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Montville

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Uncasville, Connecticut.
(side 1) This area was long the home of the Mohegan Indians, by settlement before the Colonial period, and by reservation until more recent years. Prominent Indian sachems were Owaneco and his father Uncas, who defeated the . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era • Native Americans • Notable Places • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New London

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New London, Connecticut.
New London was founded in 1646 by John Winthrop, the younger, who chose this shore-ringed "plantation” for its excellent harbor. This land, with its great natural assets, attracted men of hardihood and valor and became one . . .

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

Belle Glade 1928

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Belle Glade, Florida.
This statue is to honor the early Glades pioneers and the more than two thousand persons who lost their lives in the disastrous 1928 hurricane. Belle Glade Centennial Committee May 31, 1976

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

Bonnet Carre Spillway/Lake Pontchartrain

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Bonnet Carre Spillway Mile 128.0 AHP Completed in 1935, the Bonnet Carre Spillway protects New Orleans, LA and the levees around it by diverting flood waters into Lake Pontchartrain. The one and a half mile long concrete . . .

(Disasters • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Hymelia Crevasse/Bonnet Carre Crevasse/Laplace, Louisiana/Reserve, Louisiana

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Hymelia Crevasse Mile 131.3 AHP In 1903, a 200-foot gap opened in the levee at Hymelia Plantation. One thousand laborers were put to work constructing a sandbag fill but a runaway barge crashed into the repairs and . . .

(African Americans • Disasters • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Lutcher, Louisiana/Oak Alley/St. James Landing, Louisiana

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A) Lutcher, Louisiana Mile 147.6 AHP Tobacco was never a very successful cash crop for early French settlers, with the notable exception of Pierre Channet, who lived near here. The “Perique tobacco” he developed is still . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Everglades Research

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Belle Glade, Florida.
The Everglades Experiment Station was established on this site in 1921 to help families deal with the challenges of living and working in the area. Soil nutrient deficiencies and two major hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 . . .

(Agriculture • Disasters • Education • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Sanborn Wall

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Boca Raton, Florida.
On this spot in June 1942, spies from German U-boats landed and occupied Dr. William Sanford’s home built on this site in 1937. The subs, deployed during WWII as part of Hitler’s Operation Drumbeat, torpedoed tankers and . . .

(War, World II • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Rossi Retort

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near San Jose (New Almaden), California.
This two-tube inclined retort, known as a "Rossi Retort," was named for Louis Rossi who came to New Almaden in the 1920s and built a reduction plant based on his patented design. This style of retort allowed rapid recovery . . .

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

Casa Grande

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Built in 1854 of adobe, brick and wood. Residence of mine's manager until 1925. Most gracious and stately California mansion of the early days. Scene of important social & political events, planned by Henry W. Halleck & . . .

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

Hacienda School

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
At the corner of Alameda Road at Bertram, sat the first Hacienda Schoolhouse built in the 1850s by mine owner Barron Forbes Co. to educate miners' and neighboring ranchers' children. About 85 students attended grades 1-8. In . . .

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

Site of Reduction Works

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Established in 1846, the Scott Furnace introduced here in 1874 revolutionized the quicksilver industry. Mine office located in 1850 in existing adobe building. Telephone installed 1878. Electric lights in 1890.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of First Mining Operation in California

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Here in Los Alamitos Creek in 1824, Luis Chabolla & Antonio Sunol first worked New Almaden ore in an arrastra & sluice.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Lord of the Hospital

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, Mexico.
Señor del Hospital La construcción de este edificio religioso comenzó a edificarse en el año de 1888, de ahí que el estilo es neoclásico tardío, cuenta con varios elementos que lo ornamentan. Además con ciertas . . .

(Churches & Religion • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Charles Henry Parrish, Jr.

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Scholar and educator, Dr. Parrish joined the faculty of Simmons University in 1921 and moved to Louisville Municipal College, the black branch of the University of Louisville, in 1931. In 1951, when the University of . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Wilson W. Wyatt, Sr.

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Former mayor of Louisville and lieutenant governor of Kentucky, Wyatt also served as a member of the University of Louisville Board of Trustees and made the first motion to desegregate the University in 1949

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory of Eastern High School Alumni

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Washington, District of Columbia.
In Memory of Eastern High School Alumni Who Died For Humanity Spanish American War World War

(War, Spanish-American • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Eleanor Young Love

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Scholar and educator, Dr. Love became the first black librarian at the University of Kentucky in 1955 a and, a decade later, became the first director of Project Upward Bound and an assistant dean at the University of . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. J. Blaine Hudson, Jr.

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Author and historian, Dr. Hudson served as Chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies and in 2005 became permanent Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hudson was a scholar in global African ancestry, . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Woodford R. Porter, Sr.

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Louisville, Kentucky.
Businessman and civil rights leader, Mr. Porter served twenty-four years on the board of trustees at the University of Louisville, four terms as chairman and helped guide the University into the state system of higher . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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