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Emlenton At Leisure

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Pennsylvania, Venango County, Emlenton
Emlenton played as hard as it worked and the railroad brought many people to town for special occasions. The depot was located at the rear of this site and was served by eleven daily passenger trains. People then used the rails as much as we use our automobiles today.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Bennett - Premier Entrepeneur

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Pennsylvania, Venango County, Emlenton
Bennett came to Emlenton in 1868 to hire out as a tinner to the Widel and Crawford Foundry at $1.25 a day. He stayed on to become one of the town's most prosperous and respected citizens. For half a century hea was the impetus and/or promoter of most of the business and civic enterprises in the Emlenton area.

By 1895 his general hardware business (part of which was the manufactuer of tin, copper, and sheet iron ware) was doing an annual business of over $100,000. His varied business interests included the Emlenton Flouring Mill and the Emlenton-Shippenville Railroad. He served as the first president of the Emlenton Gas Light and Fuel Co. and organized both local banks - the First National Bank and Farmers National Bank. One of his community efforts was the raising of funds to build the large three-story brick school which was completed in 1874.

Following Bennett's retirement from active business in 1896, the two buildings he built in this block were occupied by various enterprises. Banking in Emlenton had so grown in importance that the First National dominated the corner. The Barnard Co. dry goods store shared the first floor, while a variety of offices were located on the second floor, in addition to the Emlenton Opera House.

In 1912, D.M. Long purchased the Bennett Hardware. Long's business (which included hardware, farm equipment, furniture, and automobile interests) flourished here until a fire leveled the structure in 1946.

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

H.B. Mitchell - An Emlenton Success Story

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Pennsylvania, Venango County, Emlenton
In 1896, Harry Bennett Mitchell (1875-1945) assumed the reins of his late father's hardware business. At age 21 he began to build an enterprise that would span more than four decades and make him one of Emlenton's most prosperous merchants. In addition to hardware and farming equipment, "H.B." became involved in oil well supplies and the Wick Wire Co., a national manufacturer of heavy wire cable used in oil well production. In 1902, Harry Graham, a future brother-in-law, entered the hardware business and later became a partner. Mitchell's business interests included finance (he served as president or vice-president of several area banks) and highway construction supplies.

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

Railroad Supplies The Area's Needs

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Pennsylvania, Venango County, Emlenton
The Allegheny Valley Railroad, later a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, reached Emlenton in 1867. Local merchants soon availed themselves of the freight services bringing goods from all parts of the country. Daily merchandise trains brought food, equipment, and tools to the energetic little town. Passenger trains served visitors, shoppers, and commercial travelers, as well as high school students commuting from nearby settlements. Hotels had "sample rooms" devoted to the traveling salesman for displaying their wares.

(Education • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Agate Bay Commercial Fishing Village

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Minnesota, Lake County, Two Harbors


The "railroad tracks" on the shore before you are the last vestiges of a once vibrant commercial fishing village in Agate Bay. It was an easy transition for Scandinavian immigrants to begin fishing almost immediately upon arrival in America. The invasion of the sea lamprey in 1935 would destroy commercial fishing on the great lakes by 1955. Many of the fishermen were railroaders that fished in their time off. Note the caboose used as a boathouse in the center of the photo.



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

West Main Street Development

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Pennsylvania, Venango County, Emlenton
In 1856 Levi Allebach moved his jewelry business from Water Street (later River Ave.) - much against the advice of local residents - into this "backwoods" building. At that time Emlenton's commercial section was located along the river. Within a few years disastrous fires drove Water Street businesses up to join Allebach along the newly emerging Main Street.

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

Influenza Epidemic Victims

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Pennsylvania, Butler County, near Cabot
Here are buried an unknown number of local victims of the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 -- one of history's worst epidemics in terms of deaths. In Butler County, the worst period was early October to early November 1918, with some 260 deaths in the county seat alone. Immigrant workers in the limestone and other industries are buried in this cemetery, with one to five bodies in each grave. A large wooden cross long marked the site.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Hand

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Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County, near Apollo
Only fort erected in Westmoreland County by Continental Congress

Blockhouse surrounded by stockade with wall guns

Named for Gen. Edward Hand

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

World War I German Cannon

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Minnesota, Lake County, Two Harbors


Presented to the City of Two Harbors by the Oscar Anderson Post No. 109,
the American Legion, September 1929.
This 250 m.m. German Minenwerfer howitzer was captured by the Americans in the World's War at St. Mihiel, France, September 16, 1918.
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[New marker has text intermixed with photos]
This WWI German cannon was presented to the City of Two Harbors in 1929 by the American Legion. The Civil War cannon pictured below was on the court house lawn until being scrapped during WWII.

