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Veterans Memorial

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Wisconsin, Waupaca County, near Symco

Dedicated to Our
Veterans Who so
Honorably Served
God and Country

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

Key Biscayne, The Barrier Island

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Key Biscayne
Key Biscayne is a barrier island located at the north end of the reef-strewn Florida Straits. One thousand years before Columbus sailed, the Tequesta inhabited the island. These coastal fishermen navigated dugout canoes between the island and the mainland. The Spanish explorers and missionaries referred to the native people in the area around Biscayne Bay as Vizcaynos. Though this name for them is documented in a 1675 mission report letter from Bishop Calderon of Cuba, and though several tales offer explanations, the true origin of the name which graces Biscayne Bay and Key Biscayne remains a mystery.

In 1513, sailed from Puerto Rico searching for cities of gold. He landed on this island because of its distinctive location, and the fresh water and firewood found in the area. The island became a prominent landmark for the earliest navigators in American waters. During a twenty year British rule which began in 1763, British Royal Surveyors charted the waters. Florida was returned to Spain in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1821 and territorial status was granted later that same year. Florida became a state in 1845.

(Exploration • Native Americans • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

U.S. Coast Survey Base Marker

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Key Biscayne
In 1855, a U.S. coast Survey team, led by A.D. Bache, the superintendent of the Coast Survey, erected two base markers on Key Biscayne. One is located on what is now the golf course. This one was on land 300 ft. south of the lighthouse, but by 1883, it had disappeared into the sea as the shoreline eroded. In 1988, local professional land surveyors located this marker in 12 ft. of water. Then the U.S. Air Force 301st Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron recovered it. The men of this time thus helped to preserve the remains of another generation's struggle for excellence in measuring and mapping the earth.

(Exploration • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The 1910 Mary Peck House

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Florida, Orange County, St. Augustine

Constructed shortly after the turn-of-the-century near the Castillo del San Marcos, the Mary Peck House has undergone nearly as many changes as the post-Flagler period St. Augustine in which it was built. In the past century, the street in front of the house in its original location changed from a sleepy little dirt road into a heavily traveled four-lane street through the historic district. The name of the street has been altered too, from Fort Marion Circle to Castillo Drive. The house has seen its porches removed, walls added, and paint colors changed many times in the last century. An interesting feature of the house is a back porch built of “boxcar” beaded board siding.

The woman for whom the house is named was Mary LaVerne Peck, a lifelong resident of St. Augustine who worked as a tour guide in the historic district. In the early morning of November 18, 2004, the Mary Peck House was moved to this location to make room for the City of St. Augustine’s expansion of their Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum. Historic Tours of America, is restoring the former residence as a house museum for Old Town St. Augustine visitors. Quartered on the first floor will be offices for the Old Jail Sheriff and a morgue for prisoners who have met their fate at the gallows.

We look forward to opening this historic house for your next visit to Old Town St. Augustine.

Historic Tours of America has been saving historic Florida buildings from the wrecking balls since 1973. This restoration is part of our ongoing commitment to Florida’s Heritage.

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

Blanc-Sablon National Historic Site

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Quebec, Côte-Nord, near Blanc-Sablon
English:
The Blanc-Sablon National Historic Site of Canada, also recognised as Cultural Property in Québec, holds a signifiant place in the history of the Quebec- Labrador coast. Artefacts found at this site represent 9,000 years of Aboriginal history up until the first contact with Europeans in the early 16th century. The high concentration of archaeological sites attests to the fact that the Blanc-Sablon region, and especially the mouth of the Blanc-Sablon River, was an important meeting place for Aboriginal peoples.
Blanc-Sablon was a strategic location for many reasons. It has a well protected natural harbour and was a prime location for hunting marine animals, especially seals, walrus, whales and sea birds. It was also an excellent place to fish for cod and salmon. Only 15 km across from Newfoundland, Blanc-Sablon served as a gateway to the Strait of Belle Isle.

