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William Alexander Leidesdorff

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
Between his arrival in the sleepy trading post of Yerba Buena in 1841 and his untimely death seven years later, William Alexander Leidesdorff – the son of a Danish Jewish sugar planter and a black plantation worker in St. Croix – cemented his legacy as one of San Francisco’s most remarkable founding fathers.

Among his fascinating list of achievements:

City Treasurer • Vice-Consul of the United States to Mexico • Launched the first steamboat to sail the bay (The Sitka) • Built and operated the city’s first hotel (The City Hotel) • Donated the land to build California’s first public school • Member of San Francisco’s first town council • Organized California’s first horse race • Financed the U.S. military’s California campaign in the Mexican American War. • Widely considered to be the United States’ first African-American millionaire.

This statue, sculpted by Bay Area artist Bruce Hasson, pays homage to a true San Francisco visionary who defined the unique spirit of the City by the Bay: innovative, bold, generous and civic-mined.

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

Green Street

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain biographical information on the person for whom the street is named, appropriate quotation(s) and relevant illustrations, cast in bronze.

Businessman, City Councilman and mayoral candidate, Talbot H. Green, while at the high point of his career, was attending a charity ball, when confronted by a young woman before his friends and supporters. She denounced his as being Paul Geddes, the defaulting bank clerk who had absconded from Pennsylvania, deserting his wife and two children. The charge proved true, but Geddes, protesting his innocence, left for Panama to return East to clear his name. Green Street has already been named for this prominent pioneer citizen and San Franciscans kept his name, perhaps as a reminder that in this city of new arrivals, not every man came wearing his true identity.

“It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world.” – Oscar Wilde

(Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Francisco Street

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
This marker consists of six plaques arranged in a 2 X 3 pattern. The top left plaque is the title plaque and may contain some text. The top right plaque displayed an arrow which points in the direction of the named street. Other plaques contain biographical information on the person for whom the street is named, appropriate quotation(s) and relevant illustrations, cast in bronze.

“Blessed Brother Sun... Sister Moon be praised” so sang the mystic, Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order in 1210. Franciscan friars founded the Mission Dolores on a tributary to the bay of San Francisco, named for their patron saint. In 1847 the village of Yerba Buena became San Francisco, and by 1852, Francisco Street appeared on city surveys. Called “God’s Fool” because of his simple love that embraced all creatures, Francis, the son of a well-to-do Italian merchant family, became transformed by mystical experiences from fun-loving, spontaneous troubadour, into a mendicant disciple for Christ who devoted his life to praising God.

“Be praised, my Lord, for Sister Moon and the stars
Formed by you so bright, precious, and beautiful.
Be praised, my lord, for Brother Wind
And the airy skies, so cloudy and serene;
For every weather, be praised, for it is life-giving.”

The Canticle of Brother Sun, by Francis of Assisi

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Santa Fe Freight Depot

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Arizona, Maricopa County, Phoenix
The Santa Fe Freight Depot was constructed in 1929 by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company.The depot is a unique example of a reinforced concrete structure. Like other buildings on Jackson Street, the freight depot reflects the commercial and warehouse development that took place along the railroad tracks. The depot is built along the point where the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads met, the only place in Arizona where the two major railroads were connected. The depot was important for the transferal of trade goods between the two railroads. Phoenix's warehouse district developed in the area because of the importance of this connection point. The depot is a good example of the Moderne style, an influential style for commercial architecture in Phoenix during this period. Maricopa County purchased the building in 1999.
This property has been placed on the Phoenix Historic Property Register.

