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"By the Storks"

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Switzerland, Lucerne (canton), Lucerne (district), Lucerne
Erbaut in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhanderts als Wirthaus >. Mehrmals ungebaut.
Aus dem 16. Jahrhundert ist im ersten Obergeschoss die ehemalige Gaststube mit gotishcher Balkendecke un Relieftafel erhalten.
Fasssadenmalerei 1985 von Eva Pauli
1984 – 1985 teilweise neuerbaut und restauriert.
German-English translation:

"By the Storks"
Built in the first half of the 16th Century as the "St. Anna" inn. Rebuilt several times rebuilt.
On the first floor the former dining room with a 16th Century beamed ceiling and gothic relief panel has been preserved.
Facade painting 1985 by Eva Pauli.
1984 - 1985 partially rebuilt and restored.

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

Pentane (C5H12) Molecular Model

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Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Tulsa


Oil and gas - produced by Amoco Production Company in more than 1200 fields in North America - are among the most adaptable resources known to modern man. Hydrocarbon molecules from oil and gas are the building blocks for thousands of products which we use in our daily lives - from gasoline to medicines to wearing apparel.

The ornament behind the fountain is the molecular model for Pentane (C5H12), one of the petroleum hydrocarbon building blocks. The five spheres represent the hydrogen atoms in the Pentane molecule. The cylinders are fashioned from subsurface rocks which are typical of the rock formations from which Amoco produces oil and gas. These rock beds are identified in the small model at left.

[Rock bed model]
Green River Shale • Osage Limestone • Wilcox Sandstone • Simpson Limestone • Paluxy Conglomerate • Lansing-Kansas City Limestone • Pennsylvania Limestone • Chester Limestone • Atoka Sandstone • Green River Shale • Oswego Limestone • Arbuckle Limestone

(Environment • Exploration • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sir Arnold Lunn

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Switzerland, Bern (canton), Interlaken-Oberhasli (district), Mürren
1888 – 1974
It was here in Mürren that
Arnold Lunn set the first slalom
in 1922 and organized the first
World Championship in downhill
and slalom racing in 1931

(plaque below)

Sir Arnold Lunn
Centenary
Mürren
17./18. Dez. 1988

(plaque on bottom)

1908 2008
Presented in Celebration of
100 years
of British ski mountaineering by
The Alpine Ski Club
Founded by Arnold Lunn
On 7th May 1908

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

Edward Whymper

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Switzerland, Valais (canton), Visp (district), Zermatt
Edward Whymper, 1840 – 1911
Am 14. Juli 1865 unternahm er zusammen mit einer Seilschaft von Gefährten und Bergführern die erfolgreiche Erstbesteigung des Matterhorns von diesem Hotel aus.

On July 14, 1865, he set forth from this hotel with his companions and guides and completed the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn.

(Exploration • Sports) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Philtower Building

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Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Tulsa


was listed on the
National Register of
Historic Places
August 27, 1979

by the Office of Archaeology
and Historic Preservation,
Department of the Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Constructed in 1928, the Philtower was designed by architect Edward Buehler Delk for Mr. Waite Phillips

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Horace Benedict de Saussure

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Switzerland, Valais (canton), Visp (district), Zermatt
Im Jahre 1792 bestieg
Horace Benedict de Saussure
Schweizerischer Naturforscher von Genf
(1740 – 1799)
Das Klein-Matterhorn (3883 m. u. M.)
Mit Führer Coutetaus Chamonix.

Mit dieser Erstbesteigung begann in Zermatt
das Zeitalter Des Alpinismus
Sie machte unser Dorf zur Metropolis Alpina
und zum Kurort von Weltruf

Anlässlich des 200 Jahrestages und
der Einsegnung des Parkes bei der Kapelle Winkelmatten
gedenken Wir mit grosser Wertschätzung
die ser Pionierleistung
Am Bergfuhrerfest 1992

German-English translation:
In 1792 ascended
Horace Benedict de Saussure
Swiss naturalist of Geneva
(1740 - 1799)
The Klein Matterhorn (elevation 3883 meters)
With guide Coutetaus Chamonix.

