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A Recovering Forest

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Washington, Pierce County, Paridise Inn
Does this forest look different than the forest on the other side of the river? Multiple mudflows have raced down Mount Rainier’s slopes snapping off trees like toothpicks. When the mud stopped flowing, it set like concrete over tree roots, suffocating them. The younger trees here are beginning to heal the scar left by many mudflows.

Look at the different species of trees in this forest. Many are Douglas-fir, western hemlock, and alder, some of the first to sprout through the thick mud. Staying on trails allows forests to recover naturally. This forest will continue to recover until the next disturbance occurs.

(Inscription over the photo in the bottom left)
Look for the western hemlock with its droop limbs of flat needles, small cones, and a rough scaly bark.

(Inscription over the photo in the bottom right)
Alders have leaves with teeth-like edges and smooth bark, often partially covered with lichens.

(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First State Capitol

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling
First Government of West Virginia established here on June 20, 1863 with Arthur I. Boreman as Governor. This building served as the state capitol until 1870 and again from 1875 to 1876.

Approved by the Wheeling Area Historical Society

(Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Changing Course

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Washington, Pierce County, Paridise Inn
Not long ago, the waters of Kautz Creek filled this creek bed. Today only a small stream flows here. Kautz Creek has moved.

Along with record rainfall, early November 2006 brought debris flows to several areas of the park. Not far from here, one of these flows rerouted Kautz Creek: coming to a stop at a high and narrow point in the creek bed, the debris flow dammed the creek. Diverted by this barrier, the rain-swollen creek carved a new course through the forest.

Do the changes at Kautz Creek hint at the future of the Mount Rainier landscape? Over the last 5 years, park scientists have recorded an increase number of debris flows from small, south-facing glaciers. Scientists suggest this increase may be linked to global climate change: when changing weather patterns cause glaciers to melt, debris flows become more common. As global climate change reconfigures the glaciers and restructures weather patterns, the landscape of Mount Rainier will continue to be reshaped.

(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mississippi's Old Capitol

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Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson
As the state capitol (1839-1903), this building was the site of the 1861 Secession Convention and 1868 and 1890 Constitutional Conventions. Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Jefferson Davis spoke here. After housing state offices 1917-1959, the Old Capitol was restored and opened in 1961 as the state historical museum. Damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it was restored again and reopened in 2009.

(Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New Gate

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry


In 1787 the walls were breached for the first time to improve access to the city centre. It is said that the gate was built to cope with crowds flocking to the New Theatre in Artillery Street but was closed in 1799 due to complaints from the audience that the noise outside disturbed the performance. The gate was reopened and widened in the 1860s.

(Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Inspired to Preserve

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Washington, Pierce County, Paridise Inn
Since the early 1900s people have parked at this site to get an exceptional view of Mount Rainier. The park road was designed to harmonize with the landscape and take advantage of spectacular vistas like this one.

The surrounding scenery has the power to inspire. In the timeless presence of the mountain, people have been motivated to explore, to recreate, to connect with our heritage, and to fight for the preservation of wilderness. This view---and others like it---have inspired a deep and lasting commitment to protect the park and keep it in its original, pristine state.

By stopping here, each visitor embraces the vision of others inspired by the power of this vista.

“To foresee the beauty of Mount Rainier one must know many things—rivers, tumbling from boulder to boulder…a tiny fawn nestling under a shrub…flower fields that stretch unending distances…glaciers grinding and tearing at the high mound of rock…And of men who were drawn to this mountain as surely as if a great magnet has pulled them. All of these things are separate, but all are a part of the story of Mount Rainier.”
John Barnett, former park naturalist, 1978


(Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Alexander Leidesdorff

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
Builder • Entrepreneur • Visionary
Pioneer San Franciscan • African-American

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

Old Capitol

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Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson
Begun in 1833. Here Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Jefferson Davis spoke. Was scene of 1861 Secession Convention, Black and Tan Convention of 1868, & 1890 Constitutional Convention.

(Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Home of Benjamen Chinn

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
Photographer Benjamen Chinn was born, raised and spent virtually his entire live in this house. Chinn is best known for his iconic photographs of San Francisco’s Chinatown and Paris, France.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Birthplace of a Great City

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
Here, June 25, 1835, William A. Richardson, founder of Yerba Buena, (later San Francisco) erected its first habitation, a tent dwelling, replacing it, in October 1835, by the first wooden house, and on this ground, in 1836, he erected the large adobe building, known as “Casa Grande.”

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

The Montgomery Block

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
This, San Francisco’s first fireproof building erected in 1853 by Henry Wager Helleck, was the headquarters for many outstanding lawyers, financiers, writers, actors and artists. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin, died here after being shot by James Casey, May 14, 1856. Escaping destruction in the fire of 1906, the building is preserved in memory of those who lived and worked in it.

Plaque below The Montgomery Block marker.
Montgomery Block
1853 – 1959

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The General Harrison

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
The remains of the gold rush supply ship, the General Harrison, lie beneath this building. The sidewalk treatment reminds us that Clay Street was once a wharf at the edge of San Francisco Bay with tidal mud flats to the north, and in 1850 ships like the General Harrison were moored alongside and used as storehouses. The sculpture on the building was inspired by the waterline shape, frames and planking of the ship.

The Sidewalk was designed by Topher Delany and the ship sculpture by Curtis Hollenback and Topher Delaney. They were contributed by Club Quarter under the City of San Francisco percent for the art program.

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Julien

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New York, Orange County, Westtown
St. Julien
1870 birthplace of St. Julien,
Horse Which Set World Record,
1879. Painting by Scott
Lighton, Later Lithographed
By Currier and Ives.
Town of Minisink 1986

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

Orange County

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New York, Orange County, Westtown
Orange County
One of original counties
of province of New York.
Established 1683, by Gov.
Thomas Dongan, named for
William, Prince of Orange

State Education
Department 1936

(Political Subdivisions) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

White Angel

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
It was westering and westering. And then the old men came to edge of the continent and saw they could go no further, they broke down and wept. Down and out on the waterfront in Frisco. The end of the line. Out of work. Out of food. And out of hope. San Francisco – at the end of the line – had always had more than its share of transient men, on the move, looking for work. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the sheer number of people without homes and without food overwhelmed the city’s many charities, as bread lines wound around the city blocks, and each day, soup kitchens fed one hot meal to thousands, who otherwise would not survive. Here at the foot of Telegraph Hill, from June 1931 through September 1933, one woman carried out her own plan to help. Her name was Lois Jordan, the soup kitchen she set up on Abe Reuff’s junk filled lot, bound by Embarcadero and Battery, between Filbert and Greenwich, became known as White Angel Jungle. “Seamen without ships, longshoremen with no cargo to load, railroad men out of jobs, carpenters with nothing to build... penniless and friendless in a big city, they have been fed, clothed and mothered by Mother Jordan.”
San Francisco Call, June 13, 1932

“What Does it Matter?” the hand-lettered banner read – “America’s One with the White Jungle.” Here many groups of men ate together at trestle tables; each bore a sign; “Seamen” “Lumber Jacks” “Railroad Men” “Truck Drivers” “Longshoremen”, and each table sported gallon-sized tin cans filled with garden flowers. “Mrs. Lois Jordan had petted them and scolded them, given them stamps and stationary, and bidden them write to wives, mothers, and sisters left behind in happier and more prosperous days. It is one of the sights of San Francisco to see Mother Jordan, clad in a snowy white uniform,, stand at the head of a line that forms twice a day for the wholesome, simple home-cooked food she dispenses.” San Francisco Call, June 13, 1932. In the beginning, she cooked in her kitchen at home and delivered food to the waterfront; later, she fed two hot meals a day to hundreds – food, clothing, and money were donated at her waterfront office-kitchen, built by the men in the shape of a land-locked “rescue-boat” complete with bowsprit, masts and flag-bedecked rigging. The White Angel Jungle was not her only effort at direct help, she organized a free-farm for indigent families near Pleasanton, and when that effort collapsed in 1939, she operated the first and only community-owned grocery store at Hunters Point. Finally, she ran out of her own money, and the energy to raise funds from others. Lois Jordan died in the county hospital April 29, 1949.

