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Erzberg

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Switzerland, Zurich (canton), Zurich (district), Zurich
Der hausname könnte von der familie Ertzli Stammen, die um 1600 heir gewohnt hat.
Der älteste teil des hauses ist ein mauergeviert aus dem 14. Jh., welches bis ins 1. obergeschoss reicht. Damals war das haus besitz verschiedener leinenweber. Auf dem murerplan von 1576 hat das gebäude bereits sein heutiges aussehen.
Unter denkmalschutz seit 1986

German–English translation by Google Translate

Erzberg

The name of the house could come from the family Ertzli, who lived around 1600.
The oldest part of the house is a wall from the 14th quartered Century, which extends to the 1st floor. At that time, the home was owned by a different linen weaver. On the murerplan of 1576, the building has already its present look.
Under monument protection since 1986

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

Kezinstürli

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Switzerland, Zurich (canton), Zurich (district), Zurich
Auf der hofseitigen grundstückshälte stand im späten 13. Jh. ein kleines holzhaus (bohlenständerbau). Durch mehrere anbauten und aufstockungen wuchs das haus bis ins 17. Jh. auf seine heutige grösse.
Der zweigeschossige kastenerker wurde 1925 bei der farbigen gestaltung der ganzen augustinergasse im rahmen der > newu gefasst.
Unter denkmalschutz seit 1986

German–English translation by Google Translate

Kezinstürli

The house takes its name from small gate in the city wall at the lower end of the Augustinian alley, which was called kezinstürli (katzentürlein).
On the courtyard side Hälte land was in the late 13th Century a small wooden house (bohlenständerbau). Increases by several additions, the house grew until the 17th Century to its present size.
The two-story box bay windows 1925 was revised in design as part of the whole Augustinian alley >.
Under monument protection since 1986

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

Fitzpatrick United Methodist Church

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Alabama, Bullock County, Fitzpatrick
Lacking an established church nearby, pioneer families of the Fitzpatrick community into the mid-19th century took turns hosting worship services in their homes on Sunday mornings. "The Church of the Seven Sisters" was established in 1858 by seven women of the community - Mrs. Phillips Bernard Baldwin (Martha Ann Thompson), Mrs. David Graves Fitzpatrick (Sara Ann Hooks), Mrs. John Campbell (Catherine Celia Hooks) Mrs. William Cicero Hufham (Nancy Henry Gholston), Mrs. Gordon Sanford Bunkley (Lucinda Morris Keene), Mrs. John William Templeton Reid (Celia Julia Fitzpatrick) and Mrs. Robert F. Ligon. Three of the "sisters" were Methodist, two were Baptist, one was Presbyterian, and one an Episcopalian, so it was founded as a Methodist Church. Albert G. Wray deeded one-and-one-half acres for the original building for one dollar. After the Montgomery and Eufaula railroad was built through Fitzpatrick in the 1870s, the church building was moved here from its nearby site. Placed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, 1978.

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Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

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Arizona, Pima County, Tucson

Front of monument:
World War II
December 16, 1944
January 25, 1945

Triumph of Courage
Rear of monument:
The Battle of the Bulge was fought by the U.S. Army in the heavily forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg from December 19, 1944 through January 25, 1945. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, called it "the greatest American battle of World War II" Six hundred thousand American fought in bitter cold and snow; 81,000 of them were casualties; 19,000 of these died. Veterans of the Battle of the Bulgeis an organization of those who endured and survived that great battle. The victory over Germany was a turning point in the war. Some of those survivors are members ofThe Southern Arizona Chapter LIII who offer this memorial.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Whitley

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Indiana, Whitley County, South Whitley
In 1837 Joseph Parrett caused to be surveyed and platted 42 lots on the north bank of Eel River and named the town Springfield. Also in 1837 a post office was established and named Whitley by the department, there being another Springfield in the state. Upon the establishment of a post office at the county seat named Whitley Court House, the name was changed to South Whitley and has so remained. Whitley County was organized in 1838: thus South Whitley and its post office is older than the county.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Larwill Indiana

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Indiana, Whitley County, Larwill
Larwill, formerly Huntsville, was laid out on November 13 1854 along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad. It was located at the corners of four farms - Henry McLallen, Sr. Jesse S. Perrin, Thomas J. Hammontree, and Truman Hunt. Huntsville was changed to Larwill on March 8, 1866 in honor of William and Joseph Larwill, who were resident engineers in charge of the construction of the railroad from Columbia City to Warsaw.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Thomas Estlick, Jr.,