With this ascent began in Zermatt
the era of alpinism
It made our village an alpine metropolis
and world-reknown spa

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary and
the consecration of the park at the Winkelmatten Chapel
We remember with great appreciation
this pioneering effort

At the 1992 mountain guide festival


(Exploration • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Struggle For Colonial Empire

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery
Here on May 24, 1703, Alabama Indians ambushed the first French explorers from Mobile, killing three and wounding two critically. The Indians were armed and were used as pawns by British agents from Carolina in the European struggle for dominion over North America.

(Colonial Era • Exploration • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Prairie Farms Resettlement Community

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Alabama, Macon County, Shorter
(obverse)
Beginning in the mid-1930s during the Great Depression, the federal New Deal promoted Land Resettlement to move farmers across the nation off worn out soil to new farmland. The Resettlement Administration, and its successor the Farm Security Administration, established one of these experimental planned communities here in west Macon County, the all-African American “Prairie Farms.” With more than 3,100 acres from two plantations purchased by the federal government, the resettlement plan included 34 farms, a community pasture, a community center and school, a store, and a home-site for the project manager. The Prairie Farms Resettlement Project included four local families and 30 families from the Tuskegee Planned Land Use Demonstration in east Macon County. Each farmstead had a new house with electricity, a drilled well and sanitary privy, a barn, stable, poultry house, vegetable house, and pig pen. Project manager Coleman Camp directed the diversified agricultural program based on livestock, especially hogs, vegetables, and hay and away from dependence on cotton. (Continued on other side) (reverse)
(Continued from other side) The resettlement farmers organized the Prairie Farms Cooperative Association in June of 1937 and operated a store, canning plant, feed and grist mill, hay baler, tractor and plows, mowing machine and cane mill. It provided farmers a way to buy equipment and supplies, market crops and livestock, and gin cotton cooperatively. The association managed the community pasture and cattle herd. The Tuskegee Institute Prairie Farms Laboratory School, headed by Principal Deborah Cannon (Wolfe), provided education for the surrounding community. The school, supported by Tuskegee Institute faculty and students, consisted of a five-room building for grades 1-9, along with home economics facilities, a farm shop with tools, a health center equipped for examinations and treatment, a teachers’ cottage, a barn, and a playground. The school doubled as a community center and a site for evening adult education and vocational classes. From 1944-1951, the U.S. Government sold all of the farm units to private owners.

(African Americans • Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Town of Hayneville

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Alabama, Lowndes County, Hayneville
In the 1820s, Hayneville was known as "Big Swamp." In 1830, after being chosen as the county seat of Lowndes County, it was named Hayneville for Robert Y. Hayne, governor of South Carolina and a U.S. senator. The incorporation of Hayneville as a town began with the desire and vision of 25 qualified electors of the county and residents of the Hayneville community in July 1967. Two subsequent attempts were made in incorporation, the last resulting in favor of incorporation. Only one person filed for a statement of candidacy and was nominated for the office of Mayor and five places on the Town Council. Therefore, due to the completion of the requirements for Incorporation, the court declared on July 15, 1968, by Probate Judge Harold Hammond, that Hayneville was completely incorporated.

The following people held their respective offices until the next regular election and until their successors were qualified and elected: Mayor: L. W. Crocker and Council members J. A. Jackson, W.M. Holladay, L. R. Haigler, J. A. Wise, and R. V. Harrell. In 2004, Helenor T. Bell was elected the first African female mayor of the town of Hayneville.

