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St Peter’s Parish World War I Memorial

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To The Glory Of God And In Eternal Memory Of Those Who Gave Their Lives In The War 1914-1978 Greater Love Hath No Man Than This, That He Lay Down His Life For His Friends Arthur E. Ashton · Charles J. Benger · Leonard R. . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Holy Trinity Church World War I Memorial

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To the Glory of God and In Proud Memory of These Members of our Church & Parish Who Died For Us In the Great War Lt. W.E. Hill N.Staf.Regt. Sep. 25. 1914 · Pte. A. Pink Dorst. Regt. Oct. 13. 1914 · Capt. C.G.W. Andrews . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Benjamin Ferrey Architect

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, United Kingdom.
Benjamin Ferrey 1810-1880 Architect in Dorset 1875-76 Holy Trinity Church

(Architecture • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tolpuddle Martyrs

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, United Kingdom.
In This Building On March 19th, 1834 The Six Tolpuddle Martyrs Were Sentenced To Seven Years Transportation For Their Part in The Founding Of Rural Trade Unionism Unveiled by Alderman E.G. Good C.B.E.,J.P.,M.P. President of . . .

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

Dorchester World War II Monument

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, United Kingdom.
World War II 1939-1945 This Stone is to Commemorate All Those Allied Service Men and Women Who Served Here in Dorchester And in the County of Dorsetshire And to All Those Who Fought All Over the World On Land Sea and in the . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Roman Walls

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, United Kingdom.
The Roman Walls This is the only surviving section of Dorchester's Roman walls. The Roman town of Dorchester, called Durnovaria, was a provincial capital with a garrison of soldiers. The town was protected on three sides by . . .

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

Abbotsbury Swannery

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, United Kingdom.
It seems likely that mute swans nested on the Fleet long before the earliest written record of 1393, which gave us the name of William Squillor - a monastery swanherd. Monks took advantage of this ready supply of fresh meat . . .

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

Bucky Doo Square

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, United Kingdom.
No. 9 Last Street This building originally The George Inn was rebuilt by renowned local Apothecary Dr. Giles Roberts in 1804. It was a Pharmacy until 1971.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

King Edward Tree

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, United Kingdom.
King Edward Tree Planted By The Mayor W.B. Northover, Esq. Coronation Day August 9, 1902

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

Axminster War Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
In Grateful Memory of the Men of Axminster Who Died for Their Country in The Great War 1914 – 1918 Bertram P. Bowles · Henry A. Bruce · John S. Channing · Charles S. Chant · Francis F. Chick · William C. Chick · William A. . . .

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

West Jordan Industry

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West Jordan, Utah.
Early settlement centered around the West Jordan Mill built by Archibald and Robert Gardner. They established a saw mill in 1850 and a grist mill in 1854 near the Jordan River at 7800 South. A bridge over the Jordan River . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Millrace

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Taylorsville, Utah.
In 1855, upon the counsel of Brigham Young, Joseph Harker, with John and Samuel Bennion, hand-dug the lower ditch to irrigate the farmland on the river bottoms west of the Jordan River. A small rock dam was constructed on . . .

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

Colonel Willian J. “Pete” Knight

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Lancaster, California.
Pete Knight was one of four Air Force pilots selected to pilot the Dyna-Soar (X-20) aircraft, the first Air Force space program. He was one of eight X-15 pilots to earn his astronaut wings by flying an airplane in space . . .

(Air & Space • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Brig. General Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager

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Lancaster, California.
Chuck Yeager logged over 10,000 hours in 180 different military aircraft, including foreign and experimental rocket aircraft. In 1947 Yeager, piloting the X-1, broke Mach 1 at Edwards AFB. He continued to fly the X-1 as a . . .

(Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S. Vice President

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Herndon, Kentucky.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1835-1914, one of four Kentuckians - more than any state, except New York - who were U.S. Vice Presidents. Others were Richard M. Johnson, John C. Breckinridge and Alben W. Barkley. Stevenson, born . . .

(Government • Notable Persons • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation

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Herndon, Kentucky.
The dream of central-station electricity became a reality for 165 homes in the southern part of Christian County when a switch was thrown at this spot on the night of September 2nd, 1938. These 165 homes were the first . . .

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

No-Tillage Farming

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Herndon, Kentucky.
First practice of no-tillage crop production in Ky. occurred on this farm in 1962. Harry and Laurence Young, of Christian Co., were among first in nation to experiment with no-tillage techniques, which use herbicides in . . .

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

County Named, 1820

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Cadiz, Kentucky.
For Col. Stephen Trigg, Virginian. Came to Ky. as member of Court of Land Commissioners, 1779. Settled Trigg's Station near Harrodsburg, 1780. In Va. Legislature was active in establishing town of Louisville, 1780. Justice . . .

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

Site of Burnett Home

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Cadiz, Kentucky.
Henry Cornelius Burnett, 1825-66, represented district, U.S. Congress, 1855-61. Presided at Russellville Convention in Nov., 1861, which formed Ky. provisional government. A member of Confederate Congress from Ky., 1861-65. . . .

(Notable Persons • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Court of Trigg County

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near Cadiz, Kentucky.
On May 15, 1820, justices of the peace, commissioned for the newly formed Trigg County, met at the log home of Samuel Orr, in the vicinity of this well, in town of Warrington. Composing the court were: Samuel Orr, Abraham . . .

(Government • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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