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Lower Manhattan Today

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New York, New York.
Lower Manhattan Today The ever-growing Manhattan community is a dynamic mixture of businesses, residences, and cultural institutions of interest to visitors and residents alike. Destinations marked in a red dot indicate . . .

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

Controlling A River Of Logs

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Stillwater, Minnesota.
From 1856 to 1914, the St. Croix Boom was the logging industry center on the St. Croix River–the place where logs cut from northern forests entered the marketplace. Each spring, loggers harnessed the river's powerful current . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Life at the Boom

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Stillwater, Minnesota.
As the St. Croix logging industry center, the Boom Site bustled with activity beginning in June and ending when all of the logs were sorted from the river, usually in August but sometimes as late as October. At the height of . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Meeker Island Lock and Dam Historic Site

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Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Meeker Island Lock and Dam was the first lock and dam constructed on the Mississippi River between 1899 and 1907. The lock was in operation for 5 years, closing in 1912. The dam was then demolished. However, in low water . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Drawn To The City

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New York, New York.
As the years pass and native people again find traveling easier, many descendants of the first Menatay inhabitants are returning to their native land. Here they meet native people from many nations. Once, Native Americans, . . .

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

Places of Exchange

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New York, New York.
Completed in 1907, the US Customs House was built when the United States was becoming an economic world power – and the Port of New York one of the most prosperous trade centers. Duties extracted by the United States Customs . . .

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

Woodlawn Methodist Church

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Gum Springs, Virginia.
African Americans in Woodlawn, four miles southwest of here, established Woodlawn Methodist Episcopal Church ca. 1866. The Woodlawn area, formerly part of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate, was home to African . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ventura Theatre

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Ventura, California.
Ventura joined the "movie palace era” of Hollywood with the grand opening of the Ventura Theatre on August 16, 1928. This lavishly decorated Mediterranean style theatre cost $400,000 to build, and created much excitement in . . .

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

J.A. Day House

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Ventura, California.
J. A. Day, was a prominent rancher in the Saticoy area and a local grocer. In 1889, he built this Victorian home, in the "Stick-Eastlake” style, The structure contains unique carpentry work, with a profusion of wood detail . . .

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

Sifford House

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Ventura, California.
Built in 1895, this Colonial Revival home is a two-story box- shape featuring a distinctive half-circle entry onto the porch, a balcony, and a palladian window. It was occupied originally by Frank Sifford, owner of the . . .

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

632 E. Thompson Boulevard

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Ventura, California.
This house, built in 1904 for Earl E. Barnes, has Classic Revival elements as seen in its flared hip roof, clapboard siding, and porch columns. The stained glass doors and windows, with the Mariposa Lily Design, are an . . .

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

Braden Castle

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Bradenton, Florida.
Dr. Joseph Addison Braden, graduate physician, native of Virginia, came from Tallahassee to Manatee River in 1843 and acquired about 1100 acres of land; built a sugar mill about 2 1/2 miles south of Manatee. With materials . . .

(Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Long Pier

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Bradenton, Florida.
Originally constructed in 1929, it reaches out into the Manatee River more than 600 feet to the navigable channel. Destroyed by weather events, and then rebuilt in 1990, 1993 & 2002. It was refurbished in 2017 by many . . .

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

Old Santa Susana Stage Road

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near Chatsworth, California.
Old Santa Susana Stage Road, 1859-90. Marked March 17 1939, Native Daughters of the Golden West, Topango Parlor 269.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Millington Synge, 1871-1909

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, Germany.
Wohnte hier während seines Musikstudiums an der Königlichen Musikschule im Jahre 1894. Lived here in 1894 while studying at the Royal School of Music.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Georg Simon Ohm

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, Germany.
Entdeckte in diesem Haus als Lehrer am alten Kölnischen Gymnasium im Jahre 1826 das Grundgesetz der elekrischen Ströme. Die Hansestadt Köln weihte dem grossen Physiker zum 16 Maerz 1939 seinem 150 Geburtstage diesem Tafel - . . .

(Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Cunane House

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Ventura, California.
This structure was the office and home of Dr. Thomas E. Cunane who established his practice in Ventura in 1899. The home was built in 1884 and is one of the few remaining examples of Queen Anne cottage architecture which was . . .

(Architecture • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Matthew Henson Mural

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Southwest, District of Columbia.
This mural honors explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, a D.C. native who reached the North Pole in 1909 with Robert Peary. Designed and created by a group of students in the Corcoran Gallery's ArtReach program, it was . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Officers' Quarters

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St. Augustine, Florida.
The houses on this post are known as the Officers' Quarters. St. Francis Barracks commanding officer from 1875 to 1883, Brevet Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent, lobbied for this construction. Dent allegedly asked First Lady Julia . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Francis Barracks

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St. Augustine, Florida.
The site on which you are standing was originally settled by Franciscan missionaries in 1588. For 175 years, the Convento de San Francisco served as headquarters for the men who labored on behalf of the Spanish king to bring . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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