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The Daily Express

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, United Kingdom.
[Inset within a reproduction of the front page of the first edition of The Daily Express is the marker text:] Tuesday, 24th April, 1900 The first edition of the Daily Express was published in Fleet Street. It was one of . . .

(Communications • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

All the Year Round, conducted by Charles Dickens

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, United Kingdom.
[Inset within a reproduction of the front cover of All The Year Round is the marker text:] Saturday, 30th April, 1859 Charles Dickens, pen name "Boz", operated out of the Cheshire Cheese Pub while producing his journal . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Communications • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Mill

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Villa Rica, Georgia.
This Amphitheater is located on the site of what was once the heart of commerce in Villa Rica for more than 100 years. By 1900, the two –block area to the east of here was developed by the Villa Rica Cotton Oil Mill, whose . . .

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

Mo'oheau Park and Bandstand

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Hilo, Hawaii.
Mo'oheau Park was established in the early 1900's as a place for community gatherings and youth activities. The first bandstand was dedicated near the current site in 1905. The land and the original bandstand were said to . . .

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

Sir F. Paolo Tosti

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, United Kingdom.
Sir F. Paolo Tosti K.C.V.O. Musician 1846-1916 lived in a house on this site 1886 - 1916

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

Kamehameha at Hilo Bay

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Hilo, Hawaii.
Kamehameha the Great was born in the 1750s and rose to become one of the most important figures in Hawaiian history. He lived during a period of great transition in Hawaiian society, having witnessed the arrival of the first . . .

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

Hilo Bay: In the days of Kamehameha

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Hilo, Hawaii.
(Legend to Points of Interest to on the Hilo Bay map:) ? Kanoe Heiau Kanoe Heiau was one of six major lauakini or sacrificial heiau on the island of Hawai'i dating back to ancient times. ? Naha Stone A large, elongated stone . . .

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

Edward Gibbon

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, United Kingdom.
Historian lived in a house on this site 1773-1783

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Bank of Sumpter

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Sumpter, Oregon.
Bank was established in 1899 with a capital stock of $10,000.00. The first officers were A.P. Goss, President and A.H. Goss, Cashier. The bank was destroyed by fire on August 13, 1917 and the vault is all that remains.

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

They Were Superior Buildings / Des bâtiments pittoresques

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Augusta, Maine.
By 1858 Water Street had been transformed from a wilderness into a bustling business district featuring many fine commercial brick and wooden buildings. That year a pioneer photographer, Simon Wing of Waterville, took two . . .

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

Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery

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Agawam, Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery Agawam, Massachusetts Dedication May 21, 2001 The Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery is dedicated to the Commonwealth’s Veterans and their families, as a lasting memorial and . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S.N. Armed Guard of World War II

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Agawam, Massachusetts.
Dedicated To U.S.N. Armed Guard of World War II The Armed Guard of World War II came into existence on April 15, 1941 as USN Naval Reserves began special gunnery training on September 25, 1941. Orders were given to train . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Tale of the Tailings

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near Sumpter, Oregon.
As you drove here, you probably saw long rows of rocks all over the valley. These are tailings - topsoil , riverbed rock, and bedrock, left behind by 40 years of dredging. Because of the dredges' systematic destruction, the . . .

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

Anchoring the Dredge

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near Sumpter, Oregon.
As you look at the tailings in an areal photograph or along the road, you'll see that they're played out in neat lines. Why are they straight? Because the dredge had an "anchor" to keep it going forward in a line, rather . . .

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

An Ornament to the City / Un joyau de la ville

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Augusta, Maine.
In 1856, James North built Meonian Hall, named for Maeonia in Asia Minor. The Italianate building stood on the site of the Burton House, Augusta's first post office in 1789. During the Civil War, patriotic rallies and civic . . .

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

Bayou Plaquemine

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Plaquemine, Louisiana.
Upon completion in 1909, The Plaquemine Lock was an engineering marvel thanks to the unique gravity of water flow system that operated the highest fresh water lock in the world. As a distributary of the Mississippi River . . .

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

Bayou Lafourche

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Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
Once a course of the Mississippi River, Bayou Lafourche helped shape Louisiana's coastline by carrying fresh water, sediment and nutrients south to the Gulf of Mexico. Bayou LaFourche is a 106-mile waterway that stretches . . .

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

Porfirio Díaz Mori

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, Mexico.
General Porfirio Díaz Mori Oaxaca 1830- París 1915 “Orden y Progreso” Orizaba 2015 Militar activo por 31 años Héroe de las Batallas de: Calpulalpan Puebla 5 de Mayo Oaxaca Revolución de Tuxtepec Presidente de Mexico “Poca . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

D.W. Adams Department Store / Le grand magasin de D.W. Adams

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Augusta, Maine.
In 1910, Delbert W. Adams opened a store on Water Street offering "strictly first-class goods at a fair margin of profit." In 1920, Adams moved across the street to 190 Water Street, where the store operated until it closed . . .

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

Gulf Intracoastal Waterway

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Bayou Sorrel, Louisiana.
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway was designed primarily for commercial traffic but is also used by recreational boaters. It allows vessels and goods to travel more than 1,300 miles through safer waters inland from the Gulf of . . .

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