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Reforestation

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Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 2015, Glen Waye Gardens Condominiums and Bethesda Green undertook three major methods to reduce Glen Waye's stormwater runoff: • Reforestation project: 60 native trees were planted. • Cisterns: 6 concrete pads and . . .

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

Pooles Island - Menan

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Menan, Idaho.
Pooles Island, first settled 1879 by members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, John R. Poole, presiding elder. Cedar Butte Ward organized 1884, Robert L. Bybee, Bishop. Long Island Canal water right decreed . . .

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

Island Park

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near Island Park, Idaho.
Two panels make up this marker: Island Park describes the northern part of Fremont County from the top of the Ashton Hill to the Montana border. Within its borders is an ancient volcanic caldera that has been inactive for . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Natural Resources • War, Cold • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I Memorial Honor Roll

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Port Henry, New York.
Killed in Action Edward Carlson · Army • Wm. Henry Smith · Army Died of Wounds Thomas Clark · Army Died in Service Thomas H. Breen · Army • Robert F. Compton · Army Lyle Hatch · Tank Service • William Hanchett · Army . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The March to the Sea

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Savannah, Georgia.
On December 21, 1864, during the Civil War, U.S. forces under Gen. William T. Sherman captured Savannah, completing the March to the Sea, a military campaign designed to destroy the Confederacy’s ability to wage war and . . .

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

Welcome to Shelburne Museum

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Shelburne, Vermont.
Shelburne Museum's founder Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art who established the Museum in 1947 to celebrate, in her words, "the art of everyday people" and to create "an . . .

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Naylor Hall

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Roswell, Georgia.
Built by Barrington King for Roswell Manufacturing Company textile mills manager H.W. Proudfoot. The columned portico and porte-cochere were added and the house enlarged in the 1920s by Harrison Broadwell. The house is named for his mother’s family.

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

Decker's Chapel

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St. Mary's, Pennsylvania.
Michael Decker built this chapel in 1856 fulfilling his promise to God after being healed from injuries he sustained after falling from a tree in his apple orchard.

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

Flat World, 2008

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Shelburne, Vermont.
Aaron T Stephan believes that most world globes are relics of the past, arguing that they "fail to represent the complexities of globalization, world growth, and the interrelations of cultures and peoples." Comprised of . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Monument

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Southwick, Massachusetts.
To Honor Those Who Served Our Country In War And Peace Veterans Of Foreign Wars Post 872 American Legion Post 338 And Their Auxilliaries Bicentennial Year 1976

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

Southwick Veterans Monument

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Southwick, Massachusetts.
Southwick Honors the Memory And the Glory of Her Sons and Daughters Who Served The United States In War World War II Constantine Adasiewicz, Jr. · Raymond E. Aldrich · Elwood H. Anderson · Mabel Anderson · Richard E. . . .

(Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Office Building of Witherbee and Sherman Iron Ore Company

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Port Henry, New York.
Part of Franklin Patent 1765. Built ca. 1875 Donated to town of Moriah in 1959.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

East University Avenue Campus Boundary

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Ann Arbor, Michigan.
This plaque marks East University Avenue, which served as the eastern boundary of the original forty acres of land deeded to the State of Michigan in 1837 by the Ann Arbor Land Company for the location of the University of Michigan.

(Education • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Burning of Kingston

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Kingston, New York.
As a memorial to those citizens of • Kingston • because of whose patriotism the village was burned by the British forces under the command of Maj. Gen. John Vaughan on the 16th day of October • 1777 • ----------- This tablet . . .

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

The Slave Trade in Washington, DC

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Washington, District of Columbia.
"...in view from the windows of the Capitol, a sort of negro-livery stable, where droves of negroes were collected, temporarily kept, and finally taken to Southern markets …had been openly maintained for fifty years." . . .

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

The Williams Slave Pen

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Washington, District of Columbia.
"Underneath the roof there was a crazy loft all round, where slaves, if so disposed, might sleep at night, or in inclement weather seek shelter from the storm. It was like a farmer's barnyard in most respects, safe it was so . . .

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

Judge Lucas Elmendorf Mansion

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Kingston, New York.
Built circa 1790 by this regent, turnpike builder, Associate of Thomas Jefferson. His election to Congress 1797 – 1803 was celebrated by a grand illumination of this house 1798.

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

C.C. Bryant

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McComb, Mississippi.
Side 1 Elected president of the Pike County branch of the NAACP in 1954, Curtis Conway Bryant (1917-2001) played a major role in early civil rights activism of southwest Mississippi. He campaigned to expand membership in the . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Port Henry, New York.
In appreciation to all Town of Moriah Veterans past and present who served in the Armed Forces [Dedicated] December 2007

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Witherbee Park and Town Hall

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Port Henry, New York.
Deeded to the Town of Moriah May 25, 1959 by Witherbee Sherman Corporation

(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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