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Joseph Papp

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New York, New York.
The dynamic founder and impresario of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater began offering free performances of Shakespeare in Central Park in 1954. In 1967 he created The Public Theater, the most important . . .

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

Tel Hazor - The Largest Tel in Israel

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, Israel.
English Text: The story of Hazor is represented by 21 layers of settlement. The history of Hazor can be divided into two chapters: Canaanite Hazor and Israelite Hazor. Canaanite Hazor You are now in the upper city and . . .

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

Deerfield

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Where Mohawk struck Pocumtuck pride, Sentinel stalks of Indian corn Still guard the Meadow of our world: The sad silence of grass-grown graves A frontier home on the falling ridge And a cold gray February dawn. All of . . .

(Colonial Era • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Stebbins Home Lot

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
This Marks the Home Lot where John Stebbins Grandson of Rowland the Emigrant A Permanent Settler of 1652 Lived and Died __________ A Soldier under Capt. Lothrop The Only Man Known who Escaped Unhurt At the Bloody Brooke . . .

(Native Americans • Patriots & Patriotism • Settlements & Settlers • War, French and Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Home of Joseph Stebbins

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Home of Joseph Stebbins Born 1749 Died 1816 Lover of Liberty And Servant of His Country __________ Lieutenant of Minute Men Who Marched on the Lexington Alarm Captain at the Battle of Bunker Hill Fought at Stillwater and . . .

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Water System

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, Israel.
English Text: Constructed during the reign of King Ahab (the 9th century BCE), it was designed to supply the inhabitants of the city with water in times of siege. A vertical shaft was dug through the earlier occupation . . .

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

In Honor of Penacook Veterans

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Penacook, New Hampshire.
1898 1902 In Honor of Penacook Veterans of the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection Fred Keefe Co. C Charles T. Brooks Company C · William J. Corbett Company C · James H. Driscoll Company C · John . . .

(Military • War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Everett Holmes

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Bridgewater, New York.
Born 1908. Worked as carpenter. Served as village trustee 1960-1969. Elected mayor 1974, one of NY State's first African American mayors.

(African Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Deerfield Village

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Old Deerfield Village Has been Designated A Registered National Historic Landmark Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the . . .

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

Old Indian House

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Site of the Old Indian House Built by Ensign John Sheldon 1698 It stood for 144 years testifying to the tragedy of Feb. 29, 1703 its stout door which kept at bay the French and Indians 13 now safe in Memorial Hall where its . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • War, French and Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Governor Horatio Seymour

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Utica, New York.
The grave of Governor Horatio Seymour Born 1810 died 1886. Governor of New York 1853 to 1855 and 1863 to 1865. Presidential candidate in 1868.

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

Canaanite Temple

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, Israel.
English Text: Canaanite Temple (c. 15th-14th centuries BCE)

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

The Village of Deerfield

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Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The Village of Deerfield is an old settlement on an ancient site. The Mile-long street before you was originally a Native path. Ancestors of the Pocumtuck, an Algonquin people, lived here in their homeland for at least 8,000 . . .

(Agriculture • Colonial Era • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Justus Henry Rathbone

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Utica, New York.
Founder, International Fraternal Order, Knights of Pythias, is laid to rest at the top of this hill. The monument above honors him and his vision for all mankind: "If fraternal love held all men bound, how beautiful this . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Nauset Beach

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Orleans, Massachusetts.
Historical Marker Nauset Beach Scene of Cape Cod’s first shipwreck, Ketch Sparrowhawk, near Pochet - Dec. 17, 1626. Offshore, German submarine attack July 21, 1918. Shelled tug, sank 4 barges. Shells overshot beach and . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, World I • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Elizabethtown

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near Gaston, Indiana.
Joseph Wilson and Uriah Powers first operated a flour mill and a sawmill around which the village of Elizabethtown grew up in the 1830s. Wilson named the town after his daughter, Elizabeth, and had high hopes for the . . .

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

Lisbon World War I Monument

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Lisbon, Connecticut.
Honor Roll The Men of Lisbon Who Served Their Country In The World War 1917 – 1918 Allen, George · Benjamin, Carl · Burgess, William · Clark, William · Corbett, Walter · Emerson, James · Emerson, William · Ernst, August · . . .

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

Lisbon Veterans Monument

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Lisbon, Connecticut.
Dedicated to the Honor and Sacrifice Of the Men and Women of Lisbon Who Served Our Country in All Wars Lisbon Bicentennial Commission 1986

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

Lisbon Revolutionary War Monument

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Lisbon, Connecticut.
In Memory Of Those Men Of Lisbon Who Served In The American Revolutionary War Erected By The American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Of Lisbon, Connecticut July 4, 1976

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lisbon

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Lisbon, Connecticut.
Lisbon This area originally was wholly within the Town of Norwich and consisted of a tract of land in the heart of the Mohegan Indian territory. Josiah Read is believed the earliest white settler, having purchased a . . .

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