Birthplace of Dwight David Eisenhower

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


Birthplace
October 14, 1890
of
Dwight David Eisenhower
President of the
United States of America

Presented to the People of Texas
by the
Eisenhower Birthplace Foundation
Amon G. Carter • Sid W. Richardson
Web Maddox • Houston Harts
Oveta Culp Hobby • Fred Conn
in cooperation with the
Citizens of Denison

Joseph R. Pelich
Architect
1958

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Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building

April 6, 2014, 4:30 pm

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Mount Lebanon
Mt. Lebanon Municipal Building
William H. King, Jr., Architect
1928-30

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Borough of Dormont Pool

April 6, 2014, 4:38 pm

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Dormont
Borough of Dormont Pool
1920

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Birthplace of Dwight Eisenhower

April 6, 2014, 4:46 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


Thirty-fourth President of the United States; born here Oct. 14, 1890, third son of David J. and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower.

Dwight Eisenhower graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, 1915; in 1943, during World War II, was appointed Commanding General of Allied Forces in Europe; served as President of Columbia University, 1948-1952; was President of U.S., 1952-1960; active elder statesman later.

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Guyasuta

April 6, 2014, 5:16 pm

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Sharpsburg
Guyasuta ("Crosses Standing in a Row), a leader of the Seneca Tribe whose hunting ground included the Sharpsburg area, served as George Washington's guide during a 1753 survey of the point. He later represented his people in negotiations with the British settlers. During his later years, he settled in the area now known as Guyasuta Reservation and was probably buried in the area now occupied by the north end of the Highland Park Bridge.

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Whose Home Is It?

April 6, 2014, 6:58 pm

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Indiana, Porter County, Beverly Shores


Indigenous (native)
If you dove into the waters of Lake Michigan thousands of years ago, you would have disturbed the home of many indigenous species, such as lake trout, lake whitefish, yellow perch, and lake sturgeon. These healthy native fish lived in a clean lake. They fed off one another, maintained the natural balance of aquatic life, and allowed one another to thrive.

• Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
• Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
• Burbot (Lota lota)
• Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
• Cisco (Coregonus artedi)
• Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens)
• Trout-Perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus)
• Longnose Dace (Rhinichthys cataractae)

Invasive (non-native)
With the growth of trade and industry, big ships came into Lake Michigan. Invasive fish species followed within the ballast water of these big ships or through the Great Lakes Canal system. Without proper predators to control their growth, these newcomers upset the balance of aquatic life. Sea lampreys devastated the native lake trout and alewife outnumbered native fish. The National Park Service and other park partners work to reduce invasive species and make Lake Michigan a better home for all who share its waters.

• Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
• Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
• Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
• Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
• Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

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The E. M. Kohl Building

April 6, 2014, 7:00 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


Ernst Martin Kohl (1857-1935), former German Navy captain who came to Denison in 1885, built the first floor of this structure in 1893 to house a grocery store and saloon. He added the top three floors in 1909-11 as his family's residence. In the 1930s, this building became the Traveler's Hotel, drawing business from the nearby railroad district. Purchased in 1968 by Mr. and Mrs. Bud Tucker, it was sold in 1975 to Dr. and Mrs. D. H. Brandt and restored by their sons, Bill, Bob, and Charles. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior

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Is This an Ocean or a Lake?

April 6, 2014, 7:08 pm

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Indiana, Porter County, Beverly Shores
Here you can surf the waves, stroll the shoreline, and see the dunes, but you are not at the ocean. Lake Michigan is part of the world’s largest fresh water system–the Great Lakes. Extending northward for 307 miles and averaging 118 miles from east to west, it is, indeed, a great lake.

This vast body has 1,180 cubic miles of water, enough to cover 48 states two fee deep. For the millions of people living within its watershed, it is a valuable source of fresh drinking water.

What’s the Difference?
Lakes:

• made of fresh and salt water.
• surrounded by land.
• larger and deeper than ponds and fed by rivers.
• considered temporary, in geologic terms.

Oceans:

• large, continuous bodies of salt water.
• responsible, through evaporation, for rainfall on land.
• affect wind and climate patterns.
• cover nearly 71 percent of the Earth’s surface.

(Graphic Caption)
Imagine how this landscape looked 14,000 years ago, when a mile-thick sheet of ice covered the region. As the glacier slowly melted it left depressions in the earth that gradually filled with water. These huge basins are called the Great Lakes.

