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Congregation B'nai Israel

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Memphis, Tennessee.
Jews have been a part of Tennessee's economic, social and political life since the early 19th century. Congregation Children of Israel, chartered by the State of Tennessee on March 2, 1854, rented and eventually purchased a . . .

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

Thomas C. Neibaur Monument

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Sugar City, Idaho.
Thomas C. Neibaur Veteran Park Medal of Honor (US), Legion d’honnuer (France), Croix de Guerre (France), Medal of Military Bravery (Montenegro), Purple Heart (US), WWI Victory Medal (US), Cross of War “Merit of War” . . .

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

Thompson-Partlow Cabin and Smokehouse

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Lebanon, Tennessee.
The historic log cabin and smokehouse were relocated from the Century Farm of Waller Partlow and Lucy Logue Thompson Partlow. They are descendants of pioneers that came to Wilson County in a covered wagon. This is probably . . .

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

Barnard Street Public School - Denney Tag Company

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West Chester, Pennsylvania.
The National Registry of Historic Places Denney Reyburn Senior Apartments 1841-1887 ~ Barnard Street Public School First public school in West Chester 1887-1985 ~ Tag factory of S.L. Denney First automatic tag manufacturing . . .

(Education • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cartmell Cabin

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Lebanon, Tennessee.
Relocated in 1991 The Cartmell Cabin was the first building acquired for Fiddlers Grove in 1991. It was saved from the bulldozer clearing the land for the new industrial park adjacent to Interstate 40 in Lebanon. Stratton . . .

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

World War I Memorial

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Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Thomas L. Hall James E. Bailes Fred T. Miller Walter O. Leazer Harvey F. McManus Clyde W. Stevens These six members of Co. G, 118th Infantry, 30th Division with 31 other members of the company, who were killed in action and . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Die "Grosse Strasse" / The "Great Road"

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, Austria.
Die drei Granitplatten stammen von der "Grossen Strasse" des nationalsozialistischen Reischsparteitagsgeländes in Nürnberg Sie wurden von Zwangsarbeitern und Gefangenen in Konzentrationslagern bearbeitet und sind sprechende . . .

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

St. John's Regional Medical Center

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Joplin, Missouri.
At the peak of the hill in the distance, is an outdoor chapel. The chapel sits on the sit of what was St. John's Regional Medical Center at the location of the old chapel. At 5:41 pm, the tornado reached its highest . . .

(Disasters • Man-Made Features • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Palais Erzherzog Ludwig Viktor / Palace of Archduke Ludwig Viktor

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, Austria.
erbaut 1863-1869 von Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel für den jüngsten Bruder Kaiser Franz Josefs 1911-1938 Militärcasino der Garnison Wien built 1863-1869 by Heinrich Freiherr von Ferstel for the youngest brother of Emperor . . .

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

Tornado Statistics - May 22, 2011 - Joplin, MO

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Joplin, Missouri.
5:34 pm: Touches down west of Joplin 5:41 pm: Reaches Cunningham Park Highest Classification: EF5 Wind Speed: Excess 200+ mph Duration: 38 Minutes Length: 13 Miles Peak Width: 3/4+ Mile Lives Lost: 161 Injured: Over 1,000 . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Recovery Efforts: After the Storm

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Joplin, Missouri.
May 22, 2011 - The people of Joplin pull each other from the rubble. Memorial Hall becomes makeshift hospital, stage becomes the morgue. AmeriCorps sends its first volunteers to help. Thousands of volunteers begin to arrive. . . .

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

Vermont Veterans' Home

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Bennington, Vermont.
(side 1) In 1884, the State General Assembly authorized an initial $10,000 appropriation to establish a soldiers’ home to care for disabled veterans of the Civil War. The former country estate of Seth B. Hunt, erected in . . .

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

Native Americans at Bull Creek

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Austin, Texas.
Archeological investigations of the Bull Creek area show utilization by humans stretching back at least 9,000 years. The canyons of Bull Creek offered the criteria of favored campsites on the Edwards Plateau: shelter in or . . .

(Anthropology • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walden Mill at Bull Creek

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Austin, Texas.
Before electricity, flowing water was a prime source of energy to run mills for sawing lumber and grinding grains. The Mormons are credited with construction, in 1846, of one of Travis County's first mills on Bull Creek. . . .

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

The Civilian Conservation Corps and Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

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near Cache, Oklahoma.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was organized by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The program provided useful employment for nearly three million young men ages 17 to 26 and served to enhance and . . .

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

Chief Stumbling Bear Pass

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near Lawton, Oklahoma.
Kiowa Chief Stumbling Bear who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, 1867, founded the first permanent settlement on Canyon Creek, southwest of here. First Government-built houses for Indians were erected in the settlement, 1877.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Great Wolf Hunt

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near Hollister, Oklahoma.
President Theodore Roosevelt arrived by train, in Frederick, Oklahoma, on April 5, 1905. The President came to join famed wolf hunter, Jack “Catch ‘em Alive” Abernathy, on a wolf hunting expedition. More than 5,000 excited . . .

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

Battle of Leasburg

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Leasburg, Missouri.
Fought Sept. 29 and 30, 1864. The night of Sept. 27, 1000 Union troops under Gen. Ewing, forced to evacuate Ft. Davidson at Pilot Knob or be annihilated, escaped through enemy lines. Gen. Price sent Gen. Marmaduke and Gen. . . .

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

Gasthaus zum Goldenen Löwen / The Inn at the Golden Lion

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, Germany.
Heute ältestes und ehemals einziges Gasthaus aus dem 16. Jahrhundert mit Ausschankgerechtigkeit des von der Herrschaft gebrauten Bieres Das rückwärtige Hotelgebäude entstand aus einem später angebauten Saal und Überbauung . . .

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

Survivor Quotes

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Joplin, Missouri.
"It started just like any other, normal day. We heard the tornado sirens, but we didn't pay much attention to them since they always go off in bad weather. We have lived here since 1968 and had experienced the drills . . .

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