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First Long-Distance Phone Call

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Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Cambridge
From this site
on October 9, 1876
the first two-way long distance
telephone conversation was carried
on for three hours. From here in
Cambridgeport Thomas G. Watson
spoke over a telegraph wire to
Alexander Graham Bell
at the office of the Walworth Mfg. Co.
69 Kilby Street, Boston Mass.
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This plaque
Presented to the City of Cambridge
by the
North Council
Thomas Sherwin Chapter
Telephone Pioneers of America
November 1, 1961


(Communications • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Power System of Boston’s Rapid Transit

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Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston

IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing
Power System of Boston’s Rapid Transit, 1889
Boston was the first city to build electric traction for a large-scale rapid transit system. The engineering challenge to design and construct safe, economically viable, and reliable electric power for Boston’s rapid transit was met by the West End Street Railway Company, beginning in 1889. The company’s pioneering efforts provided an important impetus to the adoption of mass transit systems nationwide.

November 2004

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Birthplace of the Telephone

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Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston
Here on June 2, 1875,
Alexander Graham Bell and
Thomas A. Watson
first transmitted sound over wires.
This successful experiment was completed in a fifth floor garret at what was then 109 Court Street and marked the beginning of world-wide telephone service.

On back of monument:
Birthplace
of the
First Telephone

(Communications • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Magee Marsh Wildlife Area

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Ohio, Ottawa County, near Oak Harbor
A dense swamp forest roughly the size of the state of Connecticut once stretched across this region of Ohio and Indiana. A remnant of ancient Lake Maumee, this dense, soggy flatland supported abundant waterfowl and wildlife, but blocked travel and settlement and remained largely uninhabited until it was cleared and drained for agriculture between 1860 and 1885. This marsh and other scatter remnants are all that remain of the Great Black Swamp. Managed for a variety of wetland wildlife. Magee is one of the premier bird watching sites in North America with more than 300 species.

(Horticulture & Forestry • Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

400 Broad Street

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California, Nevada County, Grass Valley
It was at this location on the afternoon of June 5, 1880 that a fire erupted in John White’s Upholstery Shop. More than fifty buildings – including the nearby New York Hotel and most of the Chinese Quarter – were destroyed within an hour, but from the ashes of that conflagration a new business district emerged and York Street was created to ensure better downtown fire protection. Then, early in the 20th Century, a doctor’s office was established here. The longest-serving physician to occupy this corner was Bernard W. Hummelt, MD (1906-1998), who, between 1934 and his retirement in 1988, practiced internal medicine, orthopedics and general surgery. Over the course of his lengthy career he delivered over 1500 Nevada County babies. Dr. Hummelt was among the earliest physicians in the nation to administer penicillin and was instrumental in the founding of Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital – where he served as its third Chief of Staff.
Placed by the family of Bernard W. Hummelt, M.D.
To honor the centennial of Dr. Bummelt’s birth
August 5, 1906

A Remarkable Life • An Exemplary Career

(Notable Places • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camargo - 1847

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Mississippi, Monroe County, Nettleton
2 mi. NW was the flourishing port of Camargo, named by Veterans for their Mexican war camp. The town had a steamboat landing, schools, cemetery, and church. Confederates won a skirmish here, July 14, 1864

(War, Mexican-American • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

First Presbyterian Church

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Mississippi, Winston County, Louisville
First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1839 by Scottish-Irish settlers. Built in 1845, the sanctuary is the original church structure. According to local tradition, the church bell, cast in 1851 by the Andrew Meneely and Sons Foundry of West Troy, New York, was used to alert the citizens of Louisville to the approach of Col. Benjamin Grierson's Union calvary raid on April 22, 1863. In 1973, First Presbyterian Church became a charter member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).

(Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Hamill Spring

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Mississippi, Winston County, Louisville
Spring and small holding reservoir, which lie two miles north, were used during the droughts as a water source for settlers between the early 1800's and 1930. Also used to feed boilers for nearby Gus Boyd sawmill. Spring named for Robert Hamill, an early settler.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Blenheim Mineral Springs

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South Carolina, Marlboro County, near Blenheim
The Mineral Springs were discovered in 1781 by James Spears, a Whig, who was trying to escape TORY troops, according to Legend. Mr. Spears Lost a shoe in a water hole. When he returned to retrieve his shoe, he tasted the water and noticed its strong mineral content. Word of the Spring spread and soon people were coming to taste the cool refreshing water. Several wealthy Plantation owners built summer homes in the vicinity of the Springs.

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

9 -11 / First Responders

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South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia
South Carolina Remembers the 2752 victims and 416 First Responders from New York City that gave their lives on September 11, 2001

(Notable Events) Includes location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oconee County World War Veterans

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South Carolina, Oconee County, Seneca
(Left Side):1914 ~ 1918

In Memory of
Oconee County
World War Veterans
(Right Side):1914 ~ 1918

In Memory of

Charles McGee Byrd

Sergant, Machine Gun Co.
118th S.C. Infantry
30th Division
Wounded Oct. 17th 1918
In the Battle of the Somme
Died Oct. 19th at Leonard France

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Confederate Memorial

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Florida, Volusia County, Daytona Beach
Given in loving memory of
our Confederate dead
by the Southern citizens of
Daytona Beach
Sponsored by
the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Chapter 1955


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

Confederate Veterans

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Florida, Volusia County, Daytona Beach
In honor of each Confederate Veteran, known and unknown, buried in East Volusia County

