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St. John AME Church

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Kansas, Shawnee County, Topeka


has been listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior
2008

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Between the States Generals

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West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington
Two of seven War Between the States generals buried in W. Va. interred here: Albert Gallatin Jenkins, C.S.A., in Confederate plot; John Hunt Oley, Union, and over 200 soldiers. Confederate Monument dedicated in 1900.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The War Of The Rebellion

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New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Peterborough

Capt. Gustavus A. Forbush 13th N.H. Regt. • Lieut. Timothy K. Ames 6th “ “ • Lieut. Charles L. Fuller 6th N.H. Regt. • Lieut. John M. Dodd 6th “ “

Charles O. Collister 2nd N.H. Regt. • Newman Hall 2nd “ “ • Edward Bolio 2nd “ “ • Frank E. Howe 2nd “ “ • George Welding 4th “ “ • Luther G. Crosby 4th “ “ • German N. Breed 5th “ “ • George M. Spaulding 5th “ “ • George W. Hadley 6th “ “ • William H. Wallace 6th “ “ • Lucius H. Farwell 6th “ “ • Cyrus Henry Farnum 6th “ “ • Christopher M. Wheeler 6th “ “ • David A. Cram 6th “ “ • Alfred Perry 6th “ “ • Philemon W. Cross 6th “ “ • Charles H. Fay 6th “ “ • Henry C. Taggart 6th “ “ • Thomas J. Vose 6th “ “

George W. Wood 6th N.H. Regt. • Josiah P. Smith 8th “ “ • Jonathan L. Powers 8th “ “ • Rodney M. Brackett 13th “ “ • Joseph A. Crosby 13th “ “ • Jacob Chamberlain 13th “ “ • Charles E. Lakeman 13th “ “ • Eugene C. Farwell 13th “ “ • George J. Moore 13th “ “ • Henry H. Frair 13th “ “ • Herbert Lee 13th “ “ • John Leathers 13th “ “ • Cortes S. Osburn 13th “ “ • Francis S. Piper 16th “ “ • James L. Boyce 16th “ “ • Ambrose F. Upton 1st N.H. Cavalry. • Henry Moore 11th Ill. Regt. • Joseph Clark 2nd Mass. Regt. • George M. Clark 5th Conn. Regt. • John P. Cram 15th Conn. Vols.

Drowned, by Sinking of Steamer on Potomac River:
Sophia, Wife of Lieut. Col. Charles Scott.
Katie, Wife of Capt. John A. Cummings.

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

Marshall Memorial Boulevard (Charleston Ave)

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West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington
On November 14, 1970, a chartered jet crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport near Huntington, claiming the lives of seventy-five members of the Marshall University football team, coaches, fans, pilots & crew. This boulevard, named in honor of those fallen members of the university family, leads visitors from the Spring Hill Cemetery to the heart of the Marshall community.

(Air & Space • Disasters • Education) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marshall Memorial

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West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington
In lasting remembrance of the members of the Marshall University Football team, the coaches, staff, and devoted fans who died in the plane crash November 14, 1970.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Disasters • Education) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Carter Godwin Woodson

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West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntingtton
Historian, author, educator. Founder of the Assoc. for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1915. Began Journal of Negro History, 1916. In 1926 began Negro History Week, later Black History Month. A graduate and later principal, Douglass H.S., Huntington. Dean at West Virginia State College. Second African American to earn a Harvard Ph. D., 1912. Born, Dec. 19, 1875; Woodson died, April 3, 1950.

(African Americans • Education) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Blues & Gospel Singer

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West Virginia, Cabell County, Huntington
Born and raised in Huntington, WV, Mary hopped a train and left town at age 13 to become a singer and dancer. She spent the 1920’s and 30’s performing in medicine and minstrel shows. During the 1940’s, Mary had diamonds removed from a bracelet and set into her front teeth, creating a dazzling stage effect which earned her the nickname, “Diamond Teeth Mary.” Night spots from Chicago to Miami billed her as “Queen of the Blues,” and “Walking Mary.” She performed at the Apollo Theater, The Cotton Club, Carnegie Hall, the White House, and in Europe, where her show-stopping charisma received standing ovations. She also toured with the USO. As she had requested, her ashes were sprinkled on the railroad tracks at Heritage Station where she had hopped her first train. Mary always lovingly referred to Huntington as “my home.”

(African Americans • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sheridan Drive

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New York, Erie County, Tonawanda
Sheridan Drive constructed for a greater Niagara Frontier 1923-1925. Dedicated to improved highways transportation. Town Board. J. Fred Moore, Supervisor. Elmer W. Johnson, Town Clerk. Samuel Seitz, Justice. Edward A. Jones, Justice. Robert M. Zimmerman, Justice. Fred B. Eberhardt, Justice. Fed Ebling, Supt. of Highways. George C. Diehl, Engineer.

