World War II Veterans Memorial

February 9, 2013, 4:54 pm

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Colorado, Las Animas County, Trinidad
Dedicated to all men and women who served in WWII from 1941-1946

Fr. Leo Doyle S.J. , Fr. Joseph Haller S.J., Fr. Charles Robinson S.J., Fr. Victor Vifquain S.J.. Fr. Victor Dossogna

Committee: Nick G. Debono;Orval A. Thompson; Tony Massarotti; , Frank A. Delluca; Joseph Dekleva; Rae Ales Graeff

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

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Costilla County Veterans Memorial

February 9, 2013, 5:07 pm

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Colorado, Costilla County, Fort Garland
Honoring with Pride Costilla County Veterans
A list of veterans from the Civil War through Operation Desert Shield is engraved on the marker.

(Military) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Sully

February 9, 2013, 8:04 pm

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Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth


During the Civil War, Fort Leavenworth functioned as an arsenal, a supply base, and a training and organizational camp for volunteer troops. A series of defensive earthworks was constructed on a hill overlooking the National Cemetery. The position was fortified with these two 24 pound seige and garrison guns mounted within the works as the fort's primary armament along with field gun emplacements and rifle pits. Although technically a battery, the entire complex was named Fort Sully after Brigadier General Alfred Sully who had been stationed at Fort Leavenworth at the outbreak of the war. Two more gun positions were constructed just South and West of the main parade and post hospital. All these positions were abandoned at the end of the Civil War.

M1819 24 Pounder Siege and Garrison Guns
These 2 gun tubes were emplaced at Fort Sully. They along with many other similar tubes had been in storage at the Fort Leavenworth Arsenal since its opening in 1859. The gun on the right was produced by McClurg, Wade & Co., Fort Pitt Foundry Pittsburg, PA in 1838. The gun on the left was manufactured by the West Point Foundry in 1826.

(Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Leavenworth

February 9, 2013, 8:32 pm

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Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth


Established in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is the oldest army post in continuous operation west of the Missouri River. Serving as the army's chief base of operations on the Central Plains, the fort furnished troops and supplies for military operations as far away as the Pacific Coast. Troops stationed at the fort were given the task of maintaining peace on the frontier and protecting trade on the newly established Santa Fe Trail. With the establishment of the Oregon-California Trail in the 1840s, travelers on that trail also received protection.

In 1834 the fort became headquarters for the U. S. Dragoons, the army's first permanent mounted regiment. With the onset of war with Mexico in 1846, the Army of the West organized at the fort for its epic journey to California and northern Mexico. When Kansas achieved territorial status in 1854, the first office of the territorial governor was at the fort. In 1881 General William T. Sherman established a school that evolved into the Command and General Staff College, the highest ranked school in the army educational system. One notable student, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, graduated in 1926 with highest honors in his class.
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Has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the
Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating and illustrating
the history of the United States
U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
1962

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Schlender Building

February 10, 2013, 6:11 am

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Missouri, Gasconade County, Hermann


This building has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior

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Chickasaw Trail

February 14, 2013, 6:33 am

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Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis
The main trail of the Chickasaws from their towns in Pontotoc, Miss., here reached the Bayou Gayoso after following roughly the line of Highway 78, Lamar Boulevard, and Marshall Street.

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

The Blues Foundation

February 14, 2013, 6:40 am

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Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis
The Blues Foundation, the world’s premier organization dedicated to honoring, preserving, and promoting the blues, was founded in Memphis in 1980. Mississippi-born performers and business professionals in the Foundation’s Blues Hall of Fame outnumber those from any other state, and Mississippians have also won many annual Blues Music Awards, Keeping the Blues Alive Awards, and international Blues Challenge talent competitions sponsored by the Foundation.

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Universal Life Insurance Building/Universal Life Insurance Company

February 14, 2013, 6:58 am

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Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis
Universal Life Insurance Building
Designed by the African-American architectural firm of McKissack and McKissack and constructed in 1949, this building houses the national headquarters of the Universal Life Insurance Company. The Egyptian-Revival style of this building is an ongoing example of the interest that African Americans developed in the 1920s in Egyptian art. During the era of racial segregation, it was one of the few places where Blacks could gather for their civic and social affairs.
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Universal Life Insurance Company
(Continued from other side) Founded in 1923 by Dr. J.E. Walker, with co-founders A.W. Willis, Sr. and M.W. Bonner, this family business grew to be the fourth largest African-American-owned life insurance company in the United States. Dr. Walker’s son, A. Maceo Walker, continued the business from 1952 until 1983. He was succeeded by his daughter, Patricia Walker Shaw, who ran it until her death in 1985. Descendants of all three families made significant contributions to the company’s growth.

