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Albert D. Sahli

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Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Albert D. Sahli is a native of Aberdeen and a 1947 graduate of Aberdeen Central High School. Coach Sahli received his bachelor's degree in 1951 and master's in 1956, both from Northern State University. Coach Sahli's . . .

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

Donald S. Reshetar

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Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Don Reshetar is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota and a 1947 graduate of Minneapolis South High School. Coach Reshetar graduated with his bachelor's degree from Augustana College, in 1951 and master's degree from Northern . . .

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

Clark Swisher

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Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Clark Swisher was a native of Vermillion, South Dakota and graduated from Vermillion High School in 1934. He want on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in 1938 from the University of South Dakota. Coach Swisher began his coaching . . .

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

Bowdle, South Dakota Veteran's Memorial

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Bowdle, South Dakota.
This Monument is Dedicated to all those who left from Bowdle, SD to serve in the armed forces of the United States of America and did not return home. Harry Stroup Ted Feiock Louis Krumm Harold Erbe Merle Merke l Wayne . . .

(War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walworth County, South Dakota Veterans Memorial

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Selby, South Dakota.
Dedicated to all Veterans Men & Women Through Peace or War Their Memories will Never Die They fought Honor to our Country And Promise to our Dreams Walworth County Veterans Memorial Sponsored by Frederick Schauer Legion Post . . .

(War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Mickelson Governors

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near Selby, South Dakota.
George T. was born to George and Emma on a farm south of Selby in 1903. He received his education here and at the University of SD graduating with a law degree in 1927. Madge Turner and he were married in 1928. While . . .

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

Hoffnungstal EV. Lutheran Church

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near Eureka, South Dakota.
Hoffnungstal EV. Lutheran Church Eureka, South Dakota Organized 1888 Disbanded December 31, 1968 Record Depository Zion Am. Lutheran Church Eureka, South Dakota Original Church Corner Stone Ev. Luth. Hoffnungstal Kirche . . .

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

Clinton High School

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Clinton, Tennessee.
Following a court order by Federal District Judge Robert L. Taylor, on August 27, 1956, 12 black students, now known as "The Clinton 12", enrolled in Clinton High School without incident, making it one of the first . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dolly's House

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Ketchikan, Alaska.
Dolly Arthur… one of the Creek’s longest “working” residents This house was the home of Dolly Arthur, Ketchikan’s most famous “sporting woman.” From 1919 through the 1940s, it was also her place of business. Dolly, whose . . .

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

20 Creek Street

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Ketchikan, Alaska.
Beatrice Greene; the last working woman For half a century, this house, like so many on the Creek, was part of Ketchikan’s notorious red light district where both fish and men came upstream to spawn… the fish once, many of . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Millennium Peace Garden

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near Honolulu, Hawaii.
Millennium Peace Garden This garden was planted on October 24, 1999 by 750 youth from 103 countries during the Millenium Young Peoples Congress. It demonstrates the principles of environmental sustainability and world peace. . . .

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

Mahlon Stacy’s Gristmill

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Trenton, New Jersey.
Trenton originated with a gristmill founded near this spot on the Assunpink Creek over three centuries ago. The mill drove the early economic growth of the town, soon becoming known as Trent’s or the Trenton Mills after the . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pro Nostra et Vestra Libertate

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, Belgium.
Gen. Dyw. Stanislaw Maczek Dowódca 1 Polskiej Dywizii pancernej Ktora brala udziae W Oswobodzeniu Belgii 1944 Ltn. Gen.Stanislaw Maczek Bevelhebbern van de 1e Poolse Pantserdivisie in memorial Aan de bevrijders van België

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

Community Builders

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Front of marker: Harry Wardman, Washington's prolific developer, built nearly all of the 300 houses to your right between Monroe Street and Spring Road. Wardman, an English immigrant and self-made millionaire, became known . . .

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

The Market Place of Pearls

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Clinton, Tennessee.
From about 1895 to 1936 Tennessee was one of the nation's six leading states in marketing pearls. Clinton was listed as one of three Tennessee towns known as centers of the pearling industry. New York dealers came regularly . . .

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

Frederick F. Henry Memorial

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Vian, Oklahoma.
Henry, Frederick F, Recipient of Congressional Medal of Honor; The Asistic Pacific Ribbon with two bronze stars; The Philippines Liberation Ribbon with bronze star; the Bronze Star Medal with an oak leaf cluster.

(War, Korean) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Tactical Terrain

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Fredericksburg, Virginia.
This rising ground, called Fall Hill, anchored an extensive line of Confederate earthworks. In addition to this trench, there were supporting artillery lunettes on tip of the hill and similar pits to the left and right. . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Roswell Square Bicentennial Restoration Project

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Roswell, Georgia.
For years called “The Park,” this area was set aside by Roswell’s founders. Present walks duplicate original paths. President Theodore Roosevelt spoke here from a bandstand in 1905. Historic Roswell Square Bicentennial . . .

(Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

White’s Creek and the War

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Nashville, Tennessee.
During the Civil War, Confederate Capt. John H. Earthman (a descendant of one of the earliest Whites Creek settlers) raised a company of soldiers. Accepted into service at Whites Creek on April 25, 1861, the company mustered . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Wilson Creek Primitive Baptist Church

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Arrington, Tennessee.
This church was organized on October 13, 1804 with forty-six members including fourteen African-Americans. Early families to worship here were Clayton, Davis, Fleming, Hill, Hyde, Jordon, McKnight, McFadden, and Pate. The . . .

(Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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