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War Memorial

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Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania.
Dedicated to the men and women of Delaware Water Gap who served their country 1917 • World War I • 1919 [Honor Roll of Veterans] 1941 • World War II • 1945 [Honor Roll of Veterans] Korean War [Honor Roll of Veterans] . . .

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

Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
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(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Caldwell School

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Mobile, Alabama.
Opened in 1887 as Broad Street Academy, this was the site of Mobile's first public high school for African Americans. The building was razed in 1947, and a new elementary school was constructed and named in recognition of . . .

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

St. Martin de Porres Hospital

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Mobile, Alabama.
Established in 1947 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile for the black community because segregation prevented black doctors from admitting patients to the City Hospital. Present building erected in 1950 and named for St. . . .

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

World Wars Memorial

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Shawnee on the Delaware, Pennsylvania.
Shawnee on the Delaware Pa has not forgotten those who served in World War I Micola Breletta ? • Richard S. Burns • Robert K. Christenberry Earl N. Detrick • Ross S. Fuller • Howard A. Knudson Loyd L. Lee • J. Stark . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Miller County Confededrate Soldiers and Sailors

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Colquitt, Georgia.
In Memory of Miller County Confederate Soldiers and Sailors that Honorably Served in the War Between the States 1861 – 1865 (On Base) ** CSA **

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

Grosvenor Chapel

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, United Kingdom.
In this chapel the armed forces of the United States of America held divine service during the Great War of 1939 to 1945 and gave thanks to God for the victory of the Allies.

(Churches & Religion • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of the Professed or San José del Real

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, Mexico.
Templo de la Profesa o de San Jose del Real Entre 1579 y 1610 se construyo en este sitio el Templo Jesuita que fue destruido por la inundación de 1629. De 1714 a 1720 Pedro de Arrieta edificó el templo que vemos hoy, de . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Catholic Cemetery

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Mobile, Alabama.
Catholic Cemetery, established in 1848 by Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, with purchase of five acres on Stone St., now Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Significant for its circular pattern original section has three . . .

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

Worthington Hall

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Shawnee on the Delaware, Pennsylvania.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior ——————————— As a memorial of George Bingham Fowler, M.D. who died March Sixth 1907 the Tower Clock was . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters • Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Globe Theatre

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, United Kingdom.
The third theatre to bear the title of its bankside namesake was originally known as the 'Hick's Theatre' and was built by the eminent theatre designer W G R Sprague. The Globe Theatre continues to delight with a successful . . .

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

Rosetti, Morris, and Burne-Jones

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, United Kingdom.
In this house lived in 1851 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poet and Painter and from 1856 to 1859 William Morris Poet and Artist and Sir Edward C. Burne-Jones Painter

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

A Hollywood Legend at the Zoo?

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Smithsonian National Zoo, District of Columbia.
This life-sized model of a triceratops may not give autographs but he was the star of a 1968 hit. Uncle Beazley—for that's who he is—"starred" in the movie The Enormous Egg, a film based upon the 1956 children's book of the . . .

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

Alma Thomas Residence

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
Alma Thomas (1891-1978), the nationally acclaimed abstract artist, lived in this house from 1907 until her death. In 1924 she became the first graduate of Howard University's Art Department — and possibly the first black . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Family Home

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
Thomas Family Home Where Alma Woodsey Thomas American Artist and Teacher Resided 1907 - 1978 This House Was Listed July 28, 1987 in the National Register Of Historic Places National Park Service United States Department of . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Luke's Episcopal Church/Alexander Crummel

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
This was the first independent black Episcopal parish church in the city. It was established in 1879 by a breakaway group from a Foggy Bottom mission church, St. Mary's Chapel for Colored People, led by former St. Mary's . . .

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

Advancing the Race

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Logan Circle, District of Columbia.
Across the street is St. Luke's Episcopal Church, completed in 1880 by DC's first black Episcopalian congregation. Founding pastor Alexander Crummell was a prominent African American intellectual. After 20 years as a . . .

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

John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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Logan Circle, District of Columbia.
United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church "The National Church of Zion Methodism" 14th and Corcoran Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Listed . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Alain Locke Residence

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Logan Circle, District of Columbia.
Alain Locke (1886-1954), a leading 20th-century intellectual and the nation's first black Rhodes Scholar, was a central figure in the New Negro (sometimes called the Harlem) Renaissance. Locke edited The New Negro (1925), an . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Communications • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

When Gordon Met Ella

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Shaw, District of Columbia.
Ella Watson, the subject of photographer Gordon Parks's famous and pointed portrait "American Gothic, Washington, D.C.," rented rooms on this block at 1433 11th Street. Watson worked as a cleaning woman in the headquarters . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • Industry & Commerce • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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