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John R. Lynch - St. Catherine Street Land Speculator

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Natchez, Mississippi.
John R. Lynch turned to writing in his later years and wrote the Facts of Reconstruction in 1913. He completed his autobiography Reminiscences of an Active Life when he was 90, two years before his death in 1939. Lynch . . .

(African Americans • Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Glasscock County

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Garden City, Texas.
Created in 1887. Organized 1893, with Garden City county seat. Named for George W. Glasscock (1810-68), flatboating partner of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. Came to Texas 1834 and fought 1835-36 in the War for Independence . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • War, Texas Independence • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory of Those Lost in World War II

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Herndon, Virginia.
In memory of those lost in World War II The Home Interest Garden Club 1950

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Visiting Old Town

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Alexandria, Virginia.
Welcome to Old Town Alexandria! Experience historical charm with contemporary flair from the river to the rails Plan Alexandria Visitors Center at Ramsay House Knowledgeable staff help you create a perfect plan for your . . .

(African Americans • Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Living History

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Alexandria, Virginia.
Discover the spirit of Alexandria that has been making history for well over two centuries Founded in 1749, Alexandria was the center of commercial and political activity for early patriots such as George Washington as the . . .

(African Americans • Architecture • Civil Rights • Colonial Era • War, US Civil • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Barlands - A Study in Black and White

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Natchez, Mississippi.
The will of William Barland, a wealthy planter and downtown property owner, disclosed an interesting domestic relationship that has long intrigued historians. Proven in 1816, the will legally acknowledged Barland's . . .

(African Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Catherine Street and Fourth Street

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Seamstress Laura Davis made the lavish dress and train worn by Cassell Carpenter when she was Pilgrimage Garden Club Queen in 1966. Carpenter posed in the parlor of her home Dunleith for local photographer Mabel Lane, the . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

One Mound Among Many

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Stanton, Mississippi.
Trade, art, and ideas linked Emerald Mound, both physically and spiritually, with mound sites throughout the eastern half of North America. Mound building, as a practice, was widespread. Over thousands of years, the native . . .

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

Still Sacred

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Stanton, Mississippi.
Emerald Mound's size ins impressive. Scholar James Barnett Jr. called it the region's "crowning mound-building achievement" of the Mississippian era (1,150 to 30 years ago). only a complex society mobilized for a massive . . .

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

Welcome to Fort Ross

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Jenner, California.
In the early 1800s, Fort Ross was a thriving international community on the edge of the Spanish frontier. In 1812, the Russian-American Company (RAC) built Fort Ross at Metini, a centuries-old Kashaya village. The Fort had . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

West Side Elementary School

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Goldfield, Nevada.
1908 West Side Elementary School 1910 Manual training & domestic science classes 1917-1920 Goldfield School of Mines 1931 Was used by Novackclub Inc. as a golf club factory 1945 The building & adjacent land was purchased by . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nathaniel & Armenia White

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Concord, New Hampshire.
Abolitionists, Suffragists & Philanthropists Fifteen-year-old Nathaniel White arrived in Concord, virtually penniless, to work as a clerk in a Main Street hotel. Six years later, in 1832, he had saved sufficiently to become . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dominic Paul DiMaggio

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San Francisco, California.
This is the site of the original Dimaggios' Restaurant founded by the five DiMaggio brothers in 1937. Tom, the oldest of the 9 children of Sicilian immigrant parents, ran it until the youngest, Dominic Paul DiMaggio, took on . . .

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

Roger Fry

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, United Kingdom.
In this house Roger Fry 1866-1934 Artist and Art Critic ran the Omega Workshops 1913-1919

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

State House Grounds

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Concord, New Hampshire.
Honoring New Hampshire History The State House grounds hold the state's foremost display of sculpture and memorials, many fashioned from local granite. After Concord became the state capital in 1808, its citizens donated . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Parks & Recreational Areas • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Good Neighbors - Alexanders and Gonnellinis

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Natchez, Mississippi.
Louis and Anna Alexander resided in the craftsman style cottage (above) at 17 St. Catherine Street. Until his death in the late 1940s, Louis Alexander worked at the historic mansion Melrose for George and Ethel Kelly. He . . .

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

John Gilbert Winant (1889-1947)

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Concord, New Hampshire.
”Wanting not only for ourselves but for others also, a fairer chance for all people everywhere.” World War I pilot, New Hampshire’s youngest governor, and first head of Social Security, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to . . .

(Politics • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Walker School 1915

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Concord, New Hampshire.
Concord's growth at the end of the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, fueled in large part by the city's prosperous and varied industries, compelled a major campaign to build civic buildings. Within twenty-five . . .

(Architecture • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Signal Fires

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Goshen, New York.
Site Of Signal Fires War Of The Revolution

(Communications • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charles Augustus Doyen

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Concord, New Hampshire.
1914 World War 1918 erected by City of Concord New Hampshire Dedicated Nov. 11, 1919 In Memory of Brigadier General Charles Augustus Doyen Commanding Officer – First Regiment of Marines to go to France, June 1917 Born at . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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