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Converging of Indian Trails

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Princeton, Kentucky.
Saline, Eddy, and Varmint traces met at Big Spring (Princeton) and developed into today's roads. First forged by buffalo, later used by Indians and pioneers. A fork of Saline crossed Ohio River at Cave-in-Rock; another at . . .

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tappan Historic District

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Tappan, New York.
Tappan Patent Protected by the Town of Orangetown Local Law Est. 1965

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

Ponciano Aguilar

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El H. Ayuntamiento 1942-43 y el Club Rotario de Guanajuato en memoria del insigne guanajuatense Ing. Don Ponciano Aguilar cuyas obras perduran como testigos de una vida ejemplar English translation: The Honorable City . . .

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

Heritage Acres

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Chesterfield Township, Michigan.
The Trinity Museum was originally established in 1964. It was designed as a general store and its intent was to represent the general stores in Chesterfield Township during the period 1880 - 1930. With time, the historical . . .

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

The Basilica of Guanajuato

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, Mexico.
Basílica de Guanajuato Se le denominó Parroquia de Guanajuato hasta el año de 1957, en que se le elevó a la categoría de Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guanajuato. Su construcción se inició en el año de 1671 y se concluyó en . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple of San Roque

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, Mexico.
San Roque Templo construido en 1726 por el sacerdote Don Juan José de Sopeña y Cervera donde funcionó desde el 13-X-1746 hasta el 13-III-1794 una Santa Escuela de Cristo, creada por el religioso Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Odd Fellows

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Twin Falls, Idaho.
The International Order of Odd Fellow dedicated the building April, 14, 1908. Reserving second floor space below a stained glass skylight for their Lodge Room, the Trustees rented out the rest. Unfortunately, excessive noise . . .

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

Farmers' and Merchants' Bank

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Twin Falls, Idaho.
In 1908 when James L. Milner needed to house his Farmers and Merchants' Bank, he purchased Turner and Shane's clothing and furnishing store at Park Avenue and A Street. By 1918, Milner had transformed the store into one of . . .

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

Eagle Rock Crossing

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Twin Falls, Idaho.
Honoring builders of bridges and trails and pioneers who passed this way in the development of the West. The first wagon bridge over Snake River was erected here by James M. Taylor in 1865 replacing the ferry established on . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Highland Park

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Twin Falls, Idaho.
Under the Homestead Act of 1880, John Lingren acquired this land, cleared the sagebrush, raised vegetables and dairy products, started a nursery, planted hundred of fruit, evergreen, shade and ornamental trees. It became . . .

(Agriculture • Entertainment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

José Alfredo Jiménez Mausoleum

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, Mexico.
Mausoleo a José Alfredo Jiménez Este monumento alberga la tumba del más famoso de los musicos vernáculos mexicanos: José Alfredo Jiménez, quien nació aquí en Dolores Hidalgo un 19 de enero de 1926. Autor de canciones como . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Elephant Hunters

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near Twin Falls, Idaho.
Early day big game hunters who occupied lava caves around here more than 12,000 years ago, had a diet that included elephants, camels and giant bison. When a gradual change to a warmer, drier climate made local grasslands . . .

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

Rigby

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Rigby, Idaho.
In 1884 a group of Utah Mormons settled and pioneered this locality. The cleared sagebrush land, dug canals and erected humble log homes. The built a log room which was used for church, school and recreation. Daniel S. . . .

(Churches & Religion • Education • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Martin Buchanan, USCT

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near Leesburg, Virginia.
Loudoun County experienced continuous Union and Confederate activity during the war. Carter's Mill Road, in front of you, provided access to the agricultural abundance of Oatlands and other farms south and east of here, . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Citizen Soldiers from Bravo Company, First Battalion, One Hundred and Ninth Mechanized Infantry

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Great Bend, Pennsylvania.
This memorial is dedicated in memory of the Citizen Soldiers from Bravo Company First Battalion One Hundred and Ninth Mechanized Infantry while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their sacrifice is the greatest reflection . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 2nd Iraq) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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Great Bend, Pennsylvania.
In memory of the men and women from Pennsylvania Air Force-Army-Coast Guard Marines-Navy from all wars who sacrificed all to keep us free

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

President William McKinley

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(side one) Train loads of visitors swarmed to Sioux Falls on October 14, 1899, to see the first president ever to visit South Dakota. The city appeared to be “one blaze of national colors.” Hundreds of flags waved, and . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Richard Franklin Pettigrew

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(panel 1) ”If you didn't drink whiskey, play cards, use your fists or otherwise intimidate, you didn't belong in the arena with Frank Pettigrew… a man who came to the Dakotas with nothing but desire, talent and ambition. He . . .

(Notable Persons • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washington High School

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(side one) For most of the 119 years between 1873 and 1992, a majority of Sioux Falls children attended one of three successive public schools erected on this site. The first, an unnamed small wood-frame elementary school, . . .

(Architecture • Education • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Franklin County Veterans Memorial

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Union, Missouri.
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom Abraham Lincoln Dedicated to the Veterans of Franklin County

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