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors
Fulton Brock • Don Stapley • Andrew Kunasek • Max W. Wilson • Mary Rose Garrido Wilcox

County Manager, David R. Smith

Preserving Arizona's Heritage

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Stanley Schoolhouse

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Indiana, Noble County, near Albion
This schoolhouse represents a commitment to education that began early in the settlement of Indiana.
  • The 1915 Stanley Schoolhouse, named after a nearby landowner Henry Stanley, was one of several schoolhouses built on the site. The first was a log structure. A later frame schoolhouse was burned down by an arsonist.
  • The Stanley School house has tall windows facing east and south, allowing sunlight to warm the room and provide light.
  • The grounds around the schoolhouse also included an outhouse, water pump and a schoolyard for recess.
  • I am gratified to know that my pupils have all become useful citizens. Some of the boys are prosperous and intelligent farmers. One is the elder in the Methodist Church. One has been recorder in our county; and not one, to my knowledge, has ever been a saloon keeper.
    - M.A. Love, Noble County school teacher, mid-1800s
  • Look for it!
    What's wrong with the date over the doorway?
  • The 1785 Land Ordinance designated that the 16th section of each township be set aside to support schools. After becoming a state in 1816, Indiana townships frequently sold the section and used the proceeds to build a school. The red square indicates the Stanley Schoolhouse. Can you find other schoolhouses on the map?
  • Through the late 1800s, rural schools remained one-room ungraded schoolhouses, and had less funding. In 1907, the legislature closed all schools with fewer than 12 students. Between 1890 and 1920, 4,000 one-room schoolhouses closed in Indiana. The Stanley Schoolhouse remained opened until 1954.
Today, the Stanley Schoolhouse continues to educate current and future generations.

(Education) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cross of the Martyrs

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New Mexico, Santa Fe
In 1598 a group of Spanish colonists, led by Juan de Oñate of Zacatecas, Mexico, established a settlement along the banks of the Rio Grande north of present-day Española. In 1610 Governor Pedro de Peralta relocated the capital of the province to Santa Fe. Between 1610 and 1680, colonists moved into New Mexico, living primarily along the Rio Grande. Franciscan friars established missions at most of the Indian pueblos. Life was not always peaceful. In order to regain control of their homeland, in 1680, many pueblo people, led by Popé, a San Juan Indian, united to drive the colonists out. Twenty-one Franciscan friars and numerous colonists were killed in what has come to be called the Pueblo Revolt. The rest of the settles fled south to El Paso del Norte. It was not until 1693 that the province was resettled under the leadership of Governor Diego de Vargas.

The cross, which commemorates the deaths of the friars and colonists, was designed by Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Edgar L. Street, and Warren G. Turley. It was constructed of reinforced concrete by the Midland Bridge Company, stands 25 feet high, is eight feet in depth, and weighs 76 tons. The cross was dedicated during the Santa Fe Fiesta in 1920. Another Cross of the Martyrs has been erected on Fort Marcy Hill by the Fiesta Council.

En 1598, pobladores Españoles, dirigidos por Juan de Oñate, de Zacatecas, México, establecieron una colonia al lado del Rio Grande en un sitio localizado al norte de la presente ciudad de Española. En 1610, el Gobernador Pedro de Peralta cambio la capital de la provincia a Santa Fe. Desde 1610 hasta 1680, colonos vinieron a vivir en Nuevo México principalmente en los márgenes del Rio Grande. Friales Franciscanos establecieron misiones en casi todos los pueblos Indios, pero no siempre fue la vida placible. En 1680, la mayoría de estos pueblos indígnenos, dirigidos por Popé, se juntaron para establecer su propia autoridad sobre este país, y echaron afuera los colonos españoles. 21 frailes y números colonos murieron en lo que hoy le dicen “La Rebelión de los Pueblos.” Los sobrevivientes colonos se escaparon para El Paso del Norte. No regresaron los españoles a esta provincia hasta 1693, bajo la dirección del Gobernador Diego de Vargas.

Esta cruz, una conmemoración de la muerte de los frailes y colonos, fue diseñada por Ralph Emerson Twitchell, Edgar L. Street, y Walter G Turley. Fue construida de cimiento reforzado por el Midland Bridge Company, y tiene 25 pies de altura, 8 pies de ancha y pesa 76 toneladas. La cruz fue dedicada durante la Fiesta de Santa Fe en 1920. Otra Cruz de los Mártires fue levantada en el cerro de Fort Marcy por el Concilio de la Fiesta.

(Colonial Era • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Kansas, Cherokee County, Baxter Springs


In Memory of
All American Veterans


This memorial honors all American Veterans
who although separated by generations shared a common
undeniable goal to protect our country's freedoms.
In war and in peace they have placed themselves
in harm's way to serve a cause greater than themselves,
ensuring that the freedom we hold dear and
the values we all share shall prevail.

