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75th Indiana Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana. Seventy-Fifth Regiment Infantry. (Robinson) Second Brigade. (King) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Sunday, September 20th, 1863, 10 A.M. to 12 M.

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

General Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora

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, Mexico.
General Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora Texto no encontrado English translation: General Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora Text not found

(War, Mexican-American • Wars, Non-US) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mariano Escobedo

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, Mexico.
Mariano Escobedo 1827-1902 Nacio en Galeana Nuevo Leon, Lucho contra la invasión Norteamericana y en la Guerra de Reforma combatio al Ejercito Frances Culminando su campaña en toma de Queretaro en 1867. Fue Gobernador de su . . .

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

Route of Baird's and Johnson's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Route of Baird's and Johnson's Division to first Day's Battle.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

To the Opening of the Battle

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
To the opening of the Battle, First day, September 19, 1863. 1 7/8 MS.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

State Hospital

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Central Islip, New York.
Opened in 1889. Grew from 40 Patients to 10,000 by 1954. Inc. nursing school, farm, power & train depots. Closed October 10, 1996

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

Guillermo Prieto Pradilla

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, Mexico.
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(Arts, Letters, Music • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baird's Division

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the first tablet Baird's Division - Thomas' Corps. Brigadier General Absalom Baird. September 19, 1863. 1st Brigade - Colonel Benjamin F. Scribner. 2nd Brigade - Brigadier General John C. Starkweather. 3rd Brigade . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple of San Hipólito

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, Mexico.
Tal fue la mortandad que en este lugar hicieron los aztecas a los españoles la noche del día 1 de julio de 1520 llamado por esto noche triste que después de haber entrado triunfantes a esta ciudad los conquistadores al año . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Yellow Corner

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Martinsburg, Pennsylvania.
Martinsburg's first merchantile store was built with logs on this site in the year 1815 by merchants Samuel Myers and William Entriken. The deteriorating 1850 brick building that was later built on this site was replaced . . .

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

Tusten Town Hall

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Narrowsburg, New York.
built 1926 by Narrowsburg Fire Dept. Park movie theater 1930's purchased by Town of Tusten 1973

(Charity & Public Work • Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pocahontas Mounds

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near Jackson, Mississippi.
Front The Pocahontas site consists of two mounds and an associated village area. Mound A is a rectangular platform mound currently 20 feet tall, built between AD 750 and 1500. Excavations located structural features on the . . .

(Anthropology • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stone Square Lodge No. 8

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Port Allen, Louisiana.
On August 21, 1879 the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana issued a charter to Worshipful Master Sterling Barrow, Senior Warden Alexander Gilbert and Junior Warden Alex Bains to organize Stone Square Lodge No. 8. It is one . . .

(African Americans • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tinsley Oil Field

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Little Yazoo, Mississippi.
Discovered 5 miles west of here on Sept. 5, 1939, Tinsley was the first oil field east of the Mississippi River in the Gulf Coast region. During the first 50 years, 220,000,000 barrels of oil were produced.

(Industry & Commerce • Natural Resources) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Narrowest and The Deepest

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Narrowsburg, New York.
Narrowsburg takes its name from the small, narrow rock canyon easily seen from the bridge. The canyon, only 200 feet wide, is the narrowest point in the length of the Delaware River main stem and is located at river-mile 290 . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Steamboat Natchez

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near Belzoni, Mississippi.
On March 13, 1863, near this site, the NATCHEZ burned and sank in the Yazoo. Converted into a Confederate gunboat and armored with cotton bales, the vessel had been taken into the Yazoo to avoid capture.

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

St. Mary's A.M.E. Church

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Addis, Louisiana.
St. Mary's A.M.E. Church was founded on September 16, 1888 and erected in 1889. August Levert, plantation owner, donated a tract of land to Albert Henderson to build a church under the doctrines of the African Methodist . . .

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

Jaketown Site

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Jaketown, Mississippi.
A significant archaeological site initially settled by people of the Poverty Point culture ca. 1000 BC and continuously occupied through all subsequent archaeological periods of the Lower Miss. Valley.

(Anthropology • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stranahan's Store

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Narrowsburg, New York.
circa mid 1800's closed 1991

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Belmont Plantation

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Wayside, Mississippi.
Belmont, one of the few antebellum houses remaining in the Ms. Delta, was built ca, 1857 for W.W. Worthington. Federal troops plundered 1863. Belmont Hunting Lodge founded 1946 by Gov. Dennis Murphree.

(Antebellum South, US • Notable Places • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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