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Joseph Gans

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Maryland, Baltimore
Joseph, Nov. 25, 1874-Aug. 10, 1910. World’s Lightweight Champion 1902-1904 1906-1908-Inducted into IBHOF 1990

(Bronze plaque at bottom of the marker) Grave site restored 2005-Veteran Boxers Association, Inc. International Ring 101-Baltimore, Maryland

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

Gwynns Falls Trail

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Maryland, Baltimore
The Gwynns Falls Trail at Middle Branch Park is a splendid place to do some birdwatching, learn to row, try your luck fishing, and relax while enjoying views of the city’s skyline and harbor activities. To the north, under I-95, the Gwynns Falls for which the trail is named flows into the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River and eventually to the Chesapeake Bay. The Middle Branch is a stopover for birds migrating on the Atlantic Flyway, so spend some time on the wildlife observatory boardwalks located west along the trail.

Study the Map-Before you start or resume your journey, study the kiosk map and determine your destination along the 15-mile Gwynns Falls Trail. From this point take the trail east past Harbor Hospital one mile to the trail’s current southern terminus at Middle Branch Park at Hanover Street (Trailhead 9).

To the west and north, follow the trail 6.2 miles to the hustle and bustle of the Inner Harbor, or, at Ostend Street, head west to Carroll Park, one of Baltimore’s large landscaped parks. From here to Carroll Park Golf Course (Trailhead 6) is 4.3 miles. Look for similar kiosks at major access points along the trail.

(Inscription beside the photo on the upper right of the marker)
Since the Baltimore Rowing and Water Resource Center opened here in the 1980s, local universities and residents have revived a tradition of rowing competitions on the Middle Branch.

(Inscription above the photo on the lower left of the marker)
Young people canoe on the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River associated with the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

(Inscription above the photo on the lower right of the marker)
Old postcard of the Fair View boat on the Patapsco River.

(Charity & Public Work • Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

We Will Accomplish Wonders

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
In pursuit of women’s rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton developed a network that included some of the most famous reformers in American history. Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Coffin Mott and her sister Martha Coffin Wright, William Lloyd Garrison, and — most prominently — Susan B. Anthony, all visited here. In 1857, Stanton beckoned Anthony to Seneca Falls: “We will accomplish wonders," she promised.

Anthony challenged and inspired Stanton to new efforts and new methods — to "do or dare anything." Stanton gave speeches, wrote for local and national newspapers, adopted the "Bloomer Costume," and planned conventions and suffrage drives. In 1860, Stanton achieved a major victory when New York State passed a new law significantly enhancing women’s rights. Still, much remained to be done, and Stanton and Anthony pursued the cause relentlessly.

... Henry brought me every item he could see about you. " Well," ' he would say another notice about Susan. You stir up Susan, and she stirs the world." You must come here for a week or two and we will accomplish wonders.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, August 20, 1857

Oh Mrs. Stanton how my soul longs to see you in the great Battle field. When will the time come? You say in two or three years...God and the Angels keep you safe from all hindrances ... if you come not to the rescue, who shall?
Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, September 29, 1857

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
Promoter of the first Women's Rights Convention lived here. Convention was held across the river

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

Stanton's Grassmere

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
When the Stanton family moved to Seneca Falls in 1847, the house was nearly twice as large as it now is but dilapidated and overgrown. Acting as her own general contractor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton hired workers and oversaw its refurbishment. The Stantons named the house 'Grassmere' after poet William Wordsworth ’s English home — a "landscape that inspired some of his poetic dreams."

Stanton often managed this household and her family alone. Her husband, Henry, served in the New York State legislature; a lawyer and reformer, he agitated for the abolition of slavery. Stanton ’s father, Daniel Cady, gave this house to his daughter. Under the Married Women’s Property Act of 1848 — a state law that allowed women to retain property received as a gift or inheritance — Stanton owned this property in her own name. She sold it in 1862 when the Stantons moved to New York City.

The house . . . had been closed for some years and needed many repairs, and the grounds were overgrown with weeds. My father gave me a check and said, with a smile, "You believe in woman’s capacity to do and dare; now go ahead and put your place in order:"’ . . . I set the carpenters, painters, paperhangers, and gardeners at work, built a new kitchen and woodhouse, and in one month took possession.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More, 1898

(Civil Rights • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Chamberlain House

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
Womens' Rights National Historical Park acquired the Jacob R Chamberlain home in 1996 to develop services for Stanton House visitors.

Later archeological and historic structure investigations revealed that the Chamberlain home, built in 1815, is the oldest remnant of early flour-milling enterprises in Seneca Falls.

