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Castletown

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, Ireland.
Tá Eastát Castletown, Cill Droichid i mbaile clúiteach Arthur Guinness agus tailte cúirtéireachta Jonathan Swift, údar Gulliver's Travels. Lonnaithe sa stair chlúiteach seo, is é Castletown an teach mór ar stíl Phallaidiach . . .

(Architecture • Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Welcome to Celbridge

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The origins of our town In ancient times there were five principal roads in Ireland. One of these roads was known as the "Slí Mhór". It extended from Dublin Bay to Galway Bay and forded the river Liffey in Celbridge just . . .

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

Altes Rathaus - Old Town Hall

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, Germany.
(Lower panel:) 1898 Seinerzeit größter Gebäudekomplex mit Innenhöfen in Frankfurt am Main nördlich und südlich der neu trassierten Bethmannstraße Von Atlanten getragene Bogenbrücke als Verbindung von Nord- und Südbau . . .

(Government & Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Entrechtet, Deportiert, Ermordet / Disenfranchised, Deported, Murdered

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, Germany.
Jenny Abraham * 1877 · Leo Abraham * 1875 · Emma Rosalie Braun * 1877 · Gottlieb Braun * 1883 · Rosa Braun * 1883 · Flora Heller * 1886 · Ilse Israel * 1911 · Sofie Kotz * 1860 · Julius Moritz Prager * 1895 · Sera Rosenbaum . . .

(Churches & Religion • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Leonard Fournette

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Leonard Fournette staked his claim as one of the best players in college football with a record-breaking sophomore season in 2015, leading the nation with 162.8 yards per contest. A first-team All-American selection, . . .

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

John Stephen Huguet, M.D.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Son of Baton Rouge's oldest hardware merchant, Juan Huguet, he was educated at Jefferson College. Became a doctor of medicine. Through his wife, Mary Elvira Kleinpeter, he became part owner of Hard Times Plantation and a . . .

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

Luis Estevan Favrot

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Served two years in the colonial Spanish military service, served in 7th Regiment Militia of Orleans Territory, and as a Major and Colonel of 8th Regiment Louisiana Militia, War of 1812. Became Judge of West Baton Rouge . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ethan Pocic

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A three-year starter on the offensive line and a permanent Team Captain for the Tigers in 2016, Ethan Pocic became the first center to earn first-team All-American honors for LSU since 2004. Pocic anchored an offensive line . . .

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

Rufus Dawes House

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Marietta, Ohio.
Boyhood home of U.S. VP Charles G. Dawes, Marietta College graduate and Trustee, awarded Nobel Prize, ambassador to England, author WWI German reparations plan.

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

The Castle

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Marietta, Ohio.
A fine example of Gothic Revival architecture was built in 1855 for Melvin C. Clarke, a lawyer who died in the Civil War at Antietam. Later owned by the Nye and Bosley families. The house is a treasure of fine woodwork, . . .

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Memorial Garden

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Marietta, Ohio.
The Presbyterian Church was built here in 1865. The new First Presbyterian Church, to the left, was built in 1897. In 2014, the original church was removed for the 2016 creation of the Memorial Garden. Elements of the . . .

(Churches & Religion • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

C. William O'Neill

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Marietta, Ohio.
Ohio's fifty-ninth governor, Marietta native C. William O'Neill was the only Ohioan to head all three branches of state government. An honor graduate of both Marietta High School and Marietta College, O'Neill won election to . . .

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

St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Marietta, Ohio.
Side A Martin Luther (1483-1546) proclaimed that we understand from Scripture alone (sola scriptura), are declared right by God through faith alone (sola fide), and are saved by God's grace alone (sola gratia), through . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Shipman-Mills House

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Marietta, Ohio.
Built 1852 for J.B. Shipman, purchased 1877 by Elizabeth and M.C. Professor J.L. Mills whose descendants were occupants until 1961. Mills establishes Elizabeth College for women in 1893.

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

Asbury United Methodist Church

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Downtown, District of Columbia.
"...watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen... ...teach them to your children and to their children and to their children after them." Deuteronomy 4:19 Stories of slavery and . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans • Churches & Religion • Civil Rights • Education • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Safe Havens

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Shaw, District of Columbia.
The building across the street at 901 Rhode Island Avenue is the city's first Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) for African Americans. It honors Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), considered America's first published . . .

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Churches & Religion • Civil Rights • Education • Entertainment • Industry & Commerce • Parks & Recreational Areas • War, World II • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Henri Bouvier Favrot

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Private, 8th Regt, Meriam's Co., War of 1812. Capt., 11th Regt., La. Militia, 1836. Organizer of company of free black volunteers for Confederate States Army. Operator of first regularly established ferry service at Baton Rouge, beginning 1836.

(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812 • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battle of Port Gibson

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Port Gibson, Mississippi.
A night attack by Iowa and Wisconsin soldiers of Gen. E. A. Carr's division on Gen. M. E. Green's Confederates at this point was repulsed. At daybreak May 1, the Federals readied a new thrust. Gen. J. A. McClernand sent Gen. . . .

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

All Purpose Shop

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near Lewistown, Montana.
During World War II, the Army Corps of Engineers built almost 1,300 airfields. These rapidly constructed facilities followed standardized plans, all of which included an All Purpose Shop. The unassuming one-story buildings . . .

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Armament Building

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near Lewistown, Montana.
Sand-filled “Blue Beetle” practice bombs with a five-pound black powder charge were loaded here for placement in the B-17s’ bomb bays. The practice bombs were later dropped in 1,000-foot circles during the daytime and on . . .

(Air & Space • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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