National Buchenwald Memorial

September 7, 2014, 6:47 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Weimarer Land Kreis (District), Buchenwald Memorial


Die vernichtung des Nazismus mit seinen wurzeln ist unsere losung

Der aufbau einer neuen welt des friedens und der freiheit ist unser ziel
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The destruction of Nazism and its roots
is our slogan

The construction of a new world of
peace and freedom is our goal

(Man-Made Features • Politics • War, Cold • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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Johanneskirchturm / Johannes Church Tower

September 7, 2014, 7:29 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


1217 Kirche urkundl. erwähnt
1469-1486 gotischer Neubau
1819 Kirchenschiff abgebrochen

Dient der Augustinerkirche als Glockenturm
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1217 Church mentioned in documents
1469-1486 Gothic building
1819 Nave disassembled

Serves as the Augustinian church bell tower

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Site of Fort Miami

September 7, 2014, 7:58 pm

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Ohio, Lucas County, Maumee

Site of Fort Miami
Erected 1680 - the oldest
fortified trading post in
the Mid-west. Here flew
the flags of France, 1680;
Great Britain, 1760; and
the United States, 1796.

(Colonial Era • Forts, Castles • Industry & Commerce • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Functional Housing Prototype at Johannes Tower

September 7, 2014, 8:21 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


Musterbau der flächenhaften Stadterneuerung im Rahmen einer differenzierten architektonischen und städtebaulichen Gestaltung im industriellen Wohnungsbau. Auftakt zur Umgestaltung der nördlichen innerstadtbereiche in den letzten Jahren der DDR.

Zu hause in Erfurt
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Prototyping of urban renewal area in the context of a differentiated architectural and urban design in industrial housing. Prelude to the transformation of the northern inner-city areas in the last years of the GDR.

At home in Erfurt

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General Medical Insurance Building (AOK)

September 7, 2014, 8:45 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


1930 errichtet
Funktionalbau im Stil der Neuen Sachlichkeit
Architekt Theo Kellner
Bildhauer Hans Walther
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Built in 1930
Functionally built in the New Objectivity style
Architect Theo Kellner
Sculptor Hans Walther

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Augustinian Monastery

September 7, 2014, 9:47 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


The Protestant Augustinian monastery (1300) in Erfurt, a Lutheran site famous both in Germany and around the world, is a remarkable example of medieval religious architecture. Martin Luther lived, prayed and worked here as a monk from 17 July 1505 to autumn 1511. Original documents from this period are on permanent display in the Bible-Monastery-Luther exhibition. Today the Augustinian monastery is a conference centre and cultural forum.
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Das Evangelische Augustinerkloster zu Erfurt (1300), eine national und international anerkannte Lutherstätte, ist ein einmaliges Denkmal mittelalterlicher Ordenbaukunst. Martin Luther lebte, betete und arbeitete hier als Mönch vom 17. Juli 1505 bis Herbst 1511. Wertvolle Dokumente aus dieser Zeit werden in der Dauerausstellung BIBEL-KLOSTER-LUTHER gezeigt. Heute ist das Augustinerkloster eine nationale und internationale Tagungs- und Begegungsstätte.

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Childhood Home of Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

September 7, 2014, 10:07 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


Hier steht das Elternhaus
des großen Philologen
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
(1806 - 1876)
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Here is the childhood home
of the great philologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl
(1806 - 1876)

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

Bellefonte Governors Memorial

September 8, 2014, 12:42 pm

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Pennsylvania, Centre County, Bellefonte
To honor the seven governors who at one time lived, worked, and learned in Bellefonte.

William Bigler
1813-1880
Gov. Pennsylvania
1852-1854.

William F. Packer
1807-1870
Gov. Pennsylvania
1858-1860.

John Bigler
1805-1856
Gov. California
1852-1856

Robert J. Walker
1801-1869
Gov. Kansas
1857.
Andrew Gregg Curtin
1815-1895
Gov. Pennsylvania
1861-1866.