The community of Two Harbors and Lake County have always maintain[ed] close relations with its military veterans. Anderson Claffy Post #109 of the American Legion has been contributing to this community since it was organized in 1919. The post was organized honoring the name of Two Harbors native Oscar Anderson who was lost in action in at [sic] Ypres, France in 1917. The Charter was amended in 1945 to honor the memory of Charles Claffy a sailor lost off the Bataan Peninsula in 1941.

The Knaff Hospital (1899) was located on the 800 block of 5th Avenue. Dr Knaff was the railroad physician. When the government ordered troops to Two Harbors during WWI they used his hospital as a barracks. The troops were stationed here to protect the railroad from sabotage.

Troops in drill formation on 5th Avenue.

The American Legion placing the cornerstone for the Agate Bay Hotel (1924). In 1944 the Legion opened the lounge in the basement and would remain there until moving to the Sonju garage in 1984.

The Legion Memorial Forest, dedicated in 1932, was located in Silver Creek before being moved to Lakeview Park in Two Harbors.

The Lake County Service Honor Roll in Thomas Owens Park. Erected during WWII it stayed up through the 1950's.

Troops await their train outside the depot at Two Harbors, 1950's.

(Man-Made Features • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Omar Burleson

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Texas, Jones County, Anson
Born NE of Anson Mar. 19, 1906. Attended AHS, ACU, HSU and Cumberland Univ. Admitted to Texas Bar 1929, Co. Attorney 1931-34, Co. Judge 1934-40, FBI 1940-41, Lt. Comdr. USNR 1942-46, U.S. Congress 1947-78. Died May 14, 1991.

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

Thomas Owens Memorial Park

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Minnesota, Lake County, Two Harbors


[Text interspersed with photos]

Thomas Owens was affectionately known at "T.O.".

The White Houses located between 2nd and 3rd Avenues on Poplar Street were once owned by Railroad Superintendent George White. After his passing and by the late 1920's they were thought to pose a great fire risk to the community.

Thomas Owens who lived at 509 2nd Avenue took up a collection and along with D&IR Superintendent Horace Johnson agreed to purchase all the properties on the street and donate them to the city under the agreement that it would be reserved as a public park. This allowed the City of Two Harbors to forgo any legal action required if they chose imminent [sic - eminent] domain to acquire the property.

The buildings would be purchased and the park created in 1930 but it would be another year before the park was officially dedicated as Thomas Owens Memorial Park.

The dedication of the Iron Ball Monument took place in August of 1934 in conjunction with the 50 Year Anniversary of the first shipment of iron ore. The Iron Ball was designed by George Watts and built by the Carlstrom Brothers. It serves as a time capsule with the plaque being removable for future generations.

From left to right, Carl Wepson, Oscar Kulander, Arvid Carlstrom, Oscar Carlstrom, August 1934 [with the Iron Ball Monument]

The next addition to Thomas Owens Memorial park would be the Two Harbors City Bandshell in 1937. The bandshell is dedicated to longtime City Band Director Paul Gauche.

After the death of his wife in 1941 Thomas Owens donated the statue known as the Water Babies to the City of Two Harbors for placement in the park. Today this statue is on the Lighthouse grounds.

The park remains a treasure for the community of Two Harbors enhancing our Historic Waterfront District. We can all thank a foresighted Thomas Owens for this great gift to our community.

(Charity & Public Work • Entertainment • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bayside Cemetery

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New York, Saint Lawrence County, Potsdam
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a fine example of rural cemetery landscape and architecture.

Visitors welcome, but enter at your own risk. Open during daylight hours. This is an active burial ground: please show respect on premises.

For further information: Glenn Collins, Sexton Office behind gatehouse 315/265-3790.

SYMBOLS IN THE STONES

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tombstones tended to threaten or moralize. In the nineteenth century, especially the Victorian era, tombstones emphasized rebirth, salvation, eternal life, and connection to the living mourners.

