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Delaware & Hudson Passenger Station

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Carbondale, Pennsylvania.
A magnificent railroad station once rose from the foundation in front of you. Built in 1895, it was one of 19 stations on the Honesdale Branch of the Delaware & Hudson Co. The last train pulled into the station on January . . .

(Man-Made Features • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Ashley Center

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Vernal, Utah.
Jeremiah Hatch came to Ashley Valley in 1878 as an Indian agent. Following the Meeker, Colorado massacre of 1879 he was instructed to build a fort as protection for white settlers. Their cabins, with cedar post buttresses . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hôtel de Villaines

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, France.
Cet hôtel particulier fut édifié par Bargat à la fin du XVIIIe siècle pour le Marquis Etienne Phillippe de Villaines, chef de brigade des gardes du corps du Roi, maréchal des camps et armées en 1790. Acheté par la . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Plaque Commémorative de Jean Pacton

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, France.
A la mémoire de Jean PACTON, dit "Ardent". Ici dès 1941, il créa l'un des premiers groupes de résistants de l'Indre, appelé groupe des collégiens de La Châtre. Il est mort pour la France le 22 Juillet 1944. Le 6 Juin 1944, . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

First Lutheran Parsonage

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Westminster, Maryland.
First Lutheran Parsonage Serving the five churches of the Westminster Charge 1854-1870

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

In Memory of All American Veterans

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Westminster, Maryland.
This memorial honors all American veterans who, although separated by generations, shared a common, undeniable goal—to valiantly protect our country's freedoms. The memories of these American veterans will continue to live . . .

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

Carroll County World War I and World War II Memorial

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Westminster, Maryland.
This building erected in honor of the men and women of Carroll County who served in World War I and World War II 1952

(War, World I • War, World II • Women) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War II Veterans Memorial

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Westminster, Maryland.
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(Science & Medicine • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Potters Field

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Westminster, Maryland.
When Maryland's legislature approved the formation of Carroll County in 1837, it required the residents to build a courthouse, jail, register's office, clerk's office and a poorhouse. In 1852, the County Commissioners . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Landon C. Burns

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Westminster, Maryland.
Landon C. Burns was born in 1897 in Virginia. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. Degree in Agriculture Education and later earned an M.S. Degree in Rural Sociology. The man who was often called "Mr. . . .

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

The Rachel Carson Greenway

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near Brookeville, Maryland.
In 2004, this trail corridor was named in honor of the mother of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson. When complete, the Rachel Carson Greenway Trail will be 25 miles long, connecting the Anacostia Trail System . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Agriculture • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mills in the Upcounty

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near Brookeville, Maryland.
The streams of Montgomery County's Piedmont Region run faster and deeper than those of the Coastal Plain. Steam power fueled the early industrial age in Montgomery County in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Mills along the . . .

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

Our Agricultural Heritage

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near Brookeville, Maryland.
Until World War II, Montgomery County's economy and landscape were primarily agricultural. The American Indian tribes of the county grew corn, squash, and beans on their villages near streams. The earliest settlers from . . .

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

Town of Brookeville

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Brookeville, Maryland.
Town of Brookeville National Register of Historic Places

(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

History Is Also Now

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Westminster, Maryland.
Presented to the citizens of Westminster by the Mayor and Common Council History Is Also Now Designed by Lewis Schlitt ©1999 and created with help of Drury Bynum, Thomas Van Damme, and James Veenstra. Based on materials from . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Colonial Era • Railroads & Streetcars • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Intersection of North Canal and Jefferson streets

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Natchez, Mississippi.
On this hill, Andrew Ellicott raised the American flag in 1797. This act claimed the Natchez Territory for the United States and helped hasten the departure of the Spanish. A few years later, James Moore built a home on the . . .

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

Gen. Allen Hal Turnage

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Farmville, North Carolina.
Led U.S. Marine Corps Third Division assaults on Bougainville & Guam, 1943-44. Received Navy Cross. Born 1 block S.E.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Ahuehuete of the Querétaro River

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, Mexico.
Ahuehuete del Río Querétaro En este lugar donde convergen el agua y los caminos donde la fecunda tierra queretana ha unido a las culturas se yergue estoico, el árbol más antiguo de la ciudad de Santiago de Querétaro. Un . . .

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

Brownsville

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near Brownsville, Oregon.
A Town with Ancient Beginnings and Many Names Long before the first pioneer settlers arrived here in the 1840’s, this area was occupied by the ancient Mound Builders and then the Kalapuya Indians. The relative ease of . . .

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

Historic Philomath College Building

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Philomath, Oregon.
Philomath college was chartered November 1865, as the United Brethren School for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and California. The name combines two Greek words meaning love of learning. The building’s center . . .

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