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John W. Leahy

April 6, 2014, 7:25 pm

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Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury
John W. Leahy
1895 – 1975 A showman whose genuine love and understanding of people endeared him to the hearts of young and old alike. By his personal warmth, imagination, and drive, he built the Danbury State Fair into a nationally known attraction. Placed by Fair Concessionaires,
The S.N.Y.R.A., and Many Friends

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Danbury Disasters

April 6, 2014, 7:26 pm

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Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury

When the Kohanza Reservoir Dam gave way on the night of February 20, 1869, sixty acres of water, ice, lumber and debris roared down north Main Street. It took shops, homes, bridges and factories with it and several lives were lost. A combination of heavy frost and a neglected earlier break were cited as the cause.
Tropical storms in August and October of 1955 brought continuous, torrential downpours to the area. In October, the resulting flood paralyzed the city for days. Utilities were cut off and people were marooned in cars, trains, homes and businesses until rescued by helicopter, boat and army vehicles.
Businesses were badly damaged particularly in the area of Wooster Square and White Street. Federally sponsored Flood Control and redevelopment programs led to the re-channeling of the Still River downtown. New bridges went up, new streets were added and some streets disappeared altogether. Scores of older buildings were demolished. The flood greatly changed the face and character of the city’s future.
The resilience of Danbury and its citizens has been evident since the arrival of the first settlers. Just as reflected on our City Seal by a phoenix, our residents have risen from the ashes time and again.
These unforeseen events may have changed the look of the downtown Danbury area throughout our history but at the same time they managed to propel our city forward.

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248 Main Street

April 6, 2014, 7:26 pm

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Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury
About This Building
248 Main Street
This handsome Victorian Romanesque building was built as the new headquarters for the Danbury National Bank in 1887.
The architect, Warren Biggs of Bridgeport, used stone from Massachusetts. The building is constructed of Longmeadow brownstone with red Chicopee stone trim. All of the stone carving was done on the construction site and the name of the bank remains over the entrance. This is the only true brownstone building on Main Street.
The Danbury National Bank moved out of this building in 1924. Thomas Settle and four employees moved into the building in 1940. The Settle Agency continues to occupy the building to this day.
The original steep gables on the third floor were destroyed by fire in 1973. The upper story was rebuilt in 1989.

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Wooster Square

April 6, 2014, 7:27 pm

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Connecticut, Fairfield County, Danbury

The intersection of Main Street with White and Elm Streets, known as Wooster Square became an increasingly important section of town with the completion of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depot on Main Street in 1851.
As the main route through Danbury expanded over time, taverns, businesses, private residences, and the Sandemanian Church, were located in the surrounding area.
The spot became the hub for many of Danbury’s landmark businesses. Gathering places occupied all four corners. Some of our city’s most well known destinations were situated in this prime location, home to headquarters for military and fraternal organizations, social clubs and schools.
The Wooster House Hotel, Capitol Theater, Culhane’s Drugstore, The Globe Drygoods Store, The Danbury News, Benjamin Drug and Soda Shop, Newman’s Dance Academy, Feinson’s Department Store, Military Hall and Stillman Business College all called Wooster Square home.
The street, once a dirt path, gradually became wider and paved with Belgian blocks. Pedestrians who once gathered under the shady elms to discuss the news of the day took to horse and carriage, trolley, automobiles and buses to make their way around town.
By the late 1930s the traffic signal at Wooster Square was a small hut topped with an impressive colummn of lights. New buildings, along with phone and power lines, replaced the majesty of the rand, old elms.
The flood of 1955 drastically changed the area and the name Wooster Square itself seems to have evaporated much like the waters that suberged it so long ago.

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North-South Railway Connection

April 6, 2014, 7:34 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


On December 24, 1872, a Missouri, Kansas & Texas (Katy) Railroad train carrying 100 passengers arrived here in the newly established railroad town of Denison. Its arrival marked the culmination of years of effort by the Katy to construct a rail line from the border of Kansas and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) south to the Red River and into Texas. The Katy earned this lucrative right-of-way by being first in a national competition to construct a rail line from St. Louis south to the Indian Territory. Several months later the unheralded connection of the nation's first north-to-south rail service west of the Mississippi River was established here when a Texas Central Railroad train pulled into Denison from the south on March 10, 1873.

In a brief ceremony to commemorate the occasion Denison Mayor L. S. Owings addressed a small crowd by reading the contents of a telegram he had dispatched to Galveston, Houston, New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco proclaiming his town's new role as a key link in the nation's network of rail lines.

