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Big Tree Ponderosa Pine

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near La Pine, Oregon.
This majestic pine is the biggest of its species ever recorded. It was a giant before the Oregon Territory was established, enduring centuries of fire, insects, disease, and human impact. Recently half of its crown was lost . . .

(Environment • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lake Arrowhead Veterans Memorial

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Lake Arrowhead, California.
This Monument Is Dedicated To All Veterans Past, Present And Future

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

Giant Spruce of Cape Perpetua

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Yachats, Oregon.
Before Columbus sailed to the Americas, this Sitka spruce began its life nourished by a nurse log. As it grew, it shared Cape Creek with the Indians who lived just one-half mile west at their large seasonal campsite by the . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Horticulture & Forestry • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Welcome to Dallas

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Dallas, Oregon.
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(Disasters • Notable Places • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emigrant Trail--Truckee River Route

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Reno, Nevada.
(front plaque) Marker No.T.R.R. 13-A -- Truckee Meadows the California bound emigrants rested here before ascending the Sierras to the west (back plaque) This marker is No 13-A of a total of 70 placed along the Humbolt, . . .

(Exploration • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Crook County Courthouse

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Prineville, Oregon.
Built in 1909 of native stone Dedicated as an Historical Monument July 4, 1963

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Freeman's Mill

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Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Freeman's Mill Welcome to Freeman's Mill, the last operating gristmill in Gwinnett County. From the late 1860s to 1986, Freeman's Mill provided wheat flour, corn meal and feed meal for the county's residents and their . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Built by Capt. Hiram Brown

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Astoria, Oregon.
Built by Capt. Hiram Brown who came to Astoria area in 1848. Original Portion of house built in Adairville (East Astoria), was barged downriver about 1865 to Tenth St. and rolled to present location without cracking . . .

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

Pioneer Cemetery

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Kenton, Ohio.
Deeded to Hardin County Commissioners 1835 Deeded to City of Kenton 1939 First public burial ground in Kenton

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Prineville Pioneer Memorial

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Prineville, Oregon.
This Memorial was dedicated August 7, 1938 by the Crook County Pioneer Association in grateful remembrance of the heroic early settlers of the Central Oregon Country whose bravery, intelligence and industry blazed the trail . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benjamin Logan

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Stanford, Kentucky.
Established Logan's Fort 1775 Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, Statesman 1925

(Forts, Castles • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Paul Fitzsimmons Eve

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Augusta, Georgia.
(panel 1) Paul Fitzsimmons Eve Born near Augusta, Georgia June 27, 1806 Died in Nashville, Tennessee November 3, 1877 Major Field Surgeon Polish War 1830-1831 A founder of the Medical College of Georgia 1832 Professor of . . .

(Education • Science & Medicine • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Circa 1884

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Clifton, Virginia.
This building was built as a General Mercantile Store and through the years has been occupied as a Saloon, Bakery, Grocery, Pool Hall, Cabinet Shop and Church. The addition was added in 1926 for a Barber Shop. The building . . .

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

Tauchman House

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Wilsonville, Oregon.
The Tauchman House overlooks the site of one of the Willamette River's first ferry operations, started in 1847 by Daniel Boone's grandson, Col. Alphonso Boone. In the early days, the ferry boat transported passengers, wagons . . .

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

Aurora

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Aurora, Oregon.
Dr. Wilhelm Keil founded here a Christian co-operative colony patterned after his colony at Bethel, Missouri. Musicians of the settlement made it widely famous. After Dr. Keil's death in 1877 the communal enterprise was dissolved.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Octagonal Building

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Aurora, Oregon.
This is the only surviving building from the original Aurora Pioneer Hotel complex.

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

Bayou Courtableau

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Washington, Louisiana.
The width of Bayou Courtableau at the Town of Washington was too narrow to maintain steamboat operations until a turning basin was completed in 1848, allowing steamboats to reverse course and head back downstream. . . .

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

Fayette County Veterans Memorial

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Fayetteville, Georgia.
Erected by the citizens of Fayette County in honor of our veterans who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America and as a lasting memorial to these gallant servicemen who gave their lives that we may live in . . .

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

Audubon Park History

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New Orleans, Louisiana.
The history of the land bordered by St. Charles Avenue, Exposition Boulevard, Walnut Street and the Mississippi River - now known as Audubon Park - is as rich as any New Orleans tale. Originally comprised of abutting tracts . . .

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

Smart-Griffin-Angelety House - 180 St. Catherine Street

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Ida McGuire Gillespie (left) and Odille Angelety grew up across the street from each other on St. Catherine Street and were lifelong friends. Odille never married and had a long distinguished career as a teacher at nearby . . .

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