The American Veteran...
Forever a symbol of
Heroism, Sacrifice, and Freedom.

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

La Basilique Saint-Patrick / Saint Patrick's Basilica

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Quebec, Ville-Marie Borough, Montréal
Bel exemple des débuts du néo-gothique, la basilique Saint-Patrick fut bâtie entre 1843 et 1847 pour la communauté irlandaise de Montréal. Conçue par Pierre-Louis Morin et le père Félix Martin, elle combine la simplicité de l’architecture québécoise traditionnelle à un intérieur dont l’élégance évoque l’esprit de l’architecture française au Moyen Âge. Son riche ameublement, oeuvre de l’architecte William Doran, a été exécuté dans les années 1890. Source d’aide matérielle et spirituelle pour les immigrants irlandais de l’époque au Canada, cette église demeure chère aux Irlandais catholiques de Montréal

A fine early example of Gothic Revival architecture, Saint Patrick’s Basilica was erected between 1843 and 1847 for the city’s Irish community. Designed by Pierre-Louis Morin and Father Félix Martin, this church combines the simplicity of traditional Quebec architecture with an interior space whose elegance evokes the spirit of French medieval design. The rich furnishings, the work of architect William Doran, were executed in the 1890s. A source of physical and spiritual support to Irish immigrants to Canada, Saint Patrick’s remains dear to the heart of Montréal’s Irish Catholic population.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Price Tower

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Oklahoma, Washington County, Bartlesville


has been designated a
National Historic Landmark

Completed in 1956 for the H. C. Price Company, an oil pipeline firm, Price Tower is an architectural masterpiece by noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The cantilevered reinforced concrete tower represents Wright's only realized skyscraper design that combined high-rise living and working spaces.

This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
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This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior



(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Building the City of Legends

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Oklahoma, Washington County, Bartlesville


Independent...Adventurous...Enterprising... Bold, these are the words that have been used to describe those who were here first.

This mural, entitled "Building the City of Legends," represents several firsts - including many of the key people and their endeavors that built Bartlesville.

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1. Carr Mill — In 1867, Nelson Carr brought the first industry to Indian Territory by building his water-powered corn gristmill in the horseshoe bend of the Caney River, just across from present day Johnstone Park. Carr sold the mill to Jacob Bartles in 1875. After buying the mill, Bartles enlarged and converted it to flour production.

2. Bartles Store — In 1878, Jacob Bartles built a combination store and home at the site of his grist mill. The store was stocked with all the necessities for life on the frontier. Bartles later added a saw mill, furniture shop, hotel, and two large farms to his holdings. All north of the Caney River, Bartles' fledging operations were commonly called Bartles Town or Northside.

3. William and Lillie Johnstone — In 1885, William Johnstone and George Keeler started the first store on the south side of the Caney — in direct competition with their former employer, Jacob Bartles. Due mainly to Johnstone and Keeler's efforts, the "Southside" developed rapidly and reached a population of 200 in 1896. In 1897, it incorporated as Bartlesville. Lillie (Armstrong) Johnstone, William's wife, was the granddaughter of Charles Journeycake, Delaware Chief and Baptist Minister.

4. Nelson F. Carr — In 1866, Carr established a trading post in Kansas. In 1867, he married Sarah Ann Rogers, a quarter-blood Cherokee, which enabled him to move into Indian Territory. Beyond his grist mill, Carr also developed large farming and cattle operations. When the oil boom struck, he worked on developing over 100 wells on his properties.

5. Jacob Bartles — A progressive man, Bartles was the first in Indian Territory to commercially grow wheat and develop a flour mill, as well as the first to establish electric lights, waterworks and a telephone line. In 1899, Bartles moved his two story building that housed his store and home three miles north where he founded the town of Dewey. Bartles married Nannie Journeycake Pratt, the widowed daughter of Chief Charles Journeycake.

