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Site of Baldwin County's First Courthouse

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Blakeley, Alabama.
This foundation is all that remains of Baldwin County’s first courthouse. Authorized in 1820 but not constructed until circa 1833, the two-story brick building contained a jail on the bottom floor with office space on the . . .

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

The Bottle Creek Site

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Blakeley, Alabama.
The Bottle Creek site is the second largest mound center in Alabama and it represents the remnants of a large Mississippian Stage civic and ceremonial complex that dominated the Mobile-Tensaw Delta from AD 1250 to 1500. . . .

(Landmarks • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World's Smallest Police Station

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Carrabelle, Florida.
Carrabelle, Florida Home of the… World’s Smallest Police Station In 1947, Albin Westberg became Police Chief and the only day policeman in Carrabelle. He and his night officers had to protect the citizens, answer calls, . . .

(Communications • Law Enforcement) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple of the Immaculate Conception

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, Mexico.
Templo de la Purísima Concepción (Templo de las Monjas) Es parte del proyecto constructive iniciado a mediados del siglo XVIII, a iniciativa de Sor María Josefa Lina de la Canal y Hervás (1736-1770), quien invirtió el caudal . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante” Cultural Center

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, Mexico.
Centro Cultural Ignacio Ramírez “El Nigromante” Don Manuel de la Canal, cinco años antes de su muerte hizo su testamento el 8 de Octubre de 1744, dejándole a su hija mayor la cantidad de 70,000 pesos de herencia; como aún . . .

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

Tribute on the 100th Anniversary of Mexican Independence

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, Mexico.
Las colonias alemana, belga, francesa, inglesa, italiana, y suiza en el primer centenario de la Independencia de Mexico. 16 de septiembre de 1910. English translation: The German, Belgian, French, English, Italian and Swiss . . .

(Colonial Era • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hull House

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Lancaster, New York.
Hull House Federal Style stone house built ca. 1810 by Warren Hull Revolutionary War veteran and Holland land purchase settler.

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to the Steam Locomotive

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, Mexico.
El Ejecutivo Local de la Seccion Num. 24. Periodo Sindical 1965-1968. con la colaboración de los Sres. Dr. Manuel Hernandez Muro. Presidente Municipal Ing. Eufrasio Sandoval Rodriguez, Gerente General de los FF.CC. N. de M. . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Railroads & Streetcars • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Samuel Helm

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Buffalo, New York.
Samuel Helm A German-American settled near here in 1809 Killed during British raid in War of 1812. Namesake of Steuben Society Unit 144

(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Viceregal Art Museum

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, Mexico.
Museo de Arte Virreinal Ocupa parte del convento de los Carmelitas construido entre 1768 y 1771. En esta parte se encontraba la portería del convento. En el interior se encuentra el Claustro de las Procesiones. Confiscado . . .

(Churches & Religion • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Elma Centre

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Elma, New York.
Elma Centre prospered around R.R. depot est. near here ca. 1870. Coal & lumber dealers, blacksmith, saloon, Post Office & school built nearby.

(Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

East Elma

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Elma, New York.
East Elma ca. 1865. Had woolen mill, sawmill, blacksmith, grocery, Post Office & swimming hole. Later called Frog Pond. Originally home of Senecas.

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

The Luraville Locomotive

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Tallahassee, Florida.
(left panel) The Luraville Locomotive is a rare example of the early American wood-burning “Iron Horses,” which helped carve the United States out of the wilderness in the pre-Civil War era. The Eight-wheeled, 10-ton engine . . .

(Horticulture & Forestry • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

W. Aurora Church

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Aurora, New York.
W. Aurora Church est. 1810. Building dedicated in 1832. Abolitionist and former slave Sojourner Truth spoke here Oct. 1, 1868.

(Abolition & Underground RR • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Apalachee Village

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Blakeley, Alabama.
Just a half century prior to the founding of the town of Blakeley, an Apalachee Indian village stood on this spot. The village was founded in the early 1700s by Apalachee refugees fleeing warfare in Florida for the relative . . .

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, French and Indian • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Buffalo Municipal Baseball Association

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Buffalo, New York.
In honor of the members of The Buffalo Municipal Baseball Association Inc. who served their country in the World War for democracy 1917 - 1919

(Sports • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Sandy Spring Ash Tree

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Sandy Spring, Maryland.
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(Agriculture • Colonial Era • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henry Wolanski

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Buffalo, New York.
Former site Henry Wolanski American Legion Post No. 707 Killed in action a age 19 U.S. Army - World War I Interred at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial France

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Canisius College

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Buffalo, New York.
Canisius College Founded in 1870 by the Jesuits at 434 Ellicott Street. Moved to this site in 1912. Largest private institution of higher education on the Niagara Frontier.

(Education) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Union Artillery Batteries

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Blakeley, Alabama.
Though outnumbering Confederate troops at Blakeley better than four to one, the Union Army had decidedly less artillery than the fort's defenders: By the time of the final assault on the fort on April 9, 1865, about 20 guns . . .

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