Here are a few examples in Bayside Cemetery, from the early 19th century to the present.

angels weeping, watching, praying = tended in heaven
finger pionting up = loved one is in heaven, look there for him or her
broken column = deceased cut down in prime
wheat sheaf = gathering the deceased as harvest to the next world
mourning female = sorrow, grief personified
obelisk = from earth to rebirth in heaven
cherub = in the company of angels
damaged urn or column = immortal but we mourn
weeping willow = sorrow on earth
lamb - innocence, usually child
clasped hands = goodbye at death
book = deceased was teacher or minister. Bible = look here for the answer

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

Finding Freedom

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Maryland, Dorchester County, Church Creek
The Call of Freedom
Dorchester County occupies a central place in the story of the Underground Railroad, the secret network of “stations” and “conductors” assisting hundreds of enslaved African Americans to reach freedom in the mid-1800s. Church Creek and nearby Madison were ten important shipbuilding centers where some enslaved people learned skills in the maritime trades that helped them to use the creeks and rivers of the Chesapeake as passageways to freedom.

The Christmas EscapeTubman escaped slavery in 1849, yet risked her freedom time and again by making at least 13 trips back to the Eastern Shore and leading over 70 slaves north to freedom. Late in 1854, she sent a letter to Jacob Jackson, a free black farmer living near Madison saving “…tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship Zion comes along, to be ready to step on board.”

Authorities intercepted the letter, but Jackson told them he didn’t understand its meaning. Later Jackson alerted Tubman’s brothers that Harriet was on her way. When the three brothers went to see their parents on Christmas Day in nearby Caroline County, they found Tubman waiting to lead them to freedom.

A Conductor’s Roots
The famed Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman lived and worked in this area. Her father Ben Ross served as the head timber cutter of a slaveholder on a Madison/Woolford plantation. Tubman’s mother “Rit” Green belonged to the stepson of Ben’s owner who moved her and her children to Bucktown in 1823. While Harriet Tubman was separated from her father in her early years, she later returned to this area toiling with him in the woods and marshes where she learned survival skills essential to her later success on the Underground Railroad.

(Inscription under the photo in the center top)
This canal near Madison was dug with slave labor between 1810 and 1830. The canal was used to float logs to boatyards on the Little Choptank River.-Courtesy of Kate Clifford Library.

(Inscription beside the photo in the lower center)
William Henry (Ross) Stewart, Sr., one of Harriet Tubman’s brothers who fled with her on Christmas Day, 1854. The Ross brothers settled in Ontario, Canada. Photo taken c. 1860-Courtesy of Judith Bromwell.

(Inscription beside the photo of Harriet Tubman)
Harriet wrote: “I was a conductor on the Underground Rail Road for eight years and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. (Women’s Suffrage Meeting, Rochester, NY) (Courtesy of the Collections of the Cuyahoga Museum of History and Art)

(Inscription beside the book-Impending Crisis)
This book, published in 1857, attacked slavery. Charles Dixon of Church Creek was brought to trial in Cambridge for loaning his copy of the book to friends and neighbors.

The “Finding a Way to Freedom” Driving Tour and Dorchester County Courthouse are part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, info available at the Dorchester County Visitor Center (410-228-1000)

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge-Taking Refuge from Slavery

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Maryland, Dorchester County, Cambridge
It is no accident that for years more fugitives escaped from slavery in Maryland than any other state—the 1850 census recorded 259 runaways. Location played a critical role in these escapes. Networks of black and white abolitionists helped fugitives across borders to adjacent free states. Local terrain contributed too.

In the 1840s and 1850s, settings like Blackwater offered refuge to Rit Geen Ross, Harriet Tubman’s mother, when she successfully hid her son Moses in Greenbriar Swamp, so that he could not be sold to a Georgia slave trader.

Remember, when you bike or drive the refuge’s Wildlife Drive, paddle the rivers, or walk a trail, that for slaves fleeing the area, knowledge of the rivers, marshes, fields, and forests meant the difference between freedom, perishing, or a return to slavery.

“The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”
Frederick Douglas-Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas.

