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George Washington

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
On plaque below marker: A photo-collage celebrating The George Washington University's Permanent Collection incorporates a selection of outdoor sculpture and paintings. GW has enhanced the pedestrian environment in and . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Union Methodist Church

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
• 1846, July 1 - cornerstone laid for the Union Methodist Church, founded February 13, 1846, in the Union Fire Hall, that stood on the southeastern corner of 19th and H Street, N.W. • 1862 - served as a hospital during the . . .

(Churches & Religion • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sparkill Veterans Memorial

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Sparkill, New York.
Dedicated To The Memory Of The Men Who Served And To Those Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice ? Vincent DeLongis ? George Pinto ? Bernard Haring ? Moses Yadanza ? Joseph Cardillo ? Anthony Tudesco Greater love hath no man than . . .

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

Sparkill Veterans Monument

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Sparkill, New York.
Dedicated To All Those Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice In The Preservation of Our Freedoms and to The Men and Women of This Community Who Have Served or Are Currently Serving In the Armed Forces Of the United States The John . . .

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

Sparkill Viet-Nam War Monument

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Sparkill, New York.
For God and Country In Memory of Those Who Served And For Those Known Only to God Viet-Nam 1961 – 1975 John M. Perry Post No. 1044 American Legion

(War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sparkill Korean War Monument

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Sparkill, New York.
For God and Country In Memory of Those Who Served And For Those Known Only to God Korea 1950 – 1955 John M. Perry Post No. 1044 American Legion

(War, Korean) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cathy Hughes

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Washington, District of Columbia.
(side 1) Cathy Hughes and WOL-AM have made an indelible mark on this Washington D.C. community. In 1982, Hughes purchased a building at the corner of 4th and H Streets and found it littered with almost 200 hypodermic . . .

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

Lee County Courthouse

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Giddings, Texas.
Designed by J. R. Gordon along lines similar to New York State Capitol and several buildings at Harvard University. Classified as Richardsonian Romanesque style, after the famous Louisiana-born architect Henry H. Richardson. . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Robert E. Lee / Colonel Robert E. Lee

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Giddings, Texas.
(front) County named for beloved Confederate General Robert E. Lee Led army of Northern Virginia which included famed Hood's Texas Brigade. He said about them "I never ordered that brigade to hold a position that they did . . .

(Notable Persons • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lee County

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Giddings, Texas.
Located on Old San Antonio Road, on land surveyed in 1821 as part of the original colony of Moses and Stephen F. Austin. In 1854 became site of major settlement by Wend from northern Europe, led by Pastor Johann Kilian. Had . . .

(Education • Notable Places • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Farmers State Bank and Reinstein Store

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Chappell Hill, Texas.
Chappell Hill began as an agricultural community in 1847 but had no bank until a population boom in the early 1900s brought wealth and economic prosperity. Farmers State Bank organized in March 1907 and opened in September . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Rock Store

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Chappell Hill, Texas.
Town's early masonry store, built 1869 by merchant John E. Glass. Has thick sandstone walls, massive hand-hewn and pegged pine timbers, doors and window shutters made with square nails. Tenants have been grocers and the . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cypress Swamps

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Patterson, Louisiana.
Like redwoods, cypress trees can live a long time and grow to fantastic sizes. Prior to largescale logging, south Louisiana and the Atchafalaya Basin were full of large stands of giant cypress. Bald cypress (Taxodium . . .

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

Mingus Mill

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Cherokee, North Carolina.
You didn't make it without corn....everyone ate cornmeal, sometimes two and three times a day. -George Moore, local resident For 50 years, nearby farmers brought their corn and wheat to Mingus Mill, built in 1886. The miller . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Land Office Building of 1856-57

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Austin, Texas.
The General Land Office building, constructed in the 1850s, housed the agency responsible for administering the state’s vast landholdings. Designed by German architect and Land Office draftsman Christoph Conrad Stremme, it . . .

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

Burton Farmers Gin 1914

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Burton, Texas.
This is the earliest known survivor of an integrated cotton ginning system widely used to process cotton from wagon to bale in a continuous operation. The gin machinery was designed and built in 1914 by the Lummus Cotton Gin . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Burton Farmers Gin

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Burton, Texas.
In December 1913 a group of local farmers met to organize the Burton Farmers Gin Association. This two-story corrugated metal-clad gin building was constructed in 1914. The gin's machinery was steam-powered until 1925, when . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sparkill World War I Memorial

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Sparkill, New York.
Dedicated To The Memory of The Men of Orangeburg, Palisades, Piermont Sparkill and Tappan Who Died In The Great World War 1917 – 1919 Rev. Hedley T. Cooper · Archibald J. Engle · Carmine Formato · H. Leroy Kline · Charles . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail

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Sparkill, New York.
Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail This project was designed and constructed by the New York State Deparirment of Transportation in partnership with the Town of Orangetown Parks and Recreation Department. Mr. Joseph B. Clarke was . . .

(Environment • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tappan Historic District

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Tappan, New York.
Tappan Historic District 1686 Tappan Permit Protected by the Town of Orangetown Local Law Est. 1965 Town Board of Orangetown

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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