Chamberlain’s importance to early village history and his business connections to the Stanton family make the home an important part of this neighborhood, village, and the early women’s rights movement. For more information please contact:
Superintendent, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY 13148 or email WORI_Superintendent@nps.gov.

Jacob P. Chamberlain lived with his family in this home from 1844 until 1851. Farmer, miller, industrialist, and politician, Chamberlain was one of thirty-two men and sixty-eight women to sign the controversial Declaration of Sentiments at the 1848 First Women's Rights Convention.

(Civil Rights • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Village of Seneca Falls

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
may have inspired the hometown look of Frank Capra's 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life." Mr. Capra is known to have visited here in the mid-1940s at the same time the screenplay for the film was being developed. Many similarities exist between Seneca Falls and the fictional "Bedford Falls." Among these are the design of the Bridge Street bridge, the use of several place and personal names, and the village's geographical location.

(Bridges & Viaducts • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Village of Seneca Falls

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
may have inspired the hometown look of Frank Capra's 1946 holiday film classic "It's a Wonderful Life." Mr. Capra is known to have visited here in the mid-1940s at the same time the screenplay for the film was being developed. Many similarities exist between Seneca Falls and the fictional "Bedford Falls." Among these are the design of the Bridge Street bridge, the use of several place and personal names, and the village's geographical location.

(Bridges & Viaducts • Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maryland Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Maryland, Baltimore

(Panel on the left)
This Memorial honors the men and women of the State of Maryland who served in the Armed Forces of our nation in the Vietnam War, with special tribute to those who lost their lives or who remain missing in action. Their names are joined in this place in everlasting remembrance.

(Panel on the right)
Marylanders, while in this place, pause to recall our nation’s ideals, its promise, its abundance, and our continuing responsibilities toward the shared fulfillment of our aspirations. Remember, too, those whose sacrifices underlie these blessings.

(War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carnegie Library Building

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Kansas, Ford County, Dodge City


This building was constructed in 1907 with the financial assistance of Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate and nationally known philanthropist.

Architect: C.W. Squires, Emporia
Builder: William Foley, Dodge City

City Library: 1907 - 1969
Commercial Uses: 1969 - 1980
Arts Center: 1981

It was purchased and renovated through the efforts of many civic minded individuals and businesses who worked together to provide Dodge City with a Home for the Arts.

This building has been listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior.

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

First Post Road

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North Carolina, Beaufort County, Bath

The road from New England
to Charleston, over
which mail was first
carried regularly in
North Carolina, 1738-39,
passed near this spot.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Architecture of Tiberias

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Israel, Northern District, Tiberias
The Architecture of Tiberias
The columns, bases, cornices and capitals attest to the superb architecture of the public buildings in Tiberias. These were built according to the 2nd-3rd centuries CE Roman Imperial tradition. The architectural elements were made of local limestone and basalt as well as marble and grey granite imported from Asia Minor and North America.

Columns
Columns created large spaces in public building. They stood up to 4.5 m. high and consisted of a base, a drum and a capital. The drums were cut from monolithic stone, or built of sections that fit each other.

Capitals
Capitals were placed on top of each columns and supported the horizontal beams. The Doric capital was shaped as a simple, plain up-side-down cone with a square, flat top. The Ionic capital was adorned by spirals on its facade and the Corinthian capital was decorated by two rows of Acanthus leaves and a flower.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The 339th FTR Grp, 8th A.F.

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Georgia, Chatham County, Pooler

In Memory Of Our Comrades Killed In
Action And Those From The Group And
Support Units Who Have Followed
Them In The Years Since VE-Day

Commanders: Col John B Henry, Col William C Clark
First Combat Mission: 30 April 1944 - Last Combat Mission: 21 April 1945
Total Combat Missions: 264 - Enemy Aircraft Destroyed: 657
Group Pilots KIA: 61 - Group Pilots MIA/POW 40 - Group Aces: 48


The plaque below is a reproduction of the 339th memorial
standing on the site of the airfield at Fowlmere, Cambs.
England.

(Below)
The 339th FTR Grp, 8th A.F.
From April 1944 Until October 1945

flew off the grass of Manor Farm to join our Allies in victory over Hitler's forces in Europe. To the American men and women of this unit the village of Fowlmere gave the hospitality and support that made of those trying times a fond memory. Here was our Haven in that war.

This plaque is dedicated to all who
served in the 339th Fighter Group
and its supporting units and to their
tireless providing of the Mustang
sorties launched from here in the
allied cause of freedom. God
bless all who knew those times
and this place.
339 FTR. GRP. ASSN 1985
Station
F 378

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Stanton House: Shaping a Reformer

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls

The Stanton House: Shaping a Reformer
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton moved into this house in 1847, she was a socially conscious wife, mother, and housekeeper. When she and her family left in 1862, she was a leader of the nation's emerging women’s rights movement.