(Inscription under the painting at the top)
Bernarda Bryson Shahn-In Hiding, ca. 1935. Ink and watercolor Art-Estate of Bernarda Bryson Shahn/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

(Inscription under the photo in the bottom)
A sunset over Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge-Courtesy of Becky Gregory

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mirror Lake Veterans Park

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Wisconsin, Buffalo County, Mondovi
Freedom Is Not Free

Military Service Emblems
Army • Navy • Air Force
Marine Corps • Coast Guard • Merchant Marine
Galen C. Aase • Loren R. Aase • William J. Aase • Wayne M. Adams • James R. Alf • Mitchell Allen • Roger L. Allison • Ebert O. Alme, Jr. • Leslie H. Amidon • Gordon L. Amundson • ✝Erling A. Anderson • Maeland A. Anderson • Milo B. Anderson • Philip J. Anibas, Jr. • Allen O. Arneson, Jr. • James T. Arneson • Keith R. Arneson • Roger W. Arneson • Morris O. Arneson, Jr. • Michael J. Asher • Lyle E. Auer • Sherman L. Austin • Richard D. Bahr • Hubert A. Bauer • James P. Bauer • Myron L. Bauer • Stephen C. Bauer • Wesley E. Baumann • Mickie K. Beauchamp • Galen O. Becker • Gary L. Berger • Herman R. Becker • Otto L. Becker • Romey H. Becker • Robert J. Berger • Ronald C. Berger • Vincent P. Berger • Reuben Biesecker • John D. Birtzer • Loren F. Birtzer • Shawn A. Birtzer • Susan M. Birtzer • Victor L. Birtzer • James O. Blager • Lester D. Bloom • Lyle W. Bloom • Warren K. Bloom • Arlie R. Bloss • David J. Blum • David R. Blum • Robert J. Blum • Charles W. Borgwardt • Eugene E. Borgwardt • James A. Borgwardt • Richard E. Borgwardt • Virgil L. Borgwardt • Charles B. Brantner • Edward J. Brantner • Levern F. Brantner, Sr. • Donald E. Brenn • Dennis G. Brion • Roy B. Browskowski • Alvin J. Bruvold • Elmer M. Bruvold • Clifford A. Buchholz • Stephen K. Burgess • Tonetta R. Burke • Archie W. Burlingame • Chad W. Burlingame • Larry A. Burlingame • Leigh A. Burlingame • Wilfred G. Burlingame • Betty L. Canar • John Wayne Canar • Robert G. Canar • Robert O. Canar • Thomas H. Canar • Zeno Canar • Russell Casey • Stanley J. Christianson • Allen E. Christopherson • Raymond W. Christopherson • Ruth A. Christopherson • William H. Church • Leigh A. Claflin • Robert D. Claflin • William H. (Bud) Claflin • Clarence R. (Bob) Clark • Dale W. Cleasby • Gary D. Cleasby • James E. Cleasby • Michael R. Colby • Robert M. Colby • Ronald A. Conrad • James L. Cook • Nicholas E. Cook • Randy T. Cook • Robert L. Cook • Sherman E. Cooke • Albert Crandall • Darrell E. Crandall • Dennis E. Crandall • James A. Crandall • Russell Crandall • Sanford L. Crandall • Donald E. Crandall, Jr. • Russell J. Crandall, Jr. • Donald E. Crandall, Sr. • Albert A. Crawford • Gordon L. Crawford • Joshua D. Crawford • Lawrence R. Crawford • Paul M. Crawford • Peter R. Crawford • Ray L. Crawford • Bill W. (Fred) Cross • Cheryl L. Cross • Shelly M. Cross (Risner) • Lori M. Cross (Stevens) • Beth M. Crowder

