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Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39 - 1965

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Titusville, Florida.
”Look across the Indian River… it is from the tract of land east of Titusville that the United States will fire its hopes toward the moon… From now on, Titusville will be known as space exploration headquarters.” - . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Mr. Baseball"

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Bob Uecker became a national celebrity through his work in sports and entertainment. Uecker will forever be known as the "Voice of the Brewers" with over four decades as lead play-by-play . . .

(Entertainment • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Canada's First Glassworks

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Mallorytown, Ontario.
At only 20 years old, Amasa Whitney Mallory brashly started up Canada's first glassworks in a log structure about 2 km. west of Mallorytown. He had already successfully harvested lumber in the area for 2 years but was . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wager's Grocery Store & Wharf - c. 1875

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Titusville, Florida.
”P.E. Wager is constantly receiving fresh supplies of Dry Goods, Groceries, & Hardware… The oldest business house on the Indian River.” -Advertisement in Wager’s Florida Star newspaper, c. 1880 In 1875, Perry E. Wager came . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Culp Lane Park

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Bethalto, Illinois.
The following is a description of Culp Lane Park that the Village of Bethalto has undertaken. As you can see the village of Bethalto teamed with the state of Illinois with Illinois First Funds as well as Madison County, . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Market

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, Israel.
The architectural features of this area denote a public building identified with commercial activities. A North - South street leads to the synagogue and provides the only access to spaces with an additional eastern access . . .

(Anthropology & Archaeology • Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rest Haven Cemetery

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Franklin, Tennessee.
In 1855, eminent Franklin lawyer John Marshall gave a seven-acre lot for a new cemetery to be located immediately west of the City Cemetery. Early Methodist minister Thomas L. Douglass and numerous Confederate soldiers are . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Solomonic Gate"

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, Israel.
English Text: Dated to the 10th century BCE, this gate has six chambers and two towers. Similar gates have been uncovered at Megiddo and Gezer. A summary of King Solomon's activities indeed indicates that the king built . . .

(Anthropology & Archaeology • Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Byrd's Africian Methodist Episcopal Church

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Clayton, Delaware.
In the early 1890s Clayton was home to an increasing population of African-Americans, many of whom were railroad workers. Byrd's African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church was built in 1894 to accommodate this growing . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

History or Memory?

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Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Antietam Battlefield's monuments and their meanings Veterans, state organizations, and individuals have placed 97 monuments at Antietam. Most of them are Union monuments constructed during the first twenty years after . . .

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

Sharpsburg's Big Spring

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Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Native Americans, travelers, and early settlers used this water source long before Joseph Chapline, Sr., chartered Sharpsburg on July 9, 1763. Chapline laid out the town so that the spring was one-half block from the town . . .

(Colonial Era • Notable Places • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Canaanite Temple

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, Israel.
English Text: The southern temple was in use from the Middle Bronze Age until the Late Bronze Age (17th-14th centuries BCE). The temple was originally a prominent structure, with wide, well-constructed walls, and its three . . .

(Anthropology & Archaeology • Churches & Religion • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Voss Site

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near Galloway, Ohio.
On this terrace bench overlooking Big Darby Creek, people of the Fort Ancient Culture constructed a large circular village with a central plaza and constructed a low earthen mound on the plaza's edge to commemorate the . . .

(Anthropology & Archaeology • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shirley Povich

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near Rockville, Maryland.
Baseball was Shirley Povich's true passion. In a career at The Washington Post that spanned 75 years, Povich covered the greats of the game from Walter Johnson to Cal Ripken Jr. The prolific and profound Povich covered the . . .

(Communications • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Leibo's Place

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near Rockville, Maryland.
This clubhouse at Povich Field is named in recognition of the outstanding community contribution made by Phil Leibovitz and the entire team at Sandy Spring Builders, LLC of Bethesda, Maryland. The Sandy Spring team played . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Industry & Commerce • Parks & Recreational Areas • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Bethesda's Big Train

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near Rockville, Maryland.
Walter Johnson, baseball's greatest pitcher, lived in Bethesda from 1925 until 1935. Called the "Big Train" because of his overpowering fastball, Johnson won 417 games in 21 seasons with the Washington Senators. His record . . .

(Politics • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Valley is Born

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near Galloway, Ohio.
Before you is evidence of Ohio's glacial history. Thousands of years ago, glaciers covered northern and central Ohio. As the glaciers retreated, the melting ice created rivers and streams which, in turn, carved valleys and . . .

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

General Harrison's Mess Table

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near Fremont, Ohio.
On the Indian trail leading from the headquarters of Major General Harrison at Fort Seneca on the Sandusky River to Fort Meigs on the Maumee River. War of 1812

(Native Americans • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Porvenir Massacre

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near Marfa, Texas.
Porvenir was a community in remote northwest Presidio County on the Rio Grande. In the midst of military conflicts and raids across and along the international border and in the immediate area during the Mexican Revolution, . . .

(Civil Rights • Hispanic Americans • Law Enforcement) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Penacook Unit No. 31 World War I Monument

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Penacook, New Hampshire.
1917 1919 Erected by the American Legion Auxiliary Penacook Unit No. 31 In Memory and Recognition of Those Who Served in the World War ?Made The Supreme Sacrifice Bassett Harry · Clark Richard · Holland Roy · Lambrukas . . .

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