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Mary Virginia "Jennie" Wade

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
I was the only civilian to be killed during the battle. This is where I was born and lived most of my life. Were were not living here at the time of the battle as we had moved to Breckenridge Street. I was killed at my . . .

(War, US Civil • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Matilda June "Tillie" Pierce

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
I lived in this house during the great battle but my real adventure happened on a farm a short distance south of town. I was only 16 years old at the time and when my neighbor, Mrs. Shriver, asked for my help, I was eager to . . .

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

Mary Witherow

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
"I lived with my widowed father after the death of my mother before the war. Like most families in Gettysburg, we took in wounded soldiers during the battle. I cared for Lieutenant James Purman of the 140th Pennsylvania . . .

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

Mary Virginia Wade Lived in This House

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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(War, US Civil • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Agency

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near Fort Piegan, Montana.
The second Indian Agency on the Blackfeet Reservation was built at Old Agency in 1879. Agent John Young moved the buildings from Upper Badger Creek with help from the Blackfeet Indians. Both men and women dug cellars, hauled . . .

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

Old Agency Site

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near Fort Piegan, Montana.
In 1879, the Blackfeet agency was moved to this site from a previous site south of here to encourage the Blackfeet to take up farming. Old Agency was also the site of where over 600 Blackfeet starved to death, which is known . . .

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

Ration Day

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near Piegan, Montana.
With the buffalo gone the Indian was completely dependent on the Indian Agency. Food rations of meat and a variety of foods and materials were issued once a week per family.

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ghost Ridge

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near Piegan, Montana.
With the disappearance of the buffalo in 1883, the entire tribe depended on the Agency for food. The agency failed to provide adequate rations during that winter, which resulted in over 600 tribal members starving to death. . . .

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

The Timothy Murphy Trail

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Middleburgh, New York.
Timothy Murphy was Schoharie County's Revolutionary hero. Owner of one of the first double-barreled rifles, he was a sharpshooter known to the Indians as the magic man whose gun would shoot without reloading. As a member of . . .

(Native Americans • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Portsmouth & Concord Railroad

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Hooksett, New Hampshire.
Construction of the P&C Railroad to connect NH's only seaport with its capital and points west began in 1847. The road entered Hooksett at Rowe's Corner, passed through this area to Suncook and finally reached Concord in . . .

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

William H. Long Memorial Building

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Hopkinton, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Antiquarian Society William H. Long Memorial Building Erected 1890 Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places By The United States Department of Interior

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

Pendroy

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Pendroy, Montana.
In 1916, the Great Northern Railroad extended their branch line north from Choteau. Mr. James Hill, the president of the railroad had promised his friend L.B. Pendroy he would build a railroad to his home. Since the railroad . . .

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

Cooke City General Store

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Cooke City, Montana.
As the mining town of Cooke City flourished into the 1880s, temporary structures gave way to more permanent establishments. In 1886, John A. Savage and partner John Elder opened a general mercantile whose long history . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Summer of 1877

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near Cooke City, Montana.
For three months the members of the Nez Perce non-treaty bands had been constantly on the move evading the military. Scouts ranged in front and guarded behind the traveling village of mostly children, women and old people, . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Interrment site

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New York, New York.
The fragmentary remains of early New Yorkers were found by archeologists during construction in the vicinity of City Hall Park and reinterred at this site by the City in 2010. Multiple 18th-century burial grounds once . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nicholas Warner

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Cobleskill, New York.
One half mile north of here stood the home of Nicholas Warner burned during the Battle of Cobleskill May 30, 1778.

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Warnerville Union Literary Seminary

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Cobleskill, New York.
Erected in 1853. One of six early seminaries in Schoharie County

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

Suncook Connection Bridge

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Allenstown, New Hampshire.
In 1931, the N.H. State Highway Department built an unusual double-deck truss bridge over the Suncook River to remove traffic on the Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3) from Main Street in Suncook Village. Designed by Harold E. . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bouck's Island

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near Middleburgh, New York.
Home of William C. Bouck, born 1786-died 1859. Governor of State of New York, 1842-44.

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

Historic Emmitsburg, MD

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Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Historic Emmitsburg, MD Est. 1785 National Register of Historic Places

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