Cliff Culver • Glen E. Dale • Ann M. Davis • Bernard O. Davis • Bradley O. Davis • Donald J. Davis • Keith E. Davis • Noel "Jerry" G. Davis • Phillip H. Davis • Richard D. Davis • Scott A. Davis • Harvey Raymond Dehnke • Berval K. Deutscher • Charles N. Deutscher • ✝Harry Dillon • John W. Douglas • Wayne H. Douglas • Darrell K. Dowden • Lee H. Dowden • Douglas A. Dregney • James N. Dregney • Ronald C. Dutter • Gordon P. Dowden • Gallen O. Eide • Gary D. Eide • Joseph B. Eide • Odin H. Eide • Donald R. Elkinton • Gerald A. Elsen • Archie C. Erickson • Alfred F.J. Everson • Robert L. Everson • Arnold G. Falkner • Clark R. Farrington • James O. Feeney • Donald L. Fimreite • Howard J. Fimreite • Merle Hans Fimreite • Merle D. Fitzgerald • Wilfred O. Flaskrud • Robert J. Fleming • Donald W. Forthun • Steven J. Fox • Finley M. Franzwa, Jr. • David M. Fredrickson • Rodney R. Fritsch • Russell R. Fritsch • Jesse L. Fuller • Sherrill F. Ganschow • George E. Garlick • Samuel M. Garlick • Joann Marie Gavin • Edwin S. Gehrke • Lee E. Gehrke • Rod G. Geraghty • Charles H. Giese • Allen R. Gifford • Gerald R. Gifford • Richard F. Gifford • Terry L. Glanzman • Keith C. Glasspoole • Dale N. Goodermote • C. Davis Goss • Daniel G. Goss • Donald C. Goss • Lary E. Goss • Richard C. Goss • Rodney C. Goss • Clarence Gray • Duane A. Gray • Francis E. Gray • Ivan D. Gray • Norman Gray • Tillier L. Gray, Jr. • Palmer R. Grorud • Thomas Groven • Alexander Gruber • Bernard J. Gruber • Robert John Gruber • Byron L. Gunderson • Curtiss Glenn Gunderson • Raymond J. Gunderson • John A. Haas • Vincent A. Haas • Wallace J. Haas • Calvin E. Hagen • Kenneth B. Hageness • Clayton H. Halverson • ✝Christopher J. Hanseman • Stanley E. Hanseman • Donald D. Hanson • Gerald E. Hanson • L. Norman Hanson • Robert Allen Hanson • Virginia I. Hanson • Freddie Harms • Steven J. Harms • Jeffrey O. Harris • Katie J. Harris • Wayne K. Hart • James N. Harvey • Harold L. Haugland • James J. Hayden • Harold L. Heck • Norman A. Heck • Charles R. Heike • William J. Helwig • Rev. A. G. Hemer • Gerald L. Henneman • John P. Herpst • Jack F. Hesselman • James L. Hesselman • James (Harley) Hesselman • Daniel L. Hill • Marie Goss Hisaw • Daniel M. Hollister • Marcus D. Hollister • Marsha M. Holstein • Merle R. Holstein • Larry J. Horn • Vilas Hovey • William D. Hovey • Lawrence R. Howard • Warren F. Hulke • Orval M. Hurlburt • Dean H. Hurtley • Harry W. (Stubb) Hurtley • Howard A. Hurtley • Charles H. Hutchinson • Harley L. Hutchinson • Douglas T. Isaacson • Gordon E. Isaacson • Harold E. Isaacson • Henry E. Isaacson • Clinton D. Jackson • Homer R. Jackson • Norma J. James Johnson • David H. Johnson • Erland (Bud) Johnson • Gayle R. Johnson • ✝Melvin L. Johnson • Olaf Johnson • Roswell J. Johnson

