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CinéArts Theatre

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Pleasant Hill, California.
Over 900 people attended a champagne gala to celebrate the opening of the first theatre in the young city of Pleasant Hill. The first movie shown that night of February 21, 1967 was "Dr. Zhivago". Originally built for . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Observatory Hill

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Berkeley, California.
Former site of the Students' Observatory, completed in 1886 and named in 1951 for Armin Otto Leuschner (1868-1953), Director of the Observatory (1898-1938) and Chair of the Astronomy Department (1900-1938).

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The No. 2 Machine Shop

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Inside this long building, workers turned forged steel into finished parts and products. Through a few basic cutting processes-including milling, drilling, turning, boring, planing-machinists shaped steel with incredible . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Labor Unions • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fayette County Veterans Memorial

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Fayetteville, Georgia.
To Honor Our Veterans This area is dedicated to the brave men and women of Fayette County who, throughout time, left their homes and families to serve in the Armed Forces of the United States, in order that our freedom be . . .

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

A Changing Landscape

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The sprawling steel plant once occupied close to 1800 acres between South Bethlehem and the Lehigh River. After it shut down, the company took on a major environmental clean-up, leaving the site safe for future use. In the . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Heat Treating

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
What is Heat Treating? If you look towards the bridge to your left, you can see a tall and narrow building. This is the High House, or No. 3 Treatment Facility. Its tall shape accommodates the heat treating process, where . . .

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

Hernando de Soto in Alabama

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Muscadine, Alabama.
The De Soto Trail Hernando De Soto in Alabama Hernando de Soto brought his 700-man army to Alabama in the fall of 1540. This was the first major European expedition to the interior of the southeastern United States. The De . . .

(Colonial Era • Exploration • Native Americans • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Our Journey Transports Us Through Time

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Hagerstown, Maryland.
"This sculpture is very significant to me. It depicts the importance of transportation to the history of my home county. It is made all the more special because it is installed outside my library in Hagerstown, the place . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The John Marshall House

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Richmond, Virginia.
The John Marshall House The John Marshall House was the Richmond home of “the Great Chief Justice” from 1790 to 1835. The longest serving Chief Justice to date, Marshall was known as the “definer of the Constitution" and a . . .

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

John Marshall Corps of Cadets

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Richmond, Virginia.
The Corps of Cadets established at John Marshall High School in 1915 was the first military training program in a public school in Virginia. Dedicated to the thousands of young men who wore the uniform of the Corps of . . .

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

Fort Gadsden

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near Wewahitchka, Florida.
Side A Built in 1814 by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Nichols, His Majesty's Marines, as a rallying point to encourage the Seminole Indians to ally themselves with England against the United States in the War of 1812. Abandoned . . .

(African Americans • Forts, Castles • Native Americans • War of 1812) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

British Fort Magazine

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near Wewahitchka, Florida.
It is hard to imagine the horrible scene that greeted the first Americans to stand here on the morning of July 27, 1816. The remains of the 270 persons killed in the magazine explosion lay scattered about. They also found an . . .

(African Americans • Disasters • Forts, Castles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of the National Bureau of Standards

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
Forest Hills Neighborhood Art on Call Site of The National Bureau of Standards In 1901, the National Bureau of Standards began developing a large complex of 89 buildings on 70 acres west of Connecticut Avenue near this site. . . .

(Air & Space • Communications • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Forest Hills at Home

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
Forest Hills at Home

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

Flora and Fauna of Rock Creek Park

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
Forest Hills Neighborhood Art on Call Flora and Fauna of Rock Creek Park Artist: Rebecca Osten Art on Call is sponsored by Cultural Tourism DC, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the District Department of . . .

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

"Music of the Spheres"

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
[Top plaque:] "Music of the Spheres" Artist: Martha Jackson Jarvis Commissioned by Fannie Mae Dedicated July 10, 2003 [Center plaque:] Fannie Mae: Van Ness Sculpture Project Martha Jackson-Jarvis The design for the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cultural Institutions

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
Forest Hills Neighborhood Art on Call Cultural Institutions Forest Hills has two major cultural institutions in the neighborhood, the Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, and the Levine School of Music. Built in 1926, the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Science & Medicine • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Peirce Mill

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
Forest Hill Neighborhood Art on Call Peirce Mill In the 1820s, Isaac Peirce built the mill that exists today on land he purchased in 1794. In 1892, Rock Creek Park was established and the Federal Government acquired the . . .

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

Peirce Mill

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Forest Hills, District of Columbia.
[Front:] Welcome to Peirce Mill, a National Park Service site within Rock Creek Park. This land was once part of a large complex of buildings and fields, marking the historical intersection of the agricultural and industrial . . .

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

World's Largest Buffalo

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Jamestown, North Dakota.
World's Largest Buffalo Erected 1959 By City of Jamestown & Chamber of Commerce Length 46 Ft. Width 14 Ft. Heigth 26 Ft. Weight 60 Tons Elmer Paul Peterson - Sculptor

(Animals • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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