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74th Indiana Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Seventy-Fourth Regiment Infantry. (Chapman) Second Brigade. (Croxton) Third Division. (Brannan) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 10 A.M.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kirk Douglas

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Amsterdam, New York.
Film legend born Dec. 9, 1916 to immigrant parents living at 46 Eagle St. rose from poverty to appear in over 90 films in Hollywood.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4th Indiana Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana. Fourth Battery. (Flansburg) Second Brigade. (Starkweather) First Division. (Baird) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

4th Indiana Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana. Fourth Battery. (Flansburg) Second Brigade. (Starkweather) First Division. (Baird) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 11:30 a.m.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

5th Indiana Battery

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana Fifth Battery. (Simonson) Third Brigade. (Baldwin) Second Division. (Johnson) Twentieth Corps. (McCook) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

6th Indiana Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana. Sixth Regiment Infantry (Tripp) Third Brigade. (Baldwin) Second Division. (Johnson) Twentieth Corps. (McCook) Saturday, September 19th, 1863, 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Bainbridge Township, Ohio.
Dedicated to the men and women of Bainbridge Township who have served their country [Armed Forces service emblems] In honor and memory of all who served and those who died for the preservation of our unalienable rights. . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, 2nd Iraq • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bainbridge School

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Bainbridge Township, Ohio.
[Engravings of former school buildings]

(Architecture • Education • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carlton & Flora Lowe

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Bainbridge Township, Ohio.
Tuberous Begonia Official Bainbridge Township Flower Carlton brought the Tuberous Rooted Begonia to this country from Belgium after WWI Established Lowe's Greenhouse on Rt. 306 in 1926 Carlton's community service included: . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Horticulture & Forestry • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Parrot Rifle

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St. Johnsville, New York.
Transferred to Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park by Alonzo Smith Post No. 356 G.A.R Dept. of N.Y. C.W. Scudder, Com., C. W. Lambert, Adj. 1922 This gun was in active service during the Civil War

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

Slavery on the Plantation

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Hardy, Virginia.
When Booker lived here as a child with his family, about ten enslaved people of African descent worked and lived on this plantation. The enslaved worked every day, for long hours, in heat and cold. They worked to keep the . . .

(African Americans • Agriculture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ford Foundation Building

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New York, New York.
Built during 1963-67 to serve as the headquarters for one of the nation’s largest private foundations, the Ford Foundation Building is one of the most widely admired examples of modern architecture in new York City. In a . . .

(Architecture • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Town of Ancram

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Ancram, New York.
Named in honor of the ancestral home of the Livingstons at Teviotdale, Roxburghshire Scotland

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

Adriance-Springer House

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Galveston, Texas.
This house was built in 1914 for the family of businessman John Adriance, who was instrumental in Galveston's early development. It was sold in 1929 to business and civic leader Oscar Springer, whose family continued to live . . .

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

Clove Road Camp

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Wingdale, New York.
A mile west is Phillip Hoac house, built 1750, where Washington and troops, en route from Boston to New York, encamped in 1776

(Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

North East Center Burying Ground

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North East, New York.
Early stone marked 1801

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

Pine Plains Northeast Line

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near Pine Plains, New York.
Pine Plains organized 1823. Northeast formed 1788 and included Milan and Pine Plains. Milan taken off in 1818

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Chubb House

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Galveston, Texas.
This two-story Greek revival residence was constructed in the 1850s. During the Civil War it was the home of Commodore Thomas Chubb (1811-1890), a veteran of the Texas Revolution. Captured by Union naval forces on Galveston . . .

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

Iron Works

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Ancram, New York.
Site of iron works, first in Colony of New York, had 4 forges. Founded by Robert R. Livingston 1743. Demolished 1854

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

South Jacksonville City Hall

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Jacksonville, Florida.
Jacksonville’s Great Fire of May 3, 1901, destroyed a large a large part of the city and left nearly 10,000 people homeless. Numerous residents of the city relocated to other areas, including to the then-remote area of South . . .

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