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The IMF

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) promotes cooperation among its member countries on monetary and economic matters. The IMF was established at a conference held at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, on July 1-22, 1944. Nearly . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Public Art for a Modern Museum

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The National Mall, District of Columbia.
The Museum of History and Technology (later the National Museum of American History) was the first example of modernist architecture on the National Mall when it opened in 1964. Architect Walker Cain envisioned a landscape . . .

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

Custer Trail

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Medora, North Dakota.
The Yellowstone Expedition of 1876, organized to suppress the hostile Sioux, marched from Fort Abraham Lincoln May 17, 1876. The Expedition camped at the junction of Davis Creek and the Little Missouri River, four miles . . .

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

First Methodist Church

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Snyder, Texas.
Organized July, 1883 at Brush Arbor Revival on Ennis Creek, 10 miles N.E. of Snyder. First one-room church built on land donated by T. N. Nunn Family in 1889. Used until 1920 when congregation could no longer be . . .

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

Deadman Pass Oregon Trail Kiosk

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near Adams, Oregon.
(Six panels dealing with the Deadman Pass portion of the Oregon Trail are found at this kiosk) Wagon Ruts More than 50,000 emigrants traveled west on the Oregon Trail between 1840 and 1850. The constant stream of wagons . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The National Huapango Dance Contest

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, Mexico.
El Gobierno del Estado de Querétaro y el H. Ayuntamiento de San Joaqín 1997-2000 se altecen al rendir homejaje con esta obra escultórica, a las generaciones de “bailadores” y “bailadoras” de son huasteco, que con su arte, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oregon Scenic Highways

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near Pendleton, Oregon.
This magnificent view is preserved and protected by the efforts of the Oregon Roadside Council, which initiated and secured the passage of the Oregon Scenic Areas Act in 1961. 3585 scenic miles of highways were surveyed and . . .

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

Oil Discovery in Gray County

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Pampa, Texas.
The Burnett No. 2, located on the 6666 Ranch in Carson County, and owned by Burk Burnett, was the first oil well drilled in the Panhandle Field. The ranch had been purchased by the White Deer Lands in 1903. Excitement ran . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pendleton

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Pendleton, Oregon.
This location marks a travel corridor for Plateau Tribes moving seasonally from the Columbia River to the Blue Mountains. In 1811, members of the Astor Party under the leadership of Wilson Price Hunt camped here on their way . . .

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

First Presbyterian Church

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Snyder, Texas.
Organized June 13, 1892, as the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, by The Rev. W.W. Werner, with seven charter members. In 1906 original church body joined the Abilene Presbytery, Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Congregation . . .

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

Carlock Building

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Lubbock, Texas.
Art deco style office building constructed in 1930 as the new Cotton Exchange Building. Designed by J.B. Davies & Co., Fort Worth, for J.D. Doughty and J.B. Kerby of Weatherford. Now the Carlock Building, it symbolizes the . . .

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

Hendricks Building

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Pendleton, Oregon.
Built in 1897 by early day brothel owner, Christopher Columbus Hendricks, this building has one of the least altered store fronts and interiors within the historic district. The southern most commercial space originally had . . .

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

Masonic Hall Building

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Pendleton, Oregon.
This brick building was constructed in 1887 in the High Victorian Italianate style by the Masonic Hall Association of Pendleton. With the exception of the ground floor commercial storefronts, which have been altered over the . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ferguson Building

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Pendleton, Oregon.
This High Victorian Italianate building was constructed in 1904 by J.W. Maloney and James Monroe Ferguson. Although the ground floor store front have been altered over the years the building's historic character is evident . . .

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

James S. Bulloch

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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, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nathaniel A. Pratt

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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.

Barrington King

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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, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ellizabeth King Hand

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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.

John Dunwoody

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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.

Jefferson Davis Highway

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Midway, Alabama.
Soldiers of the Confederacy and of the World War

(Roads & Vehicles • War, US Civil • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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