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The Automobile Association

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The Automobile Association opened its first office in this building in the year 1905. This plaque was unveiled on the 28th June 1965 by the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London, Sir James Miller, D.L., LL.D., to mark . . .

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

East Mississippi Female College

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Meridian, Mississippi.
The East Mississippi Female College was established here in 1869 by the Central Methodist Church and became recognized as one of the finest female colleges in the South under the leadership of John Wesley Beeson, President . . .

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

Lewis Edmund "Buck" Crook, Jr.

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Meridian, Mississippi.
A native of Meridian, Lewis Crook (1898-1967) moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915 to attend Georgia Tech. Crook began his career with the architectural firm of Hentz, Reid and Adler. In 1923, Crook formed his own firm with . . .

(Architecture • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mary Seacole

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, United Kingdom.
Jamaican Nurse Heroine of the Crimean War lived here

(Charity & Public Work • Science & Medicine • Women) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ángel Robles Ramírez

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, Mexico.
Angel Robles Ramirez Angelus petronius in vita lux fuit El hombre, el hermano, el padre, el docente, el amigo, el singular humanista chiapenco; Sera rediviva presencia en quienes – desde cualquier momento de la existencia – . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Portuguese Embassy

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, United Kingdom.
These two houses were the Portuguese Embassy 1724 - 1747 The Marquess of Pombal Portuguese Statesman Ambassador 1739-1744 lived here

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

10th Avenue Masonic Cemeteries

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Meridian, Mississippi.
The Thomas J. Wilson and St. Luke's cemeteries were associated with the Masonic lodges that once stood on this city block. The cemeteries have over 100 extant formal markers on the graves of civilians and veterans from five . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McLemore Cemetery

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Earliest evidence of Meridian's settlement, containing burials of first settler Richard McLemore, victims of 1871 riot, and 1878 Yellow Fever epidemic. Listed in National Register of Historic Places.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Flag Protest ~ War of 1812 / Drapeau en berne - Guerre de 1812

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Augusta, Maine.
The embargoes leading to war caused economic hardship in Augusta, and news of war generated disdain in this Federalist Town. Citizens mounted a protest by hanging an effigy of President Madison from the public wharf and . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Patriots & Patriotism • Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bloomsbury Group

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, United Kingdom.
Bloomsbury Group members Virginia Woolf Duncan Grant Adrian Stephen Leonard Woolf & John Maynard Keynes lived in a house on this site 1911-1912

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coronel Antonio José Irisarri

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, Guatemala.
Loor al insigne patriota Coronel Don Antonio Jose de Irisarri Guatemala, 7 de febrero de 1781 New York Estados Unidos 10 de junio 1868 Repatriado en junio de 1968 Coban Alta Verapaz English translation: Tribute to the . . .

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic McLemore Cemetery 1839

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Marked by Pushmataha Chapter 1939

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charlotte Mew

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, United Kingdom.
Poet lived here 1869 - 1890

(Arts, Letters, Music • Women) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

United States Post Office / La Poste des Etats-Unis

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Augusta, Maine.
Augusta's "Castle"! When first opened in 1890, the Portland Transcript called 295 Water Street "one of the most picturesque public buildings that the government has bestowed upon any city in the Union." Built of Hallowell . . .

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

Charles W. "Savez" Read

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Lieutenant Read, a native Mississippian, is buried here. He was an 1860 graduate of Annapolis. With a crew of 17, he captured 22 Union ships in 21 days and struck terror across the eastern seaboard. This adventure has been . . .

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

The Village of Danburg

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near Tignall, Georgia.
(Top -- Facing Northeast) The Village of Danburg was settled circa 1825 by Samuel Danforth of Vermont and Massachusetts at this intersection of two important trade routes, the Augusta Road into North Georgia and the . . .

(African Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, Korean • War, US Civil • War, US Revolutionary • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benjamin Disraeli

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, United Kingdom.
Earl of Beaconsfield Born Here 1804

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Near Homesite of Judge Andrew S. Broaddus

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near Caldwell, Texas.
Noted pioneer leader. Member Virginia House of Delegates (1844-45). Piloted to Texas (1854) a mile-long wagon train of 200 people, who built Salem Baptist Church - reminder of their Virginia home. Broaddus debated the Hon. . . .

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

Cooks Point

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near Caldwell, Texas.
Founded about 1840 where colonial road from southeast crossed San Antonio Road. Settler Gabriel Jackson had two-story log cabin-trading post here. Community was named for Silas L. Cooke, who surveyed much land in this . . .

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

Kings Highway

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near Caldwell, Texas.
Marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and The State of Texas A.D. 1919

(Exploration • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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