On the face of the marker

While I turned my head that traveler I’d just passed melted into mist.

(Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Monument

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Minnesota, Redwood County, Redwood Falls
The Grand Army of the Republic Badge

Erected 1913 by W. R. C.
Sacred to the Memory
of our Civil War
Veterans 1861 - 1865

Gideon Richardson · Co. D. 195 Ohio Inf. • A.L. Gale · Co. H. 14 N.H. Inf. • Andrew G. Welch · Co. B. 2 Wis Cav. • Willet Greene · Co. E. 1 Wis Cav. • Traucott Henze · Co.    17 Wis Reg. • John Sisler ·    2 Ind Battery • Frank Dickensen ·    1 Minn Inf. • James Stephens · Co F. 8 Minn Inf. • E.O. Chapman · Co    4 Minn. • D.J. Laird · Co F. 1 Minn Heavy Art. • H.D. Chollar · Paymasters Clerk. • J.F. Baker · Co. B. 4 Wis Cav. • W.D. Flinn ·    23 Wis Inf. • Geo. Buxton · Co H. 32 Wis Inf. • E.B. Hale · Co B. 2 Minn Cav. • N. Bixby · Ast. Surgeon 3 Minn Vol. • O.A. Hinnes · Co D. 76 A C • Frank Burton • Henry Hill • Lafayette Truesdell • Colonel Chandler • Abica Northrup • John Scott • Carl A. Simondet

Hugh Coyle • Randolph Gleason • Eugene Thorp • Jasper Fischer • Jas. McDermott • Henry R. Draper • Harvey Warner • Wm. Simmons • John H. Thomas · Co I. 3 Minn Vol. • Frederich Holt • Henry Timms · Co I. 3 Minn Vol. • Elias A. Lyman · Co. I. 3 Minn Vol. • Alpheus A. Wilson · Co. D. 38 Ind. Inf. • Lumon A. Colson · Co. M. 3 Me. Heavy Art. • August F. Werner · Co. C. 38 Wis. Vol. Inf. • Henry Schmidt · Co. D. 5 Minn. Inf. • Orin J. Swan · Co. K. 5 Iowa Cav. • Jay W. Ferris · Co A. 35 Wis. Inf. • Charles Beer · Co. I. 8 Minn. Inf. • John Schaffer · Co. C. 2 Mo. Arty. • Andrew Stuart · Co. G. 5 Minn. Inf. • John Cummings · Co. D. 2 Minn. Inf.

James M. Dunnington · Co H 25 Ohio Inf. • S.N. Rowe · Co E 6 Wis Inf. • Sylvester Truesdell · Co F 8 Minn Inf. • T.D. Broughton · Co E 7 Minn Inf. • James B. Robinson · Co B 85 N.Y. Inf. • James Whittaker · Co I. 3 Wis Cav. • August Discher · Co C 45 Ill Inf. • John Strawzell · Co F Minn Cav. • Gottleib Dietzmann · Co. A 5 Mo. Inf. • Ener Birum · Co A. 6 Wis Inf. • Robert Davis · Co D. 4 W. Va. Inf. • Wm. Abbott · Co E 7 Wis Inf. • W.P. Tenney · Co G. Minn Heavy Arty. • Jonas Spallsbury · Co N. 6 Minn Inf. • George Smith · Co G. 10 Minn Inf. • H. (Henry) D. Everett · Co D. 1 Wis Cav. • Wm. Davis · Co D. 11 Minn Inf. • Thos. H. King · Co B. 7 Minn Inf. • Warren Brewster · Co H. 20 N.Y. Cav. • S.F. Southwick · Co C. 66 Ill Inf. • W.P. Dunnington · Co A. 2 Cal Cav. • R. (Rufus) G. Chadbourne · Co H. 20 Wis Inf. • J.W. Golden · Co K. 48 Ill Inf. • Edward M. Smith · Co I. 36 Ohio Inf.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Founders of Port Chilkoot

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Alaska, Haines Borough, Haines
Commemorating the Founders
of
Port Chilkoot
World War II Veterans
and their families who bought Fort Wm. H. Seward in 1947
and pioneered their futures here.
Steve Homer • Ted and Mimi Gregg • Carl and Betty Heinmiller • Marty and Allie Cordes • Clarence and Hilma Matson.

