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Lombard Lamp

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New York City, New York.
Lombard Lamp Lamps such as this one have been a familiar sight in Hamburg, Germany, since 1869, where they grace the famous Lombard Bridge. This Lombard Lamp is presented to the people of New York City by the people of the . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In the Name of Progress

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"The vast granite walls which have stood for years, rugged and wildly picturesque, a great and inspiring example of the handwork of God, are being smoothed away by the kiss of the hammer and the marvelous power of the . . .

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

Artisans at the Falls

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Drake Polishing Works operated on the east bank of the river, across from where you are now standing. Like other industries that located by the falls, it used the flow of the Big Sioux River to run its equipment. Unlike the . . .

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

Unveiling, Jubilee Fountain / Inauguration, Fontaine du Jubilé

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Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Studio Notman Studio, 1897 [Historic photo of the fountain unveiling] ————————————— Erected by the Garden Commissioners in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee June 22nd 1897. [Dedication marker on the . . .

(Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

T.G. Bligh Building

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Salem, Oregon.
In 1922 Thomas Gregor Bligh bought this property from the Salem Elks Fraternal Organization. In 1924, a year after constructing this Mission Revival building, the owner died in an automobile accident. In 1927, is wife Anna . . .

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

Policing or Protecting?

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near Willamina, Oregon.
A System of Forts Fort Yamhill was one of several forts in western Oregon. Hostilities between Native Americans and settlers led to treaties and the establishment of the Grand Ronde Reservation. Forts such as Yamhill and . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Applegate Trail

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near Klamath Falls, Oregon.
The trail in 1846 and later years, crossed the California-Oregon state line gap 1/4 mile east

(Exploration) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Falls Park Bridge

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Through the combined efforts of the Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation Board, the Northern States Power company, and the River Improvement Society (Rise). This bridge is dedicated to the people of Sioux Falls to provide better . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

We Greet Settlement ... ... With Reservations

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Willamina, Oregon.
Good-bye to Our Homelands For thousands of years we lived on this land, thankfully for its bounty. We lived for generations until white men came in strange clothes brining goods to trade, and wanting more, always wanting . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Legacy of Ice and Rock

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The late-Wisconsin Glacier was no ordinary sheet of ice! The glacier was one mile thick and it stretched from eastern Ohio to the Missouri River. It caused North America's most recent Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago. As the . . .

(Environment • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hazel O'Connor

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
With a pioneer spirit Hazel O'Connor has continually let the way toward a better Sioux Falls. One of her many special concerns has been the Big Sioux River and the falls, the city's namesake. As a leader of the City . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Prison Quarry

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(Side One) Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1881 for the construction of a prison in Sioux Falls to serve Dakota Territory. In order to finance a building large enough to house up to 150 inmates, the territorial legislature . . .

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

The Spirit of Siouxland

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Sioux City, Iowa.
This sculpture commemorates Siouxland's extraordinary response to the crash of United Flight 232 on July 19,1989. It depicts the rescue of three-year-old Spencer Bailey by Lt. Col. Dennis Nielsen of the Iowa Air National . . .

(Air & Space • Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition

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Sioux City, Iowa.
In 1804-1806, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery on an epic journey. Charged by President Thomas Jefferson to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisiana . . .

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

M.V. Sergeant Floyd

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Sioux City, Iowa.
On August 21, Tuesday, 1804, Lewis and Clark wrote: "We set out verry early this morning and proceeded under a Gentle Breeze from the S.E . . . Passed Willow Creek (Perry Creek) Small on the S.S (Starboard Side) below a . . .

(Exploration • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Archie M. Gubbrud

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Alcester, South Dakota.
Archie M. Gubbrud was born December 31, 1910, the eldest son of Marius T. Gubbrud and Ella Rommereim Gubbrud at his parental farm home in Norway Township, Lincoln County. He was brought up on this farmstead with a post . . .

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Alcester, South Dakota Veterans Memorial

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Alcester, South Dakota.
In memory of all who served in the Armed Forces from the Alcester Area.

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Civilian Conservation Corps Camp

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Alcester, South Dakota.
Camp SCS-3 (DPE-211 in 1934): located in city park of NE Alcester. Companies: 2746--8/3-10/1/34 & 6/27/35-8/14/41; 4725V--8/15/41 - 5/27/42. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal work - relief program during the . . .

(Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lindbergh Landing Site

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near Pierre, South Dakota.
Side 1 On this, then private, pasture dotted with Sioux Effigies (see marker north 2 miles), Colonel Charles Lindbergh landed his Ryan monoplane, "The Spirit of Saint Louis", September 1st 1927 at exactly 4 pm. On May 21st . . .

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

Cross-Cultural Convenience Store

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near Willamina, Oregon.
Life on the Outside Payday! We can head to the sutler's store. That's where we satisfy our thirst and get our tobacco. The officers go there to enjoy their fine cigars and catch up on the newspapers. We see the Indians . . .

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