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Scanning the Skies

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near San Jose (New Almaden), California.
In the late 1950s, the United States government procured Mount Umunhum to build the Almaden Air Force Station. an early warning radar facility that operated from 1957 to 1980. The station was constructed as part of a west . . .

(Military • War, Cold) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early People of Mount Umunhum

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Mount Umunhum is a sacred site for today's Amah Mustun and Muwekma tribal bands, who are the living descendants of the ancestral Ohlone tribes native to the region. Along with the eagle, hawk, and raven, the hummingbird . . .

(Anthropology • Churches & Religion • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Corporate Business Partner Entrance Courtyard and W.B.U.X. Sculpture Garden

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Honoring program founders Herman Silverman and Bettina A. Murdoch for their commitment and dedication to the Corporate Business Partner Program. And, in recognition of the outstanding support of the Corporate Business . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Site

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
In 1884, due to overcrowding at the county jail, a grassy field on Pine Street was chosen to house a new Bucks County prison. Groundbreaking took place on April 21, 1884. Stone work from the former jail, located on Main and . . .

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

The Museum

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
After a century of use, the antiquated prison was closed on June 18, 1985. That same year the warden's house was placed on the National Register of Historic Buildings and Sites. For many years the Bucks County Council on the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Expansion

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Three years later, a capital campaign was launched to raise the funds necessary to construct a professionally oriented facility with greatly expanded exhibition galleries and an art storage vault that would meet the highest . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Mercer Museum

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Castle, Fortress, or Museum Surprisingly this building has always been a museum. Henry Mercer designed it specifically to house his collection. Although the design seems unusual, it met Mercer's goals perfectly. He believed . . .

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

Bethel

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Bethel, Connecticut.
Bethel When this area was settled, soon after 1685, it was part of its present neighbor, Danbury. As population grew, residents petitioned the General Assembly of the Colony for parish status and a church closer than the . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Forest Hill Cemetery

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Livingston, Texas.
By 1905, all the lots in Livingston's Old City Cemetery had been filled, and community leaders began looking for a new cemetery site. Residents established Forest Hill Cemetery Association in 1906 and bought land from James . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A National Cemetery System

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Civil War Dead An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury . . .

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

Annapolis National Cemetery

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Civil War Annapolis In April 1861, Gen. Benjamin Butler and his Massachusetts troops entered the Maryland capital to ensure the state remained in the Union. The U.S. Army then reformed the Department of Annapolis, headed by . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Annapolis During The Civil War

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Annapolis, Maryland.
General Butler to Governor Hicks Off Annapolis, April 22, 1861 "Have I your excellency's permission...to land my men, to supply their wants, and to relieve them from the extreme and unhealthy confinement of a transport . . .

(African Americans • Science & Medicine • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vermilion River

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Lafayette, Louisiana.
During early settlement and into the Antebellum Period, the Vermilion was an important secondary waterway for steamboats carrying agricultural products to New Orleans, the east coast and, eventually the world. The Vermilion . . .

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

Ernest C. Withers House

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Memphis, Tennessee.
Ernest C. Withers (1922-2007) began his career as a photographer in the U. S. Army during World War II. Upon leaving the military, he opened a commercial photography studio and worked as a freelance photojournalist for Black . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • Communications) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Art in Annapolis

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Annapolis Charter 300, the city wide commemoration in 2008 of the 1708 city charter granted during Queen Anne's reign, was especially rich in inspiring original public art, music and choral work, a ballet suite, films, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marion Warren's six photographs capture this historic Annapolis neighborhood in a sleepier time

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Marion Warren's six photographs capture this historic Annapolis neighborhood in a sleepier time: a lone midshipman slowly trudging through the snow by St. Anne's Church; the official vehicle in front of Farmer's National . . .

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

159 Main Street

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Annapolis, Maryland.
This commercial structure was one of several built between 1908-1913 after a fire destroyed the City Hotel. Merchant James F. Strange had the building constructed during his ownership. The building has remained in the . . .

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

Last Lewes Pilot Skiff

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Lewes, Delaware.
Used to take Del. Bay and River Pilots from pilot boat Philadelphia and pilot boat Delaware to and from ships in Del. Bay before World War II Rowed by 4 apprentice pilots Built by Dave Watson Lewes Master Small Boat Builder . . .

(Man-Made Features • Notable Persons • War, World II • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Planned in the Past

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Annapolis, Maryland.
1694 Governor Francis Nicholson Governor of the Province of Maryland, 1694-1698 [Image captions:] •Photograph by Carol M. Highsworth. [LC-N3503-1883] •Portrait thought to be of Francis Nicholson, c.1710. MSA SC 1621-590. . . .

(Colonial Era • Politics • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Framework of History

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Annapolis, Maryland.
State House Maryland's Capitol Building [Image captions:] •Current Day View of State House from Maryland Avenue •Munroe Family Photo: Francis Street from Main Street Toward the State House c.1890 [MSA SC 535-1-88] Beyond . . .

(Architecture • Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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