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Dedicated to our Boys and Girls

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Buffalo, New York.
Dedicated to our boys and girls who served in the armed forces of World War II

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Town of Blakeley

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Blakeley, Alabama.
Blakeley was once one of the largest cities in Alabama. Envisioned by its founders as a rival to Mobile as a regional trading center, the town thrived briefly before a combination of factors brought about its decline. Today . . .

(Disasters • Government • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marley Church Cemetery

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Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Marley Methodist Protestant Church Cemetery Marley Church was built in 1873. Relocated in 1945 as the Solley Methodist Church.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Exchange Bank Building

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Tallahassee, Florida.
In recognition of its historic significance is listed in The National Register of Historic Places The Building, when constructed in 1927, was at the forefront of the business community with such prominent tenants as LeRoy . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Redoubt Six

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Blakeley, Alabama.
Artillery and musketry swept them in the face, and sand-bombs burst from under their feet. At last the ditch was reached...the garrison's infantry poured a galling fire from the loop-holes, and the heavy siege guns rained . . .

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

Leon County

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Tallahassee, Florida.
Originally part of Escambia and later Gadsden Counties, Leon was created by the territorial legislature in 1824. Named for Juan Ponce de Leon, discoverer of Florida, it became antebellum Florida's most prosperous and . . .

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

Emma Knox Kenan Library

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Geneva, Alabama.
Mrs. Emma Knox Kenan established the library at the request of school superintendent W.W. Benson in a small cloak room of the Geneva School. The library was financed by subscriptions, book rentals and fund raisers. The . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Education • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

University Presbyterian Church

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Buffalo, New York.
University Presbyterian Church has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 by the United States Department of the Interior

(Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

All Veterans / Middle East Wars Monument

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Buffalo, New York.
[facing west] In Memory of All American Veterans This memorial honors all American veterans who, although separated by generations, shared a common, undeniable goal - - to valiantly protect our country's freedoms. The . . .

(War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kaisertown's Fallen Heroes

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Buffalo, New York.
Kaisertown's Fallen Heroes James A. Grzegorek, Paul M. Evans Robert W. May, Robert J. Polniak Viet-Nam Remember to honor all who served our country 1959-1975

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

Korea

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Buffalo, New York.
Korea 38th parallel Freedom is not Free We honor all those who served their country 1950-1953

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

To Honor the Men and Women

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Buffalo, New York.
To honor the men & women of this com- munity who served our country in the second world war 1941 1945

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

The Church of the Transfiguration 1801

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New York, New York.
The early 1800s was a tumultuous time below Canal Street in the downtown area of Manhattan. The Great Fire of 1835 destroyed entire neighborhoods and at least two cholera outbreaks occurred. Upwardly mobile protestants were . . .

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

To Those Who Served

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Hadley, New York.
To those who served our Country in time of war. They gave their today for our tomorrow.

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

In Memory

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Corinth, New York.
"In memory of those who have fallen so that we may be free"

(Military) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cohoes Tribute

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Cohoes, New York.
This monument is dedicated to the Men of Cohoes who on land or on sea risked their lives that this Nation might endure

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Paper Mills

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Alcove, New York.
1818 Ephraim Andrews acquires cloth dressing and wool carding mills. By 1850 John E. Andrews establishes a straw paper making mill

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Collect Pond Before The City

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New York, New York.
If you were standing here in the early 1600s, you would have seen a sparkling expanse of water spreading out over five acres. There was a pond here sixty feet deep, fed by a subterranean springs and ringed by wooded hills, . . .

(Colonial Era • Native Americans • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Staten Island Ferry

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New York, New York.
We were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable— But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top . . .

(Waterways & Vessels • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

27 Cooper Square

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New York, New York.
In the 1960’s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents. Writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones, their Yugen magazine and Toten Press, musician . . .

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