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

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Sara Roberta Church

February 14, 2013, 7:08 am

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Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis
In 1952, Roberta Church became the first black woman in Memphis to be elected to public office and to the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee. She served as an official in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. In 1987, Church was the first woman and the first Black named Senior Citizen of the Year by the Kiwanis Club of Memphis. The daughter of Republican leader Robert R. Church, Jr., and the granddaughter of Robert R. Church, Sr., her death ended three generations of Churches who were economically, politically and socially active in Memphis.

(African Americans • Politics) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Stone Walls

February 14, 2013, 5:51 pm

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Arkansas, Carroll County, Eureka Springs


Eureka Springs claims an estimated fifty-six miles of stone walls. Skilled stonemasons constructed most of the walls between 1885 and 1910. The limestone used was sometimes quarried on site but the majority was transported to the town site by horse drawn wagons or railroad flatcars from the quarry near Beaver, six miles away and the railroad junction 2 miles north of Eureka Springs.

In the first census of Eureka Springs in 1880, thirty men gave "stonemason" as their occupation. They were drawn to the new town where construction of dwellings and commercial buildings went on all day and far into the night to keep up with demand. Stonemasons built mainly foundations and retaining walls for the early wood structures. Major fires in 1883 and 1888 brought about a change to stone and brick construction to safeguard against fire.

In 1890, a project to improve and widen the town's main streets and beautify its public places resulted in building many miles of stone walls. This was a massive project as stonemasons constructed walls as much as twenty feet high along Spring, Howell and Main, the Boulevard and other streets. Walls were built on either side of the stream flowing down Main Street and connected by arched stone bridges.

The best known wall builders in Eureka Springs during its first half century were James M. Waldrip and his sons, William, James and John. The Waldrip brothers built miles of walls and created finely crafted stonework to enhance several spring reservations under the directions of the Board of Public Affairs.

Sam A. Leath, Chamber of Commerce Director, devised the estimate of 56 miles of walls about 1948 as a new era of tourism began. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" features in newspapers, radio and television, illustrated the oddities of Eureka Springs more times than any other city, including "136 winding, twisting streets" and "rock walls... miles and miles of them."

Since the 1970 designation of Eureka Springs as a National Register Historic District, more miles of walls have been built in restoration and preservation efforts. Stonemasons as skilled as those who first arrived in Eureka Springs in 1880 continue to create stone walls of great beauty and lasting quality.

(Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Springs

February 14, 2013, 6:46 pm

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Arkansas, Carroll County, Eureka Springs


"It is sometimes called The Basin Springs, and is invariably the first resort for visitors. If there is any one in the city you desire to find, if no other way, go to the Basin Springs, seat yourself comfortable, and await his coming."
Prof. L.J. Kalklosch, The Healing Fountain, 1881.

[Inset photo captions read]
The earliest visitors to this place in the wilderness that would become Eureka Springs were here in desperate need of better health. Long known as a healing spring by Native Americans, the water was thought to cure all kinds of illness. Health-seekers flocked here in 1879, arriving on foot, horseback and in wagons. These were mostly poor people who had exhausted all other remedies. They lived in covered wagons, tents and rough shacks. Days were spent sociably walking from spring to spring with tin cups and water bottles to drink from each.
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By the 1890s Eureka Springs was becoming a fine spa resort. Basin Park had fine hotels on either side. The Southern Hotel on the south and The Perry House on the north. After The Perry House burned it was replaced with the Basin Park Hotel in 1905, the last of the big hotels.
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Since the 1880s, one of the landmarks of Spring Street has been the Flatiron Building. This is the fourth one to stand in this spot. Note the fine new brick buildings in this 1890s photograph. The original wooden structures were destroyed in a series of Great Fires.

In The Neighborhood
Rock House Cave: South of the park is a wooden stairway which is actually Rock House Avenue, a city street. Up the stairs, behind the building is Rock House Cave, viewed only from the stairway.

Bluff Shelter: The Bluff Shelter and the outlet for Basin Springs are on the hillside above the park.

The 1905 Basin Park Hotel: The hotel was noted by Ripley's Believe It or Not as a seven story hotel with a ground floor entrance on each level. Several of these entrances can be seen from the gazebo.

Balm of Life Sign: The arch sign is a replica of an early sign placed over the spring near the current site of the Bandshell. It was a gift to Eureka Springs from the local Rotary Club on the 125th anniversary of the city in 2004.

(Environment • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Aiken County Museum

February 14, 2013, 7:18 pm

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South Carolina, Aiken County, Aiken
Life in Aiken
The coming of the railroad was a major factor in the birth of Aiken. The all-important cotton crop and Graniteville fabrics could get to market. Add to life in Aiken a lady lonesome for her wealthy friends up North and you have the beginning of the Winter Colony in the 1930s, and 40s. With the Winter Colony came hunting and horseback riding, polo, golf, and tennis - a lifestyle that changed the area.