French:
Le lieu historique national du Canada de Blanc-Sablon, aussi reconnu comme bien culturel au Québec, occupe une place importante dans l’historie de la côte du Québec-Labrador. Les artéfacts de ce site représentent 9 000 ans d’histoire: des premiers Autochtones jusqu’à l’arrivée des Européens au début du 16ᵉ siècle. La concentration élevée de sites archéologiques atteste le fait que la région de Blanc-Sablon, et particulièrement l’embouchure de la rivière de Blanc-Sablon, était un point de rendez-vous important pour les peuples autochtones.
Blanc-Sablon était un lieu stratégique pour plusieurs raisons. C’était up port naturel bien protégé et un emplacement privilégié pour la chasse des animaux marins, surtout le phoques, les morses et les oiseaux de mer. C’était également une excellente zone de pêche à la morue et au saumon. Situé à seulement 15 km de Terre-Neuve. Blanc-Sablon était le principal point d’entree pour la région du détroit de Belle Isle.

Innu-aimun or Montagnais:
The right side of the marker has the Blanc-Sablon text in Innu-aimun. If you are interested, click on the marker image to enlarge it and read the text.


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

Port aux Basques - North Sydney

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 3 (South Coast), near Channel-Port aux Basques
English:
A century of ferry service between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia
SS. Bruce first sailed from this port to North Sydney on 30 June 1898.

French:
En commemoration d’un siècle de service traversier entre Terre-Neuve et la Novelle.
Le vapeur Bruce a quitte ce port à destination de North Sydney, pour la première fois le 30 juin 1898.

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Artistic Life

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District of Columbia, Washington
The Imposing Double House to Your Left, numbers 1 and 2, was built as an investment for Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., son of the 18th president. The house would later serve as the Venezuelan Legation and then a Seventh-Day Adventist nursing home.

Henry M. Letcher and his wife Evelyn purchased 1-2 Logan Circle. Henry, an artist, designer, educator, and decorated veteran of the Tuskegee Airmen, and Evelyn, a teacher opened Letcher Art Center. After receiving accreditation from the Veterans Administration, the center taught commercial art, sign painting, silk screening, and architectural drafting to returning World War II veterans. Henry brought his first cousin and best friend Duke Ellington to visit and be photographed among the students. The School, recalled his son Henry, Jr. enabled scores of service men to become “peace-time earners and family men” despite segregation.

After Letcher's death in 1967, Henry Jr., a musician, took over the mansion, populating it with fellow musicians and artists, among them musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron. The younger Letcher's band Jambo performed locally in the early 1970s and attracted audiences with jazz-inflected R&B accompanied by psychedelic light shows. In 1972, when the neighborhood “became too rough,” as Henry Jr. recalled, his mother sold the house. In 1998 it was converted to condominiums.

One block east of this sign is 1316 Rhode Island Avenue, an example of the 1970s wave of rehabilitation in Logan Circle. Architect Robert B. Gordon and his wife Doll purchased the shell of 1316 in 1979. Gordon designed a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired interior within the Victorian exterior of the 1885 red-brick exterior rowhouse.

Sidebar (on reverse):

The Logan Circle Neighborhood began with city boosters' dreams of greatness. The troops, cattle pens, and hubbub of the Civil War (1861–1865) had nearly ruined Washington, and when the fighting ended, Congress threatened to move the nation's capital elsewhere. So city leaders raced to repair and modernize the city. As paved streets, water and gas lines, street lights, and sewers reached underdeveloped areas, wealthy whites followed. Mansions soon sprang up around the elegant park where Vermont and Rhode Island Avenues met. The circle was named Iowa Circle, thanks to Iowa Senator William Boyd Allison. In 1901 a statue of Civil War General (and later Senator) John A. Logan, a founder of Memorial Day, replaced the park's central fountain. The circle took his name in 1930. The title of this Heritage Trail comes from General Logan's argument that Memorial Day would serve as "a fitting tribute to the memory of [the Nation's] slain defenders."