(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Estella García/Fabric Artists: Women of the WPA

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New Mexico, Curry County, near Melrose
This is a two sided marker
Side A:
Estella García
Estella García taught colcha embroidery at Melrose, New Mexico, for the Federal Arts Program in the 1930s. Anglo and Hispana women in Garcia's class collaborated to design and produce embroidered theater curtains, wall hangings, and seat coverings for institutions across the state including the Albuquerque Little Theatre. Garcia is one of the few Hispanic women artists recorded in FAP documents. Unfortunately, few examples of her work remain

Side B:
Fabric Artists:
Women of the Works Progress Administration
Under the umbrella of the WPA, the National Youth Administration, and the Federal Arts Program, instructors and students were recruited to work in community-based art centers that produced fabric arts, including weaving, colcha embroidery, and lace-making. While the artistic creativity of these mostly unrecognized women was considered “women's work for home use” by WPA administrators, this now popular New Mexican art form has been revitalized.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Hispanic Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nova Albion

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California, Marin County, Point Reyes Station
On June 17, 1579, Captain Francis Drake sailed his ship, Golden Hinde, into the Gulf of the Farallones and the bay that now bears his name. He sighted these white cliffs and named the land Nova Albion.

During his 36 day encampment in California, Drake repaired his ship, established contact with local Indians, explored inland, took on supplies and water, and claimed the region for Queen Elizabeth I.

The Golden Hinde set sail on July 25 and ventured into the unknown Pacific. Reaching Plymouth, England on September 26, 1560, after a voyage of two years and nine months, Drake became the first Englishman and expedition commander to circumnavigate the earth.

Drake’s exploits and claim encouraged England to colonize Roanoke in 1585, and Jamestown in 1607. Captain John Smith, in 1616, named the east coast New England, a reflection of Drake’s Nova Albion.

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

Bodega Bay

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California, Sonoma County, Bodega
Named for Lt. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, who discovered the Bay of Bodega on October 3, 1775.
Russian settlement originally called Kuskoff, founded by M de Kuskoff.
In 1843 Stephen Smith an American, erected in this vicinity the first steam grist and sawmill in California.

(Exploration • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Llano Estacado

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New Mexico, Curry County, near Melrose
Nomadic Indians and countless buffalo herds dominated this vast plain when the Vásquez de Coronado expedition explored it in 1541. Later it was the focus of Comanchero activity, and in the 19th century it became a center for cattle ranching. The name Llano Estacado, or stockaded plains, refers to the fortress-like appearance of its escarpments.

(Environment • Exploration) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation

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New Mexico, De Baca County, near Fort Sumner
The U.S. Army established Fort Sumner in 1862 as a supply and control point for the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. About 10,000 Navajo were forcibly relocated from the Four-Corners Region during the tragic march known as the Long Walk. About 500 Apaches from southern New Mexico were also brought here. Approximately 3,000 Navajos and Apaches died here. The ill-conceived reservation was closed in 1868, and the Navajos and Apaches returned to their homes. The fort was abandoned in 1869.

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

Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell

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New Mexico, De Baca County, near Fort Sumner
A native of Kaskaskia, Ill, a fur trader and trapper who by industry, good fortune and trading became sole owner in 1864 of the largest single tract of land owned by any one individual in the United States.
Maxwell founded the First National Bank of Santa Fe, New Mex. And invested $250,000 to help build the Texas Pacific Railroad. Dynamic….Charitable….Lavish….One of the great builders of the American West, died in quiet retirement, July 25, 1875 at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Born Sept. 14, 1818

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

Fort Sumner

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New Mexico, De Baca County, Fort Sumner
Population 1,250 – Elevation 4,028 ft.

Named for the fort built in 1862 to guard the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the town of Fort Sumner grew out of settlements clustering around the Maxwell family properties. It moved to its present site with the construction of the Belen Cutoff of the Santa Fe Railroad around 1907.

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

Fort Sumner

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New Mexico, De Baca County, Fort Sumner
Population 1,250 – Elevation 4,028 ft.

Named for the fort built in 1862 to guard the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the town of Fort Sumner grew out of settlements clustering around the Maxwell family properties. It moved to its present site with the construction of the Belen Cutoff of the Santa Fe Railroad around 1907.

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

Atlas Missile Silos

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New Mexico, Chaves County, near Roswell
During the Cold War (1946-1989), this area became home for twelve Atlas missile silo sites — America’s first operational Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. They protected the Strategic Air Command facilities at Walker Air Force Base south of Roswell. Due to problems with the Atlas missile, these sites were deactivated in 1965 shortly before the closure of Walker AFB. The abandoned silos are now privately owned.

(Air & Space • War, Cold) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Round Mountain

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New Mexico, Otero County, near Bent
This cone--shaped mountain is a landmark in southern New Mexico that has historic significance for many area families. In April 1868 a skirmish occurred between the Apache and Tularosa settlers when six U.S. soldiers left supply wagons between Fort Stanton and Fort Seldon. The besieged travelers took refuge on Round Mountain. Each spring a fiesta is held in Tularosa to commemorate this battle.

(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lordsburg-Hidalgo Library

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New Mexico, Hidalgo County, Lordsburg
The Lordsburg-Hidalgo Library was founded in 1928 under the leadership of Bethel Vernon Fuller (1888-1976). Mrs. Fuller, president of the Library Board of Trustees from 1928-1969, raised funds to build the WPA Pueblo Revival style building, which was completed in 1937. The historic building continues to serve as a center of learning and library services. It is listed on both the State and National Registers

(Arts, Letters, Music • Charity & Public Work • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lordsburg

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New Mexico, Hidalgo County, Lordsburg
Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, near that used by the Butterfield Overland Mail Co., 1858-1861. The town was named for Delbert Lord, an engineer with the railroad. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed his famed Spirit of St. Louis on Lordsburg. For years, the town catered to motorists traveling the Old Spanish Trail highway and later U.S. 80.

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