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Matthew Henson

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Silver Spring, Maryland.
August 8, 1866 - Born in Charles County, Maryland. 1877-1879 - At the age of 12, leaves home to live in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. 1879-1884 - Joins the crew of the ship "Katie Hines" as a cabin boy and explores the . . .

(African Americans • Exploration • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Matthew Henson

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Silver Spring, Maryland.
August 8, 1866 - Born in Charles County, Maryland. 1877-1879 - At the age of 12, leaves home to live in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD. 1879-1884 - Joins the crew of the ship "Katie Hines" as a cabin boy and explores the . . .

(African Americans • Exploration • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Boulevard System

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Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago’s Boulevards are one of the city’s most overlooked treasures, and one of the largest and oldest boulevard systems in the nation. The 28-mile system contains 540 acres of green space, and provides a link between seven . . .

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Post High School

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Post, Texas.
Built 1928, incorporating in lower walls native Garza County stones from the town's first (1909) school, erected soon after the founding of city of Post. This historic preservation occurred under leadership of Supt. John E. . . .

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

First Baptist Church

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Pineville, Louisiana.
Side A On January 8, 1911, Pineville Baptist was founded in a brush tabernacle on Reagan Street. Thereafter, the church met at Louisiana College until a brick sanctuary was built on this site in 1919. Under Pastor T.W. Gayer . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

J. M. Boren Home

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Post, Texas.
Built in 1908 of lumber hauled 75 miles. Boren was first county judge, a rancher, bank director, civic leader. Hospitality of home was well known to area pioneers and cowboys visiting town. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark . . .

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

The Post-Hundley House

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Post, Texas.
Charles W. Post (1854-1914), famed cereal manufacturer who founded this community as a model town, occupied this residence during his frequent visits here. Employees of the Double U Company constructed the cottage in 1907 . . .

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

Faith Lutheran Church

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Post, Texas.
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Postex Cotton Mill

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Post, Texas.
Established 1912 by C. W. Post, creator of Post Cereals and a philanthropist. Mill was a part of Post's dream of diversified income for Garza County farmers and prosperity for town of Post. Mill--one of world's first to . . .

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

Garza County

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Post, Texas.
Formed from Young and Bexar Territories Created • Organized August 21, 1876 • June 15, 1907 Named in honor of The Garza family natives of the Canary Islands Pioneer settlers of San Antonio in 1731 A cattle raising county . . .

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Post

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Post, Texas.
Founded 1907 by industrialist C. W. Post. Early abundant water supply by windmills above Caprock. Later from White River Lake. Extensive ranching and farming. Postex Cotton Mills, making sheets and pillowcases, furnish . . .

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

Adolphe J. Gingras

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Augusta, Maine.
Distinguished Citizen of Augusta Revered by the people of the city for years of service to them as Physician, Counselor and Leader

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

Humu'ula Sheep Station

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near Waimea, Hawaii.
Sheep raising became economically important within the interior of Hawai'i during the second half of the nineteenth century. In the 1860s, the Waimea Grazing and Agricultural Company established a station for sheep at . . .

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

Pu'uhuluhulu

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near Waimea, Hawaii.
What is a kipuka? Pu'uhuluhulu, a 500-year old patter cone, is a kipuka ( an older oasis within a newer lava flow). It preserves native plants and acts as a seed bank to revegetate the more recent lava flows that surround . . .

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

Humu'ula and Kala''i'ehā

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near Waimea, Hawaii.
Traditional native uses of the Humu'ula area included bird catching and, at much higher elevations, adze quarrying. They were replaced by sandalwood harvesting and hunting wild cattle, and ultimately ranching and astronomy. . . .

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

Hilo -- Pu'u'ō'ō Trail (Ka'ūmana Trail)

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near Hilo, Hawaii.
Hilo -- Pu'u'o'o trail was built atop the 1855 lava flow and was used to travel by horse of foot to Pu'u'o'o Ranch and Humu'ula. It approximates the route of earlier prehistoric trails. Much of the trail traverses smooth . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Christian Service in Hawaii

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Captain Cook, Hawaii.
In this heiau January-28-1779 Captain James Cook, R.N. Read the English Burial Service over William Whitman, Seaman the first recorded Christian service in the Hawaiian Island

(Churches & Religion • Exploration) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baumgartner House

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Fraser, Michigan.
A native of Bavaria, John Baumgartner purchased this property in Erin Township in 1856, becoming one of Fraser's first landowners. Around 1866 he and his wife, Samantha, moved here with the first three of their seven . . .

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

World War I Memorial

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Owings Mills, Maryland.
In memory of our heroes who died for liberty in the great war. 1914-1918

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

Welcome to Ovid Hazen Wells Carousel at Wheaton Regional Park

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Silver Spring, Maryland.
This carousel, circa 1915, was operated by Jim Wells on the National Mall for many years as the Herschell-Spillman Carousel. It was purchased and renamed by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission as part . . .

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