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Veterans Building

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Collinsville, Oklahoma.
This building is dedicated to those who served our country by the community of Collinsville Lest We Forget Dedicated to the memory of our departed comrades

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Native American Trail

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near Le Grande, Oregon.
Native peoples crossed the Blue Mountains long before the first explores and fur trappers. In 1834, John Kirk Townsend found the Cayuse and Nez Perce, very friendly towards us, each of the chiefs taking us by the hand with . . .

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Beautiful Rough Road

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near Le Grande, Oregon.
"Commenced the ascent of the Blue Mountains It is a lovely morning, and all hands seem to be delighted with the prospect, of being so near timber again, after weary months of travel, on the dry dusty sage plants, with . . .

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

Steam Locomotive NM-601

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, Mexico.
Locomotora a Vapor N de M-601 De las locomotoras que se preservan en México, ésta es una de las más antiguas y vale destacar que cuenta con casi todas sus piezas originales. Fue fabricada por la compañía alemana Orenstain & . . .

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

Parade of Survivors

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near Le Grande, Oregon.
On August 15, 1853 Henry Allyn wrote the following about his second day in the Blue Mountains: "Elizabeth and father still quite unwell ... We noon on the mountain and take our mules down into a doleful cavern and found a . . .

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

On This Ridge...

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near Le Grande, Oregon.
"... we traveled on for the Blue Mountains cutting our way through the fallen timber... We found it very laborious ... with our dull axes that we had not ground since we left Missouri having no grinding stone to grind them & . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

FT Diesel-Electric Locomotive

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, Mexico.
Locomotora diesel-electrica FT. Unidad A, SBC-2203 In 1939 la General Motors Corporation (GMC) y la Electro-Motive Corporation (EMC) se propusieron diseñar y construir una locomotora que pudiera ser producida de manera . . .

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

Wagon Wheels to Automobiles

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near Le Grande, Oregon.
During the mid-1800s, thousands of American emigrants labored along this ridge. Since then, stage coach, train and automobile roads have paralleled the Oregon Trail over these mountains. Only traces of the original road . . .

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

War Memorial

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Collinsville, Oklahoma.
Army [Seal and Soldier's Creed] I am an American Soldier. I am a warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army Values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sir Patrick Manson

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, United Kingdom.
Father of Modern Tropical Medicine lived here

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stephen Pearce

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, United Kingdom.
Portrait and Equestrian Painter Lived Here 1856 - 1884

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

Archibald Smith

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Roswell, Georgia.
The head of one of the six families comprising in 1839 the original settlement of Roswell, Cobb County, Georgia

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

Passenger Car

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, Mexico.
Coche de pasajeros Coche de segunda clase N de M-4964 Un coche de pasajeros debe cumplir ciertos requisitos de seguridad y comodidad para los ocupantes. En México los hubo de diferentes clases: Primera, Primera combinada, . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

International Petroleum Exposition

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Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The International Petroleum Exposition was founded at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1923 providing a display to the world of the latest in equipment, operational ideas and practices used in the petroleum and related industries. When . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Steam Crane NM-0-19638

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, Mexico.
Grua de vapor N de M-0-19638 Los accidentes en el sistema ferroviario mexicano, como en cualquier otra parte del mundo, suceden por diferentes causas y razones, entre las que podemos citar las fallas mecánicas, el exceso de . . .

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

Karl Ghattas

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, United Kingdom.
Philosopher, Surgeon Printer & Poet lived here The Artist is Dead Long Live the Poet

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

From Steam to Diesel

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, Mexico.
Del vapor al diésel Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX la fuerza del vapor fue utilizada no sólo para mover locomotoras sino también para hacer funcionar la maquinaria en los talleres de reparacion, ya que mediante . . .

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

Rankin County Confederate Monument

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Brandon, Mississippi.
East face To those who wore the grey, “In legend and lay our heroes in grey, shall forever live over again for us.” “The epitaph of the soldier who falls with his country, is written in the hearts of those who love the right . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Booker T. Washington High School

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Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(front) Constructed on this site in 1913, Booker T. Washington High School served as the separate school for Black students in Tulsa. The first building was a four-room wooden frame structure. A sixteen-room brick facility . . .

(African Americans • Disasters • Education • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rankin County War Memorial

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Brandon, Mississippi.
Freedom Is Not Free In memory of the gallant heroes from Rankin County who gave their lives that we may enjoy the blessings of liberty Far left panel World War I E. Hoy Barksdale, 1Lt USA ?S. L. Bridges, Pvt USA ?W. Cole . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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