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Constance Spry

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Designer in Flowers worked here 1934-1960

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

Sir Frederick Treves

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, United Kingdom.
Surgeon lived here 1886-1907

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jackson Municipal Library Sit-In

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Jackson, Mississippi.
Front On March 27, 1961, nine African American Tougaloo students quietly sat in at the Jackson Municipal Library, which served only white patrons. Pollce ordered them to Carver Library, the "colored" library, and when they . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Adams

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, United Kingdom.
In this House Lived John Adams First American Minister to GREAT BRITAIN, May 1785 to March 1788 afterwards Second President of the UNITED STATES From here his Daughter ABIGAIL was married to COLONEL WILLIAM STEPHENS SMITH, . . .

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Bobby Rush

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Jackson, Mississippi.
Front Bobby Rush, a Louisiana native who lived for decades in Chicago, earned the title “king of the chitlin circuit” after relocating to Jackson in the early 1980s. Rush's distinctive “folk funk” style, featured on his . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sir Frederick Handley Page

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Aircraft designer and manufacturer lived here in Flat 3

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

The Battle of Champion Hill

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near Champion Hill, Mississippi.
The Crossroads is a junction formed by the Middle Road from the east, the Ratliff plantation road from the south and the Jackson Road from the north as it descends from the crest of Champion Hill and turns west. At 1:30 p.m. . . .

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

Colen Campbell

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, United Kingdom.
Architect and Author of Vitruvius Britannicus lived and died here

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

Champion Hill Battlefield

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near Champion Hill, Mississippi.
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(Landmarks • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Andrés Balvanera Martínez

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, Mexico.
Andrés Balvanera Martínez 1834-1917 Ilustre creador de la Escuela Normal del Estado, apóstol de la educación quien hizo siempre el bien. Quien reformó la enseñanza creando un plantel que sirvió de modelo, la Escuela Normal . . .

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

The Oneida Country

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Verona, New York.
Historic New York The Oneida Country The Oneida Indians joined the Mohawks. Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas, about 1550, to form the Five Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy. This was the legendary "Great Peace" made by the . . .

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

Site of the Battle of Oriskany

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Verona, New York.
Historic New York Site Of The Battle Of Oriskany, August 6, 1777 Oriskany Battlefield (Eight miles west of Utica) The Battle of Oriskany was one of the bloodiest engagements of the American Revolution. British and Indians . . .

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

The Hill of Death

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near Champion Hill, Mississippi.
"I cannot think of this bloody hill without sadness and pride. Sadness for the great loss of my true and gallant men; pride for the heroic bravery they displayed. No prouder division ever met as vastly superior foe and . . .

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

Site of the 3rd Battery, Ohio Light Artillery

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Champion Hill, Mississippi.
"I found General Hovey's command drawn up in line of battle, his right resting on the left of the main road, the enemy, as I learned, having been discovered in force strongly posted on a high ridge known as Champion's Hill, . . .

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

War Memorial

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Orwell, Vermont.
(front) These We Honor Dedicated to the following from the Town of Orwell who served in the Armed Forces of our country World War II William H. Murray • Franklin F. Phelps Charles D. Wright • George B. Wright [Died in . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lower Jackson Mound

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near Epps, Louisiana.
Lower Jackson, located one-half mile south of this highway, was once thought to be part of the nearby Poverty Point site. However, charcoal found beneath the mound dates it to 3500 BC, 2000 years earlier than Poverty Point. . . .

(Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Memorial

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Fair Haven, Vermont.
In memory of our fallen comrades 1861 - 1865

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Poverty Point Earthworks

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Pioneer, Louisiana.
Poverty Point is a complex of six mounds and six semi-circular ridges built about 1500 BC. The earthworks at this site were the largest in the Western Hemisphere at that time. Many of the artifacts found here show these . . .

(Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War Memorial

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Fair Haven, Vermont.
Honor Roll Ebenezer Bull • William P. Cain • Michele Fumarola George N. Greene • William H. Griffith • Charles E. Ingalls Harold S. Metcalf • Carl W. Mooney • Gordon W. Preston Harley R. Streeter • Emil Trombley • Joseph . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morehouse Parish Training School

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Bastrop, Louisiana.
Site of first school built for Morehouse Parish blacks. Built 1916 through efforts of parish school board and several Bastrop blacks. Subsequent buildings housed Morehouse High School until 1969.

(African Americans • Education) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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