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Lester Allan Pelton

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Ohio, Erie County, near Vermilion
Lester Allan Pelton, "the Father of Hydroelectric Power," was born on September 5, 1829, a quarter of a mile northwest of this site. He spent his childhood on a farm a mile south of this site and received his early education in a one-room schoolhouse that once sat north of this site. In the spring of 1850, he and about twenty local boys, left for California during the great gold rush west. Pelton did not find gold, but instead invented what was commonly known as "the Pelton Water-Wheel," which produced the first hydroelectric power in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California in 1887. The Water-Wheel was patented on August 27, 1889. Currently variations of it are still commonly used to generate electric power throughout the world. Pelton died in California on March 14, 1908. He is buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Vermilion.

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Dewey

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
Born here on Oct. 20, 1859, John Dewey attended local schools and in 1879 graduated from the University of Vermont. Dewey was world-renowned as a philosopher and author of many books. Ideas drawn from his educational doctrines profoundly influenced American education. John Dewey died June 1, 1952; his ashes are buried near Ira Allen Chapel at UVM.

(Education • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Steamer "Vermont"

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
John and James Winans built here the second successful steamboat to operate commercially, only two years after Robert Fulton made his historic trip up the Hudson on the "Clermont". The Champlain Transportation Co. was one of the oldest steamboat companies when it suspended operation in 1932.

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Little Italy

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
Beginning in the early 1900s, the area directly to the east housed numerous emigrants. Many moved here from Italy with hopes to build better lives. Some worked in the lumber mills and railroad yards that bordered the lake. In the process, they created a community of over 140 homes, lush gardens, thriving businesses, community social centers, and Catholic schools and churches. In the 1960s this area became the center of Vermont's largest urban renewal project. The final home was razed in 1968. Displaced families were scattered into the outskirts of Burlington. In place of this once vibrant family neighborhood stands a dynamic downtown district, internationally known as a social and economic center of Vermont.

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

Howard William Plant memorial

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
Dedicated to the memory
of
HOWARD WILLIAM PLANT
Born July 25, 1900
Enlisted in U.S. Navy June 8, 1916
Wireless operator
U.S. Destroyer Jacob Jones
Torpedoed at sea December 6, 1917
First Burlington boy to die
in the World War

(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battery

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
The battery of thirteen guns on this ground repulsed an attack of three British gunboats June 13 1813
It was the defense of Burlington and of the United States Army here encamped during the war of 1812
This tablet was erected by the Green Mountain Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

(War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oxford Furnace

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New Jersey, Warren County, Oxford
Built in 1741-42 by Jonathan Robeson in partnership with the Shippen Family on land that would eventually encompass approximately 4,000 acres including iron ore, limestone, wood and water resources utilized by the furnace. It is the oldest remaining iron furnace in New Jersey and the third constructed in the Colony of New Jersey. Its establishment marked the genesis of an iron industry in Oxford lasting well into the 20th century.

It operated until 1809 and again from 1832-1884, concentrating on the manufacture of pig iron but also other products such as firebacks.

The first use of hot blast in the United States to manufacture iron was implemented her in 1835 by pioneer industrialist William Henry. Dr. William Shippen Sr., the sole owner from 1766 to 1801, was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress.

The nearby manor house was constructed by Dr. Shippen circa 1766-70 as the iron master's residence and business office.

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

Battery Park

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
Here in June 1813, a Vermonter, Lieut. Churchill, and men built a parapet and set up a battery. On Aug. 3 a British gunboat and 2 sloops, 1½ miles offshore, began a cannonade. This attack was repulsed in 20 minutes by the American Battery and by 2 of Commodore Macdonough's armed scows.

(War of 1812 • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sears Catalog House

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Wisconsin, Eau Claire County, Eau Claire
Historic Building The Korger family built this "catalog house" in 1910 from a pre-cut numbered kit ordered from Sears Roebuck and Company and delivered to Eau Claire by railroad in two box cars.

Designated August Fifteen
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Eight

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

Ethan Allen

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
Putting behind him the martial deeds of a hero, Ethan came here in 1787 to till the soil as a peaceful farmer. On Feb. 12, 1789, he died here after a trip across the ice to South Hero. Memorial Tower was built on Indian Rock, traditional Algonquin look-out.