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

Hayneville

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Alabama, Lowndes County, Hayneville
Founded in 1820 by settlers from the Edgefield, Abbeville, and Colleton Districts of South Carolina on property purchased from the U.S. Land Office at Cahaba. Officially named Hayneville in 1831 to honor South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne. Hayne's 1830 debates with Daniel Webster in the U.S. Senate over the nature of the federal union earned fame for the South Carolinian across the South and remain classics in American political discourse.

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

Cherokee Treaty

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Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta
In 1808–1809, the Cherokee nation divided when some of its members decided to move west of the Mississippi River to pursue a hunter lifestyle where game was plentiful rather than live the more settled lifestyle prevalent in the east. A portion of tribal land in Georgia was ceded to the U.S. in exchange for land in Arkansas Territory. Disputes with neighboring tribes and encroachment of white settlers led the western (Arkansas) Cherokees to sign this treaty on May 6, 1828 than had them exchange their land again to move further west into the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). The treaty granted additional benefits to eastern Cherokees who chose to migrate, and it was hoped that enticement would lead them to peacefully relinquish all remaining claims to land in Georgia, including Cobb County. When further negotiations failed and the events of the Trail of Tears occurred a decade later, the eastern Cherokees were escorted to the Indian Territory to join those already settled there as a result of this treaty.

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

Henry E. "Hank" Chouteau

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California, Los Angeles County, Lancaster
As Northrop’s Chief Test Pilot for advanced fighter aircraft, Hank Chouteau helped develop dozens of new or modified aircraft, participating in aircraft design, development, test flights and marketing.

Chouteau logged more than 7,300 flight hours in more than 80 models of aircraft. He piloted first flights in nine aircraft including the YF-5A, F-5A, F-5E, the CF-5A and CF-5B in Canada, the NF-5 in the Netherlands, and the YF-17 prototype for the F-18 Navy Strike Fighter. He helped develop the F-18L Cobra, F-89J atomic weapon equipment interceptor, the T-38 supersonic trainer, the A-9 ground attack fighter, the F-5A Freedom Fighter and the F-5E international Fighter.

During World War II, Chouteau was assigned to the European Theater as a member of the Army Air Corps’ 587th Bomb Squadron. He returned to the Air Force in the Korean War flying 100 sorties with the 12th Fighter/Bomber Squadron in the F-51 Mustang; he later flew sorties in Vietnam in the F-5.

Chouteau was born in Oklahoma in 1924. He earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wyoming, and graduated from the USAF Maintenance Officer School and Test Pilot School.

Chouteau has been honored by the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four clusters, four Battle Stars, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the South Vietnamese Cross of Honor, the Award of Pilot Wings by the United States, Vietnamese and Ethiopian Air Forces.

Established in 1990 by the Lancaster City Council, the Aerospace Walk of Honor celebrates test pilots who were associated with Edwards AFB. Recognition is awarded for distinguished aviation careers marked by significant and obvious achievements beyond one specific accomplishment.

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

Arthur K. "Kit" Murray

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California, Los Angeles County, Lancaster
Arthur "Kit" Murray was instrumental in pioneering the techniques of air-to-air fueling and the development of talk-down techniques for landing experimental aircraft. As a Flight Test Pilot at Edwards AFB, he flew programs on the X-1A and X-5, flew the X-4 and made the first powered flight on the X-1B. He developed control techniques in 13 semi-ballistic flights of the Bell X-1A at record altitudes. In 1954, Murray flew the Bell X-1A to a new unofficial world altitude of 90,440 feet, becoming the first person to see the curvature of the earth. He rose to Chief of Programs Division charged with programming all Air Force Flight Test Center Projects.

Murray managed the technical efforts and funds on NATO aircraft in Paris.

He then served as Chief of the X-15 Project Office. He left the USAF in 1961 and joined Boeing where he managed Crew Integration for the X-20A Dyna Soar and the MOLAB. Later he became Boeing Manager of Requirements for Kennedy Space Center. In 1968 he joined Bell Helicopter where his duties involved market analysis and identification of future VTOL aircraft requirements.