Kenneth G. Jordet • Victor M. Jordet • Andy L. Julson • Jerome D. Julson • Laneal J. (Lonnie) Keck • John Kellner • John P. Kins • Ralph H. Kins • Ralph P. Kins, Jr. • Gordon L. Kjentvet • Gregory H. Klevgard • Stanley A. Klevgard • Charles A. Klopp • Donald G. Klopp • Duane H. Klopp • John H. Klopp • Kenneth G. Klopp • George F. Klopp • John F. Klopp • Stephen M. Klopp • Dwane A. Klostermann • Shawn L. Kluge • Kristine M. Kluge-Clark • Randall E. Knecht • Alvin E. Knutson • Philip J. Knutson • Keith (Shorty) Koenig • Roger L. Koenig • Clarence Koepp • Deborah L. Kohlman • John R. Kohlman • Perry N. Kolve • Norman J. Kolve, Jr. • John Willis Komro • Kerry V. Kothbauer • Eugene G. Kramschuster • Lois A. Kramschuster • Ronald E. Kruger • Garnold W. LaBair • Elmer R. LaDuke • Milton R. LaDuke • Paul F. LaDuke • Ralph V. LaDuke • Roy D. LaDduke • Amy Jo Laehn • Anthony R. Laehn • George Langert • Larry A. Langert • Royal D. Langert • Julie A. Lanphere • Roger A. LaPorte • Roger C. LaPorte • Duane R. Larson • Earl M. (Ole) Larson • Galen Larson • Roger E. Larson • Tony Larson • William H. Larson • James M. Latshaw • William N. Latshaw • Allen L. Lee • Marcellus O. Lee • John Wm. Lippert II • Stanley B. Lockwood • Stanley D. Lokken • Donald J. Loomans • David C. Loomis • David L. Loomis • Lee B. Loomis • Loren F. Loomis • Monty J. Loomis • Stanley G. Loomis, Jr. • Beaumont (Bud) Lubinsky • Jerry L. Lubinsky • George R. Luedtke • John H. Lunderville • Marshall S. Lunderville • Robert J. Lurndal • Edward M. Mahlum • Adrian Albin Marsolek • Kenneth A. Marten • Kim A. Marten • Roger R. Marten • Vernon E. Marten • Cecil C. Martin • Lawrence E. Marum • Peter A. Marum • Donald R. Matchey • Estell L. McClellan • Donald J. McDonough • Eldon H. McDonough • James H. McDonough • Marvin F. McDonough • Sanford A. McDonough • Vernon L. McDonough • Dale Arden McGee • Dean Roland McGee • Dick Allen McGee • James E. McGee • Robert A. Melgaard • Russell Dean Mewhorter • Ron Miller • Ronald J. Miller • Wallace Miller • George W. Moats • Harold L. Moats • Leroy C. Moats • Wallace V. Moats • Wayne O. Mock • Anton Moe • John D. Moe • ✝Leland M. Moe • Leon P. Moe • Paul Paulson Moe • Paul E. Moe • Randall E. Morey • Charles D. Morgan • Jeremiah C. Morgan • Marvin M. Moy • Donna M. Mueller (Dutter) • Elmer L. Myers • James L. Myers • Charles R. (Dutch) Nelson • Clayton E. Nelson • John Charles Nelson • James A. Neve • Brian Leroy Nichols • Edwin C. Nichols • David A. Nimmo • Ivan L. Nimmo • Arthur G. Nogle • Oliver L. Noll • David L. Norby • Earl A. Norby • Lamoine E. Norby • Frank W. Norrish • Larry L. Nyre • Michael C. O'Brian • Richard L. O'Brian • Allan C. Odegard • Clarence E. Odegard • Douglas A. Odegard • Einar L. Odegard • Elwood S. Odegard • Scott D. Odegard • Curtis L. Olbert • Alton M. Olson • Brandon J. Olson • Darrel D. Olson • Earl E. Olson • Gordon M. Olson • John T. Olson • Sherman J. Olson

Thorwald A. Olson • Buster (Merlin) Olufson • Arvilla E. Otto • Herman J. Otto • Hubert L. Otto • Russ "M" Owen • Edward C. Pabst • Larry W. Pabst • David Keith Parish • Richard J. Pariso • Gary A. Parker • Donald L. Parkhurst • Lamoine W. Parkhurst • Roger L. Parkhurst • David C. Parr • Warren Parr • William H. Parr • Wendy M. Passe-Allen • Jerry E. Paulson • David Lee Pederson • Lorn W. Pederson • Lyle O. Pederson • Melvin R. Pederson • Michael John Pederson • Don R. Peterson • Edwin S. Peterson • Harry R. Peterson • Howard E. Peterson • Janet May Peterson • Merle L. Peterson • Palmer R. Peterson • Wade D. Peterson • Woodrow Peterson • Hewitt O. Pfund • Vilas L. Pfund • Hugh C. Pospishil • Marven D. Quale • ✝William H. Quale • Randy D. Quarberg • Russell A. Quarberg • ✝Oliver Marion Ramsey • Luther Calvin Raynes • Robert G. Repaal • Gene H. Rice • Etta L. Leo Rieck • Jeffery L. Rieck • Marvin Risen • Howard Rivers • Gwendlyn M. Rockwell • James H. Rockwell • Walter Fred Rockwell • William H. Rockwell • Orville J. Roetter • Edward "Doc" Romano • Edward "Tex" Romano • Donald S. Ronnei • Leroy V. Rosman • Curtis J. Rud • Dale M. Rud • Doyle E. Rud • James J. Rud • Jeffery Joe Rud • Merle G. Rud • Roger L. Rud • Gordon B. Rustad • Michael J. Rutschow • Allen M. Sandberg • Robert D. Sands • Galen A. Sather • Harold I. Sather • Myron T. Sather • Reuben Sather • Ronald L. Sather • Donald F. Saxe • Kaydi B. Saxe • Edwin M. Schaffner • Charles F. Scharf • Peter W. Scheifen • Russell J. Schmitt • J.D. Schmittfranz, Sr. • John E. Schmitz • Oakley E. Schneider • Bill L. Schreiner • Marvin Arnold Schreiner • Vernon C. (Hans) Schroeder • Roger E. Schuh • Donald L. Schultz • Edward L. Schultz • Edwin C. Schultz • Junior J. Schultz • Lavern Z. Schultz • Leon A. Schultz • Leroy E. Schultz • Lynn K. Schultz • Norman H. Schultz • Gerald A. Sciascia • Rangnar S. Segerstrom • Jon N. Seipel • Norbert H. Seipel • Eugene D. Semingson • Elmer Serum • Gerald N. Serum • Harris Herbert Serum • James E. Serum • Lowell D. Serum • Dennis P. Sessions • Donald M. Sessions • Wilfred G. Sessions • Keith A. Sessions • Philip "Joe" Sessions • Roy A. Sessions • Wilfred G. Sessions • William D. Sessions • Rocklin J. Severson • Fredrick C. Seyforth • John D. Sharp • Bernard A. Sie • Donald E. Smeltzer • Carol A. Smith • Galen L. Smith • Mark A. Smith • Paul R. Smith • Dale R. "Hoo Yah" Snyder • Douglas J. Solberg • Lawrence A. Solberg • Robert W. Solberg • La Moine O. Stamm • Kenneth L. "Casey" Stanton • Alton G. Steinke • Arnold G. Steinke • Vendor C. Steinke • Milton J. Sterry • Dale E. Stevens • Frank Svejcar • Frank M. Svejcar • Joshua J. Svejcar • Curtis Switzenberg • Merrill Switzenberg • ✝Alden G. Synstad • Charles Herman Talle

