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Renewal and Loss

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Southwest, District of Columbia.
Front Directly across Fourth Street from this sign is the Capitol Park complex of high-rise and townhouse residences. Designed by Chloethiel Woodard Smith of Satterlee and Smith, the high-rise (now Potomac Place) opened in . . .

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

A Mixing Bowl

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Southwest, District of Columbia.
Front Al Jolson, star of the first "talking" movie, The Jazz Singer, grew up as Asa Yoelson at 713 4½ Street (once near this sign). The Yoelsons arrived from Lithuania in 1880. Asa's father Rabbi Moses Yoelson served as . . .

(African Americans • Architecture • Entertainment • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W.T. Stead

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, United Kingdom.
Journalist and Reformer of great renown lived here 1904-1912

(Charity & Public Work • Communications) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sir Thomas Peirson Frank

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, United Kingdom.
Chief Engineer for London County Council 1930-1946 Saved London from drowning during The Blitz

(Science & Medicine • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Queens Larder

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, United Kingdom.
The earliest official reference to the tavern now known as The Queen's Larder is contained in a deed drawn up in 1710 when Sir Nathaniel Curzon let the house to a London Stationer named Matthew Allam. The mortgage was . . .

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

C.J. Perry House

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Roswell, Georgia.
Home of Charles Jefferson Perry who organized the Citizens Bank of Roswell and developed the north Roswell business district along present-day Canton Street in the late 19th Century.

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

Holly Hill

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Roswell, Georgia.
Greek Revival raised-cottage-style home of Savannah cotton broker Robert Adams Lewis. His wife was Catharine Barrington, as niece of town founder Roswell King. A later resident was noted author Evelyn Hanna, whose 1938 novel . . .

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

Pastorium First Baptist Church

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Roswell, Georgia.
R. Lee Buice First Pastor to live here

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

Site of Bombing Raid of September 24th, 1917

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, United Kingdom.
24th September 1917 13 people were killed and 22 injured near this spot on the steps of the old Bedford Hotel by a 112 lb bomb dropped by a Gotha in one of Londons first night air raids

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pulaski Court House

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Pulaski, New York.
County Of Oswego Pulaski Court House Dedicated In The Name Of H. Douglas Barclay New York State Senator 1965 - 1984

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pulaski Revolutionary Heroes Memorial

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Pulaski, New York.
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(War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The 2i's Coffee Bar

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, United Kingdom.
Site of the 2i's Coffee Bar (1956-1970) Birthplace of British Rock 'n Roll and the popular music industry

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Spence House

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near Alpharetta, Georgia.
Farmers Bascom and Oma Spence purchased this 19th century farmhouse in 1918. Their families had lived in North Fulton and Forsyth Counties since the 1840s. The house sits on tree trunks cut on the property. Two wings were . . .

(Agriculture • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Store

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Shelburne, Vermont.
For many years, this building served as the Shelburne village post office before it was moved to the Museum intact, on a specially designed railroad track running down Route 7. The ground floor re-creates a late 19th-century . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pulaski World War II Veterans Memorial

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Pulaski, New York.
World War II Veterans Memorial In Memory Of Those Who Served Dedicated Memorial Day 1991

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pulaski Korea Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Pulaski, New York.
Korea Vietnam Veterans Memorial Remember Them Well Dedicated Memorial Day 1990

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salmon River

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Pulaski, New York.
Salmon River Heh-Hah-Walter-Gah (where swim the sweet fish – Iroquois) A Histoy of Use and Misuse 2000 1998 First return of adult Atlantic Salmon. 1997 Natural reproduction of Chinook Salmon documented. 1996 Minimum . . .

(Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Apothecary Shop

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Shelburne, Vermont.
The Apothecary Shop represents a late 19th-century druggist's shop. Prior to the Civil War, druggists gathered and dried herbs, grinding, distilling, and mixing them with a variety of substances to create medicinal remedies. . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Keith Moon

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, United Kingdom.
Legendary Rock Drummer with 'The Who' Performed here at the site of The Marquee Club in the 1960s

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

The Guns

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Helena, Arkansas.
The muzzles of six 24-pounders and one 32-pounder extended over the fort walls. The "pounder" designation meant that the cannon fired 24 or 32-pound balls respectively. These large guns were usually found at coastal forts, . . .

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