James A Beaver
1837-1914
Gov. Pennsylvania
1887-1890.

Daniel H. Hastings
1849-1903
Gov. Pennsylvania
1895-1898.

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Marquis De LaFayette

September 8, 2014, 12:47 pm

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Pennsylvania, Chester County, West Chester

From this spot July 26, 1826
Marquis De Lafayette
Viewed the troops escorting him
from a visit to the
Brandywine Battle-Field

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Greenwood Cemetery

September 8, 2014, 12:53 pm

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North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern

Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1882 on the grounds of an earlier cemetery, is New Bern’s second-oldest public cemetery and the first city-owned cemetery for African Americans. Thirteen grave markers are dated between 1816 and 1859. At least five men who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War are buried here, as well as prominent African American legislator of the postwar period, James Edward O’Hara.

O’Hara was born in New York City on February 26, 1844, the son of an Irish merchant and a West Indian mother. He sailed on vessels between the city and the West Indies as a youth, then settled in New Bern about 1862 and taught in freedman’s schools here and in Goldsboro after the war. He was elected to the state legislature from here in 1868, while studying law, and passed the bar examination in 1871. O’Hara represented North Carolina’s Second District in the U.S. Congress from 1883 to 1887, and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884. While in Congress, he was a member of the House Committees for Pensions, Mines and Mining, and Expenditures on Public Buildings. He spoke against racial violence, introduced one of the first bills to make lynching a federal crime, and tried but failed to amend an interstate commerce bill to require equal accommodations for all travelers.

After O’Hara lost his bid for reelection in 1886, he practiced law in New Bern with his son Raphael and published a small newspaper, the Enfield Progress. He died on September 15, 1905, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

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At least five men who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War are buried here. They include Thomas Fisher, Co. C, 38th USCT, which fought in Virginia in 1864 and occupied Richmond in 1865; Payton White, Battery A, and Cornelius W. Jones, Battery B, 14th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery, which was organized nearby; Jonas McDonald, Battery B, 2nd U.S. Colored Light Artillery, which served in Virginia and Texas from 1864 to 1866; and William A. Wood, 20th USCT, which served in Louisiana and Texas between 1864 and 1866.

Major funding for this project was provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation through the Transportation Enhancement Program of the Federal Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21th Century.
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(upper left) James Edward O’Hara Courtesy North Carolina Office of Archives and History
(lower center) An unidentified U.S.C.T. enlisted man - Courtesy Library of Congress
(right) U.S. Colored Troops charging a Confederate fortification Courtesy Library of Congress

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Johnstown Flood

September 8, 2014, 12:54 pm

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Pennsylvania, Cambria County, Westmont
On May 31, 1889, a massive earthen dam located 14 miles east of Johnstown broke under record rains, releasing 20 million tons of water into the little Conemaugh Valley. The flood hit Johnstown at 4:07 p.m., entering the town through the notch between Prospect and Green Hills directly ahead of you. Eyewitnesses estimated the wave to be 37 feet high at its crest as it entered Johnstown. A mountain of debris was pushed ahead of the wave by the power of the water.

Upon entering Johnstown, the flood wave broke into three major currents which cut across the town, then crashed against the hill on which you are standing. The wave then backwashed up Stoneycreek River as far as three miles, and eventually came to rest behind the arches of the Pennsylvania Railroad Stone Bridge (on your left). The wreckage of Johnstown crushed tightly behind the Stone Bridge, then caught fire on the night of May 31.

The Inclined Plane was built as a direct result of the Johnstown Flood. In July 1889, the Cambria Iron Co. announced plans to develop this hilltop as a residential suburb and to build an incline to provide direct access to the city. The Inclined Plane was opened on June 1, 1891, and the borough of Westmont grew quickly as residents continued to rebuild after the great disaster.

A view of the city taken from the newly completed Inclined Plane in 1891.

Accumulated debris caught fire and burned out of control until Sunday, June 2.