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Indiana, Whitley County, near Etna
was the first white child born in Troy Township, Whitley County, June 23, 1838, near this site. Thomas Estlick Sr., his father, pur- chased 120 acres of U.S. Government land at $1.25 per acre and settled here. He named Goose and Loon Lakes. Both father and son, their wives and children are buried in the Scott- Keister cemetery, one half mile east of here.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Whitley County Jail

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Indiana, Whitley County, Columbia City
The first public building in Whitley County was a log jail built in 1840 on the southeast corner on what is now the courthouse square. That jail cost $490. It was burned in 1855 by a prisoner awaiting trial.

A second two story jail was built in 1855 costing $5,244 at the site of the present City Hall.

This jail and sheriff's residence was erected in 1875 and occupied in 1876 at a cost of $34,486. At that time, it was considered one of the best jails in Indiana and a credit to Whitley County.

A portion of the fence that once enclosed the jail yard stands with this marker.

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

601-605 Locust Street

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Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe


has been placed on the
National Register of
Historic Places

by the United States
Department of Interior
October 16, 2002

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

Zero Mile Stone

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Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe


County Court of
Livingston County 1925
In memory of
Nelson Kneass
1823 - 1868
Author of music to
"Ben Bolt"
who died in the Browning Hotel
on this site. His remains rest
in Edgewood, Chillicothe, Mo

(Arts, Letters, Music • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Livingston County Courthouse Historic Districts

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Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe

The
Courthouse Square
&
Chillicothe Commercial
Historic Districts
Are listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places

By the
United States
Department of the Interior
October 16, 2002

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Capital For A Summer

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Maryland, Frederick County, Frederick
The building in front of you, Kemp Hall, was the capitol of Maryland during the spring and summer of 1861, as the state came perilously close to leaving the Union. Because secession would have placed the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. between the Confederate states of Maryland and Virginia, President Abraham Lincoln could not let it happen.

Two weeks after the Confederate capture of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Maryland Gov. Thomas H. Hicks called the General Assembly into special session here in Frederick, a strongly Unionist city to debate secession. The state capital, Annapolis, was seething with resentment over the recent Federal occupation of that city.

Both the Senate and the House of Delegates began the session on April 26, 1861, in the former Frederick County Courthouse building located two blocks west of here. The next day, the senators and delegates moved here to Kemp Hall, a larger meeting space that belonged to the German Reformed Church.

As early as June 20, under Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, Federal troops began arresting suspected pro-secession legislators, starting with Delegate Ross Winans of Baltimore, who was stopped on his way home from the session here. He, like several other lawmakers, was confined briefly under Lincoln’s orders.

The legislature continued to meet here at Kemp Hall throughout the summer. Finally, lacking a quorum—primarily because of the arrest of so many secession-leaning senators and delegates—it adjourned in September without ever considering a secession bill.

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Abraham Lincoln
Courtesy Library of Congress

Gov. Thomas H. Hicks
Courtesy Library of Congress

Delegate Ross Winans
Courtesy Maryland Historical Society

Kemp Hall, ca. 1870 - Historical Society of Frederick County

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

Frederick’s Poet Lawyer

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Maryland, Frederick County, Frederick
Born in what was then northeast Frederick County, Key’s parents first brought him to “Frederick-Town” to be baptized. His parents often rode to the county seat here. Key walked these streets whenever the family came to Frederick.

After attending school in Annapolis and studying law for four years, Key opened a law office near here. He argued cases in the old court house where today’s City Hall is located. He later appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court, and practiced law until the end of his life.

Key’s legal skills led him to a daring role during the Battle of Baltimore in 1814 where he negotiated the release of an American prisoner. His eloquence as a writer and poet gave us the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

Early Life of Francis Scott Key
1779
Francis Scott Key is born at Terra Rubra, his parent’s estate, in what was then northeast Frederick County.

1789
After ten years growing up in Frederick County, Key attends St. John’s Grammar School and then St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.

1796
Key graduates from St. John’s College at the top of his class, then studies law.

1801
Key begins his law career in Frederick. His college friend, Robert Brooke Taney, also practices law in Frederick, and later marries Key’s sister Anne.

