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Epiphany Catholic Church

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
In 1923 the Archbishop authorized the establishment of the Epiphany Mission where African Americans created a new community under the leadership of the Josephite Fathers. In 1925 the church was built and the mission became Epiphany Parish

(African Americans • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Custom House Reconstruction

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Astoria, Oregon.
This authentic reconstruction of the 1852 U.S. Custom House was built to commemorate the bicentennial of the U.S. Custom Service. Work began in October, 1992 and was completed in May, 1994. Reconstruction methods and tools . . .

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

Early African American Georgetown

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Front: Georgetown's first African Americans were brought as slaves to labor for the tobacco industry and for domestic service in the houses of wealthy tobacco merchants. Others came as freed men and women before and after . . .

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

John Laird

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Erected about 1799 by John Laird later occupied by Judge James Dunlop and Robert Todd Lincoln National Capital Sesquicentennial Commission 1930

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

Historic Preservation in Georgetown

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Front: Georgetown citizens have been central to preserving Georgetown's important historic houses. Three of these houses, built at the turn of the 19th century on large plots of land overlooking the port, are now accessible . . .

(Notable Buildings • Waterways & Vessels • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tayloe/Snyder House

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Tayloe/Snyder House 1857

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

Crossroads of Georgetown

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Front: You are standing at what has been the crossroads of Georgetown since Colonial times. George Town was laid out on the bluffs above the harbor on either side of Wisconsin Avenue. The avenue then was called Frederick . . .

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

John Lutz

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Georgetown, District of Columbia.
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(Architecture • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fire Station No. 2

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Astoria, Oregon.
This building was constructed in 1896 by the North Pacific Brewery and rebuilt 1928-29 by the city of Astoria to serve as a fire station. City Commission J C Brook, Mayor John R Arnold -'28 Anton Sorensen -'29 E C Gearhart . . .

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

Somers Memorial Honor Roll

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Somers, Connecticut.
Somers Memorial Honor Roll In Memory of Longin Sonski Civil War Francis Aborn · William Burbank · Edward Hagen · James Drake · Alonzo Griswold · Milo D. Smith · Henry Bond · Henry Barber · Joseph Granmont · Whitney Lathrop . . .

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

Descendant of the Original Charter Oak

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Somers, Connecticut.
Descendant of the Original Charter Oak May It Grow As Strong As Our Country Somers Lions Club May 30, 2002

(Environment) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Somers

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Somers, Connecticut.
Somers Named 1734 Settlement was begun here in "East Enfield" about 1706 by Benjamin Jones, followed in 1713 by Edward Kibbe, James Pease, Timothy Roote, and John McGregory. The Town of Somers was incorporated in 1734 by . . .

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

Ex-Hacienda El Triángulo

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, Mexico.
Ex Hacienda el Triangulo Fundada durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX por franceses, es por esto que su arquitectura es muy variada. Se extraía plata, oro y hierro de esta mina. Deja de trabajar en 1923 en las . . .

(Entertainment • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Windsor, Virginia

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Windsor, Virginia.
Once known as Corrowaugh and Frog Level, this community was named Windsor Station in 1856. The name Windsor Station was shortened to Windsor when the town was incorporated in 1902. The people listed on this monument are a . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fremont Arrives

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Summer Lake, Oregon.
Summer Lake and Winter Ridge were both named in 1843 by Captain John C. Fremont, leader of a US Army Topographical Corps expedition whose ambitious goal was to explore and map the Great Basin lands of eastern Oregon, Nevada, . . .

(Exploration • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Fairfield Inn

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Fairfield, Pennsylvania.
Historic Gettysburg Historic Fairfield Inn 1757 Adams County Honored 2007 Civil War Building July 1863

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cow Marsh Primitive Baptist Church

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Sandtown, Delaware.
Organized on July 18, 1781, the "Baptist Church at Mount Moriah" also called Cow Marsh Baptist Church, is the fourth Primitive Baptist congregation formally constituted in Delaware. For many years members met in area homes. . . .

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

Gov. George Truitt Home

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Camden, Delaware.
Gov. George Truitt Home Circa 1750 National Register of Historic Places

(Architecture • Colonial Era • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World Wars I and II

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Lewes, Delaware.
In honor of those who made the supreme sacrifice and of those who served in World Wars I and II. They have fought, "to safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy."

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

The Fisher-Martin House

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Lewes, Delaware.
This house is an excellent example of Sussex County architecture circa 1730. It was moved to its present site in 1980 to help celebrate Lewes' 350th anniversary in 1980.

(Architecture • Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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