, North Carolina.
Roman Catholic. Liberal arts coeducational college. Founded, 1876, by Order of St. Benedict. One mile north.

(Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

R. Gregg Cherry

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Gastonia, North Carolina.
Governor of North Carolina, 1945 ~ 1949. State legislator. Promoted good roads and rural electrification. Grave is 3 miles S.E.

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital

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Gastonia, North Carolina.
State institution for crippled children, 1921 - 1979. R.B. Babington was its first president; O.L. Miller, founding surgeon.

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Flight 800 Memorial

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Stevenson, Alabama.
Early on the morning of Wednesday, July 17, 1996 —hearts and minds overflowing with excitement for the journey— five of our friends, neighbors and kinfolk, left Stevenson, Alabama, bound for Paris, France. That evening, at . . .

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

African-American Heroes of the 371st Regiment

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Columbia, South Carolina.
In tribute & honor to the gallant African American heroes of of the 371st Infantry Regiment 93rd Division "Colored" of World War I. They were South Carolinians sent into the bloody trenches of World War I. These brave black . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Averyville

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Stevenson, Alabama.
(side 1) During the Reconstruction Period following the Civil War, a freedmen’s community was established in this area called Averyville, named for the Pennsylvania minister and successful businessman Charles Avery, a . . .

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

Intersection of South Broadway and Washington streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Edelweiss is a Swiss Chalet-style building which dates to 1883. The house offered both a great view of the Mississippi River and a convenient location for the family of its first owner, Joseph O'Brien, a coal-dealer at . . .

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

Babylon Railroad Co. Trolley Route

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West Babylon, New York.
From 1910 to 1920, the Babylon Railroad trolley line extended between Amityville and Babylon, Passung through West Babylon on the south side of the railroad tracks. A car barn for storing trolleys was located near Great East Neck Road.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

West End Collegiate Church and Collegiate School

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New York, New York.
Designed in a Flemish style by Robert W. Gibson, this building was completed in 1892 for the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church which was the first ecclesiastical organization in New York, established by the Dutch . . .

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

Stone Turnpike Memorial Freeway

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Lakehead, California.
Until 1860 only a dangerous pack trail through the upper Sacramento River Canyon linked Oregon with California’s northern mines. Yreka’s merchants and settlers also wanted a safer wagon road. The rugged terrain defied road . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A National Cemetery System

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Fort Scott, Kansas.
Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Charity & Public Work • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dooly Spring

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near Lincolnton, Georgia.
The spring to the left of this marker was used by the John Dooly family. The simple log cabin, in which Colonel John Dooly and his family resided, was situated across the road opposite the spring. It was here that Colonel . . .

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

Fort Scott National Cemetery

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Fort Scott, Kansas.
Civil War Fort Scott Fort Scott, founded 1842, was named for former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, Gen. Winfield Scott. The army abandoned the fort in 1853, but the Civil War prompted federal troops to return in 1862. . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Charity & Public Work • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mercy Park

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Joplin, Missouri.
Mercy's St. John's hospital once stood here and on May 22, 2011 it took a direct hit from an EF-5 tornado, the most powerful classification for a tornado. Its path of destruction continued to the east and at one point was . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters • Environment • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Babylon Village Fountain

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Babylon, New York.
On Memorial Day, May 31, 1897, the Babylon Women's Exchange presented the Village with an "enduring memorial" to their charitable work. With the last $400 remaining in the treasury, it was decided to purchase a drinking . . .

(Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shepherdstown Rally Point

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Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Near this site in July 1775, then part of Berkeley County , Va., two companies of riflemen, led by Captains Hugh Stephenson of Berkeley County and Daniel Morgan of Frederick County, Va. rallied prior to their 600-mile . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sarah Swann Hall

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Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Side 1 Sarah Swann Hall, Grand Lady of Carson~Newman University, has been "home" to generations of students. Colonel Alfred Reuben Swann (1843~1926), visionary Jefferson County businessman and Carson~Newman trustee, built . . .

(Architecture • Education • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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