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South Windsor Vietnam War Memorial

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
Vietnam This Memorial Is Dedicated To Those Who Have Given Their Supreme Sacrifice For Their Country Billy E. Gipson Sgt. U.S. Army Nov. 30, 1942 – June 5, 1966 Donald R. Ouellette L/Cpl U.S.m.c. Apr. 14, 1946 – Nov. 6, 1967 . . .

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

South Windsor Veterans Memorial

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
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(Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Windsor World War II Memorial

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
World War II Stanley Abegunas · Anthony Buddes · PFC Errol S. Burton · Cpl Thomas E. Cadder · Sgt Gordon J. Dimlow · TSgt John G. Grant · Sgt Earl E. Hyson · Oliver Jones · Pvt Edward G. Jurgelas · PFC Justin Kizis · PFC . . .

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

South Windsor World War I Memorial

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South Windsor, Connecticut.
World War I Abe E. Miller Thomas Barry Edward Hansen

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wartime Steel

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The long building in front of you is the No. 2 Machine Shop. Built in 1890, this was one of the largest industrial buildings in the world, stretching for nearly a third of a mile. Workers in this shop milled and drilled . . .

(Man-Made Features • War, World I • War, World II • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Triceratops Tracks

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Golden, Colorado.
Triceratops: 30 feet long, 6-12 ton Herbivore Several tracks of Triceratops or a closely related horned dinosaur were discovered in this area. Among horned dinosaurs, Triceratops is the most likely track maker because many . . .

(Animals • Environment • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Palm Fronds

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Golden, Colorado.
Large palm fronds show that the climate was much warmer than that of today. Other plant and tree types found here, such as extinct relatives of sycamore, walnut, paddle-leafed ginger and an ancient relative of the avocado, . . .

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

Bird Track

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Golden, Colorado.
Birds are descendants of theropod (meat-eating) dinosaurs and their tracks look similar: three long narrow toes with claw marks. However, bird tracks are generally smaller than most theropod tracks. This print is wider than . . .

(Animals • Environment • Paleontology) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chanticleer Point

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near Corbett, Oregon.
Demands for a good road paralleling the Columbia River began with emigration along the rugged Oregon Trail in 1843. But it took Samuel Hill and this view to help make the dream a reality. Sam Hill, an eccentric and wealthy . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Samuel Hill – “Road Builder”

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near Corbett, Oregon.
Not until this highway was built was it possible to go up or down the Columbia River Gorge - Earliest period rafts and dug-outs (native boats) – Later period steamboats and railroad – Erected by loving friends to the memory . . .

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chanticleer Point

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near Corbett, Oregon.
There is much of legend and tradition associated with the Columbia River and its gorge. The geologic story is neither fable, myth nor tradition, but one of fact, facts that independently stand out in every rock and . . .

(Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Umatilla Rapids

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Umatilla, Oregon.
The Corps of Discovery descended the Columbia River in five dugout canoes made from pines felled at the mouth of the North Fork of the Clearwater River in Idaho. Before McNary Dam harnessed this segment of the mighty . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

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Umatilla, Oregon.
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls

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Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Born in 1834, in Donaldsonville, Francis Nicholls attended West Point but turned to the law. He established his own law practice in Napoleonville in the late 1850s before entering the Army of the Confederacy as a Captain . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Notable Persons • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Archibald Mackenzie

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Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Born on Prince Edward Isl., Canada, Mackenzie graduated Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario, with two degrees. He then earned a doctorate with high honors in Divinity and Philosophy at Glasgow University, Scotland. After . . .

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

Patimasa Tiicamna

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Umatilla, Oregon.
In 1855, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens and Oregon Territory Indian Superintendent Joel Palmer convened a treaty council in present-day Walla Walla, Washington with Yakama, Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla and . . .

(Exploration • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla Homeland

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Umatilla, Oregon.
This land will always be home to the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla people. The land is used by and shared with relatives and neighbors such as the Palouse, Wanapum, Yakama, Wishxam, Wyam, Tenino and Nez Perce. In 1805 and . . .

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California Veterans Memorial

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Sacramento, California.
(Memorial is without text.)

(Military) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sacramento Purple Heart Memorial

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Sacramento, California.
Purple Heart Memorial front: My Stone Is Red For The Blood They Shed The Medal I Bear Is My Country's Way To Show They Care If I Could Be Seen By All Mankind Maybe Peace Will Come In My Lifetime Purple Heart Memorial top: . . .

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

Whitmell Pugh Martin

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Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Whitmell Martin, a native of Assumption Parish, was initially a chemist who studied and practiced law. After he served as superintendent of Lafourche Parish schools from 1894-1900, he was a District Attorney and eventually . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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