Erdman T. Talle • Irving D. Talle • Nels H. Talle • Ruby L. Talle • Richard J. Tanner • Oscar F. Tanz • Gordon R. Thompson • Howard L. Thompson • James D. Thompson • James T. Thompson • Jeffrey F. Thompson • John G. Thompson • Gerald L. Thorson • John W. Thorson • Leif E. Thorson • Merle T. Thorson • Maynard S. Trones • Dixon M. Trusler • Macken O. Trusler • Donald G. Ulness • Albert H. Unger • Alvin B. Urness • Duane M. Urness • Otis H. Urness • Richard N. Urness • Roger W. Van Someren • James O. Van Vleet • Charles E. Vincent • Rowland C. Vincent • Raymond D. Waldbillig • Gerald W. Walker • Andy Ward • Diane S. Ward • James R. Weber • Robert L. Weber • Scott R. Weber • Francis L. Weisenbeck • David L. Weiss • Dennis A. Weiss • Dion A. Weiss • Jerold L. Weiss • Kenneth E. Weiss • Norbert L. Weiss • Robert G. Weiss • Henrietta M. Werlein • Robert O. Werlein • Thomas W. Werlein • Charles Werrell • Edward Werrell • William Werrell • John Roy Werrell, Jr. • Donald E. Williams • Robert D. Williams • Charles G. Williamson • Dwight L. Winberg • David G. Winter • James R. W. Wirig • Jerrold A. Wirig • Devere M. Wood • Phyllis M. Wood • Walter F. Wright • John W. Zenger • Larry D. Zenger • Lawrence W. Zingshiem • Elgene L. Ableidinger • Clifford M. Anderson • David S. Clark • Robert M. Skare • Ross W. Winter • Ross E. Winter • Paul S. Bauer • Arnold Becker • Charly O. Becker • Vernon R. Bloom • Laverne E. Bloss • Robert L. Bloss • Leonard C. Brantner • Jack R. Cook • Roger H. Cook • Duttie J. Deetz • Jerald O. Feeney • Roger J. Feeney • Marlin R. Hagen • Robert Haidvogel • Sandra Mahlum Haidvogel • William Leigh Harvey • Wilbur A. Herold • Scott A. Holden • Romaine C. Hollister • Bob Johnson • Jerome David Klevgard • ✝Lavern Robert Klevgard • Llarry M. Lawrence • Allen C. Lehman • David M. Loomis • William C. Lover • Lemoine A. Nelson • Ronald C. Odegard • Dale W. Page • Homer Pulkrabek • Charles W. Remington • Duane E. Rud • Rolland E. Rud • James M. Rudy • ✝Deloy G. Semingson • Theodore H. Seyer • Joel D. Shaw • John O. Ward • Wilbur C. Weilep • John C. Weiss • Blaise G. Hager • Bernard W. Brantner • Philo Englesby • Jeffery A. Bauer • John R. Tanner • Steven J. Tanner • Garth Allen Topper • John A. Broadfoot • Grover L. Broadfoot