1802
Key marries Mary Tayloe Lloyd in Annapolis.

1803
Key moves to Washington, D.C., to become a partner in the law practice of his uncle, Phillip Barton Key.

1814
Key writes “The Star-Spangled Banner” which would become the national anthem of the United States in 1931.

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In 1840, Key, at age 61, came here to visit his aged cousin Eleanor Potts who was then totally blind. She lived on Council Street across the courtyard. Key promised her a poem, and she listened as he read the stanzas which included these lines:

The “light of other days” was hers,
Of happy days now past and gone,
It called up friends long lov’d and mourn’d,
And sweetly round her shone.

Twas the, as by her side I sat,
She softly touch’d the light guitar,
And tones that had my childhood charm’d,
Fell sweetly, sadly on my ear.


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Key as a youth

Frederick in 1854

Trinity Chapel, visible to your right, marks the probable site of Key’s baptism. In 1779 it was the German Reformed Church

Frederick County’s second courthouse—the one Key knew—was built here in 1785, but burned in 1861. The third courthouse, completed in 1862, is the building here today. It became Frederick’s City Hall in 1985.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Patriots & Patriotism • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lot One-Lexington

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Virginia, Lexington
In October 1777, The Virginia legislature drafted a bill to create a new county out of Augusta and Botetourt. The new county was named Rockbridge, for the natural stone bridge located within its boundaries. The same act gave details to establish the county seat to be called Lexington.

On January 12, 1778 the act became law which specified the name, exact size and shape of the town. James McDowell surveyed the original town, thirteen hundred feet long by nine hundred feet wide, with six streets. There were thirty-six one-half acre corner lots with two lots designated for the Court House and Jail.

Here lies Lot One, Lexington, Virginia.

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

Gold Flakes to Yellowcake Historic Mine Trail

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Wyoming, Fremont County, Jeffrey City

The Historic Mine Trail and Byway Program designated the Gold Flakes to Yellowstone Historic Mine Trail in 2005. This trail links significant finds of gold, iron ore, and uranium, each of which played important roles in Wyoming's history.

The Gold Flakes Region
Gold found at the Carissa lode in 1867 set off a rush, Wyoming's largest, to the South Pass region. The towns of Miners Delight and Atlantic City sprouted to support the miners. The gold quickly played out, and most people eventually moved on, leaving behind shells of the boom towns that once existed. In addition to gold, the highest open pit iron ore mine in the United States operated in the region from 1962 until 1984.

The Yellowcake Region
A stampede of prospectors followed the initial 1953 discovery of uranium in the Gas Hills by Neil M. McNeice (Lucky Mc). The boom that followed transformed the community Home on the Range, a gas station and post office, into thriving Jeffrey City. But with every boom comes a bust; the mining operations drastically dwindled and the streets of Jeffrey City emptied by 1988.

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

Gold Flakes to Yellowcake Historic Mine Trail

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Wyoming, Fremont County, near Lander

The Historic Mine Trail and Byway Program designated the Gold Flakes to Yellowstone Historic Mine Trail in 2005. This trail links significant finds of gold, iron ore, and uranium, each of which played important roles in Wyoming's history.

The Gold Flakes Region
Gold found at the Carissa lode in 1867 set off a rush, Wyoming's largest, to the South Pass region. The towns of Miners Delight and Atlantic City sprouted to support the miners. The gold quickly played out, and most people eventually moved on, leaving behind shells of the boom towns that once existed. In addition to gold, the highest open pit iron ore mine in the United States operated in the region from 1962 until 1984.

The Yellowcake Region
A stampede of prospectors followed the initial 1953 discovery of uranium in the Gas Hills by Neil M. McNeice (Lucky Mc). The boom that followed transformed the community Home on the Range, a gas station and post office, into thriving Jeffrey City. But with every boom comes a bust; the mining operations drastically dwindled and the streets of Jeffrey City emptied by 1988.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beaver Rim and the Wind River Range

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Wyoming, Fremont County, near Lander