Banksia
(An early photo of Banksia included)
This museum, "Banksia",was built in 1931 and named for the little yellow rose that climbs serpentine walls surrounding the house. With the passage of time, the Museum remained a centerpiece. After a stint as a boarding house, Banksia was used as the first home of the University of South Carolina at Aiken. It served the needs of the people as the public library and, when the library moved to its current home, it became the Museum you see here now. It chronicles the good times and the bad - a tribute to life in Aiken.

Life in Aiken took a radical change in November of 1950 when the announcement was made of the Savannah River Plant - the "Bomb Plant" being built. Change occurred overnight. Over 30,000 men and their families descended upon the county. Trailer parks sprang up everywhere, schools were on double shifts. This Museum was even used as a boarding house. (Pictures included)

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 13 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Westminster Confederate Monument

February 15, 2013, 9:29 am

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South Carolina, Oconee County, Westminster
Dedicated
to
Confederate Soldiers

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

Westminster First Baptist Church World War I Monument

February 15, 2013, 11:10 am

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South Carolina, Oconee County, Westminster

Top Engraving Our Soldier Boys
Ernest Whitworth
M.A. Bearden
A.M. Dorn
J.O. Johns
W.B. Dillard
W.T. McCordy
H.L. Evans
B.H. Gilliam
H.D. Breazeale
F.K. Breazeale
J.P. Dendy, Jr.
Roy Stribling *
D.A. McMillan
Dr. W.C. Marett
Bruner Danrzler
Dr. F.T. Simpson
W.N. Dalton
W.L. Green
W.L. England, Jr.
J.R. Sullivan
J.E. Gaines, Jr.
H.B. Mulkey
Bottom Plaque Presented to
American Legion Post 107
by
Westminster Baptist Church
Dr. Randy Keasler, Pastor
May 29, 2003
World War Veterans
Connected to the Church

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

Westminster World War I Monument

February 15, 2013, 11:18 am

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South Carolina, Oconee County, Westminster
Dedicated to
World War
Veterans

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

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Newry Soup Kitchen

February 15, 2013, 11:30 am

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South Carolina, Oconee County, Newry
1918
Worldwide Flu Epidemic
Marker Erected
in Loving Memory of
Ella Nunley & Eli Whitney Stanton by
Their Daughter Marcie S. Simmons

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Zion Chapel Baptist Church No. 1

February 15, 2013, 12:50 pm

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South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia

This African-American church was
organized ca. 1865 when four men
left Sandy Level Baptist Church,
founded before the Revolution with
both white and black members, to
form their own congregation. They
elected Rev. Joe Taylor as their
first pastor and held early services
in a brush arbor nearby.

(Reverse text)
The first permanent church here, a
log building, was replaced by a
frame church 1907-1922, during the
pastorate of Rev. T. H. McNeal. It
was covered in brick veneer in 1941,
then extensively renovated 1964-
1978, during the pastorate of Rev.
A.J. Grove, Sr. The historic church
cemetery dates to the 1880s.


(African Americans • Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Traveler's Rest State Historic Site

February 15, 2013, 2:06 pm

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Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa

"Here I got an excellent breakfast of Coffee, ham, chicken, good bread, butter, honey, and plenty of good new milk, for a quarter of a dollar...What a charming country this would be to travel in, if one was sure of meeting with such nice clean quarters once a day!"
-- George Featherstonhaugh, 1837

Traveler's Rest was built around 1815 to serve as a wayside inn for travelers on the Unicoi Turnpike, a busy thoroughfare that connected the Tugaloo and Tennessee rivers. James Rutherford Wyly operated the inn until Devereaux Jarrett bought the place in 1833. Jarrett more than doubled the size of the structure and used it not only as an inn but also as a residence and the headquarters of his vast plantation along the Tugaloo River. The home place stayed in the Jarrett family until 1955 when the state of Georgia bought it for $8,000.

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Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft and Susan Blake Craft

February 15, 2013, 2:36 pm

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Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa
In Loving Appreciation
of Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft
and
Susan Blake craft
Founders of
Toccoa Orphanage in 1911.

Thirty years with God's Providence
he was a father to the fatherless and
she was a mother to the motherless of
fourteen hundred homeless children.

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

Kelly Barnes Dam Break Monument

February 15, 2013, 3:04 pm

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Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa
Toccoa Falls College presents
this memorial marker to
the Toccoa-Stephens County
Community, and to our friends
everywhere, in order to
demonstrate
our eternal gratitude.
We most gratefully acknowledge
the generosity of the people
of Toccoa and Stephens County,
and countless others, who gave
personal, material, and financial
aid at the time of the tragic
flood of November 6, 1977,
which took 39 lives and
devastated the college campus.
Your sacrifices and support
will always be remembered.
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Presented on the occasion of
the Tenth Anniversary of
the Dam Break, November 6, 1987.

(Disasters) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.