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Cherokee County's Paul Revere

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near Spring Garden, Alabama.
On the night of May 2, 1863, John H. Wisdom passed through Spring Garden on his way to warn Rome, Ga. about approaching U.S. Troops. Wisdom, originally from Rome, Ga., lived near Gadsden which was part of Cherokee Co. at . . .

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

La Gran Francia

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, Nicaragua.
La Gran Francia La primera construcción de lo sería “La Gran Francia” se remonta a los primeros años de la existencia de la ciudad de Granada, hacia el año de 1524. Esta edificación, mucho más modesta que la existente, era . . .

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

Ark Cemetery

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Surfside Beach, South Carolina.
(side 1) This marker stands adjacent to the burial ground of the former Ark Plantation, which dates back to the 1700s. Although the names of most of those buried here are now unknown, records indicate that it was primarily a . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Betty Smith

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Woodhaven, New York.
Betty Smith 1943 Betty lived here while she wrote "A Tree Grows In Bklyn” The movie won an Academy Award in 1945. The house has been restored By R. Leonardi

(Arts, Letters, Music • Women) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wesley Methodist Church

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Beaufort, South Carolina.
(side 1) This church, established in 1833, was the first Methodist church in Beaufort and was founded as a mission to slaves and free blacks here and on the neighboring Sea Islands. The congregation had both black and white . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First House Number

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Woodhaven, New York.
First house number, in Queens, on house opposite here, under numerical street & house number system started 1913 by Topographical Bureau C.U. Powell, Engineer in Charge

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

Guy Lombardo's House

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Freeport, New York.
710 S. Grove St. Band leader founded The Royal Canadians, popularized "Auld Lang Syne” on New Year's Eve. Produced musicals at Jones Beach Theater.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Epworth Freedom Rock Veterans Memorial

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Epworth, Iowa.
Dubuque County Freedom Rock In Honor of the men and women who served our country in the Armed forces.

(War, US Civil • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Freeport Post Office

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Freeport, New York.
Post Office 1933 Colonial Revival Style Treasury Art Project murals by William Gropper-1938 Listed on National Register

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

Dr. William J. McKnight

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Brookville, Pennsylvania.
A physician turned senator, he coauthored an act in 1883 that established a board to oversee the distribution of unclaimed bodies to medical schools for anatomical study. In effect, it made grave robbery illegal and promoted . . .

(Education • Politics • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Canoe

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Dubuque, Iowa.
The burned and "dug-out" canoe and the bent and stitched together birch-bark canoe are surely close to the "wheel" as one of the most important inventions of man. Paddling south of the great Mississippi River from the . . .

(Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Winnebago County (Iowa)

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Forest City, Iowa.
On January 15, 1851, Gov. Stephen Hempstead approved an act of the Iowa legislation creating 50 new counties out of the unorganized territory in the Western portion of the state. One section of that act provided: "That the . . .

(Political Subdivisions • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Clemons

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Warren, Pennsylvania.
In memory of Thomas Clemons (1802-1872). Early Warren printer, newspaper owner and editor, merchant, lumberman, county treasurer, and thrice prothonotary - an able and respected pioneer citizen. His house stood on this . . .

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

Washington Court House

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Washington Courthouse, Ohio.
Settled by VA veterans of the American Revolution

(Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Somerset

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Somerset, Ohio.
Home of Civil War General Phil Sheridan

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Calvin Coolidge

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Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
Calvin Coolidge thirteenth President of The United States stood here November 12, 1928

(Politics) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

David Linton

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Wilmington, Ohio.
A.B. Miami U. LL. B. Cincinnati Law School Founder- Beta Theta Pi Member of the Society of Friends Prosecuting Attorney of Clinton County Member of Ohio Senate Director of B&O RR Kansas Pioneer Judge Circuit Court-Linn Co. . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"The LIGHTS Club"

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Freeport, New York.
Actors' & Vaudevillians club, 1916-1939. Members included Al Jolson, Will Rogers, Victor Moore, Florenz Ziegfeld, and John Philip Sousa.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Parrot Rifle

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Freeport, New York.
From USS Hartford - flagship of Admiral David Farragut during Battle of Mobile Bay August 1864 Presented to Freeport July 4, 1902

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

Bethel A.M.E. Church

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Amityville, New York.
Historic Church Bethel A.M.E. Church Founded in Amityville 1815 This building dedicated 1967

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