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Liberty Tree

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Annapolis, Maryland.
This tree was bud-grafted from the last standing Revolutionary era Liberty Tree. These trees served as gathering places for American colonists fighting for their independence. May this tree serve as a living testimony to our . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

State Circle & Maryland Ave.

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Annapolis, Maryland.
State Circle & Maryland Ave. a historic perspective 1849 The Sons of Temperance buy the vacant corner lot. 1853 Temperance Hall is erected, the present two-story brick building. 1891 A grocery store and a market share the . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Congress Was Here

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Annapolis, Maryland.
1784 Peace Treaty Ratified [Image Captions:] •Governor William Paca's Proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. Treaty of Paris Broadside Collection [MSA SC 5785] •The last page of the Treaty of Paris, signed . . .

(Peace • Politics • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Community Legacy

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Annapolis, Maryland.
1984 Banneker-Douglass Museum As the official museum of African-American history and culture for the State of Maryland, the Banneker-Douglass Museum is dedicated to discovering documenting, preserving and promoting . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • Education • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

This montage is the collaborative effort of...

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Annapolis, Maryland.
This montage is the collaborative effort of George "Lassie" Belt, children from the Stanton Community Center (listed below), and Artwalk curator, Sally Wern Comport. This artwork, part of the Annapolis 300 celebration, is at . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Churches & Religion • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

An Enviroronmental Perspective

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Annapolis, Maryland.
"Annapolis is an almost perfect example of town/village GOLD Bay Partner." Comment from the presentation to Annapolis as a Gold Medal Community Partner. Environmental Protection Agency, 2007 As a model for municipalities . . .

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

The Legacy of Ted Freeman

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Lewes, Delaware.
Theodore C. Freeman was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania on February 18, 1930. When he was fifteen months old, Ted's family moved to Lewes, Delaware. As Ted grew up, aviation became his passion. On his 16th birthday, Ted . . .

(Air & Space • Disasters • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The City Water System

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Annapolis, Maryland.
The first important work on water sanitation, that of Edwin Chadwick in 1842, finally seemed to have caught local attention in the 1850s when the City Council passed the first ordinances governing disposal of human remains. . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Snakes

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Venomous Snakes of Adams County Venomous Snakes of Adams County Watch where you walk! Adams County is home to five species of venomous snakes: the Copperhead, Eastern Cottonmouth, Eastern Coral Snake, and the Canebrake and . . .

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

Louis J. Winston - St. Catherine Entrepreneur

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Natchez, Mississippi.
The photograph of the 1946 Brumfield High School Choral. Club, taken in the front yard of Brumfield, provides the best image of the Louis Winston House on the left. The house unfortunately burned in the 1990s. The house on . . .

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

Military Community

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near San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Recreation at Home Remains of a swimming pool are a visual reminder of a thriving community of military families that lived at the Almaden Air Force Station between 1957 and 1980. Hundreds of people live in military . . .

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

The Bell Tower

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
In 1874, a fire swept through the New Almaden community destroying many miner's homes. To prevent the recurrence of such a disaster, mine manager James Randol organized a local bucket brigade and ordered the construction of . . .

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

Jacqueline Cochran

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Thermal, California.
monument front: Jacqueline Cochran (1906-1980) Woman Pilot, Record Setter, WASP, Ninety-Nine First Woman to Break the Sound Barrier Charter Member of the Coachella Valley Chapter of Ninety-Nines Jackie Cochran learned to . . .

(Air & Space • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Star City Veterans Monument

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Star City, West Virginia.
WV Star City In Honor Of All Star City Veterans Past Present Future Dedicated May 30, 2011

(Military) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Monument / Memorial Garden

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Lafayette, Ohio.
(side 1) Veterans Monument This Civil War monument was erected in 1903 to honor LaFayette-Jackson Township's Civil War soldiers. Over the course of the twentieth century, it became the focal point of the annual Memorial Day . . .

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

Sharpening Our Governing Teeth: The 1708 Charter of Annapolis

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Annapolis, one of America's earliest chartered cities, celebrated its 300th anniversary of its charter in 2008. Colonial Governor John Seymour granted the Annapolis municipal charter in the name of England's Queen Anne in . . .

(African Americans • Colonial Era • Politics • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Address by President Lincoln at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery

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Annapolis, Maryland.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, . . .

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

From The Bivouac of the Dead

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Annapolis, Maryland.
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Remembering the Foot Soldiers of the March on Washington

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Annapolis, Maryland.
[Left plaque:] This memorial is dedicated to the quarter of a million people of all races, religions and nationalities who, on a sweltering summer day, August 28, 1963, gathered in our nation's capital in front of the . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lighthouse Keepers' Homes & Gardens

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Cape May, New Jersey.
From the time the current lighthouse was built in 1859 to the time it was electrified around 1933, four keepers, their assistants, and their families lived and worked on this landscape by the sea. The keepers and their . . .

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