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Crabtree Gymnasium

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Crabtree gymnasium, building 256, is located on Meyers Avenue. The building is named for Clem Gerald Crabtree who served as head of Morale, Welfare and Recreation at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. He died while still working . . .

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

Chapel

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
This is the site of the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Chapel, building 112, located on what was then Third Street and Farrow Boulevard. The Base Chapel program supported both Protestant and Catholic religious education . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bowling Center

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Located across the street from the hospital on Pampas Drive, the bowling center, building 132, was constructed in 1961. The center offered many hours of fun and relaxation. The 18-lane center offered league bowling each . . .

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

Movie Theater

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Located near the exchange complex, the movie theater, building 116, was constructed in 1956. The theater provided a wide selection of motion picture entertainment, including the latest released films, to military people and . . .

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

Mrs. Wilma Hucks Tirrell

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Among the unsung heroes were the civilians who worked at the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. Mrs. Wilma Tirrell, also known as “Miss Wilma,” is a native of Horry County who grew up on a tobacco farm about ?ve miles south of . . .

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

Our History

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Decatur, Alabama.
1838 Trail of Tears: The discovery of gold in Georgia and thirst for land expansion prompted the U.S. Government and white communities to force the Cherokee nation from their ancestral lands. During the summer and winter of . . .

(Environment • Horticulture & Forestry • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Källaren Fimmelstången / The Fimmelstången Tavern

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, Sweden.
Huset nybyggt 1673 av rådmannen Joel Hörner. Muren åt gårdssidan dock medeltida. Detta är det första huset som Samfundet S:t Erik restaurerade i kvarteret Cepheus (1934). Här låg under några år källaren Fimmelstången, där . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Herbert R. Morgan"

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Glover Park, District of Columbia.
Front Herbert Morgan Astronomer Back "Herbert R. Morgan" For years Hall Place was home to many astronomers who worked nearby at the United States Naval Observatory. One of the most celebrated was Herbert R. Morgan . . .

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

"Emergency"

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Glover Park, District of Columbia.
Police and fire call boxes were installed throughout Washington, D.C. neighborhoods to provide emergency communication links between neighborhood streets and local police and fire stations. With the introduction of the 911 . . .

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

"Victory Gardens"

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Glover Park, District of Columbia.
Front Victory Garden Back "Victory Gardens" The community gardens at 42nd Street and Tunlaw Road and in Whitehaven Park were established as part of the Federal National Victory Garden Program during World War II as a way . . .

(Agriculture • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Tunlaw Road"

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Glover Park, District of Columbia.
Tunlaw Road first appeared in official records in 1879. It was named after Tunlaw Farm, now the Wesley Heights neighborhood, which took its name from a prominent walnut tree on the property. The owner spelled the name of his . . .

(Agriculture • Colonial Era • Environment • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Erik Dahlbergh

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, Sweden.
Föddes i denna gränd den 10 Oktober 1625 Död i Stockholm den 16 Januari 1703 Soldat Ämbetsman Arkitekt Skapare av Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna Denna minnestavla uppsattes 1954 av Hembygdsföreningen Gamla Stan [English . . .

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

Lise Meitner

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, Austria.
maturierte 1901 als externe Schülerin am akademischen Gymnasium in Wien. Sie war massgeblich an der Endeckung und Interpretation der Kernspaltung beteiligt. [English translation:] Graduated in 1901 from the Akademisches . . .

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

Eureka

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Eureka, California.
Eureka was founded as a town in 1850 and incorporated as a city in 1874. Located on the remote northwestern coast of California, Eureka was the region's major port of entry by water in the 19th century before the . . .

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

Scottsburg

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Scottsburg, Oregon.
Few Oregon communities have had a more colorful history than Scottsburg. It was named for Levi Scott, a pioneer of 1844, who homesteaded here and founded the town in 1850. There was a lower town at the head of tidewater on . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carlos Ramírez Llaca

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, Mexico.
Constitución de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos 1917-2017 Carlos Ramírez Llaca 1885-1939 Destacado queretano Defensor de la Revolución, de los campesinos y de la clase proletaria, Diputado por Guanajuato en el Congreso . . .

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

Old Mobley Hotel

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Cisco, Texas.
First hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, who proceeded to become “The World’s Foremost Innkeeper”. Built in 1916 by H.L. Mobley, a northerner, who sold out (1919) during Cisco’s great oil boom to Hilton, then a 32-year-old . . .

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

Cisco College

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Cisco, Texas.
O.C. Britton opened Cisco’s first college in 1909, with a campus established on 212 acres of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Survey. The school closed after the onset of World War I, and the site was used by a series . . .

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

First Presbyterian Church of Cisco

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Cisco, Texas.
When the town of Cisco was platted in May 1881, land at the corner of Eighth Street and Avenue G was set aside for use by a Presbyterian congregation. In August of that same year, local residents Lillie Hightower, Mrs. F.F. . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bankhead Highway

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Cisco, Texas.
The Bankhead National Highway, from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, California, was the nation’s first all-weather, coast-to-coast highway. The southern road skirted the western mountains and was largely free from ice and . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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