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El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

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, Mexico.
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro ha sido inscrito en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial en virtud de la Convención para la Protección del Patrimonio Mundial Cultural y Natural. La inscripción en . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Utility Building

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Deadwood, South Dakota.
Utility Building built by U.S. Forest Service and Works Progress Administration WPA Project Number 3617 Nineteen Thirty Nine

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

Goliad County Courthouse

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Goliad, Texas.
Built 1894. Cost $67,888.95. Limestone and brick from old courthouse were used in this, the fourth one built since county's creation in 1836. Used as hospital after 1902 cyclone. A 1942 storm tore off central clock tower. . . .

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

John Wilkins Whitfield

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Battle of Pea Ridge, commanded "Whitfield's Legion" at Iuka, Brigade commander Vicksburg Campaign, Texas legislator

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Joseph Kent

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Came to Texas about 1832 Fought in the Texas War for Independence at Bexar, 1835 and at San Jacinto, 1836 Died in Lavaca County, 1849

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

Captain Leiper Willoughby

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Came to Texas in 1831. Member Captain William H. Patton's Company at the Battle of San Jacinto. Served in the Vasquez Campaign and against the Indians in 1842. Died in 1874.

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

Paul Scarborough

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Came to Texas in 1835 Served in the Texas Army from October 3 to December 14, 1835 Member Company D, First Regiment Texas Volunteers at San Jacinto, 1836

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

Stephen Tucker Foley

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Came to Texas in 1834 Served in the Army of Texas, 1836 A member of Captain William Heard's Company of Citizen Soldiers at the Battle of San Jacinto

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

Arthur Pendleton Bagby

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Native Alabamian, last surviving member of West Point class of 1852, lawyer, Colonel in 7th Texas Confederate Cavalry, participant in Sibley's New Mexico campaign, commanded volunteer land troops on board Confederate ship . . .

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

Replica of Texas Independence Flagpole

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Goliad, Texas.
Displays a replica of banner unfurled Dec. 20, 1835, at signing of Declaration of Independence of Texas from tyranny of Santa Anna's regime in Mexico. That declaration, drafted by staunch early patriots Philip Dimitt and Ira . . .

(War, Texas Independence) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Methodist Church of Hallettsville

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Hallettsville, Texas.
Methodist circuit riders under the stewardship of John W. DeVilbiss and Henderson D. Palmer served this area as early as 1842. This congregation traces its origin to a Methodist society established by eleven charter members . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hernando County Confederate Monument

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Brooksville, Florida.
(southwest side) C.S.A 1861-1865 Erected by Brooksville Chapter No. 71 United Daughters of the Confederacy June 3, 1916. ”Love Makes Memory Eternal.” Confederate Soldiers (northeast side) This monument perpetuates the . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hernando County War Memorial

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Brooksville, Florida.
In loving memory of those who gave their lives in the service of their country World War I World War II Korea Vietnam Erected by American Legion in cooperation with the Hernando County Action ‘76 Committee and the Florida . . .

(War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Brick Building on Square

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Beeville, Texas.
Victorian architecture. Built 1892 by grocer J.C. Thompson (1836-1905) of brick from Calavaros Kiln near Elmendorf. Upstairs in 1892 was law office of Lon C. Hill, who later founded Harlingen. Afterward on second floor was . . .

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

Praeger Building

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Beeville, Texas.
San Antonio businessman Albert Praeger (1864-1930) moved to Beeville in the 1890s to open a hardware store and tin shop. He built this Romanesque Revival structure in 1906 to house his business, which included buggies and . . .

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

First Capital of the Itinerant Government

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, Mexico.
República Mexicana San Luis Potosí Primera Capital de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos en el Gobierno Itinerante durante el proceso de restuaración de la República 1863-1867 LX Legislatura 2012-2015 English translation: The . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Barnard E. Bee, Sr.

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Beeville, Texas.
Statesman, soldier and ambassador, Barnard Elliot Bee, Sr., was a significant figure during Texas’ years as a republic (1836-45). He was born in South Carolina to federal judge, Thomas Bee, and Susannah (Bulline) Bee. In . . .

(Politics • War, Texas Independence) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Scrolls Cave

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, Palestinian Territories.
Bedouins discovered this cave in August of 1952. Fourteen thousand fragments of scrolls were unearthed as they sifted through the dust within. Archaeologists who reached the cave later, uncovered an additional 1,000 . . .

(Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old and New: Presidio Fire Station

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San Francisco, California.
New additions should be designed and constructed so that the character-defining feautures of the historic building are not radically changed, obscured, damaged, or destroyed in the process of rehabilitaion. New design should . . .

(Architecture • Forts, Castles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First County Courthouse / Removal of County Seat

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Piketon, Ohio.
First County Courthouse. Named for General Zebulon Pike, killed in the War of 1812, Pike County was organized in February 1815. Commissioners were charged with establishing a county seat and on May 12, 1815 accepted a . . .

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