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10th Mountain Division Heroes Walk Memorial

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Fort Drum, New York.
Operation Restore Hope, Somalia PVT David J. Conner • 548TH S&S • Feb 1993 Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraq SPC John K. Klinesmith, Jr. • 2-14 INF • Jun 2003 SGT Glen R. Allison • 2-14 INF • Dec 2003 SPC Kasper Dudkiewicz • . . .

(Forts, Castles • Patriots & Patriotism • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mt. Hood School House 1914

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Mount Hood, Oregon.
The building at this location served as a schoolhouse for pioneer settlers who came to Hood River Valley in the early 1900's. Originally built as a one room log schoolhouse the building was located at a popular Indian . . .

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

Timberline Lodge

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Government Camp, Oregon.
dedicated September 28, 1937 by Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States as a monument to the skill and faithful performance of workers on the rolls of the Works Progress Administration

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Government Camp

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Government Camp, Oregon.
Village of Government Camp formerly a camp on the old Barlow Road, the village was named in 1849 when US Cavalry troops were forced to abandon wagons and supplies here.

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

Government Camp

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Government Camp, Oregon.
Village of Government Camp Formerly a camp on the old Barlow Road was named in the fall of 1849 when the first United States Mounted Rifles abandoned a large number of wagons here, while a detachment was traveling from The . . .

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

Samuel Kimbrough Barlow

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Government Camp, Oregon.
There are two plaques mounted on a boulder. Samuel Kimbrough Barlow Oregon Pioneer from Kentucky Built the first wagon road across Cascade Mountains passing this spot 1845 - 1846 The building of railways since has been of . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Oregon Trail

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Rhododendron, Oregon.


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

Emigrant's Final Steps

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Welches, Oregon.
In the shadow of the tall trees, a stream of travelers crossed ash flows, talus slopes and boggy wetlands along this last stretch of the trail. Some emigrants were forced to abandon their wagons with the death of livestock . . .

(Animals • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Woodyard House

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Clifton, Virginia.
This house built by Wallace Woodyard who was one of Clifton's great lumber merchants. It contains the best in material and workmanship. Completely restored in 1969.

(Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lee Drive: The Confederate Line

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Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Lee Drive, the battlefield tour road, runs along five miles of the Confederate line. Along the way you will see the remains of trenches built by Lee's men, a Confederate artillery position on Howison Hill, and the spot where . . .

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

A Safety Valve and Power Source

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Manotick, Ontario.
The Rideau Canal is a 202 kilometre waterway made navigable by a system of more than 50 dams, 47 locks and 19 kilometres of actual canal ruts. Built between 1826 and 1832 as British military defence strategy, the Canal . . .

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

The Perpetual Challenge / Le defi perpétuel

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Manotick, Ontario.
Since the Rideau Canal opened in 1832, water management has been essential to its successful operation. Initially, water concerns focused on maintaining navigation and protecting engineering structures, with the excess water . . .

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

George Washington Carver Homes Projects

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Selma, Alabama.
In 1952, the City of Selma accepted federal funds to build the George Washington Carver Homes Projects. The residences became “The Face of the Civil Rights Movement” to many in the 1960s because Dr. King, the Southern . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Government) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Whitt Cemetery

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near Orville, Alabama.
Whitt Cemetery has been placed on the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register by the Alabama Historical Commission

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Prosperity Cemetery

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near Marion Junction, Alabama.
Prosperity Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church Cemetery is the resting place of many members of the church from 1846 until 1961. The Church was organized in 1822 by Isaac Grier. A church building stood on this site from . . .

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

Anna Gayle Fry House

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Cahaba, Alabama.
Home site of the author of "Memories of Old Cahaba," whose family lived here from the Capital's earliest days as landowners and lawyers, giving her a rich legacy of town history. Married to a doctor, she moved to Galveston, . . .

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

Dickinson Square and Manotick / La Place Dickinson et Manotick

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Manotick, Ontario.
You are standing in Dickinson Square, named after Moss Kent Dickinson, the founder of the Village of Manotick. Dickinson and his partners were established forwarders of goods and people along the Rideau River. Recognizing . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lewis Scott

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Selma, Alabama.
At the age of 20, Lewis lost his sight in 1957 from Glaucoma. He learned the language of braille, other independent living and vocational skills during his attendance at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in . . .

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

Sanctuary to Stage

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Selma, Alabama.
The shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson in nearby Marion, Alabama, transformed Brown Chapel from a sanctuary into a staging area for the Selma march, In a passionate sermon SCLC worker James Bevel suggested making a pilgrimage to . . .

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

George Washington Carver Neighborhood

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Selma, Alabama.
The George Washington Carver neighborhood served as base camp for the votings rights movement during the tumultuous weeks of March 1965. These blocks of brick two-story homes—the city's first and largest federal housing . . .

(20th Century • African Americans • Civil Rights • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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