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Waterfowl Hunting

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Corolla, North Carolina.
Waterfowl hunting is an essential piece of Currituck history and culture. Hunting accelerated rapidly during the 19th century and is a proud tradition carried on by many Currituck natives. Market Hunting In the mid 19th . . .

(Animals • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Industry & Commerce • Parks & Recreational Areas • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

GOLD!

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near Wolf Creek, Oregon.
(Three panels are located at this information kiosk:) Imagine carrying just a backpack and a pick and hearing the shouts of "Gold!" as the rang through this valley. It's 1851. You've traveled hundreds of miles to make . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Golden

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near Wolf Creek, Oregon.
Established in 1890, this mining town was unique in Western annals in that it had two churches and no saloons. The miners went to Placer off Grave Creek for "refreshments". Rev. William Ruble, leader of a group commonly . . .

(Churches & Religion • Education • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

West Michigan Furniture Company Building

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Holland, Michigan.
Side 1 In 1889 Frank W. Hadden, George P. Hummer and Frank Metz founded the West Michigan Furniture Company in Holland. The company produced only bedroom and dining room furniture, which was sold by a twenty-five-member . . .

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

W. Pearl King Prairie Savanna

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Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
The W. Pearl King Prairie Savanna is a mostly undisturbed remnant of the once expansive Darby Plains Prairies. Prior to European settlement more than two centuries ago, the Darby Plains covered an area of more than 380 . . .

(Agriculture • Environment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bluffton Actors' Colony / Buster Keaton

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Muskegon, Michigan.
Bluffton Actors' Colony In 1908, Joe Keaton, actor Paul Lucier, and agent Lew Earl founded the Actors' Colony. By 1911 over two hundred theater personalities flocked to Bluffton each summer. They included Keaton, his wife, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lakeside

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Lakeside, Michigan.
The village of Lakeside grew up around the A.V. Mann and Company sawmill, which operated from 1868 to 1889. In 1888 Lakeside was annexed to Muskegon. That year fire ravaged the business district. Despite the fire, Lakeside . . .

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

The Global Refugee Mural

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Silver Spring, Maryland.
This mural tells the stories of 3 refugees who live here in Maryland, who were interviewed for this project. Georges, a former mayor of his city in eastern Congo (DRC), fled with his family when the war came to his region. . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Churches & Religion • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Currituck Beach Lighthouse

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Corolla, North Carolina.
A Working Lighthouse On December 1, 1875 the beacon of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse filled the remaining "dark space" on the North Carolina coast between the Cape Henry Lighthouse to the north and Bodie Island Lighthouse . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Old Willis Wharf Storehouse

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Willis Wharf, Virginia.
This historic structure is one of the few remaining old-time storehouses on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The front part of the building that faces the waterfront dates to the 1840s. It replaced a store that burned in 1837, . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

From Towpath...to Highway...to "Toe" path

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Chesapeake, Virginia.
The walking path you are standing on right now has quite a history. In 1804, it was a tow road on the eastern bank of the canal, where laborers, using long wooden poles, ropes or mules, pushed loaded barges full of shingles, . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Outliers

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Chesapeake, Virginia.
Between 1793 and 1814, the grueling, brutal job of digging this twenty-three mile canal was done by slave labor. Dense underbrush, insects, venomous snakes and bears made the Great Dismal Swamp an "awesome and terrible . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

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Chesapeake, Virginia.
Across the canal lies the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. The Great Dismal Swamp was once a vast ecosystem that covered as much as one million acres of southeastern Virginia and . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Environment • Parks & Recreational Areas • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fulmer Brill House

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Clifton, Virginia.
Owned by just two families before its first restoration in 2002 this house was built by J .M. Fulmer just one year after finishing a larger home on Chapel Street next to the Clifton Baptist Church. The Spring House in the . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Fairfax Herald

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Clifton, Virginia.
“Mr. J.M. Fulmer was unfortunate enough to lose one of his horses, Saturday night. He had been plowing during the day and it is supposed that the horse drank too much water while warm.” This walking plow lay intact in the . . .

(Agriculture • Animals • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gaylesville

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Gaylesville, Alabama.
Post Office est. in 1836. During the Civil War, the main body of U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman's Army camped around the town in October 1864. A private home served as his headquarters. Despite pleas from citizens, . . .

(Education • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lake Martin

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St. Martinville, Louisiana.
In the early 1950s, a five mile levee was built around a naturally occurring open body of water within a cypress-tupelo swamp to hold water throughout the year. This created Lake Martin as it is known today. Located in the . . .

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

Salvation Mountain

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near Niland, California.
This is the culmination of a personal religious intensity few mortals will ever experience. Started as a temporary monument to God's love in 1984 by Leonard Knight, it grew into the worldwide phenomenon you see before you. . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Churches & Religion • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain

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near Niland, California.
Salvation Mountain is Leonard Knight's tribute to God and His gift to the world. Leonard came to Slab City in 1984. Over the following 28 years, he devoted himself to the creation of Salvation Mountain. This folk art . . .

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

Sewah Studios

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Marietta, Ohio.
Sewah Studios Sewah Studios was founded in 1927 by Mr. E. M. Hawes and began operations on Marietta's west side at the site of the former Stevens Organ Factory. That facility was destroyed by fire in 1932 and a new factory . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 13 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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