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Pomeroy Homes

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Copake Falls, New York.
Near this site 3 homes built ca. 1850 by Lemuel Pomeroy family. Founders of Copake Iron Works. Remaining home acquired by park in 1928.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

William H. Harrison

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
William H. Harrison Conqueror of the Indian Confederacy War 1812-1815

(Native Americans • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Merchants National Bank Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
This property has been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Squire Mott Grist Mill

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East Patchogue, New York.
Near this site in 1814, Charles "Squire” Mott constructed a dam at Swan River and put a grist mill on it and, adjacent to it, a home. Mills like Squire Mott's, and later factories on Patchogue's three streams, established . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ligonee

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Sag Harbor, New York.
Ligonee Brook/Creek and the Greenbelt's rare coastal plain ponds are partners in the drainage system left by the glaciers. Historically, alewives and eels have migrated up Ligonee to Long Pond. In 1803, the Sag Harbor Fire . . .

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

The House of Brig. Gen. George P. Scriven

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Dupont Circle, District of Columbia.
Pioneered the introduction of aviation to the United States Military, 1913-1917 First Chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915, predecessor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration . . .

(Air & Space • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Harkness Church

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Peru, New York.
Dr. Georgia Harkness 1891-1974. Author, scholar, activist & clergy member. First female professor of theology at a U.S. seminary.

(Churches & Religion • Education • Women) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Indiana's Main Street

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
You are standing on Washington Street—the route of the Historic National Road in Indiana. In the early 19th century, this broad street had no sidewalks and was lined with log buildings and frame taverns that crowded near the . . .

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

Eli Lilly and Company

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
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(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Here in 1867

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
Here in 1867 Dr. John Stough Bobbs performed the first successful removal of gall stones in a man

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

Deschler Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
Deschler Building 1907 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Elmo Steak House

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indianapolis Historic Landmark St. Elmo Steak House has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

123 South Illinois Street

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
This property has been Placed 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.

J. F. Darmody Company Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
The J. F. Darmody Company was a candy maker and wholesaler in the Wholesale District. The building stood at 25-27 West Maryland Street on the southwest corner of Maryland and Bird Streets from 1905 to 1990. Originally only . . .

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

The First Methodist Church in Indianapolis Was Built on this Site

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
The first Methodist Church in Indianapolis was built on this site In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Methodism in this city, this tablet was placed by the bearers of that heritage: the Meridian . . .

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

Hotel Severin

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Hotel Severin (1912-13), designed by Vonnegut & Bohn, was one of Indianapolis' premier hotels in the early twentieth century. Among the hotel's investors was Carl S. Fisher, founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

D. P. Erwin & Company Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
D. P. Erwin & Company, established in 1884, was one of the largest wholesale dry goods companies in Indianapolis during the 1890s. This building was built as an addition to the D. P. Erwin & Company Building (1889-90) at . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McKee Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
This building (1888-89) was designed by Robert Platt Daggett & Company, architects for the McKee Shoe Company, wholesale boot and shoe dealers. The Havens & Geddes Company, a large dry good wholesaler expanded into the . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Meridian Street

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
This photograph takes you back in time to the height of the Wholesale District of Indianapolis in 1907, when Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument — a memorial to Hoosiers . . .

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Schnull-Rothschild Building

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Indianapolis, Indiana.
This building at 122 South Meridian Street is one of many constructed for Henry Schnull. This German-born business and civic leader founded and developed the Wholesale District in the 1860s as a center for wholesaling and . . .

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