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Veterans Memorial

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Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
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(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Homer C. Hetrick, M. D.

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Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Homer C. Hetrick, M. D. who served as our beloved country doctor (with over 6000 babies delivered) 1908 to 1952 His life of tireless efforts and faithful devotion to his practice will be for . . .

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

Lewisberry High School

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Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
1916-1918 • Mark Sleichter • Teacher 1918-1919 • Rev. L.L. Owens • Teacher 1919-1920 • Bruce Nebinger • Teacher 1920-1941 • Lewis J. Mummert • Principal/Teacher 1928-1930 • L. Mae Burkholder • Teacher 1930-1941 • Margaret . . .

(Education • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Goodpasture Bridge

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Vida, Oregon.
(panel 1) The Goodpasture Bridge is a reminder of an earlier era, when covered bridges were common sights for motorists on Oregon’s back roads. But this bridge is more than just a quaint remnant – it still an active and . . .

(Architecture • Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Creek Town of Cusseta

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Columbus, Georgia.
The village of Cusseta (also known as Kasihta or Cussetuh) was one of the most important talwas (tvlwv), or political, economic, and cultural centers of the Lower Creek Indians. Believed to have been originally built on a . . .

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

Creek Agriculture

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Columbus, Georgia.
Cusseta lay on the rich flood plain of the Chattahoochee River, making it a fertile area for agriculture. Like Creeks throughout the Chattahoochee River valley the Cussetas grew a variety of vegetables, especially corn, . . .

(Agriculture • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Teylers Fundatiehuis / The Teyler Foundation House

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, Netherlands.
Woonhuis van de zijdefabrikant Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778). Bij testament bestemde hij een groot deel van zijn vermogen voor de bouw van een museum (ingang Spaarne 16) achter zijn woonhuis. Gevel met zandstenen . . .

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

Sint Olofskapel / Saint Olof's Chapel

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, Netherlands.
Sint Olofskapel op Oudezijds Kapel De uit de eerste helft van de 15de eeuw daterende Sint Olofskapel is het op één na oudste kerkgebouw in Amsterdam. Het is oorspronkelijk gebouwd voor Noorse zeelieden en vernoemd naar de . . .

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

Column Segments

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Salem, Oregon.
These Corinthian column segments originally were part of those that graced the west and east entrance porticos of Oregon's first state house. The cornerstone for the original Capitol was laid October 8, 1873. The building . . .

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

Newell Barber Field

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Medford, Oregon.
"Newell Barber Field," Medford's first airport, was established in 1920 and remained in this area until 1929. The airport was named for Newell Barber (1900-1918), a young pilot who lost his life while flying a mission over . . .

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

503d Infantry Regiment (Airborne) Memorial

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Columbus, Georgia.
Reverse side Combat Parachute Assaults Nadzab Markham Valley, New Guinea 5 September 1943 Kamiri Airfield Noemfoor Island, Dutch New Guinea 3-4 July 1944 "Operation Topside" Fortress Corregidor ("The Rock"), Philippines 16 . . .

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

POW ✯ MIA Monument

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Columbus, Georgia.
POW?MIA You Are Not Forgotten Dedicated to all Our Nation's POW ? MIA Past – Present Fort Benning Sergeants Major Association 17 September 2005 Rear World War I 06 Apr 1917 – 11 Nov 1918 POW-7,470 MIA-116,108 World War II . . .

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

St. Barbara's Catholic Church

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near Mingus, Texas.
Most of Thurber’s immigrant population, representing eighteen nationalities, were Catholic. Missionary priests ministered to the town until 1892, then the coal company erected a Catholic church at the bottom of Graveyard . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New York Hill

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near Mingus, Texas.
This area of Thurber developed after 1917, when the Texas and Pacific Coal Company expanded into the burgeoning oil industry following W.K. Gordon’s discovery of the Ranger oil field. Renamed in 1918, the Texas Pacific Coal . . .

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

Site of Thurber Brick Plant

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near Mingus, Texas.
Texas and Pacific Coal Company general manager W.K. Gordon, seeing potential in the shale mud found in Thurber, persuaded company president R.D. Hunter to build a brick plant here in 1897. Original machinery included three . . .

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

Site of Thurber's First Coal Mine

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near Mingus, Texas.
Two hundred yards southeast of this site, at the base of the hill and at a depth of 65 feet, the first coal mine in this area was placed in operation by brothers William W. and Harvey E. Johnson. After Harvey’s death in . . .

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

Whitehead Cemetery

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near Mingus, Texas.
The Whitehead Cemetery is a significant reminder of the African American community that occupied the Thurber townsite in the early 20th century. When the Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil Company relocated its offices to Fort . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mill Stone

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Tillamook, Oregon.
From the county's first flour mill, was turned by water power, was owned and operated by G. W. Elmer on Hughey Creek, five miles east of Tillamook in 1862. The stone was brought by boat from the Eastern Coast, around South . . .

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

Dardanelles

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Central Point, Oregon.
First post office in Jackson County established October 15, 1852 in the cabin of Col. William G. T'Vault (1806-1869) Col. T'Vault was the editor of Oregon's first newspaper "The Oregon Spectator". He was postmaster general . . .

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

The First People

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near Manzanita, Oregon.
From the beginning, Neahkahnie Mountain was the source of deep meaning for the First People. Signs of the spirit would were all around them - in the forest and its animals, in the ocean, in the season and the sky., and in . . .

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