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William Penn Whitehouse Homestead Site

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Augusta, Maine.
On this site stood the homestead of William Penn Whitehouse, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from 1911 to 1919. An 1863 graduate of Colby College, Whitehouse studied law with Sewall Lancaster, then opened . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Civil Rights • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

City of Snyder

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Snyder, Texas.
Originally established as a trading post on Deep Creek for buffalo hunters and called "Hide Town," because of many hide tents and dugouts, the city of Snyder takes it name from W. H. (Pete) Snyder, a Dutch trader who . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Channel of Deep Creek

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Snyder, Texas.
Once a spring-fed tributary of the Colorado River; heads and ends within Scurry County. In 1870s it supplied buffalo hunters living in hide-covered half dugouts. "Pete" Snyder's trading post, which eventually grew into the . . .

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

County Named for Texas Confederate William R. Scurry

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Snyder, Texas.
Member Secession Convention. As Lt. Colonel 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment, ably commanded forces at Val Verde and Glorieta Canyon battles in Arizona-New Mexico Campaign 1861-62. Promoted Brigadier General. Commanded immediate . . .

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

State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy

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Pineville, Louisiana.
Provided for by Constitution of 1845 with funds from fed. land grants. Opened, 1860; closed during Civil War; reopened, 1865. Burned 1869; moved to Institute for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, Baton Rouge. Became Louisiana State University, 1870.

(Education • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Memorial

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

Scurry County

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Snyder, Texas.
Formed from Young and Bexar territories Created • Organized August 21, 1876 • June 28, 1884 Named in honor of General William R. Scurry 1821-1864 member of the last Texas Congress A distinguished officer in the Confederate . . .

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

Charles Dickens

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, United Kingdom.
Novelist Lived in Tavistock House near this site 1851 - 1860

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fallen Federal Firefighters/ Oklahoma City Bombing Victims Memorial Grove

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Pineville, Louisiana.
Side A Fallen Federal Firefighters Memorial Grove On May 30, 1995 this grove of 5 redbud trees was planted as a living memorial to the federal firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty in 1994, and to the . . .

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

General William Erskine Headquarters

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Southampton, New York.
Built 1751 Headquarters of Gen. William Erskine Commander of British troops occupying Eastern Long Island 1777-8

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bay Shore

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Bay Shore, New York.
Bay Shore and the surrounding area, were called Penataquit, meaning "crooked creek," by the Secatogue Indians. In 1708, Queen Anne of England validated John Mowbray's purchase of the area from the Secatogues. Mowbray, a . . .

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

World War I Memorial

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Augusta, Maine.
To the memory of our heroic dead who fought for the liberty of humanity 1917-1919 ————— Quiet they rest in this high hope serene that we for whom they died shall keep the faith Killed in Action Wilfred Albert • Walker B. . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Libuse Czech Colony

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Libuse, Louisiana.
In 1908, the Bohemian Colonization Club was begun by J. Rosicky, publisher & editor of the Hospodár, to establish family centered Czech colonies. In 1912, Wesly Wosterchil, Frank Zumpfe, and J. Sobotka located 21,000 acres . . .

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

Triangular Commons

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Bridgehampton, New York.
Training grounds for the militias of eastern Long Island in colonial days, 1649-1776

(Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Augusta's Vietnam War Dead Memorial

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Augusta, Maine.
Not for fame or reward Not for place or for rank Not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity But in simple obedience to duty as they understood it These men suffered all Sacrificed all Dared all - and died Richard W. . . .

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

Third Town Hall

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Islip, New York.
1931 property & hall $300k incl. jail, court, WPA. 1st board mtg. 1/2/1932. Supervisor Davis. Renovated 1955. East/West wings 1969.

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

William Root House

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Marietta, Georgia.
Circa 1845

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

This Log House is Similar to the Home of Chief William McIntosh

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near Whitesburg, Georgia.
It was relocated from near Centre, Alabama by W.O. Kilgore Construction with funds provided by the Department of Natural Resources and private sector funds raised by the Abraham Baldwin Chapter, NSDAR as requested by Carroll . . .

(Native Americans • War of 1812 • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Courthouse Square at Williamsburg

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near Collins, Mississippi.
Covington County was established in 1819, and the county seat was located here in 1829. This courthouse square has been the site of three courthouses, built in 1829, 1854, and 1894. The last courthouse was burned by arson in . . .

(Education • Government • Notable Buildings • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Preserved within Pu'uloa are the stories and memories of the Native Hawaiian people

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near Pāhoa, Hawaii.
'Ano 'ai ke aloha ia 'oukou no ke kipa 'ana am i Pu'uloa. Hele mai a 'ike me ke aloha a me ka mahalo. With aloha, we welcome you to Pu'uloa - a place we honor and cherish. Please stay on the marked trail and boardwalk, for . . .

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