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The Butterfly People

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Joplin, Missouri.
As the tornado lifted, the stories began... stories of butterflies, butterfly people or angels that protected children from the storm. The stories were many and miraculous but very believable when set against the backdrop of . . .

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

Schloss Heusenstamm / Heusenstamm Palace

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, Germany.
Das Schloss wurde 1663-1668 von Philipp Erwein von Schönborn erbaut und diente bis 1801 den Grafen von Schönborn als Residenz. Über der Toreinfahrt ist das Allianzwappen der Schönborn/ Greiffenclau zu sehen. Die . . .

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

The Site of the St. Jacob Lutheran Church and Cemetery

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Anna, Ohio.
Here the pioneer founders of the congregation built a log church in 1832. In this place they laid to rest their dead from 1832 until 1900. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"

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

Ocean View Presbyterian Church

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Ocean View, Delaware.
The origin of this congregation can be traced to the late 17th century when this area was settled by people seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity. Many were persons of Welsh, French, and Scottish descent who . . .

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

Robert Penn Warren

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Guthrie, Kentucky.
Side One A native of Guthrie, Warren was one of the nation's most prolific writers, a world-renowned man of letters. Graduate of Vanderbilt Univ., member of the Fugitives (writers group). Rhodes scholar at Oxford, 1928-1930; . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vermont - Connecticut Valley Route

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Guilford, Vermont.
On this former wilderness trail to Canada, the pioneers built old Fort Dummer in 1724 below Brattleboro, then the frontiers most advanced outpost. Guilford, then the largest town in Vermont, was the scene of bitter strife . . .

(Forts, Castles • Roads & Vehicles • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Dominion Land Company Mound An Early Woodlands Period Structure/Sunwall and Moonwall Murals

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Columbus, Ohio.
Dominion Land Company Mound An Early Woodlands Period Structure In the early 1800s, Prosper Wetmore wrote about his childhood memories of native mounds in the ravine area of Northwestern Clinton Township. At that time, he . . .

(Anthropology • Arts, Letters, Music • Native Americans • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rueben L. Partridge

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Marysville, Ohio.
Mural by Curtis W. M. Goldsein, born 1966, Columbus, Ohio Rueben L. Partridge (1823- 1900) designed and constructed hundreds of bridges in Central Ohio, many of which are in Union County. Mr. Partridge received a United . . .

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Tribute to the Volunteers

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Joplin, Missouri.
At 5:41 P.M. on May 22, 2011, an EF-5 tornado ripped through Cunningham Park and the greater Joplin area, leaving a path of death and destruction one mile wide by six miles long in its wake. Over 160 people perished in the . . .

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

Capenter Walkway

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Margate City, New Jersey.
Carpenter Walkway Welcome to Lucy the Elephant, one of our country's national historic landmarks and America's oldest roadside attraction. This is the Carpenter Walkway, dedicated to Sylvia and Edwin Carpenter co-founders . . .

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

Longport Veterans Monument

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Longport, New Jersey.
August 30, 2003 Longport American Legion Post 469 Dedicates this Monument in honor of U.S. Armed Forces, past, present, and future, in recognition of sacrifices made for our Nation by Military Members and Families. We are . . .

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

J. Encarnación Olguín and Juana Lucio

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, Mexico.
Centenario de la Revolución Mineral de Pozos, Gto. 23 May. 1914 23 May. 2014 Coronel del Ejército Constitucionalista J. Encarnación Olguín y Juana Lucia "Juana Gallo" English translation: Centennial of the Revolution . . .

(Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ortonville Methodist Episcopal Church

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Ortonville, Michigan.
In June 1850 an eleven-member Methodist class was organized here as the Hadley Circuit of the Detroit District. B. F. Prichard was the pastor; M. H. Filmore, the class leader; and James Shaw, the presiding elder. That year . . .

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

Changing Times in Bear Valley

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Seneca, Oregon.
For the longest time life here in Bear Valley as quiet and change was slow. Native American seasonal camps gave way to small ranching operations of the first Europeans. In good weather the stagecoach ran through the valley. . . .

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

From Logging Camp to a Town

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Seneca, Oregon.
After spending a day skidding logs, laying track or building Seneca's first homes, the workers needed a place to call home; temporarily at least. In 1928 "Camp One" was established southwest of here, and with boxcars for . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Steamboats, Bull Whackers, and Fish Trains

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near Monarch, Montana.
The discovery of silver in 1879 in Galena Creek southwest of here created a real transportation challenge for the miners of the early 1880's - how to bring in mining supplies and how to haul their precious ore out to distant . . .

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

Choosing a Route

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Apgar, Montana.
Mastery over nature or blend with the environment...two different philosophies represented by two different routes. After the establishment of Glacier National Park efforts began on constructing a road to provide access to . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Andres Pico Adobe

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Mission Hills, California.
Spanish-Mexican Period Declared Historic Cultural Monument No. 7 by the Cultural Heritage Board Municipal Art Department City Of Los Angeles

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

Railroad to a Brighter Future

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near Seneca, Oregon.
Back in the early 1920's you may have left the dirt streets and wooden sidewalks of the town of Burns, to walk in these woods, where untouched ponderosa stood tall. But in a few short years, one of the biggest ever timber . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rocks, Rails and Railroad Ties

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Seneca, Oregon.
When the railroad was being built the forest here was a busy place with trees being felled to make ties, and rock being blasted for ballast. In February 1927, forest ranger G. C. Blake reported: "Yesterday I made the trip . . .

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