6. The Nellie Johnstone — In 1897, William Johnstone, George Keeler and Michael Cudahy brought in the first commercial oil well in Indian Territory, just across the river from Bartles' mill. It marked the beginning of the oil industry for Oklahoma. Bartlesville quickly became a forest of derricks. By 1904, there were over 100 oil wells in the Bartlesville area. It was in Bartlesville that many prominent oil men, including H.V. Foster, J. Paul Getty, and the Phillips brothers, first got involved in the oil business.

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7. H.V. Foster, circa 1917 — With his wife, Marie, in the driver's seat, H.V. Foster stands by his new automobile. Through his company, Indian Territory Illuminating Oil (I.T.I.O.), Foster became the intermediary between the Osage Nation's immense oil resources and those seeking to drill on Osage land. His control of the oil leases made him the richest man west of the Mississippi.

8. Interurban Railway — Service began in 1908. Among its key organizers were George Keeler, Frank Overlees, Frank Phillips and Joe Bartles. The electric rail cars connected Bartlesville and Dewey with three large zinc smelters on the southwest side of Bartlesville. The smelters arose because of the large zinc mines near Miami, Oklahoma and the abundance of natural gas in the Bartlesville area. The railway, like so many others, was wiped out by auto transportation and was closed in 1920.

9. Washington County Courthouse — Located at the corner of Frank Phillips Blvd. and Delaware Avenue. The Courthouse was erected in 1913 at a cost of $125,000. It quickly became a hub for many community activities and events. The building has been redeveloped into a professional office building.

10. Phillips Brothers — Fred, Waite, Ed, L.E. and Frank. Frank arrived in Bartlesville in 1903. He and his brother, L.E., ran a variety of banks and oil companies, and drilled their first successful well in 1905. In 1917, the brothers founded the Phillips Petroleum Company which eventually dominated the town. Frank and Jane (Gibson) Phillips were married February 18, 1897 in Iowa.

————— 1920-1929 —————
11. Phillips Service Station, circa 1929 — The cottage-style station became a marketing icon of Phillips Petroleum Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This station stood at the corner of Frank Phillips Blvd. and Keeler Avenue, directly south of the Santa Fe train depot. This area is now a small downtown park.

12. Masonic Lodge Building — In 1917, Howard Weber (discoverer and developer of the vast Weber Pool - an oil field east and southeast of Dewey) financed and built Bartlesville's first skyscraper, an opulent nine-story building for the Masonic Lodge. The new lodge was on the top floor and the remainder of the building was leased to the Empire Gas and Fuel Company (later the Cities Service Oil Company - "CITGO"). Empire was the successor to H.V. Foster's I.T.I.O. Company. In 1974, Reda Pump Company acquired the building from the Masonic Lodge. In 2005, Rogers State University purchased the building as home for its Bartlesville campus.

13. Frank Phillips Tower — Located at the corner of Keeler and Fourth Street. Construction of the tower was completed in 1929 as an addition to the Phillips Petroleum Company office building built in 1925. The 1925 office building was later razed to make way for Phillips' expanding office complex. The tower building remains as a focal point for the company's presence in downtown Bartlesville.

14. Osage Chief Bacon Rind — Traditional in dress and customs but progressive economically and politically, Bacon Rind was instrumental in the development of the Osage Nation's oil and gas resources. He is said to be the most photographed of all Native American leaders of that time.

15. George B. Keeler — Before his ventures with William Johnstone, Keeler began as a trader with the Osage Indians in 1871 and gained intimate and comprehensive knowledge of the various Indian tribes, their customs and habits. He spoke the Osage language. Keeler married Josie Gilstrap, a member of the Cherokee Nation in 1882. He later became a member of that tribe.

16. The "Woolaroc" Plane — In August 1927, Phillips sponsored Col. Art Goebel to pilot this small, single-motor plane in the Dole race - a 26-hour, non-stop flight from San Francisco-to-Honolulu. Running on Phillips' newly developed aviation fuel, the Woolaroc won the race. The plane was retired in 1929 and is on exhibit at Frank Phillip's Woolaroc Ranch southwest of Bartlesville.
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Making of the Mural
The "Building of the City of Legends" mural was born from a Leadership Bartlesville Class XX search for a community service project. This search led to discussions with Downtown Bartlesville, Inc. which helped create the concept of a mural as a downtown beautification project. Over the course of ten months, this concept was brought to reality by three passionate members of the Leadership Bartlesville XX class.