Here, overlooking the factories along the canal, Stanton tended to her family while struggling with the traditional role of women in American society — no vote, few property rights, and social submission to men. Here, she helped plan and articulate a then — radical vision for women in American Society: equal rights. Stanton formed alliances with women like Mary Ann M’Clintock of nearby Waterloo and Susan B. Anthony of Rochester. With them and others she gave energy, focus, emotion, and substance to a movement that would shape modern America.

How much I do long to be free from housekeeping and children, so as to have some time to read, and think, and write. But it may be well for me to understand all the trials of woman's lot, that I may more eloquently proclaim them...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Susan B. Anthony, April 2, 1852

Women's Rights National Historical Park
Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social reform movement - women's rights.

Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started a movement that would transform American Society.

In 1848, those five women summoned reformers from across the northeast to the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. For two days as many as 300 women and men considered the role of women in a democratic society. They emerged with the Declaration of Sentiments - a document that shaped a reform movement for decades to come. Indeed it continues today.

Women's Rights National Historical Park includes the Wesleyan Chapel and the homes of some of the movement's organizers - places where radical thought turned into enduring improvement for millions across the world.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

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

Plank Road

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North Carolina, Pitt County, Greenville

The eastern terminus
of the Greenville and
Raleigh Plank Road,
chartered in 1850 and
completed to Wilson by
1853, was nearby.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Domestic Building

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Israel, Northern District, Tiberias
This building was part of Tiberias' northern quarter between the 6th and 11th centuries CE. The quarter occupied by Jews and the synagogue stood in its center. This building has three rooms and a courtyard with a well.

(Anthropology • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Flats

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
It's 1890. This is "the flats,” the industrial center of Seneca Falls. The noise is deafening, as hundreds of highly-skilled workers build pumps and fire engines in factories jammed onto every inch of the islands below you. Hammer blows ring out, files rasp, machinery clatters rhythmically, and workers shout over the din. Black smoke and soot belch at you from factory smokestacks all along the river, steam engines roar, water arcs out over the canal as pumps are tested, and lock gates slam shut as a heavily-loaded freight boat passes through lock #5.

In the neighborhood behind these factories in modest homes on tree-lined streets, bread bakes and the next meal simmers on hot cast-iron wood stoves, laboriously hand-washed laundry flutters on clotheslines, and dirt tracked in from muddy unpaved roads is scrubbed away.

Until 1914, the flats were home both to industry and to many of the Irish and Italian immigrants whose labor helped build Seneca Falls.

That year, construction of the New York State Barge Canal required the demolition or relocation of 116 industrial buildings and 60 homes. The flats were then flooded to create the canal and Van Cleef Lake. Despite its size and complexity, the New York State Barge Canal failed to recapture much of the state's shipping trade. Shippers preferred railroads and the developing trucking industry. But the canal did provide electricity through its water-powered generators and soon attracted recreational boaters. Today the canal is maintained by New York State as a precious historical and natural resource still used by thousands of pleasure boats each season.

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

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New York, Seneca County, Seneca Falls
Since its construction in 1843, the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel has accommodated a remarkable variety of uses. Built to house the religious services of the abolitionist Wesleyan Methodists, the Chapel was routinely opened for meetings of anti-slavery, temperance, and other reform groups. The most significant of these meetings was the first women’s rights convention, held July 19 and 20, 1848, an event which began the women’s rights movements that continue today.

When the Wesleyans moved to a new church in 1872, no one thought to preserve the site of this historic convention. Subsequent owners raised the roof, built multiple additions to the front and rear, and remodeled the interior many times. Over the years, the Chapel housed stores, a public hall, an opera house, a movie theater, and several car dealerships. In 1961, it became home to the Seneca Falls Laundromat.

When the National Park Service acquired it in 1985, all that remained of the original Chapel were portions of the two side walls and roof. Research produced only scattered evidence of the Chapel's original appearance, making an accurate historic restoration impossible. ."

In 1987, the Park Service held a national competition to select a design for the site that both preserved the remains of the Chapel and appropriately recognized its historic and symbolic importance. The winning entry removed all post-1848 additions, lowered the roof to its original height, and redesigned the grounds of the Chapel to highlight the Declaration of Sentiments approved at the convention. The Chapel and grounds were dedicated in 1993, reflecting the community's and the nation'a commitment to preserving our vital historic heritage. The National Park Service continues to strive to find the best ways to preserve the site, to assist visitors in interpreting it, end to help the public understand the significance of the 1848 Convention held here.

