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Epiphany Roman Catholic Church

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
Historic Landmark
Epiphany Roman Catholic Church
1904
Edward Stotz, Architect
John T. Comes, Interior Designer

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

The First Holy Mass at Fort Duquesne

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
This tablet commemorates the First Holy Mass at Fort Duquesne, celebrated April 16th, 1754, by the Reverend Denys Baron, chaplain to the French forces in occupancy.

(Churches, Etc. • Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

County Office Building

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
Historic Landmark
County Office Building
Stanley L. Roush, architect
1929-31

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

Quaker Baptist Church

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Virginia, Bedford County, Bedford
A Quaker Meeting was established on Goose Creek in 1757, and a meeting house built. Fear of Indians caused most of the Quakers to move elsewhere though some of them returned. Unsuccessful attempts were made to re-establish the Goose Creek Meeting. Before 1824 a church was established here, known as Difficult Creek Baptist Church. The present church (Quaker Baptist), built in 1898, stands near the site of the old building.

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

Booker T. Washington Birthplace

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Virginia, Franklin County, near Hardy
Booker T. Washington was born a slave on the nearby Burroughs plantation on April 5, 1856. He was graduated from Hampton Institute in 1875 where he became an instructor. Because of his achievements as an educator, he was selected to establish a normal school for blacks in Alabama which later became the Tuskegee Institute. Recognized as an orator and author of Up From Slavery, he exerted great influence both in the Republican party and as a humanitarian for the benefit of his fellow blacks. He died November 14, 1915.

(African Americans • Education • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Family Court Facility

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
Historic Landmark
Family Court Facility, Court of Common Pleas
Originally Allegheny County Jail
Henry Hobson Richardson, architect
1884-86

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

Graceland Cemetery

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Kansas, Meade County, near Meade


Formerly known as "Brown's Burying Ground" was purchased from George W. "Hoodoo" and Sarah E. Brown, March 23, 1887, for the sum of $,2000.00. The Browns asked that the name be changed to "Graceland" in memory of a small daughter who had recently died. A corporation was formed, and in 1935 a cemetery district was incorporated.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

DeMille Family

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North Carolina, Beaufort County, Washington

Home of motion picture
producer Cecil B. DeMille
& his father, playwright
Henry C. DeMille, stood
five blocks west.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

14th Ohio Infantry

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Georgia, Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe
[Inscription on stone monument]:

14th Ohio Infantry
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 14th Army Corps.

[Text on bronze plaque]:

This regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. Kingsbury commanding, engaged the enemy early September 19th, 1863, on the right of the brigade Jay's Saw-mill and continued in action until the brigade was relieved about 11:30 A.M. Its loss during the day was 29 killed, 137 wounded, and 31 missing. September 20th, it occupied this position until 12:00 M, when it was broken by the enemy penetrating our lines to the right.It was not reformed again as a regiment: but detachments rallied and fought on Snodgrass Ridge till night. Total loss in the engagement, killed 35; wounded 167; captured or missing 43.

[Written in faint letters across the top of the plaque]:

Rock of Chickamauga
[Halo text at top of plaque, around the head of officer]:

Major General George H. Thomas Commanding the 14th Army Corps.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

31st Ohio Infantry

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Georgia, Catoosa County, Fort Oglethorpe
[Inscription on the front of stone monument]:

31st
Ohio Infantry,
1st Brigade,
3rd Division,
14th Army Corps.

[Text on bronze plaque on backside of monument]:

31st Regiment
Ohio
Infantry

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Sept. 19th, 1863, about 10:00 A.M. this Regiment, Lt. Col. Frederick W. Lister commanding, was sent to re-enforce Croxton's Brigade, then engaged near Jay's Mill, and went into action on the left of that brigade. It afterward about 11:00 A.M. took part in the recapture of the 4th Indiana battery, and continued in action till about 2:00 P.M.

Sept. 20th, occupied this position till about 12:00 M.,when the enemy penetrated our lines to the right of this position, and the regiment was broken and forced to retire. Detachments of the Regiment under Captains J.A. Cahill and J.H. McCune, and Lieutenants Eli Wilkins, A.S. Scott and J.J. Miller, were rallied and fought on Snodgrass Hill until the close of the battle.

Loss, Killed 13; Wounded 134; Captured or Missing 22.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Croxton's Brigade.

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Georgia, Catoosa County, near Fort Oglethorpe
[Text on the first Tablet]:

Croxton's Brigade
Brannan's Division - Thomas' Corps.
Col. John T. Croxton.
Sept. 20, 1863. 11 A.M.
10th Indiana - Lieut. Col. Marsh B. Taylor.
74th Indiana - Col. Chas. W. Chapman.
74th Indiana - Lieut. Col. Myron Baker.
4th Kentucky - Maj. Robert M. Kelley.
14th Ohio - Lieut. Col. Henry D. Kingsbury.
10th Kentucky - Col. Wm. H. Hays.
1st Ohio Light Battery C - Lieut. Marco B. Gary.