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Michaeliskirche / Michaelis Church

September 8, 2014, 12:54 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt


1183-1200
als Pfarrkirche errichtet
Ende 13.Jh. und Anfang 15.Jh.
gotischer Bau
Ehem. Universitätskirche
1522 Predigt Martin Luthers;
hier wurde der Reformator
Johannes Lang beigesetzt
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12./13./15.Jh.
Ehemalige Universitätskirche
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1183-1200
Built as a parish church
End of 13th century and early 15th century
Gothic building
Former University Church
1522 sermon Martin Luther;
here was the Reformer
Johannes Lang buried
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12th, 13th, 15th centuries
Former University Church

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Johnstown Incline

September 8, 2014, 12:59 pm

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Pennsylvania, Cambria County, Westmont
This is one of several, similar inclines built in western Pennsylvania during the late nineteenth century. It was designed by Samuel Diescher (1839-1915) after the great flood of 1889, to provide an efficient means of transportation between Westmont and the Conemaugh Valley.

The Johnstown Incline is among the world's steepest vehicular inclines, with a 71 percent grade. Its length is 896.5 feet. The incline saved more than 4,000 lives in the flood of 1936.

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King Solomon Lodge

September 8, 2014, 1:00 pm

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North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern
First African American Masonic lodge in N.C.; est. 1865. Erected in 1870, the building was moved here in 1920s.

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Political Duel

September 8, 2014, 1:06 pm

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North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern
John Stanly killed Richard Dobbs Spaight, former Governor of North Carolina, in a duel near this spot, September 5, 1802.

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Rains Brothers

September 8, 2014, 2:47 pm

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North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern

Brig. Gen. Gabriel Rains and Col. George Rains, graduates of West Point, inventors of explosives for Confederacy. This was their boyhood home.

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William Gaston

September 8, 2014, 2:50 pm

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North Carolina, Craven County, New Bern

Justice of N.C. Supreme Court, 1833-44; lawmaker. An advocate for state's Catholics. Wrote state song. "The Old North State." Lived 1 block N.

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to Fort Stephenson / to Fort Meigs

September 8, 2014, 4:03 pm

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Ohio, Wood County, Perrysburg
Ohio's
Revolutionary
Memorial
Trail
Text on East Side :

Harrison's March - 1813
- - - - -
½
Mile to
Fort
Meigs
Text on West Side :

Harrison's March - 1813
- - - - -
34
Miles to
Fort
Stephenson

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Laasphe-Kapelle / Laasphe Chapel

September 8, 2014, 6:10 pm

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Germany, Thuringia, Erfurt

Erbaut zwischen der
Michaeliskirche und dem wohnhaus
von Dr. Johannes Bonemilch (1430-1510)
aus Laasphe

Dr. Johannes Bonemilch studierte
und lehrte an der Universität Erfurt
deren rektorat er dreimal inne hatte

Als weihbischof ist sein name verbunden
mit der weihe Martin Luthers
1507 zum priester

Am 17.10.1510 starb
Johannes Bonemilch und wurde
im Erfurter dom beigesetzt
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Built between the
Michaelis church and the family house
of Dr. John Bonemilch (1430-1510)
from Laasphe

Dr. Johannes Bonemilch studied
and taught at the University of Erfurt
whose rectorate he held three times

As auxiliary bishop his name is connected
with the 1507 consecration of Martin Luther
as priest

Johannes Bonemilch died on October 17, 1510
and was buried in the Erfurt cathedral

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Wildwood

September 8, 2014, 6:33 pm

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West Virginia, Raleigh County, Beckley
Built by John Lilly, Sr. in 1835-36, it was the home of Alfred Beckley (1802-88) and Amelia Neville Craig. Son of John Beckley, first clerk of the House of Representatives, he founded the town of Beckley and wrote the bill proposing formation of Raleigh County. An 1823 West Point graduate, he rose to rank of Brig. Gen. in the Civil War. Listed on National Register in 1971, and opened as a House Museum in 1986.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.