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The Golden Gate

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Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming.
Bridging the Golden Gate Canyon was one of the most difficult and expensive engineering engineers faced when building the first roads through the park. The first bridge was built in 1885. Twelve hundred seventy-five pounds . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

California Road

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near Roll, Oklahoma.
California Road, crossed here. First traveled by gold seekers in Rush for California spring 1849, under military escort commanded by Captain R.B. Marcy, west from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Antelope Hills, 8 miles northwest, once . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Hungarian Veterans Memorial

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
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(Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Post Office & Store

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
Post Office & Store From this building dry goods and groceries were offered to the public for over 200 years. The Store, operated in 1727 by Nathan Day, was discontinued in 1962. One of the oldest, this Post Office, the . . .

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

Rogersville Engagements

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Rogersville, Tennessee.
In June 1861, 1,250 Hawkins County residents voted against secession, while 835 voted in favor. Rural residents tended to have Unionist sympathies but townspeople such as those in Rogersville sided with the Confederacy. . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battle of Big Creek

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Rogersville, Tennessee.
Along Big Creek the 2nd Illinois Artillery spent an uncomfortable night as a cold rain fell in the early morning hours of November 6, 1863. Nearby, under orders to strike the Union camp that morning, two Confederate brigades . . .

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

Coral Reefs

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, Mexico.
Coral Reefs are the most biologically diverse marine eco-system on earth rivaled only by the tropical rainforests on land. Corals grow over geologic time and have been in existence for nearly 200 million years. Corals . . .

(Animals • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Military Service Walk

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Columbus, Georgia.
Freedom Is Not Free This Military Service Walk began as a project in the 2013 Servant Leadership course in the Organizational Leadership Master’s degree program at Columbus State University. This walk was created to honor . . .

(Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Burying Ground

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
Old Burying Ground God’s Acre 1708 Resting Place Of First Settlers East of the River And Their Pastor Timothy Edwards Bicentennial 1776-1976

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Jonathan Edwards

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
Jonathan Edwards 1703 – 1758 Born at East Windsor Died at Princeton New Jersey Pastor and Theologian Tutor at Yale College President College of New Jersey and one of the leaders in the Great Awakening the first spontaneous . . .

(Colonial Era • Education • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Timothy Edwards

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
Timothy Edwards 1669 – 1758 Father of Jonathan Edwards First pastor of the Second Church of Windsor Established at Windsor Farms in 1604 which formerly stood immediately north of this burying ground in which he and his wife . . .

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

In Honor of Pioneer Aviators

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Van Nuys, California.
In honor of the pioneer aviators who have given their all that the science of aviation could be perfected, enabling it to take its place in the worlds commerce, this airport is dedicated. December 17, 1928, on the 25th . . .

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

Luitpoldstrasse 12

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, Germany.
Giebelhaus mit Treppengiebel und Aedicula- Renaissanceportal mit Säulen und Sitzkonsolen erbaut 1599 als Privatwohnsitz von Bürgermeister Thoma Albert herrschaftliches Lehen, Nutzungsrecht und Abgabepflicht gegenüber dem . . .

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

Lajos (Louis) Kossuth

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
This house is dedicated to the fraternal and cultural endeavors of freedom-loving Americans of Hungarian ancestry and to the living memory of Lajos (Louis) Kossuth champion of liberty, fraternity, and equality, governor of . . .

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

Lajos (Louis) Kossuth

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
'All for the people, all by the people, nothing about the people without the people, that is democracy.' Spoken to the Ohio State Legislature on February 6, 1852 Lajos (Louis) Kossuth Champion of Liberty, Fraternity, and . . .

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
"Only he can become a good citizen who remains true to the heritage of his native land." This plaque is dedicated in gratitude to the memory of: Theodore Roosevelt the 26th President of the United States, signer of the . . .

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

Nobles Corner

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Brentwood, Tennessee.
This 5 acres on the corner of Old Hickory Boulevard and Franklin Road was bought by A. H. Noble in 1929. A registered pharmacist, he operated a drug store here for nearly 20 years when the pharmacy was converted to a . . .

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

Duane Park

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New York City, New York.
Duane Park Origins Duane Park was the first open space acquired by the City of New York specifically for use as a public park. It is located on Duane Street, which was named for James Duane, New York’s first mayor (1784-89) . . .

(Colonial Era • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Duane Park

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New York City, New York.
Duane Park Design Originally an open commons, the park was later enclosed by an iron fence. By 1870 it had been enlarged and landscaped with trees, lawn and shrubs accorded to a design by Parks Chief Engineer Montgomery A. . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fall Branch Community Educational Center

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Fall Branch, Tennessee.
In 1842, a one-room brick building, known as the Seminary, opened in the Fall Branch Community. At the close of the Civil War, the building was destroyed by fire and facilities were provided by local churches. In 1889, the . . .

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