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ferryquay Gate

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry


Locking the gates
In 1688 James II proposed to replace the Protestant garrison in the city with Catholic troops. Rumours were rife that the citizens were to be massacred. Meeting in the Diamond, the city leaders could not make up their minds whether to admit the new garrison. Fourteen young men - the 13 Apprentice Boys and their look-out - lost patience. They drew their swords, ran to the guard house, seized the keys to the city, raised the drawbridge of Ferryquay Gate, and shut and locked it. From that day the siege was only a matter of time.

Getting the message across
Extraordinary measures were called for during the 1689 siege. Leaving from the Ferryquay volunteers took messages between the defenders and the ships waiting to relieve the city. One small boy slipped through the lines of Jacobite troops with messages hidden in the gaiters that held up his stockings or sewn into a cloth button. On one occasion the message was conveyed in an animal's bladder concealed within the boy's body. The messages from within the city were grim - only five day's food left and men dropping dead from disease.

Ferry across the Foyle
From the 1620s ferries crossed the Foyle to the landing stage below Ferryquay Gate. Before the first wooden bridge was completed in 1791 passengers could wait for three hours to cross. In the early 20th century a ten minute ferry service took people from the railway station in Waterside to Queen's Quay behind the Guildhall. It was known as the Garrison Ferry because the open boats with petrol engines also carried soldiers across from Ebrington Barracks.

Checkpoint
During the Troubles going to work or shopping could take longer than expected. The British Army set up checkpoints at the main gates into the city and at Craigavon Bridge. The city centre might be cleared during a bomb scare and streets were regularly closed due to bomb damage or protest marches. People were stopped by soldiers and asked for their personal details. They were sometimes searched.

(Disasters • Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Newgate Bastion

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry


The first shot
On 13th April, 1689 the first shot of the siege was fired. Citizens on the walls spotted the vanguard of the Jacobite army approaching under Lieutenant General Richard Hamilton. To make his presence known, Hamilton fired a shot which hit Newgate Bastion. The defenders could not retaliate as they had not yet been issued with arms.

Goods to market
Markets were always a feature of life in the city which served a large agricultural area. Over the centuries there have been separate markets for meal, butter, fruit, fish, herring, meat, poultry, cows, pigs, horse, flax, yarn and linen. In the mid 19th century more than a million metres of material a year were bought and sold for export in the Linen Hall. The nearby Sir Edward Reid's Market was one of the first in Ireland to provide cover from the weather for shoppers.

'All kinds of everything'
Statues of Temperance, Erin and Vulcan look down from the top of St Columb's Hall. Opened in 1888 the 'palace of abstinence' was intended to keep working men away from the 'demon drink'. The 'Hall school' in the basement provided education for the children of dockers. The 'Hall' later adopted a more entertaining role. No Christmas was complete without a visit to its traditional panto. Dana, winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, made her first stage appearance at the 'Hall' aged six.

The Talkies come to town
The Millenium Forum, Northern Ireland's largest purpose-built theatre, opened in 2001. It was built across the street from the Rialto, one of the city's first cinemas. By 1934 the city had six cinemas including the Strand Picture House which could seat 1600 people. The city was just full of picture houses. Every day people would queue outside them to get in. We cheered them all, the baddies and the goodies!

(Disasters • Forts, Castles • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Demi-culverin Cannon

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United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, County Londonderry, Derry-Londonderry


Livery Companies of the
City of London
Demi-culverin (C9)
Bore 4.8," Length 120,"
Weight 3977lb

Sent to the city in May-June 1642 by the
Worshipful Company of Mercers.
Probably cast by John Browne at one of his works in Kent.

(Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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