(Churches, Etc. • Civil Rights • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baptist State Convention

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North Carolina, Pitt County, Greenville

On March 26, 1830, the
North Carolina Baptist
State Convention was
organized at the Gorham
home which was near here.

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

From 'Cattle Capital' to modern city

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Kansas, Ford County, Dodge City


In the mid 1880s, economic factors contributed to a change in Dodge City's character. The cowtown era ended with the last Texas cattle drives in 1885. Two severe blizzards in that period destroyed the local range cattle industry. At the same time, a series of fires burned the downtown business district and the U.S. Army closed Fort Dodge. Dodge City's major sources of revenue were gone. The wild and woolly frontier town quickly replaced burned-out businesses with fire-proof brick buildings and began the task of recovering and maturing into a respectable, prospering city.

With the loss of the cattle trade, emphasis turned to other types of agriculture. Immigration, new crops, and farm machinery played a big part in the rapid development of the area. As the new Dodge City blossomed, a progressive attitude was revealed that still serves the community today. This is well illustrated by the growth of utilities and services.

Electricity
A privately-owned company produced the first electricity in the city in 1886. The next year some downtown streets were lighted and merchants advertised the advantages of shopping in electrically-lighted stores. By 1904 power lines covered the community.

On last Saturday evening the long talked of electric light for Dodge City was turned on for the first time...which was gladly hailed by our people. This is a grand thing for Dodge City, or any other city that wants to put forth a spirit of progress.
- Globe Live Stock Journal, August 1886

Streets
The city remedied the problem of rutted and muddy streets by levying funds to develop and grade streets in 1886. Paving with bricks began in 1913. A six-inch concrete base was poured and overlaid with a thin cushion of sand on which the bricks were set. Still in use, Dodge City's historic brick streets are protected by city ordinance.

Water
Originally, water was hauled from the Arkansas River and sold for five cents a bucket throughout the town. Soon wells were dug at major street intersections to provide water for horses and for home use. A private water company began service in 1887, and the city took over the operation in 1910. The city began laying sewer lines in 1887. Today the city owns and maintains the water service.

Telephone service
In 1880 several merchants built telephone lines between their homes and places of business. Service was extended to the entire town by 1904. Southwestern Bell Telephone purchased the company in 1920.

Fire department
To fight fires in the 1870s, eleven members of the fire company - using a breast harness and ropes - pulled a two-wheeled cart supporting a large reel of hose.

The hose was attached to hand-operated pumps that lifted water from shallow wells located along the street. Hose company teams competed with each other for speed. A Dodge City team won a tournament at Denver in 1887 and set a new world's record. By 1914 the city had purchased its first motorized fire truck. The city authorized paying volunteer firemen for each call beginning in 1921 and then formed a full-time fire company in 1936.

When you are going to a fire never pass a cart which is being drawn by five or six men, whose tongues are protruding from fatigue and who are straining every nerve in their efforts to save the property of your friend or neighbor. Always lend them a helping hand, remembering that your own home may be the next to demand their hasty attention.
- Ford County Republican, September 1888

Library
The first public library was located in the office of the County Superintendent of Instruction and was open only on Saturdays. By 1907 the community was able to build a new library building on the corner of Second and Spruce streets using funds from the Carnegie Foundation. Today the public library is located at 1001 North Second Avenue.

Schools
In 1873 a small frame building near downtown became the first schoolhouse. Thirty pupils attended. As the town grew, so did the school population. Small country school districts consolidated until today much of Ford County is contained within the Dodge City Unified School District. In 2001 nearly 1,500 students moved into a new 35-million-dollar high school building.

Agriculture
Dodge City was founded on buffalo products - hides, meat, and bones. The endless slaughter eventually wiped out the immense herds and the town lost its main source of income. Texas longhorns solved the problem as they were herded into town by the millions. But the tick-fever they brought eventually prompted the Kansas Legislature to close the state to southern longhorns. One era ended and a new one began, based on quiet growth and farming.

As grazing land was lost to crop farming, ranchers learned that they could raise cattle more efficiently by confining them in large pens and feeding them an enriched diet. This led to the development of livestock "feedyards" in western Kansas. Water for irrigation to produce crops and operate packing plants was readily available, so the industry grew rapidly. Today there are at least one million head of cattle in feedlots within a 100-mile radius of the city. Dodge City began as a buffalo and cattle capital, and over a century later it is again a leading cattle center.

The spirit and progressive outlook of the pioneers who founded Dodge City have served this city well. The town has survived floods, tornadoes, blizzards, the Dust Bowl, financial depressions, and still continues to thrive and grow. It serves as a monument to those who risked all to establish this community.

Photographs and other images courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Boot Hill Museum, and the Kansas Heritage Center

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