In May 2011, the small project team envisioned creating a large, outdoor mural that would serve as a focal point for the heart of downtown Bartlesville. The mural would transform the deteriorating south wall of the Southern Abstract building into a dramatic piece of art that portrays the rich heritage of Bartlesville and its downtown area.

A state-wide search for a mural artist led to the commissioning of Dr. Bob Palmer of Edmond. Over his career, Palmer has done hundreds of murals across Oklahoma.

Collaborating with the Bartlesville Public Library and Bartlesville Area History Museum, the project team sifted through hundreds of historical pictures to develop a conceptual design. The concept ultimately evolved into a montage of key historical people and places. Illustrated in three, chronological time panels, these people and places represent the early history and growth of Bartlesville - how the City of Legends was built.

Selected photographs were provided to the artist, along with the conceptual design for the mural. To prepare the "canvas", the wall was cleaned, repaired and then coated with a sky blue colored primer.

Palmer and his six-member artist team arrived on March 21, 2012. The goal was to complete the mural in four days. On the first day, the background scenery was painted. Late that night, outlines of the detailed images were projected onto the wall - making the wall look like a huge coloring book. Over the next three days, the artists worked diligently to paint the details. With each brush stroke, history emerged from the wall. The mural was completed on March 25, 2012. The vision of a small group had become a reality for the entire community to enjoy.

This project involved extensive fundraising efforts. The funding was provided entirely through private donations. In keeping with the true community spirit of Bartlesville, many local individuals, non-profit organizations, private foundations and companies contributed to this project.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Memorial

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Kansas, Osage County, Quenemo


Erected May 1908
in memory of our
country's defenders

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

Bluestem in the Flint Hills / Beecher Bibles

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Kansas, Wabaunsee County, near Paxico


[Side A]
Bluestem in the Flint Hills

"Texas shipped up the horns,” Kansas cowmen used to say, “and we put the bodies under them.” They meant that bony steers from Texas grew fat in the Bluestem pastures of Kansas. Stockmen drove their herds here along the old cattle trails, arriving by late April. The animals would graze and gain weight during May and June, then get shipped off to the Kansas City stockyards in July and August.

This yearly cycle began in the 1870s and by the late 19th century, cattle were shipped by rail. For thousands of years prior to that, the great bison herds roamed these acres. Their grazing and migration, along with periodic prairie fires shaped the ecology of the region. Eventually hunters drove the bison nearly to extinction. The Flint Hills extends from here to Oklahoma in a north-south strip approximately 60 miles in width. In the 1920s the Kansas Board of Agriculture began pushing a second name, “Bluestem pasture,” as a marketing vehicle. This area remains one of North America’s most fertile grazing belts.

[Side B]
Beecher Bibles

In 1856 free-state colonists from Connecticut joined with earlier settlers to found the town of Wabaunsee, 15 miles northwest of here. Brooklyn abolitionist and clergyman Henry Ward Beecher helped raise funds to supply the settlers with the new Sharps repeating rifle for their defense during the sometimes-violent era of “Bleeding Kansas.” According to an 1856 New York Tribune article, Beecher “believed that the Sharps rifle was a truly moral agency, and that there was more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles.” Beecher's congregation also supplied the colonists with Bibles, perhaps leading to the widespread use of the term “Beecher Bibles” to describe the rifles. Wabaunsee residents soon became involved in the Underground Railroad, helping enslaved people to freedom in Canada. Between 1860 and 1862 the community completed the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church, now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The nearby Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie today interprets the history of this community.

(Animals • Environment • Industry & Commerce • Politics) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Billy Wallace House

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Florida, Brevard County, Melbourne
This house was built circa 1898-1900 by William O. Wallace from Indiana, who lived here with his wife, May Bell and their four children. An expert fisherman and musician, Wallace kept backyard pens filled with live alligators, turtles and fish for nature study. He loved the river and taught children the ways of manatees and porpoises. He shared the fish he caught with other settlers and with the pelicans. Sandhill cranes ate with his chickens, and a tame fawn roamed the yard.