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Alger W. Bidney • Rex E. Claflin • Leonard A. Eskridge • Dean R. Linse • Lyle J. Ness • Hilmar A. Quarberg • Floyd E. Reiser • James T. Amdahl • Sidney J. Moham • Kevin M. Johnson • Glen Miller • Clifford (Cuff) R. Turner • William M. Williams • Paul W. Weisharr • Brian W. Weishaar • Todd J. Weishaar • Leland John Melrose • Douglas C. Quarberg • Mitch E. Brantner • Paul F. Weiss • Ernest P. Werlein • Larry L. Werlein • Kenneth R. Komro • Rodger E. Bonesteel • Robert R. Bonesteel • Luke T. Zuercher • Gary M. Brion • Ricky G. Sessions • Karl C. Zacharias • Wayne C. Stuber • Roger W. Laduke • Luther J. Larson • Gaylord "Stub" Schultz • Wayne Canar • John L. Riedner • Lawrence F. Komro • George H. Bonesteel • Myles R. Smith • Robert F. Smith • David C. Smith • Elmer Smith • Richard C. Loewenhagen • Jennifer Hollister • Richard A. Simonson • George H. Komro • ✝Allard W. Risen • Lennie W. Risen • Edwin W. Ellingson • Allen Whelan • Michael Dowden • William R. Harvey • John Moy • Fredrick Moy

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Church of the Holy Trinity

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Ontario, Niagara Municipality, Chippawa
A frame church was built here following the arrival in 1820 of an Anglican missionary, the Reverend William Leeming. It was burned on the night of September 12-13, 1839, by supporters of William Lyon Mackenzie who crossed the Niagara River from New York State. The present church was designed by John Howard and built with the aid of private subscriptions and government assistance. The corner-stone was laid in 1841 by Bishop John Stachan. Among the well known persons who worshiped here were: Jenny Lind, the famous singer, in 1851; Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward Vii), in 1860; and Laura Secord, a parishioner, who died in 1868.

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Tucumcari

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New Mexico, Quay County, near Tucumcari
This area was troubled by both Comanches and Comancheros, New Mexicans who traded illegally with the Indians, until the military campaigns of 1874. With the coming of the railroad in 1898, the small community of Liberty, eight miles to the north, moved here to form the nucleus of Tucumcari, which was incorporated in 1908. The Rock Island-Southern Pacific Depot built in 1927 is an outstanding example of a Mission Revival style depot and recently restored.

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

Townsite of Obar

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New Mexico, Quay County, near Nara Visa
Founded in 1906 and at one time had a couple dozen buildings with all types of business found in early western towns including a newspaper called Obar Progress.

A partial list of the several hundred pioneer families who homesteaded in the Obar area during the early 1900's

G. Beblin • I. Besick • W. Campbell • E. Carver • T. Collins • B. Cooper • G. Cunningham • W. Darsey • E. Dibble • S. Doerge • A. Derham • C. Eddy • D. Gallegoe • G. Garrison • O. Gekaser • S. Hacksbott • K. Hawby • C. Heremberger • R. Hoard • I. Kelly • W. Johnson • K. Klinefelter • C. Link • M. McColpin • F. Mears • C. Melcom • G. Peal • A. Rineheart • W. Schneider • D. Waserman • J. Wilbure • W. White

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Nara Visa

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New Mexico, Quay County, Nara Visa
The area is rich in prehistoric evidence, and home of the buffalo and Plains Indians. Explored by the early Spanish, the area was settled when the Rock Island Railroad was built thru in 1901.

The brick building, built in 1921, was home for a fine school. The adobe gym was built in 1935 by WPA laborers. The buildings are listed on the National and State Historic Registers. Now a community Center, it is the heart of community activity.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Post Office of Loretta

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Oklahoma, Texas County, Texhoma
The post office of Loretta was established May 7, 1898. It was moved to the Texas-Okla. line and the name was changed to Texhoma on Nov. 12, 1901.

The Panhandle of Okla. was called No Man's Land. It was owned by Spain in 1541, Mexico in 1821, Texas in 1836, U.S.A. in 1850. It became part of the Okla. Territory in 1890, and became Beaver County, Okla. Territory in 1900, and Okla. in 1907
Elevation 3240

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