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Maria Dolores (Lola) Binnard, circa 1910

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Boise, Idaho.
Maria Dolores (Lola) Urquides was born to Jesus and Adelaida Urquides on October 8, 1882. She married Daniel H. Binnard in 1902, but he died suddenly in 1915 and Lola moved back to 115 Main Street to care for her aging . . .

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

The Baumgartner House 1875

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Fraser, Michigan.
This was the home of John & Samantha Baumgartner. John came to America from Bavaria. The beauty of this house is in its architecture, "Rundbogenstil", or "Round arched windows". The style was popular in Germany between 1840 . . .

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

Urquides Village, Southern Edge, circa 1958

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Boise, Idaho.
In 1879, with the death of his friend Antonio de Ocampo, the packer Urquides inherited Ocampo’s city lot at 115 Main Street. Here along a canal he built a home for his wife, Adelaida, their sons, Arthur and Manuel and . . .

(Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jesus Urquides Packs a Mule, 1925

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Boise, Idaho.
In 1850, at age seventeen, Jesus Urquides joined the California gold rush to Stockton and the Sierra Nevadas. In 1860, striking out on his own, he followed the rush to Walla Walla, Lewiston, and The Dalles. Boise Basin’s . . .

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Seaman A. Knapp

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Seaman A. Knapp Memorial So named by the Congress in Resolution approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 16, 1934 to honor the memory of Seaman A. Knapp 1833-1911 Founder of Farm Demonstration Work He organized the . . .

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

Yates Building

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
This building was originally constructed in 1881 for use by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In an effort to fireproof the building and protect it contents, only stone, brick and metal materials were used in its . . .

(Agriculture • Architecture • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clifton Presbyterian Church

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Clifton, Virginia.
After the Civil War, residents seeking Christian fellowship and education organized a Sunday School in the Hetzel House at the corner of Chapel and Pendleton streets. In 1869, nine members of the community organized Clifton . . .

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In Memory of the Heroic Dead

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Leesburg, Virginia.
In Memory of the Heroic Dead of Loudoun County who gave their lives for their country in the Second World War and in Korea World War II Spitler H. Abell • Frederick F. Grossi Stanley C. Alder • Vernon T. Hackley Samuel E. . . .

(War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clifton Baptist Church

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Clifton, Virginia.
In 1876, George W. Tillet, along with other area men who served with Mosby’s Rangers during the Civil War, formed a Baptist Church with services held in his home. Subsequently, they built a one-room church on this site in . . .

(Churches & Religion • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Honor of The Loudoun Citizens…

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Leesburg, Virginia.
In Honor of The Loudoun Citizens Who Served in Vietnam And in Memory Of Those Who Died Welby H. Grayson, III Richard B. Grigsby Jack Harris, Jr. David F. Helms Leonard W. Kidd Francis E. Manuel Weyland F. McCauley, Jr. Ralph . . .

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan • War, Vietnam) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bayport in the Civil War/The Battle of Bayport

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Bayport, Florida.
(side 1) Bayport in the Civil War Bayport was a shallow-water gulf port town in the 1850s. The town was designated the Hernando County Seat and a port of delivery by Congress in 1854. Before the Civil War, the port shipped . . .

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

Pensacola Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

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Pensacola, Florida.
This building, once occupied by a Woolworth’s five and dime store, played a role in the struggle for civil rights in Florida. In the 1950s and 1960s, African Americans in segregated communities began sit-ins to protest . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pine Log Church Historic District

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Rydal, Georgia.
The church, built 1842; campground and tabernacle, 1888; and cemetery, begun in 1850, were listed in the National Register of Historic Places September 9, 1988. The Methodist organization was founded on this site by Stephen . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of First Presbyterian Church of Fluvanna

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Fluvanna, Texas.
A vital religious and social institution for early settlers, this church was founded in 1893 by The Rev. W.W. Werner as Deep Creek Congregation. Worshipers met at Jumbo Ranch Schoolhouse (1.5 mi. E) until 1902, then occupied . . .

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

Former Townsite of Light

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Fluvanna, Texas.
Established in 1899, with the granting of a post office, on land owned by D. C. McGregor. The school on "Jumbo" Ranch (in area settled in 1890s) was relocated here and Light began to grow. In 1905 a new, two-room school . . .

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

Fluvanna Mercantile Company

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Fluvanna, Texas.
Pioneer store noted for its continuous career on original site. Founded in 1915 by D. A. Jones and John A. Stavely, with associated shareholders. Stock--freighted in by Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad--was typical "general . . .

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Fluvanna

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Fluvanna, Texas.
Founded 1907 by a realty firm. Named by townsite surveyor, for his native county in Virginia. When Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad reached this point in Sept. 1909, a 3-day picnic was held. Buildings at Light, Texas, a . . .

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

William Bartram Trail

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Pensacola, Florida.
Bartram wrote of the security and extent of intracoastal water ways from Virginia's Chesapeake Bay to the Mississippi, in 1774.

(Colonial Era • Exploration • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Third Street Historic District

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Chipley, Florida.
Designated a Historic District in 1989. This street is one of the first residential areas in Chipley. Though a railroad town in the beginning, Chipley was, and remains primarily an agricultural center. Notable due to the . . .

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

Von Roeder Cotton Breeding Farms

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near Snyder, Texas.
Pioneer cotton breeders; aides to world fiber market, economy. Clemens Von Roeder, born 1888 in Austin County, moved 1907 to Scurry County. As farmer began use of mutations, 1923, produced a long staple, big boll cotton; . . .

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