As the city grew beyond Logan Circle, affluent African Americans gradually replaced whites here. Most of them moved on during World War II, and their mansions were divided into rooming houses to meet a wartime housing shortage. By the 1960s, with suburban Maryland and Virginia drawing investment, much of the neighborhood had decayed. When civil disturbances erupted after the 1968 assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it hit bottom. Ten years later, however, long-time residents, newcomers, and city programs spurred revival. A Fitting Tribute: Logan Circle Heritage Trail takes you through the neighborhood's lofty and low times to introduce the array of individuals who shaped its modern vitality.

(African Americans • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 18 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Sodus Point Coal Trestle

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New York, Wayne County, Sodus Point
The early 1850's saw Sodus Bay as a commercial port, and with the increased demand for coal, local businessmen began construction of the Sodus Point & Southern Railroad line, that would connect it to the coal fields of central Pennsylvania, via the Pennsylvania Railroad.

In 1873, the railroad line was completed, with its terminus at this site. Here, a heavily constructed dock, 400 feet long and 40 feet above the water, was built. It held two sets of rails that ran out to the east end. Two coal pockets were under each set of rails. Coal cars were placed over top of the pockets, the doors at the bottom of the cars were opened to permit the coal to drop into the pocket. Manually operated chutes would carry the falling coal down the chute into the waiting ship's cargo hold.

In that 1st year, over 32,000 tons of coal were shipped to Canada. Between 1892 and 1927, well over 30 million tons of coal were up-loaded in Sodus Point, and shipped to both American and Canadian Ports.

In 1927, an ever increasing demand for coal, caused the dock to be completely rebuilt. With heavy pine timbers, it was extended to 800 feet in length and 60 feet in height, now with 8 pockets and chutes. In addition to the trestle, a storage railroad yard, for 1,200 cars, was added.

Each decade, demanded more changes. In the early 1950's, shakers were installed on the trestle. They fit over the RR cars, shaking them until all the coal dropped through the pockets & chutes into the ship. These huge shakers created such a loud rattle, it could be heard many miles away.

By the 1960's the size and capacity of coal ships, had increased to 13,000 tons of cargo. This made it necessary to maintain a dredged channel, to depth of 21 feet and a width of 150 feet, from the pier light to the trestle, as well as a 700 foot turning basin, at the loading area.

By the 1950's, Sodus Point's annual tonnage of coal up-loaded, had grown to 2,401,616, but by the mid 60's, the ships carried 28,000 tons of coal, and the coal trestle, had become too small, and an antiquated operation. It found it could not compete with other, more modern facilities. It closed down in 1967. It lay dormant until 1971, when businessmen and [a] new owner, began dismantling the trestle in order to build a marina on the site. The project progressed slowly until November, when men working with an acetylene torch, dropped a red hot bolt onto a coal-dust covered timber. Fire rapidly consumed the trestle.

Today his site is a modern marina, built on the footprint of the trestle. One can imagine the old, imposing structure, when looking at the dock and boat slips, following its foundation, out to the end point.

Beginning as a small dock, expanding to a huge trestle and now a marina, this Sodus Bay property continues to promote the economy and preserve the vision of those who saw its great potential, so long ago.

For more information about the Coal Trestle, visit the Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum, www.historicsoduspoint.com website, or click to QR code.

Information is courtesy of the Sodus Bay Historical Society, Photos from the collection of Bill Huff, Jr.


(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory, World Wars 1 - 2

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New York, Wayne County, Wolcott

In memory
World Wars 1 - 2
Peace be yours [11 and 16 names listed]

(War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Northrup Park

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New York, Wayne County, Wolcott

Northrup Park
This park was the gift of
Gardner H. Northrup who came
to Wolcott in 1871. The
memorial bandstand was
given by his widow in 1928.

(Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Former Glory

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Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore
The mouth of Harris Creek was once part of Baltimore’s thriving maritime industry. David Stodder began building ships here in the 1780s. The first U.S. Navy frigate, Constellation, launched from Stodders Shipyard in 1797 and played an active role in the War of 1812. Although a British blockade kept if from sea, its cannon and crew protected Norfolk and Portsmouth harbors.

“Old Defender” George Roberts, a free black from Canton, was a gunner on the privateer Chasseur in 1814 and participated in several battles while at sea. Roberts proudly participated in Baltimore’ annual War of 1812 Defenders Day parades until his death at 95.

“Resolved, That owners of the vessels now moored and mad fast, at or near the wharves of the city, are hereby directed to remove their vessels immediately to some place below Harris’s Creek for the greater security…”
Minutes, Committee of Vigilance and Safety, August 26, 1814.

(Inscription under the engraving in the center)
This 1800 engraving showing shipbuilding in Philadelphia resembles work that took place on the Constitution at the Stodder Shipyard, once located here, and highlighted on the map.

(Inscription under the map at the lower center)
Plan of the town of Baltimore, 1793-Image courtesy Library of Congress.

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

Grist Mill Stone

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New Jersey, Burlington County, Mount Holly

This Mill Stone was recovered from the site of the historic industrial park at the corner of Mill and Pine Street. Built in 1796 by Cox & Davidson and operated with five French Burrs until destroyed by fire in 1910. This Mill Stone is the only true tangible artifact ever recovered from the site of the historic Grist Mill.

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

History Millstone Park

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New Jersey, Burlington County, Mount Holly

1771 – 1822   -   Samuel Clark and Butler Atkinson
                    Cabnet Makers

1822 – 1829   -   Alexander A. Young
                    Sold Tinwear and Stoves
                        He also printed “Chronicle”
                        Post Office occupied part of the building

1829 – 1838   -   John C. Simmons
                    Built a large brick building
                    Odd Fellows Lodge occupied upper floors

1838 – 1898   -   Peter Lynch
                   Tinsmith
                        (Installed first gas street lights)

1898 – 1937   -   George D. Worrell
                    Plumbing Business

1937 – 1970   -   Owned by James T. Gottlieb Family
                    Meats and Groceries

1796 – 1910   -   Grist Mill stood few hundred feet east
The cobblestones in this park are the original cobblestones in the bed of Pine Street.

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

John Woolman’s Tailor Shop & 2nd Friends Meeting House

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New Jersey, Burlington County, Mount Holly
On this site stood
John Woolman’s Tailor Shop
Here he probably “tended shop and
kept books” in 1740 when a lad of 20.
He bought the property in 1747, and
deeded it to his mother,
Elizabeth Woolman in 1753.
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The second
Friends Meeting House
in Mount Holly was built on the rear
of this lot in 1768. It was in use until
1776 and was reached by a passage way
from Mill Street known as
“Meeting House Alley.”
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Erected by
American Stores Company

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

William Calvert’s Hardware Store

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New Jersey, Burlington County, Mount Holly
This Hardware Store
Established on Mill Street
by
William Calvert in 1770

1920-30 Storefront Restored by
Paul Musgrove of Mount Holly
For the Present Owner, Arthur R. Eldred
September 22, 1980

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

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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Pennsylvania, Northampton County, Bethlehem
Author & historian. Her works include books on Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Yankee from Olympus”, Sir Edward Coke “Lion and the Throne”, & the U.S. Constitution “Miracle at Philadelphia”. She lived here during her father's university presidency, 1905-1920.

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

The Purple Heart

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Nebraska, Hall County, near Grand Island

The Purple Heart medal was originated by General George Washington on August 7, 1782 for distinguished valor and is now awarded only to members of the armed forces of the United States who have been wounded in combat against an armed enemy.

