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Espinosa-Sanchez House

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St. Augustine, Florida.
One of the few Spanish Colonial buildings remaining in St. Augustine and among a smaller group from the First Spanish Period, this structure suffered two fires and underwent many major alterations. The first documented . . .

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

Boise High School

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Boise, Idaho.
In 1903, Boise High School opened to students in an elaborate, red brick Victorian building. As the city grew, more space was needed and a new building was designed by the firm of Tourtellotte and Hummel. In order to . . .

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

Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory

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St. Augustine, Florida.
This building is a significant example of St. Augustine's industrial heritage in cigar manufacturing at the beginning of the 20th century. Overall, the building represents a masonry vernacular style because of the use of . . .

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

St. Augustine Alligator Farm

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St. Augustine, Florida.
The two original structures represent one of the oldest private zoos and continuously operated tourist attractions in Florida. Contemporary structures have filled in the property among the original Mediterranean Revival . . .

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Augustine Alligator Farm

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St. Augustine, Florida.
The St. Augustine Alligator Farm is one of the oldest continuously operated attractions created specifically for the purpose of entertaining visitors to Florida. Its origins date to the early 1890s, the first decade of St. . . .

(Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W.S. Harlan School

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Lockhart, Alabama.
(front) William Stewart Harlan was the manager of Jackson Lumber Company in Lockhart, established in the early twentieth century as a mill town during the booming demand for longleaf yellow pine. Marketed as Dixie Rift . . .

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

House of Luis de Castilla

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, Mexico.
Aquí estuvo la casa de Don Luis de Castilla hacia 1550. Dirección de monumentos coloniales y de la República English translation: Here was the house of Luis de Castilla until 1550. Office of Monuments of the Colony and . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pyrrhus Concer

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Southampton, New York.
Site of Pyrrhus Concer (1814-1897) homestead born indentured; sold into slavery gained freedom; legendary whaler; prominent resident; devout Christian; philanthropist

(African Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pedestrian Bridge over the Templo Mayor

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, Mexico.
Puente Sobre el Templo Mayor Este puente atraviesa 700 años de historia de la Ciudad de México. Vas a entrar al corazón del que fuera el Recinto Sagrado de Tenochitlan, una de las ciudades más importantes del mundo antigio. . . .

(Anthropology • Architecture • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner

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, United Kingdom.
The Boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the Great Fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the Sin of Gluttony when not attributed to the papists as on the monument and the Boy was made . . .

(Disasters • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charles Lamb

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, United Kingdom.
Elia To the immortal memory of Charles Lamb Perhaps the most beloved name in English literature who was a bluecoat boy here for 7 years B. 1775 D. 1834 [Lower panel:] This memorial was moved here in December 1962 from . . .

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

Marie Dorion

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near North Powder, Oregon.
Madame Marie Dorion, a Native American of the Sioux Nation, gained recognition for her endurance and courage in the early American West. As the only woman on the long and difficult Wilson Price Hunt expedition from Montreal . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Salmon for Trade

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near Joseph, Oregon.
Spring signaled the return of food for the Wal'waama (the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce). The first roots began to appear, and most important, the salmon returned. The sockeye runs in the Wallowa River were heavy, teeming . . .

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

Putting Down Roots

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near Joseph, Oregon.
By the 1870s, the Wallowa Valley was changing. Settlers from the eastern U.S. slowly moved in, drawn to good farmland and the ideal grazing land for cattle and horses that the valley offered. The settlers brought with them a . . .

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

"Only the sounds of the horses..."

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near Joseph, Oregon.
In 1877, the wal'wáama were driven out of the Wallowa Valley, which had been their homeland since time immemorial. Leaving was full of heartbreak and hardship. Over the next 1170 miles they would join with other Nez Perce . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Berkley Memorial

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, Saint Kitts and Nevis.
• This monument was erected in 1883 in honour of Thomas Berkley, a former president of the General Legislative Council in St. Kitts in the 1880s. • Located in the heart of the circus, the four clock faces are a replica of . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site

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near Joseph, Oregon.
Iwetemlaykin is Nez Perce for "at the edge of the lake." It is pronounced ee-weh-TEMM-lye-kinn and the Nez Perce spelling is 'Iweté•mlaykin. This site is part of the ancestral homeland of the Nimigpuu (Nez Perce) and is . . .

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

The Museum of the Estanquillo

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

Andrew N. Johnson

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Mobile, Alabama.
Andrew N. Johnson, born 1865 in Marion, Alabama, graduated from Talladega College in 1886, and taught in rural Alabama. On this site in 1894, he established the Mobile Weekly Press, a voice for African-Americans, "A.N.", a . . .

(African Americans • Industry & Commerce • Notable Persons • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. James A. Franklin

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Mobile, Alabama.
This was the residence of Dr. Franklin, who served the medical needs of Mobile for fifty-three years. He never turned an indigent patient away. Franklin was the only African-American to graduate from the University of . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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