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Pumphouse

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Victor, New York.
Pumphouse Built 1845 for Auburn & Rochester R.R. to pump water for locomotives. 2nd oldest railroad building in U.S.

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DeNonville's Army Ambushed

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Victor, New York.
DeNonville's Army ambushed here, July 1687

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

New York Central Station at Main Street Fishers

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Victor, New York.
New York Central Station at Main Street Fishers The railroad brought the sort of deal making which accompanies such major developments. Charles Fisher landed a contract for cutting ties and lumber for the railroad, and later . . .

(Agriculture • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shoshone Falls

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near Twin Falls, Idaho.
(Two panels are found at the Shoshone kiosk:) Native Americans and life in the Snake River Canyon Coyote Creates the Snake River A Traditional Shoshone-Bannock Story Once in that time long ago, Ejupa, the coyote, decided . . .

(Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cobblestone Pumphouse at Fishers Station

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Victor, New York.
Cobblestone Pumphouse at Fishers Station Cobblestone Architecture: Unique to Western New York Cobblestone architecture in the United States is peculiar to western New York. The walls of cobblestone buildings were built of . . .

(Architecture • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Patterson House

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Washington, District of Columbia.
The Washington Club has occupied this Italian neoclassical mansion since 1951. Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818-1906), daughter of presidential advisor Francis Preston Blair, established the club in 1891 for women interested in . . .

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

History Through the Eyes of a Camera

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near Kimberly, Idaho.
(This marker is composed of photographs and the captions associated with them.) (top left) Carved by a Flood Lake Bonneville, the bigger ancestor of Salt Lake, flooded this area about 15,000 years ago. Twin Falls, so named . . .

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

Auburn Trail Location Map

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Victor, New York.
Auburn Trail Location Map The Auburn Trail follows the route of the Auburn & Rochester Railroad through the Town of Victor. The Auburn & Rochester Railroad was incorporated in 1836, "commencing in the village of Auburn at . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The 19th-Century Neighborhood

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Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Most of the 19th-century homes and churches built between downtown (upper left) and UM campus (lower right) have been lost to 20th-century commercial expansion. In what was once a neighborhood of quiet, unpaved tree-lined . . .

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

Francisco Cervantes de Salazar

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, Mexico.
En este lugar estuvo la casa del primer cronista de la Ciudad de México, Francisco Cervantes de Salazar. 1554. Ciudad de México English translation: In this place was the house of the first historian of Mexico City, . . .

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

Gahayanduk Fort Hill

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Victor, New York.
Gahayanduk Fort Hill In Seneca, Gahayanduk means "there was a fort there." In the seventeenth century, the Seneca stored thousands of bushels of dried corn in a palisaded enclosure here. This "fort" was burned by a French . . .

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

Totiakton

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Victor, New York.
[1] Totiakton Tiotehatton lyes on the brinke or edge of a hill, has nott much cleared ground, is neare the river Tiotehatton which signifies bending, itt lyes to Westward of Ganagorah about 30 miles, contains about 120 . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

313 Main Street

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
G.W.M. Hoff built a frame opera house in 1884. In 1886 he erected a brick opera house which three years later was destroyed by fire. In 1889 he rebuilt the brick structure containing an up to date opera house with a seating . . .

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

May Moore Mound

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near Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia.
This is one of the larger burial mounds in the State. It has never been properly excavated, but was probably built by the Adena people between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1. Several smaller mounds can also be seen in this area.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mercer’s Bottom / Captain John Hereford

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Apple Grove, West Virginia.
Mercer’s Bottom. This is part of the 16,000 acre tract surveyed by order of Washington for General Hugh Mercer. Nearby are the graves of Adjutant John Hereford and Ensign John Wilson. They were officers in the Revolutionary . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Hannan

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near Glenwood, West Virginia.
Born 1755, died 1835. Soldier in the Revolution and the first white settler in Cabell County. Blazed trace from Saint Albans to Chilicothe which bears his name. This was the first road that came into Cabell and Mason . . .

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

Gannondata

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Victor, New York.
[1] Gannondata The 21st, we went to the village of Gannondata, about two leagues from Totiakon. It is the remotest village of the Senecas. We destroyed there a large quantity of corn. We found in the village the arms of . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of the Holy Trinity

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, Mexico.
Templo de la Santísima Trinidad. Su construcción se atribuye al arquitecto Lorenzo Rodríguez, autor del Sagrario Metropolitano. Destaca la ornamentación de su fachada barroca. English translation: Temple of the Holy Trinity. . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

House of Íñigo Noriega

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, Mexico.
Aquí estuvo la casa de Íñigo Noriega, el empresario que financió el golpe militar contra el gobierno de Francisco I. Madero. 1913. Ciudad de México English translation: Here was the house of Íñigo Noriega, the businessman . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nundawahonoga

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Victor, New York.
[1] Nundawahonoga The Senecques have four towns, vizt Canagora, Tiotohatton, Canoenada, & Keint-he; Canagorah and Tiotohattan lye within 30 mile of the lake ffontenacque, and ye other two ly about four or five mile apiece . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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