Recipients of this unique award have been specifically honored by the U.S. Congress as a chartered fraternal organization known as the Military Order of the Purple Heart and have active members in chapters throughout the United States and the world.

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

Grand Island

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Nebraska, Hall County, near Grand Island

You are near the Platte River's famous Grand Island. It is approximately forty miles in length and two miles at its widest. Providing abundant wood and water, it often served as a campsite for Pawnee Indians. Journalists for the expeditions of Astor (1813) and Stephen Long (1819) both noted the island. In 1843 John C. Fremont recommended that a fort be constructed near the head of the island. Fort Childs, later named Fort Kearny, was established in 1848 as the first military outpost on the Platte River portion of the Oregon and California trails. The Mormon Trail ran adjacent to the island along the north bank of the river.

In 1857 a town company composed mainly of Germans settled the area north of the island. This first Grand Island failed to develop when the company became bankrupt. Present Grand Island was not platted until 1866, when the Union Pacific Railroad reached Hall County. The town grew rapidly and became the county seat. In 1869 a U.S. General Land Office was established to record land filings for the region north of the Platte. Grand Island was incorporated in 1872, and it has became a major industrial and agricultural city in the central Platte Valley.

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

Cook comes to Canada

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 5 (Humber District), Corner Brook
These five panels outline Captain James Cook’s experiences in Newfoundland.

Cook comes to Canada
Captain James Cook took his first voyage to Canada as a Master on the vessel ”Pembroke” in February 1785. The British forces were embroiled in the Seven Years War with the French.

Cook arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia and took part in the blockade of Louisburg (sic) which the French surrendered that July. It was here, that Cook had an encounter that would begin his transformation from a Sailing Master to a renowned cartographer and surveyor. Cook observed an engineer officer using a strange device on the beach. The man was Samuel Holland, an army surveyor-engineer and the device was a plane table. In the months to come, Holland would teach Cook how to survey and make charts as well as the use of the plane table.

In May 1759, the British started up the St. Lawrence River to capture the French stronghold of Quebec. Cook and Holland were tasked with the dangerous and difficult job of charting the river. Quebec fell to the British in September 1759.

Cook spent the next few years honing his surveying and cartography skills in Halifax before joining an offensive on the French, who had captured St. John’s, Newfoundland with plans to hold it as a bargaining chip, in the post war negotiations with Great Britain. St. John’s was successfully taken from the French. The next year Cook was selected to return to Newfoundland to survey the area. He would spend the next five years in Newfoundland from 1763 - 1767.

Surveying in the 1700’s
In February 1763, the final terms of the Paris Treaty were signed with France, recognizing British sovereignty over Newfoundland. France was permitted to retain fishing rights from Cape Bonavista to Port Riche and was given St. Pierre and Miquelon for the use of their fishermen.

Cook was assigned to begin surveying Newfoundland in 1763, his first assignment in his official capacity of Surveyor. At that time the few existing French surveys of the area were sketchy and the British ones were unreliable at best. Although Britain had no major intentions of settling Newfoundland, it needed to ensure that navigational access between Newfoundland and the mainland was secured and that fishing was regulated. Fishing was Newfoundland’s major resource and needed to be kept regulated to ensure the French were not infringing on the British fishing waters.

Over the course of the next 5 years, Cook worked on surveying Newfoundland, starting in the North, moving down to the South and finally chartering the West Coast. While Cook had honed his chartering and surveying skills with Samuel Holland, he would have had some basic skills, learned as a Master. Masters duties in the 1700s included adding to chartered and recorded information. Captains were expected to carry out surveys and to collect data on the availability of wood, water and supplies. Cook was to go far beyond the basic duties expected of officiers in the naval service and would become renowned for his acute observations and detailed surveying.