Wallace organized and directed Melbourne’s first orchestra composed of his children and their cousins, the older children of Charles and Addie Wallace Shull who lived nearby. “Uncle Billy’s Band” played at parties at the old Carlton Hotel and at early 4th of July celebrations in Melbourne. Wallace later became the first city band director in West Palm Beach.

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

The First Flag Raised Over Iwo Jima

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Richfield
On the morning of February 23, 1945, members of the 3rd Platoon, 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division were given orders to climb and secure Mount Suribachi. Upon reaching the top, a Marine stood guard while the other Marines raised the first American Flag on Japanese soil. The ships' bells and whistles, and cheers from the U.S. troops rang out loud upon seeing the American Flag waving on the summit.

The centerpiece of this memorial is the flag of the United States of America, flying above a bronze bust of Cpl. Charles (Chuck) W. Lindberg, in his Marine flamethrower gear, atop a 10-ton taconite rock from Eveleth, MN. Chuck was the longest-living member of the flag-raising platoon and lived here in Richfield for over 50 years after the war. Chuck wanted this memorial to accurately honor the men of the first flag raising atop Mount Suribachi. Chuck passed away on June 24, 2007, with just a vision of what this memorial would become.

Sculpture of Charles (Chuck) W. Lindberg: Jeff Barber

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

Oklahoma's First Baptist Church

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Oklahoma, Wagoner County, near Porter


The Fountain Baptist Church ¼ mi. S. & 1 mi. E. believed to be the successor to Oklahoma's first Baptist church organized by Rev. Isaac McCoy Sept. 9, 1832 in this vicinity at Ebenezer Station with six charter members: Quasch, Bob, and Ned, slaves of the Creeks; Rev. & Mrs. David Lewis, missionaries; and John Davis, a Creek who later was the first Baptist minister ordained in what is now Oklahoma. The church grew until the Civil War when it ceased activities until the Era of Reconstruction. Meeting houses in various locations were used included a frame structure built in 1901 at site of present building erected 1956 by Black, Indian, and White Baptists of Oklahoma symbolic of these races in the church's origin.

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

State's Earliest Oil Refinery

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Oklahoma, Muskogee County, Muskogee


Muskogee Oil Refining Company, organized in March 1905, built a finishing plant near this site in November, 1904. It soon was producing lamp kerosene, lubricating oil and industrial fuel - the beginning of oil refining in Oklahoma, a leading industry today.

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

Wigwam Neosho

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Oklahoma, Wagoner County, near Porter


Was trading post in 1829-33, named and conducted by ex-Gov. Sam Houston of Tenn., who was called Colonah (The Raven) by his Cherokee friends. As a celebrity in the Indian Ter., Houston was visited by the American author, Washington Irving who came to this country in 1832, and made notes for his book, A Tour on the Prairies, now an Oklahoma classic.

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Politics • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chief Pushmataha

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Oklahoma, Wagoner County, near Porter


Choctaw Indians made hunting expedition from Mississippi to this region, Jan. 1807, led by famous Chief Pushmataha. Camped east on Verdigris River was Joseph Bogy, French trader among Osages, whose armed men engaged Pushmataha's band in battle at the trading camp. Bogy's men were put to rout by the Choctaws.

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

Georgia O’Keeffe

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New Mexico, Rio Arriba County, near Abiquiu
One of America’s great and most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe is known for her unique depictions of natural and architectural forms. She began spending summers painting in Northern New Mexico in 1929 and moved from New York to make it her permanent home in 1949. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum was founded in 1997 in Santa Fe to honor her legacy and extraordinary achievement.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tullahassee Mission

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Oklahoma, Wagoner County, near Porter


This Creek Indian school was founded by Rev. R.M. Loughridge, Presbyterian Bd. [Board] Foreign Miss. [Missions], 1848. Rev. W.S. Robertson was employed as the supt. Rebuilt by Creeks when destroyed by fire in 1880. Operated until 1907 for Freedmen.

(African Americans • Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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