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The Pulaski Tunnel Trail

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near Wallace, Idaho.
Welcome to the Pulaski Tunnel Trail This beautiful trail offers a scenic, rewarding hiking experience and recounts the dramatic events of the “Great Fire of 1910.” The trail’s two-mile course ends at an overlook across the . . .

(Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Payne’s Church

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Fairfax Station, Virginia.
Placed by Providence Chapter, NSDAR. 1985 Site of Payne’s Church Church of England….. 1768

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tazewell County Va./West Virginia

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Bluefield, Virginia.
(obverse) Tazewell County Va. Area 531 Square Miles Formed in 1799 from Russell and Wythe, and named for Henry Tazewell, United States Senator, 1794-1799. Beautiful Burk's Garden is in this county. (reverse) West Virginia . . .

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

Plott Hound

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Waynesville, North Carolina.
State dog. Prized for big game hunting skills. Breed refined in 1800s by Henry Plott & Family. Their home 2 mi. SW.

(Animals • Sports) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Lewis Ore Wagons

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Ketchum, Idaho.
Horace Lewis began the "Ketchum Fast Freight Line" soon after the town was founded on August 2, 1880. The first load of ore was carried from the Elkhorn mine to the railroad at Kelton, Utah. These monstrous wagons with . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ketchum

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Ketchum, Idaho.
Pioneering explorer Alexander Ross visited the valley in search of beaver in 1821. The Hudson's Bay Company reported the area as "promising." Ketchum's short mining era began in 1879, after the Sheepeater War and the . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Congregational Church

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Ketchum, Idaho.
The First Congregational Church of Ketchum, Idaho was built in 1884 during expansion of the Church across America. By the late 1840's, Christian abolitionists gained strength in the struggle against slavery. Unwilling to . . .

(Churches, Etc.) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W.H. Watt Building

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Hailey, Idaho.
The Watt Building is connected in local memory with W.H. Watt, who had the building erected as a bank. An 1889 fire that demolished the business district of Hailey left few buildings still standing. The rear portion of the . . .

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

Bullion Block Site/Werthheimer Building

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Hailey, Idaho.
The original building on this site, called the Bullion Block, was constructed in 1882. It was at this time that Hailey became the county seat of Alturas County after a bitterly fought election with Bellevue, and the existing . . .

(Disasters • Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

J.J. Tracy Building

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Hailey, Idaho.
The J.J. Tracy Building was built as a drug store in 1906 by John J. Tracy. Already a pharmacist at the age of twenty-two, Tracy migrated to the West, spending three months in Kelton, Utah where he met William T. Riley, an . . .

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

British West Florida

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St. Francisville, Louisiana.
The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended the French and Indian War in the American Colonies. France transferred to Britain all its rights to the mainland of America. East of the Mississippi River, excluding New Orleans and its . . .

(Colonial Era • Political Subdivisions • War, French and Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

J.C. Fox Building

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Hailey, Idaho.
J.C. Fox, the original owner of the building and one of Hailey's founders, had it erected in 1920 after operating a general store three doors up the street for almost forty years. He served as mayor for two years and was . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rialto Hotel

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Hailey, Idaho.
In 1934, Julio Astoriquia and his wife Maria Astoriquia invested their hard-saved money to buy two lots on Main Street in Hailey for construction of a hotel. Julio emigrated from the Basque region of Spain to the United . . .

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

Wood River Mines

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near Bellevue, Idaho.
Rich strikes in 1879 led to a rush in the lead and silver mines of this valley. The famous Minnie Moore Mine alone produced a total of 18.4 million worth of ore. Mining quickly brought a railroad and prosperity. The Ketchum . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Natural Resources) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Magic Reservoir

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near Bellevue, Idaho.
Water from deep snow that falls on high mountain ridges north of here is stored each Spring in this reservoir to irrigate farm land near Shoshone and Richfield. Big Wood River flows past some hills that separate this valley . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Watertown, New York.
In honor of those who served World War I • World War II Korea • Vietnam

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

Public Square Fountain

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Watertown, New York.
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(Charity & Public Work • Labor Unions • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Delord House

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Plattsburgh, New York.
The DeLord House, 1810-1913, A Social Hub During the War of 1812 La maison Delord 1810-1913: bastion de la vie sociale Durant la guerre de 1812 In August 1810, Henry and Betsey Delord purchased the house they would enlarge . . .

(War of 1812) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Memorial

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Watertown, New York.
In grateful memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Jefferson County who fought or fell in defense of the Union and the freedom of man. This monument to witness that these dead have not died in vain and that through them, . . .

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Keep Home

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Watertown, New York.
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(Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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