Astounding Accuracy
Although there had been other surveyors before him, Cook was the first to establish the precision of the land survey process as an integral part of coastal chart making. Over the warmer months spent in Newfouldland, Cook kept astonishingly accurate and detailed logs of the coastal conditions as well as the availability of wood, water and supplies. Cook’s charts were so accurate that they were still in use hundreds of years later.

The Plane Table (side-bar on right)
One of Cook’s most important instruments was the plane table, originally introduced to him by Samuel Holland. The plane table was a small, square, flat surface mounted on a tripod with a brass telescope attachment. The table has drawing paper secured on it, and the telescope was fitted with a straight edge that allowed the user to mark the telescope’s bearing. The table allowed one to create a drawing in which the true position and distance of geographical landmarks and the land that joined them, could be documented.

Renaissance Man
Cook was truly a renaissance man of his times. Cook’s hunger for knowledge and his aptitude for all things scientific meant he was consistently acquiring new skills and honing his existing ones. Cook was able seaman, surveyor, navigator and even astronomer.

Cook demonstrated his abilities as a seaman by commanding the Grenville safely around Newfoundland’s rocky coastline and undertook many safe voyages between Britain and Newfoundland.

His surveying skills set the standard for the times and in fact he improved the methods of surveying in his day. Whilst in Newfoundland he produced four extraordinarily accurate charts. It is interesting to note that although Cook was assigned to survey Newfoundland by the British Government, he had to pay for the printing and and engraving of his charts himself.

Towards the end of Cook’s time in Newfoundland he started to take an interest in astronomy. Cook observed and recorded an eclipse of the sun in the Burgeo Islands - quite possibly Eclipse Island (a small island off the coast of Burgeo). Cook’s observation of the eclipse brought him to attention of the Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge (a prominent scientific society in Britain at that time),a fact that would have great implications in coming years.

Tahiti Beckons
Every winter Cook returned to Britain from Newfoundland and every spring returned to continue his work. The winter of 1767 was no different. Whilst back in Britain, Cook put in a request for more astronomical equipment for his vessel and was looking forward to new discoveries in Newfoundland in 1768.

However it was not to be. The Royal Society had been planning scientific voyage to Tahiti. They had put forward another individual to lead the expedition but the government of King George III refused to accept the candidate; who although a prominent scientist was lacking in naval experience. Cook had everyone’s confidence; his naval skills, surveying and astronomical abilities along with his remarkable Newfoundland experience made him the ideal candidate to lead the voyage to Tahiti. So began the next chapter on his story.

Cook never returned to Newfoundland but went on to explore Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii amongst other places in his lifetime.

(Exploration • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baltimore Regional Trail

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Maryland, Baltimore
During the Civil War, Baltimore and its environs exemplified the divided loyalties of Maryland's residents. The city had commercial ties to the South as well as the North, and its secessionist sympathies erupted in violence on April 19, 1861, when pro-Confederate mobs attacked Massachusetts troops en route to Washington, D.C. Because of Baltimore's strategic importance, President Abraham Lincoln acted swiftly, stationing Federal troops in the city and jailing civilians suspected of disloyalty. Some area residents joined the Confederate army, but many others supported the Union. After the Emancipation Proclamation permitted African-American enlistment in 1863, U.S. Colored Troops regiments were recruited and trained in Baltimore and the vicinity. Naval vessels, such as USS Constellation, supported the Union war effort on the Chesapeake Bay and the high seas, countering the flow of contraband goods to the Confederacy. In 1863, during Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early's attack on the Washington defenses, Maj. Harry Gilmor's cavalry threatened Baltimore, burned nearby bridges, and raided supplies. Throughout the war, the city served as a hospital and prisoner-of-war assembly center. Political prisoners were detained at Fort McHenry, home of the "Star-Spangled Banner." Despite the city's divided loyalties, Baltimore remained a Union stronghold until the end of the war.

Please drive carefully as you enjoy the Baltimore Regional Civil War Trail and other Civil War Trail sites throughout Maryland.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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