This brigade moved before daylight of the 20th of Sept. from its bivouac near the Dyer house to this line where it formed with Connell's brigade on its right. Croxton's brigade and Reynolds' division were attacked about 11 A.M. by Stewart's division, which after severe fighting withdrew to its first position.

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[Text on the second Tablet]:

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Before noon Croxton was driven from his position by Hood's division of Longstreet's Corps, supported by McLaw's division which had advanced into the gap in the Union line on the right of the division and attacked it in flank. Two regiments of the brigade, the 10th and 74th Indiana, after facing to the rear, vigorously attacked the enemy which had turned the right and subsequently withdrew to the left and joined Reynolds' division east of the Kelly field. Parts of the rest of the brigade fell back and took position on Snodgrass Hill. Strength in action Sept. 19th, 2,401 officers and men. Total casualties for the battle: killed 131; wounded 729; captured or missing 79; Total 938. Percentage of loss, 39.07.

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

Jones-Haywood School of Ballet

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District of Columbia, Washington
1200 Delafield Place, N.W. The Jones Haywood School of Ballet was founded here by Doris W. Jones and Claire H. Haywood in 1941. Their Capitol Ballet Company, established in 1961, remained the nation's only predominantly African American, professional ballet troupe through the 1960s. Students have included Chita Rivera, who created the role of Anita in West Side Story on Broadway; Louis Johnson, choreographer for Purlie and the movie version of The Wiz; and Sandra Fortune-Green, who in 1973 became the first black woman to participate in the International Ballet Competition. Fortune-Green, the former ballerina of the Capitol Ballet Company, went on to direct the Jones-Haywood School of Dance.

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Education • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nininger Historic Site

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Minnesota, Dakota County, near Hastings
On this historic site, the SW corner of Block 67 of the Nininger City plat, was located a building that served the citizens for a century and a half. Construction began in March, 1858, when the Nininger Chapter of the Independent Order of Good Templars, founded in New York to promote total abstinence of intoxicating liquors, established a two story Good Templars' Hall here. However, membership faltered and the first floor became a school in 1859.

Decay destroyed the first floor of the 20' by 36' building and, by circa 1880, the first level was removed to create a one story classic Greek Revival school building, District 24. Grades 1 through 8 were taught here until 1948. School year 1948-49 included Grades 1 through 6 when consolidation with the Hastings school district closed District 24.

The school building became the Nininger Town Hall in 1951 and, during 1977-78, it underwent major restoration thanks to donations of funds and nearly 600 labor hours from Township residents. The treasured significance of this hall was recognized in January, 1980, by listing it on the National Register of Historic Places.

In March, 2005, the citizens voted to replace the Town Hall with a new facility in compliance with Federal public access and safety standards. The Historic Town Hall was sold for $1 to Little Log House Pioneer Village, south of Hastings, to be preserved for future generations. It was moved to the Village site June 7, 2005. Completion of the New Town Hall was celebrated with an open house on October 16, 2005.

Erected by the Citizens of Nininger-July 2006
Town Board: Stephen Bloomstrand-Karen Bremer-Robert Rotty
Historian: Harrison Benjamin


(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Modern Shopper

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District of Columbia, Washington
Braving a blizzard in February 1936, eager customers lined up to experience a modern, self-service, cash-only supermarket. Nehemiah Cohen and Samuel Lehrman’s Giant Food here on Georgia Avenue was the chain’s first. Although the Memphis-born Piggly Wiggly chain pioneered the supermarket concept, it took Giant to capture DC consumers.

Giant moved into the former Park View Market, which had opened in 1923 with 180 tiled stalls. Before the supermarket, food shopping meant stopping at stand-alone bakeries, butcher shops, and other specialty stores, or at stalls inside a market shed. In all cases, shopkeepers filled the orders. Although mom-and-pop stores offered customers credit between paydays and delivered, Giant’s efficiency and lower prices nearly made small specialty stores obsolete.

After the arrival of supermarkets, small corner groceries continued to serve neighborhoods. Many were owned by Jewish families who belonged to the city-wide buying cooperative District Grocery Stores (DGS for short). In the 1930s, three Jewish groceries operated on the 3300 block of Georgia, and at least 15 along the route of this trail.

The ornate police substation at 750 Park Road (to your left) opened in 1901 as the 10th Precinct headquarters, serving 15 square miles of “suburbs” stretching north from Florida Avenue to the District line, and between Benning Road and Rock Creek.