(Agriculture • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Derby Academy

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Vermont, Orleans County, Derby
On this site the Derby Literary and Theological Institute - a private boarding school - was founded by the Danville Baptist Association on one acre of land given by Lemuel Richmond and Benjamin Hinman. Colonel Chester Carpenter led a campaign for support as citizens readily came forth with money, labor, and their produce to build a secondary school. Donated cattle were driven to a Brighton, Massachusetts market to help raise funds.
Countless numbers of students and this community have lived and prospered under the school motto
Qualis Non Quantus

Chronology

1840 Classes began in September with 147 students
1842 The Lyceum organized for debating society
1845 Name changed to Derby Academy
1853 Orleans County Historical Society founded and given space for meetings and display
1918 Derby Academy became the public junior-senior high school
1921 Judge Nathan Hunt gave six acres for the athletic field
1957 Early building replaced with brick structure
1967 Derby Academy merged with four other schools into North Country Union High School District 22

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

Rogers' Rangers Cemetery

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Vermont, Essex County, Granby
This stone cairn marks the graves of two Rogers' Rangers who died during the French and Indian War. Their gruesome deaths were recorded in the diary of Lieutenant George Campbell: "(Sergeant) Lewis had told me that his party had shot a Moose near a River but it disappear'd in ye woods & they were to weak to track it, except 3 rangers who came upon ye Moose being attack'd by wolves who turn'd on ye 3 Rangers & kill'd one of them & mortally wd. Ye other 2 who crawled to Lewis where they died."
Loescher, Burt G.: The History of Rogers' Rangers: The St. Francis Raid (Maryland, 202) p. 60. "Text printed with permission of Heritage Books, Inc."

(War, French and Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Buckley

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Colorado, Adams County, Buckley Air Force Base
In honor of
1Lt John Harold Buckley (1896-1918)
Longmont, Colorado
Lost his life in World War I,
on a mission behind German lines.

Buckley Field 1942-1947

Denver Naval Air Station
1947-1959

Buckley Air National Guard Base
1959-2000

Buckley Air Force Base
2000-



(War, World I) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Morrot's Boulder Amusement Park

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New York, Genesee County, Pembroke
1949-1970 site of original Hershell Merry-Go-Round designed by Emily Bourgard & home of Sam Herrington's miniature steam train. Genesee County Bicentennial.

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

Pioneer Cemetery

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New York, Genesee County, Pembroke
Deeded in 1850 to Town of Pembroke by John Ellicott for a burial ground. Rev. War soldier Samuel Huntington Buried Here.

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

The Senate House – 1676

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New York, Ulster County, Lake Katrine

          The Senate House is so called because the first elected Senate of the State of New York met in this building on the morning of September 9, 1777.

          Colonel Wessel Ten Broeck built this house for his home in 1676 in the tiny village of Esopus (Kingston). In front of it, on a hill overlooking the lowlands, ran the line of stockades which enclosed the settlement against Indian attack. This historic home was purchased by the State in 1888.

          An adjacent Museum houses a notable portrait gallery, rich manuscript collections, and other Hudson Valley memorabilia.

(Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pettis' Grave

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New York, Frankin County, Paul Smiths
C. R. Pettis, Supt. State Forests 1910-1927 "Father Of Reforestation" In New York" Is Buried In The Adjacent Cemetery.

(Environment • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

General William Wells / Dr. H. Nelson Jackson

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Burlington
General William Wells
(1837-1892)

In 1861 William Wells joined the First Vermont Cavalry as a Private and rose to the rank of Brevet Major-General. Promoted more times than any other Vermonter during the American Civil War, he participated in over 70 cavalry battles and skirmishes. For “conspicuous gallantry” at Gettysburg, Wells was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. This French Second Empire mansion was built for General Wells in 1877 by A. B. Fisher from a drawing in G. B. Croft’s “Progressive American Architecture. After the Civil War, Wells was prominent in politics and business and was a partner in Wells, Richardson & Co. of Burlington, makers of Paine's Celery Compound. He married and had two children. Daughter Bertha married Dr. H. N. Jackson.
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Dr. H. Nelson Jackson
(1872-1955)

Inspired by a bet Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, son-in-law of General William Wells and a University of Vermont medical alumnus, Sewall K. Crocker, and "Bud" the dog set out in May of 1903 from San Francisco for New York City. In a Winton car, christened "The Vermont," the trio completed their journey in two months and nine days. They are credited with making the first cross-country trip in a motor car. Jackson became a successful businessman upon returning to Burlington: bank president, newspaper publisher, and owner of the first radio station in town. Despite his age he joined the army in WWI, earning the Distinguished Service Cross, and was one of the founders of the American Legion. He died at 82.
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(Politics • Roads & Vehicles • War, US Civil • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Fine

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New York, Saint Lawrence County, Ogdensburg


Came here 1815
18 years County Judge
1839 - Congressman
1848 - NYS Senator
Promoted Women's Rights.

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

Witness Tree

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Pennsylvania, Adams County, Gettysburg
This sycamore is a living witness to
the Battle of Gettysburg. Abraham
Lincoln passed by this tree on his
way to give the Gettysburg Address
on November 19, 1863.

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