Jasper J. Allman • Jesse Bennett • Simmons Bennett • Z. H. Bennett • Jackson D. Brooke • Rufus D. Brooke • Wm. W. Carter • Francis Marion Clifton • Edward Clinton • J. W. Ennis • Benjamin F. Fox • Charles B. Futch • J. Henry Futch • James S. Gaines • Charles Goodrich Sr. • James F. Hull • John A. Jackson • William Jones • Moses Manning • Thomas C. Marlow • Henry J. Michael • J. Emery Noland • Daniel G. W. Norman • John B. Putnam • William Robertson • Francis W. Sams • George Sheldon • Rudolphus S. Sheldon • Felix Simmons • A. C. Smith • George W. Tippins • John D. Vann • Israel Wells • John P. Wilkinson • G. M. T. Wilson • James A. Woodward • Philip M. Wright • Jesse Yelvington

Dedicated in 1979 by James F. Hull Camp, 1347,
Sons of Confederate Veterans with acknowledgment to
the Volusia County Historical
Commission for their research

(Second Plaque):
Honoring additional Confederate Veterans
known to be buried in East Volusia County

Wiley Abercrombie • William Bennett • James B. Bradshaw • Edward Britton • Samuel W. Carroll • George E. Coleman • Richard G. Easnor • John Alfred Groover • James A. Hendricks • Charles W. Jones • Eli Warren Livingston • Samuel Archibald Lowe • W. G. Mayberry • Thomas J. Metts • Jordan McCollum • William Roland Roberts • James Newton Russell • Russell B. Smith • James E. Vass • George Milton Wallace • James Wilkinson

Dedicated in 1985 by
James F. Hull Camp 1347, SCV

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

Lancaster County Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

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South Carolina, Lancaster County, Lancaster
Dedicated to the officers of this county who gave their lives in the line of duty * B. Frank Sowell Lancaster Police 1937 * Walter T. Bell Highway Patrol 1939 * Curtis J Pope Constable 1943 * Coleman B. McAteer Constable 1947 * Roy D Hardin Sheriff's Dept. 2001 * J. T. McAteer Sheriff's Dept. 1977 * W. Clarence Hunter Sheriff's Dept. 1972 * D. Kevin Cusack Highway 2010 *

Reverse

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9

(20th Century • Government) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bellevue, Kentucky

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Kentucky, Campbell County, Bellevue
Incorporated March 15, 1870, on part of original land grant to Gen. James Taylor, pioneer, for whose farm this city was named. A general in War of 1812, banker, and statesman, whose farm was an underground railroad station. President of the first town trustees was George D. Allen. Hometown of Anna E. Wolfram, one of Kentucky's first women doctors.

(Abolition & Underground RR • Man-Made Features • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Licking Furnace/Iron Made in Kentucky

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Kentucky, Campbell, Newport
Built three blocks east in 1859 by Swift's Iron and Steel Works. As rebuilt in 1869, it was 65 feet high, with a maximum diameter inside of 16 feet. Its annual capacity was 17,000 tons of iron, using Connellsville coke as fuel. Iron mostly converted to steel at same works. Furnace ceased operating by 1888. See over.

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A major producer since 1791, Ky. ranked 3rd in US in 1830s, 11th in 1965. Charcoal timber, native ore, limestone supplied material for numerous furnaces making pig iron, utensils, and munitions throughout the northern and western portions of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Old charcoal furnace era ended by depletion of ore and timber and the growth of railroads. See over.

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

Fraim Cemetery

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Kentucky, Monroe County, near Gamaliel
John M. Fraim organized the 9th Kentucky Infantry (USA) at Camp Anderson in 1861.

Monroe County Cemetery Book Volume 2, page 98-99.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Harrisville

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West Virginia, Ritchie County, Harrisville
(Preface): On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. "Grumble" Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that they marched 1,100 miles, fought several engagements, captured 700 Federals, seized about 1,200 horses and 4,000 cattle, and burned 4 turnpike bridges, more than 20 railroad bridges, 2 trains, and 150,000 barrels of oil. Most bridges were soon repaired. Confederate losses were slight. By May 26, both commands had returned to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.

On May 6, 1863, Confederate Gen. William E. "Grumble" Jones led his wing of cavalrymen to Harrisville from Weston. Near the western end of town, his men exchanged shots with the Harrisville Home Guard, which then fled. The Home Guard maintained control of the town during the war and was composed of 75 older men and young boys. Jones's men captured many of its members as they fled but soon released them from custody. The fast-moving raiders did not wish to have prisoners encumber them.

After the Confederates gained control of the town, they badly damaged the printing shop and Pierpoint's store, and wrecked the U.S. Post Office. They threw the postage stamps that the town's residents needed to mail letters and packages in the mud and trampled them. Jones and his men soon moved on to destroy Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tunnels and bridges, of which there were several in Ritchie County.

The Harrisville Baptist Church minutes for May 9 referred to the incident: "Church failed to meet in consequences of a raid of Rebel Cavalry to the supposed number of 1,500 that entered Harrisville at noon on Thursday."

(Sidebar): The Confederates raided present-day West Virginia to recruit new troops, "collect" cattle and horses, and destroy railroad bridges and tunnels. At Cairo, in Richie County, Jones's men captured a Federal garrison based there to guard the railroad. The stations along the railroad were centers of community. The Pennsboro Depot, constructed at an earlier station site in 1883, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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

East Clarendon

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South Carolina, Clarendon County, Turbeville
Center Panel
In Memory and in Honor of all East Clarendon men and women who served in the armed forces of our country

Left Panel
Army
Air Force

Right Panel
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard

Base
In Grateful Tribute to the Living and the Dead

(Military) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Menaw, War Chief

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Alabama, Tallapoosa County, near Alexander City
Indian farmer - merchant chose to resist whites' advance on Indians' lands. In Creek War he led Creeks at Battle of Horseshoe Bend. His warriors were beaten by Jackson's superior force but Menawa escaped.

(Native Americans • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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