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Hotel Sisters

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Sisters, Oregon.
The hotel was built in 1912 by local businessman and Spanish American War veteran John Dennis. Hot and cold water was available to each of the original 19 guest rooms, and every room was supplied with heat from a hot air . . .

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

George Nurse

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
This Memorial is Dedicated to George Nurse Accomplishments 1867 - 1869 - 1878 Opened First Trading Post Built the Bridge Across Link River Platted Town and Called it Linkville Donated the Land For the First Cemetery The . . .

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Welcome to the Oregon Coast

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Coos Bay, Oregon.
(panel 1) The Oregon Coast boasts forested headlands, towering dunes of sand, and sparkling lakes and rivers. From the Columbia River south to Bandon, the picturesque coastline is bordered to the east by the peaks of the . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Villagrán Street

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, Mexico.
Calle Villagrán Reseña Histórica En sesión extraordinaria de cabildo del 14 de febrero de 1852, siendo alcalde primero Don Ramón Uriarte, se arcordó la apertura de nuevas calzadas en esta Villa. Una de estas se abre . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features • Politics • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kvarteret Brunkhalsen

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, Sweden.
[English text:] The block named Brunkhalsen was among the quarters created when a town plan was set up for the Norrmalm district in the 1640s. Norrmalm had previously been a separate town, Norre Forstaden. In the new . . .

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

Karlsplatz 7

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, Germany.
Giebelhaus mit Fachwerk 1242 erbaut und ältestes Haus in Prichsenstadt Gotteshaus-Lehen, ein bestimmtes Nutzungsrecht mit Abgabepflicht gegenüber der Kirche im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert Ratsherrenwohnung 1705-1813 . . .

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

Santiam Wagon Road

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near Cascadia, Oregon.
The pass located east of here through the Cascade Range was once called Wiley Pass after Andrew Wiley. Wiley with other Willamette Valley Pioneers explored it in 1859 while searching for a route to move their livestock to . . .

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

America's First Transcontinental Automobile Race

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near Cascadia, Oregon.
Automobile history was made here June 20, 1905, when the first car to cross the Cascade Mountains conquered the Santiam Wagon Road. Dwight Huss drove "Old Scout,: a 1904 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout, from New York to . . .

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

Battleground of Echowanochaway Creek

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near Shellman, Georgia.
Five miles NE is the Battleground of Echowanochaway Creek, site of the last engagement between Randolph County settlers and hostile Creek Indians on July 27, 1836. Captain Thomas Stapleton was killed in a preliminary fight . . .

(Wars, US Indian • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Thomas "Tom" Mann / Eufaula, Alabama

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Eufaula, Alabama.
William Thomas "Tom" Mann 1932-2005 Family man, entrepreneur and bass angler legend, Tom Mann, achieved fame as a fishing lure designer/manufacturer and helped put Lake Eufaula on the map with his popular television shows. . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Persons • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Station

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, Netherlands.
Het derde op deze plaats. Gebouwd 1908 naar ontwerp van D.A.N. Margadant in Art Nouveau-stijl. Details en tegeltableaux van Jac. van den Bosch. [English translation:] The third station on this site. Built in 1907 according . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Caboose No. 1134

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Coos Bay, Oregon.
This cupola-style, 54,000-pound steel caboose was built in December 1942 and sold to Southern Pacific for use on runs between Coos Bay, Eugene and Klamath Falls. Painted "all mineral" brown with daylight orange ends, it was . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Caboose No. 11269

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Coos Bay, Oregon.
Built in January 1946 by Great Northern Railway in St. Cloud, Minn., this steel-frame, wooden-sided caboose was put into service by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad. Originally painted red, caboose No. 853 operated . . .

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

Historic Bovill

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Bovill, Idaho.
Looking upon a pristine wooded basin in what was considered wilderness in the early 1900’s, Sir Hugh Bovill of England knew he was home. Bovill with his wife Lady Charlotte, and his two daughters Gwendolyn and Dorothy were . . .

(Agriculture • Environment • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Steam Engine No. 104

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Coos Bay, Oregon.
The Coos Bay Lumber Co. purchased this 73-ton, 2-8-2 Mikado-type steam locomotive in 1922 from Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Penn. Engine No. 104 pulled log trains – sometimes as many as 100 cars – from the . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ryoma Sakamoto and Shintaro Nagaoka Assassinated Here

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, Japan.
This is where the shop of the soy sauce dealer Omiya once stood, the site of the assassination on November 15th, 1867 of Ryoma Sakamoto (1835-1867), among the greatest contributors to the Meiji Restoration, with his sworn . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Night’s Peace Was Shattered

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West Yellowstone, Montana.
It began as an idyllic August night. A full moon soared quietly over Yellowstone country. Along Hebgen Lake and the Madison River, campgrounds and vacation cabins were full to capacity, and scores of families were camped by . . .

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

War Memorial

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Grier City, Pennsylvania.
Grier City In memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice. To the honor of all veterans of all wars

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lewisberry

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Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
Named for Eli Lewis Founded 1734

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

World War II Honor Roll

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Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
[Names of Veterans]

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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