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Stan Musial

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Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Legendary Hall of Fame Slugger Stan Musial often visited Hot Springs to prepare for one of his twenty-two stellar seasons in major league baseball. Stan would come with his St. Louis Cardinal teammates and owner August Busch . . .

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

Finnochio's

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San Francisco, California.
"Welcome to the world-famous Finocchio's, where the most beautiful women onstage are men." Opened in 1936, Finocchio's cabaret featured female impersonators, both gay and straight, performing in, elaborateshows that drew in . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Submarine Screw (Propeller)

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Alexandria, Virginia.
Gato Class WWII Fleet Submarine Conducted nine war patrols in the Pacific. Awarded four Battle Stars Commissioned March 17, 1943 De-commissioned April 1, 1960

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

Amster Building

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Globe, Arizona.
Built: 1909 Original use: Drug Store / Saloon Donated to City of Globe Nov. 24, 1997 By Weller Family

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

Colonel Tobias Lear

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Was born in this house in 1760. He was George Washington’s Secretary from 1783 to 1799. Washington visited here in 1789. This tablet is placed by the Society of the Sons of the Revolution of the State of New Hampshire, 1899. . . .

(Notable Buildings • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lower Oswego Creek Bridge

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Lake Oswego, Oregon.
"Charcoal haulers would cross the covered bridge and follow the trail along the river...." Mary Goodall, Oregon's Iron Dream, (1958, p. 76) At least four bridges have been built at the mouth of Oswego Creek and adjacent to . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Mayhew

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, United Kingdom.
Founder of "Punch" and author of "London Labour and the London Poor" lived here

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Communications) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

North Pier

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Between the late 1600s and the mid-1900s this part of the Piscataqua River waterfront played a significant role in the areas marine commerce and shipbuilding economy. This is the site of the famous Portsmouth Pier. Chartered . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Places • Parks & Recreational Areas • Roads & Vehicles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pineville River Front Trail

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Pineville, Louisiana.
City of Alexandria The first merchant to locate in what is now Alexandria was Edmund Murphy, Irish trader, who opened a trading post where Bayou Rapides meets the Red River. He later received a land grant where the city of . . .

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

Bayou Teche

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New Iberia, Louisiana.
Because movement here in the late 1800s was easier by water than by land, many daily activities occurred on or along Bayou Teche, including transportation, trade, and mail delivery. Bayou Teche is an ancient channel of the . . .

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

Kolin Czech Colony

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Pineville, Louisiana.
In 1908, the Bohemian Colonization Club was begun by J. Rosicky, publisher & editor of the Hospodár, to establish family centered Czech colonies. In 1912, Wesly Wosterchil, Frank Zumpfe, and J. Sobotka located 21,000 acres . . .

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Philip S. Amersterdam Hall

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
This residence hall is named in honor of Philip S. Amsterdam, BA '62, Hon LLD '07 "It has given me tremendous pleasure to serve the University and watch it grow and develop over the years. My time as a GW undergraduate was a . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of 2310 H Street, Northwest

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
To the long forgotten families, friends, neighbors, public schools and churches that collectively planted a small mustard seed and unselfishly created a cohesive, black community known as the "Bottom," we dedicate the memory . . .

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

The Celestial Map

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
...Joy and amazement at the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion... -Albert Einstein We live on a planet that orbits a star, our Sun. The Sun is one of two hundred billion stars that . . .

(Air & Space • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

National Academy of Sciences

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
"... the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art ..." from the Charter of the National Academy of Sciences, . . .

(Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

HYBYCOZO (Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulier) (based Oakland, CA)

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Downtown, District of Columbia.
In their work, Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu, the artist duo behind the art and design studio HYBYCOZO, investigate the influences of geometry on human evolution. Their works explore the connections between . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Rose Garden

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The National Mall, District of Columbia.
Roses possess a rare combination of texture, fragrance, form and color that elevates them to royal status among flowers. Known to have been cultivated in gardens throughout history, roses have been grown for medicinal . . .

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

Joseph & Nancy (Cotton) and their children, Eleazor & James

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
In 1717 Portsmouth's first identified black family was baptised by South Church. Baptisms of enslaved people became more frequent in local churches; black marriages, however, were not included in town records until the . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Siras Bruce

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Siras, in 1783, contracted with John Langdon to serve as a “domestic servant." Among Langdon's papers, itemized bills for "Siras de Bruce" confirm descriptions of his resplendent, even dazzling attire: white breeches, blue . . .

(African Americans • Colonial Era • Notable Buildings • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Man's Recollection

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Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
[A series of panels, from left to right:] The Excitement Builds W What a day! As the streetcar pulls up excitement fills the air. Opening day at Griffith! Just 10 cents will get us where we want to be. Everyone is . . .

(Politics • Railroads & Streetcars • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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