Viewed from Beaver Rim, the Wind River Mountains, part of the Rocky Mountain chain, boast 53 granite peaks over 13,000 feet high. The Continental Divide runs the length of the Wind River Range. Water on the east side of the Continental Divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Water from the west side of the Divide ends up in the Pacific Ocean.
During the geologic event known as the Laramide Orogeny, the Wind River Mountains were pushed upward 60,000 feet. After 10 million years of erosion, the Precambrian granite peaks, the oldest rocks in the world, were left jutting into the sky, as seen today. Beaver Rim was formed by marine deposits left from shallow, ancient inland seas. The white cliffs reflect the last 65 million years of Wyoming's geologic history.
Native Americans traveled this path for over 10,000 years. Mountain men explored the Wind Rivers for beaver pelts since the early 1800s. Gold miners and pioneers sought their fortune here since the mid-1800s. The Oregon-Mormon-Gold Rush Trail passes within 10 miles to the east of Beaver Rim.
Fremont County is home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. It boasts almost 200 miles of the Continental Divide; Gannett Peak, Wyoming's highest mountain, at 13,804 feet; more than 70 miles of the Oregon Trail; 626 lakes and reservoirs; over 2000 miles of rivers and streams; and abundant wildlife.

(Exploration • Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Atlantic City Project

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Wyoming, Fremont County, near Lander

The hills of the Sweetwater Mining District hold various minerals, and beginning in the 1960s, iron ore mining provided an economic boom for the area. In 1960 the U.S. Steel Corporation broke ground on the nation's highest open pit iron ore mine at 8,300 feet above sea level. By the spring of 1963 the complex was in full swing. Employees operated an open pit mine, an ore crushing and screening facility, a concentrating plant and water storage and handling system, and storage, loading, and shipping facilities.
A Union Pacific Railroad spur carried the processed ore to Winton Junction, ten miles north of Rock Springs, where it connected with the main line and rolled to the Geneva Steel Works in Provo, Utah and was converted into a variety of high-grade steel products. The mine produced more than 90 million tons of iron ore by the time U.S. Steel closed the mine in the spring of 1984, effectively busting the iron ore industry in this region.

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

Gold Flakes to Yellowcake Historic Mine Trail

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Wyoming, Fremont County, near Lander

The Historic Mine Trail and Byway Program designated the Gold Flakes to Yellowstone Historic Mine Trail in 2005. This trail links significant finds of gold, iron ore, and uranium, each of which played important roles in Wyoming's history.

The Gold Flakes Region
Gold found at the Carissa lode in 1867 set off a rush, Wyoming's largest, to the South Pass region. The towns of Miners Delight and Atlantic City sprouted to support the miners. The gold quickly played out, and most people eventually moved on, leaving behind shells of the boom towns that once existed. In addition to gold, the highest open pit iron ore mine in the United States operated in the region from 1962 until 1984.

The Yellowcake Region
A stampede of prospectors followed the initial 1953 discovery of uranium in the Gas Hills by Neil M. McNeice (Lucky Mc). The boom that followed transformed the community Home on the Range, a gas station and post office, into thriving Jeffrey City. But with every boom comes a bust; the mining operations drastically dwindled and the streets of Jeffrey City emptied by 1988.

(Industry & Commerce • Natural Resources) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Pass

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Wyoming, Fremont County, near Lander

The South Pass, in which you are now located, is perhaps the most significant transportation-gateway through the Rocky Mountains. Indians, mountain men, Oregon Trail emigrants, Pony Express riders, and miners all recognized the value of this passageway straddling the Continental Divide. Bounded by the Wind River Range on the north and the Antelope Hills on the south, the pass offered overland travelers a broad, relatively level corridor between the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds.

Mining plays a fundamental role in the history of the South Pass region. Gold may have been discovered as early as 1842, but gold fever did not strike until 1867 when a sample of South Pass ore arrived in Salt Lake City. News of the discovery spread swiftly and hordes of expectant millionaires descended on the new towns of South Pass City, Atlantic City, and Miner's Delight. The boom played out quickly. The easily obtained placer gold was rapidly exhausted and miners began leaving the area in the early 1870s.

Despite the brief duration of the boom, mining activity did not cease. In 1884, an enterprising Frenchman named Emile Granier began organizing the construction of a hydraulic gold mining system which employed many local residents over a ten year period. The Fisher Dredge Company recovered considerable gold ore from the bed of Rock Creek during the 1930s. More recently, the United States Steel iron ore mine operated near Atlantic City from the early 1960s until 1983. Hard rock mines also reopen periodically and some are presently operating. Until the next boom arrives, travelers can experience the flavor of a Rocky Mountain mining town by visiting nearby South Pass City which has been restored by the State of Wyoming.

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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