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Steelmaking Capital of the World

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Homestead, Pennsylvania.
For over a century, the massive Homestead Steel Works defined the Pittsburgh Region as the steelmaking capital of the world. Opened in 1881 by a handful of industrialists eager to take part in the industrial boom, the . . .

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

Fort Steele

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Little Rock, Arkansas.
After occupying Little Rock Sept. 10, 1863, Union officials made plans to fortify the capital city. Construction began Nov. 9 on "a square redoubt which will command the city and all principal approaches". The resulting . . .

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

William Henry Stark

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Orange, Texas.
A native of San Augustine County, William Henry Stark (1851-1936) lived in Burkeville and Newton before moving to Orange in 1870. Here he worked in the early area sawmills and became acquainted with every phase of the lumber . . .

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

Mississippi Normal Institute

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Sherman, Mississippi.
Founded in 1889 by Jasper Davis, the Mississippi Normal Institute opened on September 1, 1890, east of this site, with an initial enrollment of 75 students that gradually increased throughout the 1890s. At its height, the . . .

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

World Wars Memorial

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Green Lane, Pennsylvania.
To the men and women of this community who helped to preserve the freedoms of humanity for all ages to come 1917 - 1918 World War I [Honor Roll of Veterans] 1941 - 1945 World War II Killed in Action World War II Woodrow . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Jacob Lutcher

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Orange, Texas.
The son of German immigrants, Henry Jacob Lutcher (1836-1912) became a successful lumberman in this home state of Pennsylvania. Attracted by the vast timberlands of Southeast Texas he and his partner G. Bedell Moore moved . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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Red Hill, Pennsylvania.
1917 • Honor Roll • 1919 Erected by Red Hill Memorial Auxiliary in Honor of Our Boys who served their country in the World War. [Died in Service] Charles H. Boyer • Charles A. Schuler [Honor Roll of Veterans] "In a . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bayou Des Glaises

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Big Bend, Louisiana.
Bayou Des Glaises' French name likely refers to the kind of loamy, clay soil that settlers found along its banks. Bayous are typically found in flat, low-lying areas and can be slow-moving streams, rivers, marshes or . . .

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

Moro in the Civil War / Prelude to Helena

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Moro, Arkansas.
Moro in the Civil War The town of Moro was established in 1850 and about 700 people lived here and nearby when the Civil War began in 1861. Union troops from the 1st Indiana, 1st Missouri, 9th Illinois, 5th Kansas, 2nd . . .

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

Action at Cotton Plant

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Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
After threatening Little Rock, the Union Army of the Southwest marched east toward Helena. On July 7, 1862, three miles north of here, around 1,000 Confederates of the 12th and 16th Texas Cavalry attacked Union soldiers . . .

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

Confederate Fortifications

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North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Fearing a Union attack on Little Rock, Confederate Gen. Sterling Price ordered his men to fortify the high ground on the north side of the Arkansas River in the summer of 1863. A strong network of earthen works soon . . .

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

9/11 World Trade Center Memorial

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East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
World Trade Center Height: 1,368 and 1,362 feet Ground Breaking: August 5, 1965 Opened: 1970-73: April 4, 1973 ribbon cutting Destroyed: September 11, 2001 Latitude 40 Deg. 42'42.03" Longitude: -74 Deg O'45.51" "Not just a . . .

(Disasters • Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Killen Field

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Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Louisiana High School Hall of Famer, R.S. Killen, coached from 1924-1950. In 1944, this stadium was named Killen Field in his honor. The name was revoked in 1953 due to a state law barring naming public structures after . . .

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

Veterans Memorial

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East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
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(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil • War, US Revolutionary • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

C.S.S. Pontchartrain

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North Little Rock, Arkansas.
The elegant steamboat Lizzie Simmons was built in 1859 and ran between Memphis and New Orleans until the Confederate Navy bought her in 1861 and converted her into a gunboat, the C.S.S. Pontchartrain. The vessel fought on . . .

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

Black Education in Orange County

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Orange, Texas.
Schools for Orange County’s black children were held in churches and private homes as early as the 1870s. In 1887 a black school was opened in the Duncan Woods community, and another was soon established in Orange. Known as . . .

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

Huntersville

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North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Arkansas's sole Civil War rail line, the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, ran from DeValls Bluff to what is now North Little Rock. After U.S. troops occupied the capital in 1863, the Union army built warehouses, shops, and . . .

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

Juan José Arévalo Bermejo

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, Guatemala.
El Sindicato de Trabajadores del Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social S.T.I.G.S.S. rinde homenaje al excelentísimo: Doctor Juan Jose Arevalo Bermejo Ex-Presidente Constitucional de la Republica, creador del régimen de . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Politics • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War I Memorial

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East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Roll of Honor Irvin Burger • Lewis H. Clymer Stanley G. Eck • Even J. Lesher Walter Merkel • Arah F. Pennepacker Clyde Reppert • Frederick O. Reppert Palm A C Rededicated 1980 Amer. Legion Post 184 —————————————— [Honor . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Palm

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East Greenville, Pennsylvania.
Named for an old palm tree on hotel sign that stood in village Founded 1716

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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