With this connection passengers and shippers could depend on continuous rail passage from the Texas Gulf Coast, where the Texas Central originated, through Denison to St. Louis where rail linkages extended north to Chicago, east to New York, and west to San Francisco.

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The Confederate Line

April 7, 2014, 10:43 am

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Virginia, Orange County, near Locust Grove
Dick Ewell was raring for a fight. When a subordinate approached him early on May 5, 1864, and asked Ewell about his orders, the balding, pop-eyed general piped up cheerily: "... Just the orders I like - to go right down the [turnpike] and strike the enemy wherever I find him."

Ewell made contact with the Union army here at Saunders Field. Deploying in line of battle across the turnpike, the Confederates began to entrench using knives, bayonets, shovels made from canteen halves, or whatever other tools they could find. The earthen mounds around you are a remnant of their handiwork.

For two days Ewell's men stubbornly defended this ridge against attacks by the Union Fifth and Sixth corps. Unable to dent Ewell's strong position here along the turnpike, Grant turned his attention south, to the Orange Plank Road. It was there that the battle was decided.

"A bayonet served to loosen the dirt, and the shovels followed after. Our men were good woodcutters and were not slow to fell trees as the basis for the works .... It was surprising to see how hastily they threw up trenches in a night and even in a few hours." - Assistant Surgeon Thomas F. Wood, 3rd North Carolina Infantry

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Warren's Line

April 7, 2014, 12:45 pm

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Virginia, Spotsylvania County, near Spotsylvania
Following its failure to take Laurel Hill on May 8, 1864, General Gouverneur K. Warren's Fifth Corps entrenched here. This crescent-shape work protected two Union cannons. Warren's line extended from the Po River, one mile to your right, to the Brock Road, a short distance to your left. The Confederates held a strong position on the opposite edge of the field, one-quarter mile ahead of you.

Warren again attacked the Confederate line unsuccessfully on May 10 and on May 12. With each repulse, casualties mounted and enthusiasm waned. "It is not a matter of surprise that they had lost all spirit for that kind of work," explained one Union officer, "as their previous experience had taught them that to [attack] was certain death on that front." Stymied at Laurel Hill, Grant turned his attention to the Muleshoe Salient, one mile to your left. There, Union arms enjoyed greater success.

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Stephen Tyng Mather

April 7, 2014, 4:51 pm

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Indiana, Porter County, Beverly Shores
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.

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Signal Company Texas 36th Inf. Div. Veterans Memorial

April 7, 2014, 5:44 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


Organized Sept. 19, 1922
Mobilized Nov. 25, 1940
Denison, Texas

In Honor
of Those Who Served

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Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

April 7, 2014, 6:04 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


In 1865 the Union Pacific Railway Southern Branch was incorporated to build a railroad from the St. Louis-Kansas City area to the Gulf of Mexico. In 1870, with construction completed to the border of Indian Territory, the line was renamed the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. This title was often shortened to M-K-T, which led to the familiar nickname by with the line is best known -- "The Katy."

Following the route of an old cattle trail, the Katy became the first railroad to cross Indian Territory, now the State of Oklahoma, and enter Texas from the north. On Christmas Day 1872, over 100 passengers rode the first Katy train into Denison, a new townsite named for M-K-T Vice President George Denison. The construction and acquisition of branch lines soon extended the Katy east to Greenville, west to Rotan and Wichita Falls, and south to Galveston and San Antonio. By 1904, the system had over 1,000 miles of track in Texas. The railroad transported cattle, cotton, and other crops to market. It also carried passengers on such trains as the "Texas Special" and the "Katy Flyer" before passenger service ended in 1965.

Today (1975) Denison is a division headquarters on the M-K-T and the home of about 600 railroad employees.

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Veterans Memorial

April 7, 2014, 6:19 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


In memory of
the men and women of
Denison, Texas
who have served
their country
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Knights of Columbus
Denison County 830
May the souls of the
dearly departed, through
the mercy of God,
rest in peace.

Rededicated July 4, 1990

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Katy Park Rededication

April 7, 2014, 6:49 pm

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Texas, Grayson County, Denison


This monument commemorates the restoration in the year 1985 of the original Katy Park, built in the early 1900's and honors the many dedicated Denisonians and others who made the achievement possible. Their names appear here along with these major benefactors:

[Names not transcribed]

M-K-T Railway Engine No. 15, with Engineer Pat Tobio, was first train ever to enter Texas from the north and arrived in Denison at 7:00 p.m. on December 29, 1872.

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