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Davis-Miller-Dumas House - 69 St. Catherine Street

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Henry Dumas poses on the front steps of 69 St. Catherine Street. Henry managed the Dumas Pharmacy at 707-09 Franklin Street, a building that also housed the medical practice and sanitarium of his brother Dr. Albert W. Dumas, . . .

(African Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Well-Organized Society

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Stanton, Mississippi.
Emerald Mound was the product of a complex society organized to serve and sustain the welfare of its people beginning eight centuries ago. Life revolved around family relationships and well understood rules. An elite . . .

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

The Academy of Sciences Building of the Dominican Republic

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, Dominican Republic.
Historia de la Casa de la Academia de Ciencias de la República Dominicana La casa que aloja la Academia de Ciencias, situada en la calle Las Damas esquina del Conde, según el historiador Luis Alemar era la residencia de la . . .

(Architecture • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mount Olive Baptist Church

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Glen Allen, Virginia.
This church, originally known Mount Olivet African Church of Baptist, was founded May 2, 1867. Its founding congregants, wanting their own church, moved from local North Run Baptist Church and began meeting on this 1.18 acres site.

(African Americans • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mount Olive Baptist Church

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Glen Allen, Virginia.
This church, originally known Mount Olivet African Church of Baptist, was founded May 2, 1867. Its founding congregants, wanting their own church, moved from local North Run Baptist Church and began meeting on 1.18 acres . . .

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

Maybelle Carter Family Residence

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Glen Allen, Virginia.
In 1947 the Maybelle Carter family bought the home at 4101 Old Springfield Road here in Glen Allen, Virginia. They performed on local radio stations WRNL-WRVA and the Old Dominion Barn Dance while living in the Richmond . . .

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

Anderson Cemetery

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Glen Allen, Virginia.
Anderson Cemetery, circa 1867, is one of the earliest African American cemeteries in the Yellow Tavern area. William Kennedy, clerk of Mount Olive Baptist Church, formed the Sons of Jacob, a fraternal organization which . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Dorey Family

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Varina, Virginia.
Dairy farming became the new agricultural industry in Henrico County during the period following the Civil War. As early as 1880, there were 2,181 milk cows in the county. By the early 20th century, agriculturists boasted . . .

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

House of the Lions

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, Dominican Republic.
Casa del León Este inmueble es una vivienda construida en los albores del siglo XVI, residencia de importantes personajes de la época colonial, ubicada en la calle Las Damas, primera vía trazada en la Ciudad Primada de . . .

(Architecture • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mower's Brigade; Assault, Afternoon of May 22, 1863.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Mower's and Matthies’ Brigades of Tuttle's Division were massed for the assault the morning of May 22, on the left of the graveyard road and in rear of Blair's Division. The two brigades remained in this position until about . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ewing's Brigade; Assault, May 22, 1863.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Blair's Division was massed for the assault, the morning of May 22, on the left of the graveyard road and about 900 yards from the Confederate stockade redan. A volunteer storming party of 150 men from the regiments of the . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bastidas House

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, Dominican Republic.
Casa de Bastidas Fundada por el Conquistador Rodrigo de Bastidas († 1527) Almojarife de Santo Domingo y fundador de Santa Marta. (Colombia) y de su hijo Dean de la Catedral de Santo Domingo. Obispo de Coro (Venezuela) y . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Spanish Lake

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
First known as Lake Flamand for one of the early settlers, Jean Baptist Grevemberg; known as Lake Tasse by the French due to its cup shape; and known as Spanish Lake for early Spanish colonials who lived on its shores.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Kilby Smith's Brigade; Assault, May 19,1863.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
This brigade, with skirmishers in advance, was formed about 600 yards in front of the east face of the confederate stockade redan on the graveyard road, on both sides of that road, in the following order: the 83D Indiana . . .

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

Sisters' Workshop (1840)

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Albany, New York.
On this location was a large 3 1/2 sto[r]y stone building. Here Shaker Sisters did spinning, weaving, and sewing. Journal entries indicate that Sister Polly wove 3350 Shaker bonnets in this building. The building was the . . .

(Churches & Religion • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Market Square Tea Burning

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Newburyport, Massachusetts.
When the British Parliament in 1773 imposed a tax on tea imported into the American Colonies the act was widely resented. In indignation tea was brought by the people to Market Square and burned. To commemorate the incident . . .

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

Skipwith Crevasse/Sara Cutoff/Island No. 89

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A. Skipwith Crevasse Mile 499.4 AHP When the levee at Skipwith Plantation broke in the flood of 1913, the water poured slowly through the break. Couriers on horseback were able to alert the residents of the Mississippi-Yazoo . . .

(Disasters • War, US Revolutionary • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

New Iberia Shipwreck

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
The wreckage of Teche, a steamship, lies buried below the surface at this site. The steamer, built in 1860, was originally named Sam Sugg and then Tom Sugg. It was constructed for commercial use with a small side-wheeled . . .

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

Shaker Heritage Society Garden

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Albany, New York.
The plants in this garden are some of the herbs used and sold by The Watervliet Shaker Community during the 1800's. The community grew large "Botanical/Physic" gardens and also gathered many wild herbs for use in their . . .

(Environment • Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grand Lake Cutoff/Worthington Cutoff/Kentucky Bend

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Memphis, Tennessee.
A. Grand Lake Cutoff Mile 511.0 AHP An oxbow lake two miles west of the river, Grand Lake, was removed from the channel by this natural cutoff in the 1700’s. The small river town of Princeton grew up on the west bank, with a . . .

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