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Synagoga Poppera/Popper Synagogue

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Synagoga Poppera Ufundowana w 1620 r. przez kupca Wolfa Poppera (Bociana), przybudowana do muru obronnego. Odnawiana i powiekszona w latach 1813, 1827, 1860,w 1898 r. odwyzszona. Remontowana w 1904 i 1964 r. zatracila cechy . . .

(Architecture • Churches & Religion • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

George W. Bush

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Sidney, Ohio.
George W Bush President George W. Bush became the third sitting U.S. president to visit Sidney when he arrived at The Spot on August 28, 2004 while campaigning for re-election. The President greeted shocked Spot patrons, and . . .

(Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Bobby Jones Legend

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Sarasota, Florida.
Side 1 Bobby Jones' name already was linked to Sarasota when he attended the dedication ceremony February 13, 1927, for Bobby Jones Municipal Course, which had opened the previous June. The course, 2-1/2 miles east of . . .

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

Health Professions Pioneer

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Gainesville, Florida.
When the College of Health Related Services opened in 1958, it was the first college of health professions located in an academic health center. Led by Dean Darrel Mase, the college joined the emerging professions of . . .

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

This Site

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Carson City, Nevada.
For hundreds of years prior to the White Man the Washoe and Paiute Indians used this site as a recreation area and played a type of ball game here. Later, in the year 1872, the area became the freight vards of the historic . . .

(Native Americans • Railroads & Streetcars • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colonel William Oldham

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La Grange, Kentucky.
Oldham was the 75th county created by the Kentucky Legislature. It was formed on January 15, 1824, from portions of Jefferson, Henry and Shelby Counties. The county is named for William Oldham, Revolutionary War patriot and . . .

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1 West Vine Street

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Cincinnati, Ohio.
This stone column is from a building that stood at this location in the 1840s. The building was at the corner of Water Street and Vine Street. A series of different businesses occupied the site over the years. The Simmons . . .

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

Funk Seminary Site

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La Grange, Kentucky.
In 1841 William M. Funk bequeathed $10,000 to establish seminary. It was chartered by Legislature and erected here, 1842. In 1844 Grand Lodge of Ky. assumed control and changed it to Masonic College. In 1852 changed to . . .

(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Reuben F. Nelson Footbridge

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Roseville, California.
Across this footbridge situated high above Roseville's Southern Pacific railroad yards passed untold thousands of Pacific Fruit Express employees on their way to work at the world''s largest artificial ice plant. In disuse . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Magnolia Lake State Park

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Keystone Heights, Florida.
Situated on the site of Camp Blanding, between Sandhill and Brooklyn lakes, are the remnants of Magnolia Lake State Park. A relic from the time of segregation, Magnolia Lake was built to provide separate facilities to serve . . .

(African Americans • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Honored French Soldiers Who Died at Yorktown

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Easton, Pennsylvania.
In Eternal Gratitude to those gallant soldiers of France under General Lafayette's command who died of wounds suffered in the siege of Yorktown fighting for American liberty [Roll of Honored Dead] Lafayette College intends . . .

(Education • War, US Revolutionary • War, World II • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wallace J. Thibodaux

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Bayou Blue, Louisiana.
*Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue. *Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the founder of the City of . . .

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

Alumni Memorial Plaza

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Easton, Pennsylvania.
Dedicated to Honor the Sons of Lafayette Fallen in Service to the United States of America September 16, 1989 Mexican War 1846 - 1848 James McKeen '41 Civil War 1861 - 1865 Edward S. Carrell '61 • Joseph Castles '59 • . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil • War, World I • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 12 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt. Dale Raebel

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Jacksonville, Florida.
The Freedom Tree with the vision of universal freedom for all mankind This tree is dedicated to LT. Dale Raebel and all Prisoners of War and Missing in Action 1973

(Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George T. Harrell

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Gainesville, Florida.
George T. Harrell, founding dean of UF's College of Medicine in 1956, was the first individual to organize and open two academic medical centers. A pioneering planner who spent his career working in new medical schools. . . .

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

Thetford Academy

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Thetford, Vermont.
On this site stood the original Thetford Academy. Co-educational from the start, it was founded in 1819 by Thetford citizens led by Rev. Asa Burton and Judge Simeon Short. The academic building with belfry and separate doors . . .

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

Ghent Honor Roll

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Ghent, New York.
Honored Patriots who answered the call of their country in the Great World War 1917-1918 The Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth. --Abraham Lincoln (Names were not . . .

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

Sterling College

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Craftsbury, Vermont.
Sterling College was among the first colleges and universities in the United States to offer a liberal arts curriculum focused on the environment. It was founded here in Craftsbury Common in 1958 as a boys’ preparatory . . .

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

Moe's Books

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Berkeley, California.
In 1959, Morris (Moe) Moskowitz and his wife, Barbara, opened a small paperback bookshop on Shattuck Avenue. They soon moved to Telegraph Avenue where Moe's Books evolved into a renowned emporium featuring hundreds of . . .

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

Anthony Boucher: Editor and Writer

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Berkeley, California.
From 1947 to 1968 this was the home of William Anthony Parker White (1911-1968), universally known by the pen name Anthony Boucher. This Oakland-born author with a master's degree from UC Berkeley was a pivotal figure in the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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