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Wheaton-McGuire House - 125 St. Catherine Street

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Lettie Stanton, most likely born into slavery and possibly at Brandon Hall, had a stable relationship with cotton planter William Page, who never married anyone else and fathered her two daughters, heirs to the Page estate. . . .

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

Will-Snyder Store

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Aurora, Oregon.
Jonas Will and Andrew Snyder, children of Aurora Colony members, established this then modern mercantile store. Jonas had been an Aurora merchant since 1888. The families ran this business until the 1940's.

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

Wm. Keil and Company

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Aurora, Oregon.
Used as a general store. Wm. Keil and Company catered to the trade of some of the mid-valley's best known pioneers by cash or barter.

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

Boone's Ferry

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near Aurora, Oregon.
During the period of Oregon's Provisional Government ( 1841-1849), residents traveled by Indian trails, water courses, or on privative rough-hewn wagon roads etched by emigrant settlers. During the days to the Territorial . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grady L. Huddleston

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Fayetteville, Georgia.
Dedicated To The Memory Of Grady L. Huddleston 1923-2001 Past Master: Fayetteville #711: 1958 Past Master: Tyrone #644: 1953 State House of Representatives: 1947-1960 Magistrate Judge: 1987-2000

(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Politics • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

32nd Infantry Regiment Memorial

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Fort Benning, Georgia.
Front Dedicated to the loyalty, spirit, and courage of those who served the Regiment and those who will. Rear Medal of Honor Recipients Pvt Joseph P. Martinez G.O. 71, 27 October 1943 LTC Don Carlos Faith Jr. G.O. 59, . . .

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

Intersection of Washington and South Commerce streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
The present Temple B'nai Israel, built in 1904, replaced an 1870s temple that burned (pictured above). Both reflect the success of Jewish merchants after the Civil War. Jews lived in Natchez as early as the late 1700s, but . . .

(Churches & Religion • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tropic Lightning Memorial

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Fort Benning, Georgia.
United by Sacrifice Artist Lynn Weiler Liverton This Tropic Lightning Memorial symbolizes heroes from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Global War on Terror coming together to pay tribute to their fallen comrades Dedicated to The . . .

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

Intersection of Washington and South Union streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
All four of the houses at this intersection were built before the Civil War, and three are associated with the family of Joseph Quegles, a Spaniard who settled in Natchez during the Spanish period (1779-1798). Four houses . . .

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

Intersection of Main and North Pearl streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
The 1927 Eola Hotel is the tallest building in downtown Natchez. Named for Eola Levy, the daughter of developer Isadore Levy, it became a center for social activity for the city. Celebrities who visited the hotel in the . . .

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

Bayou Courtableau at Bayou Teche Headwaters

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Port Barre, Louisiana.
Steamboat travel was frequently affected by low water, immovable rafts of debris, underwater snags and shifting sandbars, including one at the junction of Bayou Courtableau and the Atchafalaya River called Le Petit Diable . . .

(Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pathkiller - Childers - Garrett Ferry

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Centre, Alabama.
Cherokee Chief Pathkiller owned a ferry across the Coosa River at this location in the early 1820's. His home was a short distance on the east side of the river. Upon Pathkiller's death in 1827, John Ride, a prominent . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Garrett Cemetery

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Centre, Alabama.
Final resting place of Chief Pathkiller (B. 1749 - D.1827) who served as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Many prominent early settlers are also interred here including newspaper editor and publisher, Confederate . . .

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

Industrial Heritage

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Augusta, Georgia.
Augusta made major commitments to industrialization earlier than most other Southern cities, in response to a growing concern that the cotton states were becoming too economically dependent on the industrial North. Grist . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Great Fire of 1916

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Augusta, Georgia.
The Great Fire of 1916 broke out on March 22nd at 6:20 p.m. in Kelly's Dry Goods Store, located in the Dyer Building at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Jackson (Eighth) Street. Whipped along by high winds, the . . .

(Disasters) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Indians

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Augusta, Georgia.
Archaeological evidence has proven the existence of Indian villages in the Augusta area as early as 2,500 B.C., and a type of decorated pottery found at various sites is among the oldest in North America. Just north of the . . .

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

Champoeg

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near St. Paul, Oregon.
This area, once named tchampuick, the 'place of yampah' was the traditional homeland of the Tualatin Kalapuya tribe. Fur trappers first arrived here by canoe in 1811, and they found lush open prairies bordering the . . .

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

Willamette Post

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near St. Paul, Oregon.
Willamette Post was established in December 1813 on a knoll just east of this location by employees of the North West Company, a Montreal based fur-trading company. During the ensuing years the two-room log cabin, also known . . .

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

Courthouse Square Park

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Dayton, Oregon.
Courthouse Square Park is a monument to the civic and commercial aspirations of Dayton’s founders, Joel Palmer, his son-in-law Andrew Smith and Christopher Taylor. Palmer and Taylor, who settled here to farm in 1848, laid . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pioneer Park and Blockhouse

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Dayton, Oregon.
This Pioneer Park and Blockhouse honors General Joel Palmer, Superintendant of Indian Affairs for the Oregon Territory from 1853 to 1857. Appointed by President Franklin Pierce. Frontiersman, author, legislator and friend of . . .

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