On your way to Sign 19, notice 3641 Georgia Avenue, formerly the York movie theater. The York was built by theater mogul Harry Crandall, who also built the Tivoli (14th Street and Park Road) and Lincoln (U Street) movie palaces.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 14 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Former Engine Co 24 of the District of Columbia Fire Department

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District of Columbia, Washington
The facade of the original house for Engine Company 24 was located at 3702 Georgia Avenue, N.W. just north of this site. Built in 1911, the firehouse was designed by Luther Leisenring and Charles Gregg. It originally housed horses and horse-drawn equipment. Within one year of its opening, it became the first station in the city to be fully motorized. Engine Company 24 relocated to a new facility in July 1994. The facade of the original building was relocated and integrated into the chiller plant for the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metrorail station in December 1995 by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

The Government of the District of Columbia
Mayor Marion Barry Jr.
In Cooperation with the D.C. Preservation league

(Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Charles R. Drew and Lenore Robbins Drew

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District of Columbia, Washington
Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), renowned for his blood plasma research, was associated with Howard University College of Medicine during most of his career. In 1941 Drew joined a national effort to set up a blood banking process but left because U.S. Government policy segregated blood by race of donor. Drew later died after an automobile accident in North Carolina. The story that he died because a white hospital refused to treat him is a myth, although this tragedy did befall others during the era of segregated health care. Drew and his family lived here in the 1940s.

(African Americans • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sharp County Court House No 2

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Arkansas, Sharp County, Hardy
The first court house in Sharp County was erected at evening shade in 1868. About 1890 another court house was built at Hardy in the northern end of the county and since then the county has maintained two seats of justice.

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

Cameron County

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Pennsylvania, Cameron County, Emporium
Formed March 29, 1860 from Clinton, McKean, Potter and Elk counties. Named for Sen. Simon Cameron. County seat, Emporium, was incorporated 1864. Lumbering was of early importance, and flagstone at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was later quarried here.

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

Hold the Mayo!

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District of Columbia, Washington
English, Irish and German settlers, as well as enslaved and free African Americans, were the first non-natives to claim Brightwood. Farmers dominated until the Civil War. Then in the 1890s electric streetcars allowed government workers to live here and ride to jobs downtown. By the 1940s, sons and daughters of Jewish, Greek, and Italian immigrants had arrived, often leaving crowded conditions in older neighborhoods.

Abraham Posin, founder of Posin's Deli and Bakery, was typical of the newcomers. His family had immigrated from Russia around 1910. Young Abraham visited an uncle living in Washington, where he met and married Gertrude Rose, another Russian émigré. The couple opened a store in Foggy Bottom. Posin's followed its Jewish customers' northward migration, first to the Arcade Market in Columbia Heights. Finally it opened here in 1947 at 5657 Georgia Avenue. Abe's sons, World War II veterans Max and Hyman, eventually took over the store.

Although most of his Jewish customers moved on in the 1950s, Max stayed to serve the African Americans and Caribbean immigrants who took their places. Everyone was welcome. Max died in 1995, and his son Randy closed the store three years later.

The Firehouse just beyond Posin's is here because, back in 1891, residents formed the Brightwood Citizens' Association and lobbied for city-style improvements. In addition to the firehouse, they secured sewers, sidewalks, streets, electric and gas service, and an elementary school.

The church at 5714 Georgia became the home of Canaan Baptist Church in 1956. In less than ten years, the robust church outgrew the space and moved to 16th Street in Mount Pleasant.

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 16 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

El Pueblo de Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose

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Florida, St. Johns County, St. Augustine


Great Seal of the State of Florida:"In God We Trust"
On the shore of Robinson Creek, 1/4 mile east of this marker, was the site of a Spanish mission for Indians left homeless during the Queen Anne's War.
Since 1688, Negro slaves from the English colonies had found refuge in Spanish St. Augustine. On March 15, 1738, Governor Manuel de Montiano freed them in the name of the King, and later formed a village for them named Gracia Real, at Mose. Here the freedmen would cultivate the ground and learn the Catholic religion. For their protection, a moated earthwork was erected, called Fort Mose.
(See other side)

(Continued from the other side)In 1740, during the British attack against St. Augustine, the freedmen evacuated Mose and Scotch Highlanders occupied it. At daybreak, June 26, in a decisive blow, the Spaniards ejected the enemy from the fort and later demolished it.
The freedmen resettled the village and rebuilt the earthwork in 1752, and later formed a militia company. The British dismantled Fort Mose during their rule in Florida.
After their return, the Spaniards rebuilt defenses at Mose in 1797. The East Florida Patriots occupied the deserted site in 1812 during their ill-fated attempt to overthrow Spanish rule. The local garrison, aided by the Negro militia and Indians, forced them to withdraw.

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Colonial Era • Forts, Castles • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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