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LCdr. Denver Key

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

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

The Land Survey of 1836 / Greenfield’s 1836 Greenery

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Greenfield, Wisconsin.
The Land Survey of 1836 In 1836 US Government land surveyors measured an approximately six-mile square area described as Township 6 North, Range 21 East and divided it into a nearly-uniform grid of 36 one-mile square . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

To Where Lytle Fell

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
To Point Where Lytle Fell.......1/8 mile

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Wounding of Hood Site

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
To Spot Where General Hood Was Wounded.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

To our Visitors

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Here, in America's Heartland between Mount Rushmore national Memorial and Ellsworth Air Force Base, remnants of the Berlin Wall are a vivid remainder that vigilance must never give way to complacency where freedom is . . .

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

Celebrating Victory

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Panel A. On November 9, 1989, to stem the flow of refugees, desperate Communist leaders announced amid chaos that they would issue passports to all East Germans, allowing them to come and go as they pleased. That evening . . .

(War, Cold) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Warren County

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Lake Luzerne, New York.
The Town of Luzerne, known as Fairfield to April 6, 1808, formed from the Town of Queensbury April 10, 1792

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

A City Divided

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
For 49 years, Berlin, former capital of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, was occupied by the victorious allies of World War II--the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. For much of that time an ugly wall . . .

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

Construction of the Wall

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Early on August 13, 1961, the East German Army, with Soviet support, began constructing a barrier of barbed wire, cinder blocks and mortar between East and West Berlin. The barrier was intended to stop the exodus of citizens . . .

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

Confrontation

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Because of the Four-Power Agreements, the Allies had insisted upon free access to Berlin at any time. In 1958, Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev of the Soviet Union demanded that the Allies leave West Berlin and Berlin be made a . . .

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

The Cruel Border

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Sometimes East German border guards themselves took advantage of lapses of attention to escape the watch of their colleagues, as Conrad Schumann did by leaping over the barbed wire and fleeing to the West. Most often, . . .

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

The American Commitment

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
The United States never wavered in its commitment to freedom and democracy in Berlin, a city isolated 100 miles inside Easts Germany. In 1948, to assert its influence over Germany, the Soviet Union blockaded land access to . . .

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

Rutland G.A.R. Memorial

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Rutland, Vermont.
Dedicated to the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic

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

Tank Traps

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Rapid City, South Dakota.
Tank Trap A. This tank trap, located between the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie from 1961 - 1989, is donated in honor of the citizens of Potsdam, Germany (the sister city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota), where . . .

(War, Cold) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lancaster County World War II Veterans Memorial

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In honor and memory of Lancaster County Veterans for their service and sacrifice during World War II

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Lancaster County Korean War Veterans Memorial

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In honor and memory of Lancaster County Veterans for their service and sacrifice during the Korean War 1950 - 1955

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

In Memory of the Bosak Family

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, Poland.
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(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

LCdr. James Sullivan

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

LCdr. Michael Hoff

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

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

37 East Main Street

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Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior [Additional plaque below:] Strasburg, Pennsylvania circa 1874 37 E. Main St. Presented by the . . .

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