Kit Murray was honored by the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with eight clusters, Society of Experimental Test Pilots Fellowship, French Medal of the City of Paris.

Established in 1990 by the Lancaster City Council, the Aerospace Walk of Honor celebrates test pilots who were associated with Edwards AFB. Recognition is awarded for distinguished aviation careers marked by significant and obvious achievements beyond one specific accomplishment.

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

John B. "Jack" McKay

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California, Los Angeles County, Lancaster
Jack McKay died in 1975--20 years to the day after his first rocket flight. He had retired from NASA four years earlier, climaxing a 20-year flying career at Edwards in which he become one of the Center’s most experienced rocket pilots. In the 50's and 60's, McKay flew most of the nation’s rocket aircraft--from the "B" and "E" versions of the famed X-1, to the X-15.

McKay flew the jet and rocket versions of the D-558 Skyrocket. He went aloft in the follow-on versions of the X-1, flying the first 13 of the 17 NACA missions logged with the X-1B. Other aircraft McKay flew included the semi-tailless X-4, the X-5 first swing-wing aircraft, plus the Century-Series Fighters--the F-100, F-102, F-104 and F-107. He was selected as one of the original seven pilots to fly the X-15. McKay flew the X-15 29 times, earning an astronaut rating in the aircraft, taking it to an altitude of 295,600 feet, nearly 56 miles, and achieving a speed of 3,935 mph, Mach 5.6.

Born in Virginia in 1922, McKay flew 82 combat missions as a Navy Fighter Pilot in World War II. He returned home to earn a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1950.

Jack McKay was honored by the Air Medal with two clusters; Presidential Unit Citation; John J. Montgomery Award, National Society of Aerospace Professionals; Award for Achievement, National Aeronautic Association; and Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Hall of Fame.

Established in 1990 by the Lancaster City Council, the Aerospace Walk of Honor celebrates test pilots who were associated with Edwards AFB. Recognition is awarded for distinguished aviation careers marked by significant and obvious achievements beyond one specific accomplishment.

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

Ebbetts Pass Veterans Memorial

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California, Calaveras County, Murphys
Dedicated to
honor and revere
the sacrifices
of all those
who have served
their country

Includes location, directions, 15 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Paradise Pioneers

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California, Butte County, Paradise
There are four sides to this marker, a plaque on each side.

Side 2

1852 – 1886 Eugene F. Kunkle • Durville Bequette • Charles Deleplain • Hinrich Buschmann • John Wake • Benjamin F. Butler • William Leonard • Willaim Dresser • James Detro • Austin B. Satterlee • Emphriam Comstock • William Chapman • Emmitt Miller • Samuel Knox • William Armstrong • Alexander McClure Elliott • Andrew Lewis Bennum • Abner W. Bunnell • Benjamin James Jarboe • J. Cook • Stephen W. Henderson • John Holder • B.K. Erwin • Henry Calvin Hoose • Emanuel E. Hoskins • John A. Nunneley • John Strong • Henry Miles Strong • Dodridge D. Proctor • Frank Leininger • William Adams • Frances Strong Breese • G.S. Skillin • Frank E. Levulett • Joseph Copland • Charles Mc Dowell • Nelson Stetson • Alexander Tait • Henry Hyde • William Lockerman • Charles Foster • William Norton • John Powers • Matthew Edge • Mrs. Sarah A. Jenkins • James Pearson • Benjamin B. Russell • Richard Ballew • John Howard • George R. Hill

