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Bordelon-Decuir-Robinson Home

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Marksville, Louisiana.
Victorian dwelling Colonial influence. Built by Alfred Bordelon who practiced dentistry and law in Cottonport and Marksville. Built along northern edge of Spanish land grant of Francois Bordelon.

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

Loren Andrus House

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Washington, Michigan.
(side 1) Loren Andrus (1816-1901) came to Macomb County from New York State in 1828. He served as an assistant engineer on the survey of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal, but gained prominence in agricultural work. In particular . . .

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

Fox Inn

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, United Kingdom.
The Fox Inn was built over 250 years ago as The home of Charles Hall and known as Broadclose. In 1777 Charles founded the Ansty Brewery while troops were assembling on The Dorsetshire coast anticipating a French invasion . . .

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

Sostenes Rocha

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, Mexico.
Sostenes Rocha Nacio en 1831 en Mineral de Marfil, Guanajuato. Se graduo en el Colegio Militar, y participo con el grado de Gral. durante el Sitio de Queretaro. Fue eficaz apoyo de Benito Juárez. Murio en 1897. English . . .

(Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Dunn

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Narrowsburg, New York.
Thomas Dunn came here in the year 1801 and settled on the lands at Big Eddy, of which this cemetery is a part. He, his wife Su Dunn and five of his children survived the Wyoming Massacre July 1778 after which he enlisted in . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Disasters • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Simón Bolívar

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, Mexico.
Simón Bolivar Libertador de: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Panamá Fundador de: Bolivia El pueblo mexicano, siempre de acuerdo con los primeros movimientos de la naturaleza, con la razón, con la política, ha querido . . .

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Ltcuntadun"

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near Weott, California.
Ltcuntadun is the name given to this place by the native Sinkyone-Lolangkok people. For hundreds of years they celebrated the river's abundant salmon, lamprey and steelhead. In 1876, a ferry crossed the river here. The town . . .

(Native Americans • Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marc Eliché Home Site

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Marksville, Louisiana.
Marc Eliché founder of Marksville, and his wife Julie Carmouche resided in a home on this site.

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

Confederate Hospital Site

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Marksville, Louisiana.
A Confederate military hospital was maintained in this area during the Red River campaign of the Civil War. Patients were housed in a Mr. Richaud's buildings on Monroe Street according to an 1864 newspaper account.

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

Adam's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the first tablet; Adams' Brigade. Breckinridge's Division - Hill's Corps. Brigadier General Daniel W. Adams. September 20, 1863, 10 a.m. 32nd Alabama, - Major John C. Kimbell. 13th and 20th Louisiana, - Colonel . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Anvil

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Rockville Centre, New York.
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(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Forest Hill

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Deadwood, South Dakota.
After gold was discovered in Deadwood Gulch in 1875, commercial buildings were quickly erected on the flat land along Main Street, leaving the hillsides above as the only area for residential development. The first houses in . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Booker Schools

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Sarasota, Florida.
Side 1 Emma E. Booker, a pioneer Black educator was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918 she was principal of "Sarasota Grammar School" which held classes in rented halls. The Julius . . .

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

Welcome to the Marchmont Community Garden

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, United Kingdom.
History of the Marchmont Community Garden site: The site was at the heart of Lamb's Conduit Fields until the cash-strapped Governors of the Foundling Hospital allowed James Burton to build hundreds of houses on their . . .

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

Withdrawal of the Union Left

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Withdrawal of the Union Left September 20, 1863, 5:30 P.M. At half after 5 o'clock Reynolds' Division was moved out of the works south of the Kelly Field, encountering no opposition until it reached a point near the end of . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stovall's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Stovall's Brigade. Breckinridge's Division, - Hill's Corps. Brigadier General Marcellus A. Stovall. September 20, 1863, 10:30 a.m. 1st, and 3rd, Florida, - Colonel William S. Dilworth. 4th, Florida, - Colonel W.L.L. Bowen. . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

35th Ohio Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
35th. Regiment Ohio Infantry, Van Derveer's Brigade. 11:00 a.m. September 20, 1863.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

18th Ohio Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
18th. Regiment Ohio Infantry, Stanley's Brigade. 10:00 a.m. September 20, 1863. Advanced north 2000 feet.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

19th Illinois Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Illinois 18th Infantry, Stanley's Brigade. 10 a.m. September 20, 1863.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Havilah

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Havilah, California.
County Seat Kern County 1866 - 1873

(Government) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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