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The Champlain Canal

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Whitehall, New York.
Throughout history the corridor along Lake Champlain and the Hudson River has been a transportation route of significant strategic and commercial importance. In pre-colonial times it was an important Native American trail. . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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Whitehall, New York.
We will never forget our Veterans who answered the world's call for freedom [Honor Rolls] Dedicated May 25, 1992

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

Blasting Their Way

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Direct assaults on the Confederate fortifications on? May 19 and 22 ended in heavy Union losses. With? Vicksburg's defenses holding strong. Grant changed? tactics and ordered a formal siege. Here, at Third? Louisiana Redan, . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War Memorial

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Whitehall, New York.
In memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice and in honor of those who served 1917 • World War • 1918

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Overwhelming Firepower

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
The Union siege of Vicksburg was ?successful because of places like this. ?At Battery De Golyer, the Union army ?concentrated its cannon. Confederates ?spread theirs out. When a Confederate? cannon fired, many Union guns . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emiliano Zapata

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, Mexico.
Con la iniciativa del C. Alberto Alvarado Guerrero Secretario General del Comité Campesino Municipal de Celaya y la participación de los propios campesinos fue construido este monumento del Gral. Emiliano Zapata Celaya, Gto. . . .

(Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S. Battery K,

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Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Capt. Benjamin F. Rodgers. The battery served four James rifles in temporary positions on the investment line of its division from May 25. One section served two James rifles in this position from about June 22 to the end . . .

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

Andrew Johnson

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Greeneville, Tennessee.
Located on the corner of Main and Summer Streets is the mural of President Andrew Johnson looking out of a window of his Land Office building. He is wearing his Masonic uniform and the Masonic Lodge was located inside a . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Austin Company

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Greeneville, Tennessee.
On Summer Street behind Main Street Place are two murals which depict the tobacco industry. Tobacco was the money crop for many Greene Countians from the early 1800s through the 1900s with warehouses "on every corner". The . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sally Bohannon

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Greeneville, Tennessee.
Miss Sally Bohannon, one of the richest women in Greeneville in the 1920s, moved here with her widowed mother to be near several uncles who were local potters. After teaching and ceramic painting at Tusculum College she . . .

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

Andrew Johnson and Family

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Greeneville, Tennessee.
This silhouette created by local artist, Joe Kilday, on the side of a Summer Street building depicts the arrival of youthful future President Andrew Johnson leading a blind pony which pulled a small wagon. The young girl, . . .

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

Washington: The Man

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National Mall, District of Columbia.
"He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man." Thomas Jefferson, January 2, 1814 George Washington shaped the United States in both war and peace. He led the Continental Army against the . . .

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

Washington: The Monument

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National Mall, District of Columbia.
The Washington Monument honors George Washington, hero of the American Revolution and the first president of the United States. When this stunning stone obelisk was completed in 1884, it was the tallest building in the . . .

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

Washington: The City

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National Mall, District of Columbia.
George Washington shaped many aspects of the nation's capital. He championed placing the capital along the Potomac River then personally selected the site. He chose architect Pierre L'Enfant to design the city. L'Enfant . . .

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

A Monumental Legacy

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National Mall, District of Columbia.
The Washington Monument honors George Washington, hero of the American Revolution and first president of the United States. When this stunning stone obelisk was completed in 1884, it was the tallest building in the world. . . .

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

"a magnificent waterfront entranceway..."

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Southwest, District of Columbia.
"a magnificent waterfront entranceway..." Pierre Charles L'Enfant architect of the Nation's Capital City, describing the Southwest Waterfront to President George Washington Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

UT RecSports Complex

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Knoxville, Tennessee.
Although no permanent villages of campsites were located on this site prior to the arrival of settlers, this property was part of the tribal lands of the Cherokee Nation. In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, this property . . .

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

Knox County

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near Rockford, Tennessee.
Washington's Chief of Artillery in the Revolutionary War. Secretary of War in Washington's Cabinet. One of the founders and first secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati.

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

Bartlett's Station

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Rockford, Tennessee.
Nicholas Bartlett built a mill 300 ft. downstream about 1785. When Blount County was created in 1795, its mill-pond was a turning point from the Stock Creek boundary to run toward Bay's Mountain. The mill was used as a fort . . .

(Forts, Castles • Industry & Commerce • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sam Houston Schoolhouse

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Maryville, Tennessee.
Three miles south is the school-house built in 1796 by Andrew Kennedy and Henry McCulloch for their children. Sam Houston taught here in 1811 or 1812. He later became Governor of Tennessee, Commander-in-Chief of the Texas . . .

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