Side 3
1886 – 1930 Matthew Edge • Charles Van Ness • J.L. Chandler • N.H. Van Fossen • Alfred A. Nickerson • Dr. William B. Lovett • Joseph Moore • George B. Pearce • Frederick W. Day • C.A. Oliver • Henry Tamerius • Joseph F. Wayland • Charles Stearns • Mrs. Annie E. Vine • Sophia S. Pence • George Henry Crossette • Samuel Odgen • Dr. D.W. Wasley • Wm. A. Galbraith • C.E. Smith • James E. Alley • Annie Warren • May Baker Hatch • Bryon O. Clark • William Lewis • C.M. Burkett • A.G. Ingalls • John Wagstaff • Lillian Compton Fletcher • Martin V. Roe • I.G. Hamma • Ralph Berry • Elsie Hamburger • George N. Libby • E.P. Alderson • Iva Charlton Collett • Emma Blackburn • H.A. Lydell • George Christian Bille • Charles Neilson • Ralph M. Brown • Carl Heinke • William Stratton • Perry Noble • Alie N. Gobin • Dixon J. Thomas • Dr. Dorothy C. Load • Fred Hawkes • Richard C. Hammer

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Krien- or Upper-Gate

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Switzerland, Lucerne (canton), Lucerne (district), Lucerne
1269 erstmals erwähnt. Ausfalltor Richtung Kriens, Horw und Brünig. Zugang zu den Handwerkersiedlungen entlang dem Krienbach. 1481–1482 erneuert, 1856 abgebrochen.
German-English translation:

First mentioned in 1269. Exit gate towards Kriens, Horw and Brünig, providing access to the artisan settlements along the Krienbach. Rebuilt 1481-1482, demolished in 1856.


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

Leavenworth

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Minnesota, Brown County, Leavenworth
In 1857, settlers platted a townsite in Section 14 of the Leavenworth area. During the next year, Dr. J. B. Calkins established the post office and became its first postmaster. Leavenworth Township was legally organized on April 16, 1859. Seven officers were elected: Luther Whiton, chair; Isaac Bandy and Seth Henshaw, supervisors; George Charnock, clerk; Peter Kelly, assessor; and G. W. Maffett and C. R. Putnam, constables. During the Dakota Conflict of 1862, the settlers fled the area, returning later to build the new village of Leavenworth in Section 27. The settlement grew and prospered to the point where it boasted a blacksmith shop, general store, sawmill, flour mill, shoemaker, physician, and druggist. The dreams of expansion were taken away when the railroad bypassed Leavenworth in the 1870s, and the new village was never incorporated. Today, the Church of the Japanese Martyrs, erected in the late 1860s, embodies the remnants of one of Brown County's earliest settlements.

Erected by the Brown County Historical Society in 1992

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Gillies

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Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Tulsa


Gilcrease Museum pays tribute to the 13 visionary women who founded The Gillies, a volunteer organization formed in 1967 to serve the many needs of the museum. We salute these community leaders who played such an important role in developing what has become a vital partnership of sustaining support for the museum. May all who visit Gilcrease Museum be inspired by the generosity and commitment of the Gillies and their ethos of service that continues to serve as a model of civic and community engagement.

Marjorie Blocksom • Marian Bovaird • Jancie Daniel • Jean Devlin • Beeb Gannaway • Kay Hardy • Mildred Ladner • Patsy Lyon • Judy Mallory • Nancy Patton • Ann Phaenacie • Ellie Shaughnessy • Joan Stauffer

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Simón Bolívar

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Oklahoma, Tulsa County, Tulsa


Liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panamá.
Born: Caracas, Venezuela
July 24, 1783
Died: Santa Marta, Colombia
December 17, 1830

"I prefer the title of Citizen to that of Liberator, because while the latter has its origin in War, the former has been created by the law of the Land."
Simón Bolívar, October 3, 1821

"...Liberator...a name given by both the Old World and the New, to the man whose influence is equaled only by his abnegation and in whose heart is a boundless love of liberty and all-powerful, unreserved devotion to the Republic."
Lafayette, in a letter to Simón Bolívar, dated September 1, 1825.

On May 4, 1991, this statue of Simón Bolívar, by the Venezuelan sculptor Silvestre Chacón, was donated to the city of Tulas by Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., in accordance with the recommendation of the Venezuelan Consulate in Houston, Texas.

(Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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