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Mob Scene

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Maryland, Baltimore
Incited by anti-war editorials in the Federal Republican, an angry mob destroyed the newspaper’s Gay Street office in June 1812. Rioters returned when editor Alexander Contee Hanson resumed publication from the Charles Street site on July 27. Hanson and about 25 supporters were escorted to jail for protection. “A scene of horror and murder ensued” as the mob stormed the jail, killing or wounded the occupants.

War Critic
Never fully recovered from mob-related injuries, Alexander Contee Hanson remained an outspoken war opponent. He served in the U.S. House and then the Senate from 1813 until his death at age 33 in 1819. (Inscription beside the photo on the right) Alexander Contee Hanson 1786-1819. Image/Courtesy Library of Congress.

“Another Daring Outrage!...Yesterday the Federal Republican resumed its former circulation, and last evening the lawless mob made an attempt on the house, in Charles Street…by breaking the windows and forcing the doors.”
Annapolis Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer, August 6, 1812.

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


Recinoso

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Maryland, Baltimore
Presented by
The United Spanish
War Veterans
of Maryland
1925

On the Muzzle:

Captured by the U.S.S. Dixie
Manned By the First Naval Battalion M.N.G.
Fort Ciamanera, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. 22, 1899
Presented to Mayor E. Clay Timanus By
Dr. Sydney O. Heiskell Past Asst. Surg.


C.H. Davis, Comm. Commdg.     C.A. Merriam, Lieut.
R.M. Doyle, Lieut.      S.M. Blount, Lieut.
R.S .Paul. Chf. Engr.      H.C.Haines, 13T. Lt. Mar.
P.Cook, Past Asst. Pay M.      D. Murdoch, Lt. Jun. Grade
W. M. Goodrich, Ensign     P. T. Coyle, Ensign
J.M. Luby, Ensign     F.A. Brumby, Ensign
R. P. Browne, Asst. Engr.      H.T. Powell, Asst. Engr.
A.H. McCarthy, Naval Cadet     N. Mansfield, Asst. Engr.
C.J. Fallon, Pay M. Clk.      C.C. Lodge, Naval Cadet
178 Enlisted men, 43 marines
Mounted Designed
And Erected By
Geo. F. Jones Supt. of Pub. Bldgs.
1906

(War, Spanish-American) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gibson-Linn

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling
Among many daring frontier exploits was the journey of Captain George Gibson and Lieutenant William Linn to New Orleans, 1776-77. Despite danger and opposition, they secured powder for use of Fort Henry against the Indians.

(Exploration • Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. John's Episcopal Church

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West Virginia, Brooke County, Colliers
Founded in 1793 by Joseph Doddridge. It is the first Episcopal Church west of the Alleghenies and the oldest continuous worshipping congregation within this religious body in West Virginia. The first church, made of logs, was burned by Indians. Little is known about the second church. The present colonial structure was built in 1849 with hand-hewn stone foundation, handmade bricks, original cherry floor and box pews.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Waugh Flour Mills

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West Virginia, Brooke County, near Wellsburg
Four flour mills were constructed near Wellsburg in the early 1800s. The first of these mills was built by John Moore in 1800. Moore's son-in-law, Richard Waugh, built the old stone mill in 1824, and the upper mill in 1835. A. M. Buchanan built the fourth mill in 1847. This mill was owned and operated by James, David and Ashley Waugh until 1924. It was destroyed by fire in 1931.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Twillingate

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Newfoundland and Labrador, Division No. 8 (Notre Dame Bay), Twillingate
Slade’s Room
In the early 1700s a few English fishermen began to settle at Twillingate Harbour, as the French fishery began to concentrate on the area north of Cape S. John (referred to locally as Cape John). In about 1750 John Slade of Poole, England settled on the harbour as his Newfoundland headquarters. Over the next 25 years the Slade business grew, employing Twillingate as a base to exploit the resources of the northern Newfoundland (cod, furs, salmon and seals).

A second period of growth began during the Napoleonic Wars (1798-1815). As the French were unable to journey to their accustomed fishing grounds on the “Petit Nord,” Twillingate people moved in to fish there. Further, the dangers of transatlantic travel during wartime convinced many who had formerly returned to England after each season to settle year-round and further explore and exploit the resources “up the bays” during the winter. Twillingate's status as “Metropolis of the North” was confirmed and the town developed around the harbour.

The Nightingale of the North
Twillingate’s most famous citizen was born here in 1867, the daughter of Dr. William and Ann (Peyton) Stirling. Georgina Ann Stirling was organist at St. Peter’s Anglican Church before leaving to study voice in Paris and Milan. From 1890 until 1898, “Mademoiselle Marie Toulinguet” was acknowledged as on of opera’s brightest lights.

Shortly after this souvenir photograph was sent to friends at home, Stirling’s career was threatened by a serious throat ailment. She eventually made a comeback as a concert artist, but never recovered her opera voice. Georgina Stirling returned to Twillingate and lived a genteel life with her sister Rose. She died in 1935. Her memorial monument is located behind St. Peter’s Church, in the Anglican cemetery.

Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital At the close of World War I the nearest hospital care available to residents of Notre Dame Bay was either in International Grenfell Association hospital at St. Anthony or St. John’s. In 1918 a public meeting was held at Twillingate, which appointed a provisional committee of citizens to raise funds for a new hospital - a memorial to the hundreds of men from the Bay who had died during the Great War.

With the help form the Twillingate Sun newspaper $15,000 had been raised by 1920 and a Board of Directors appointed to construct and manage the hospital. The government contributed $10,000, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell assisted in raising $25,000 from the Commonwealth Fund of New York, and a great many Twillingate residents contributed their labour. Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital was officially opened on September 20, 1924.

From 1934 until 1976, when the old hospital was replaced, its chief surgeon was Dr. John M. Olds, after whom the local high school is named. Dr. Olds extended basic care around the Bay with the floating clinics Bonnie Nell and Bonnie Nell II, which operated from 1936 to 1960.

With Representative Government in 1832, Twillingate became the site of most government services and officialdom for the north coast. During the mid to late 1800s a growing involvement in the Labrador fishery developed.

The Bank Crash of 1894 and the subsequent decline of the Labrador fishery hit Twillingate hard - the collapse of the huge Duder firm (headquartered on the south side of Twillingate harbour) was the biggest single bankruptcy of the Crash. But the ultimate blow was that Twillingate was not linked to the Newfoundland Railway, completed across the island in 1897. The branch line went to Lewisporte. This drew business away from Twillingate, lessening its importance in Notre Dame Bay. Still, with a prosperous history and a legacy of fine buildings, the town has remained an important centre for services and administration.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bethany / Bethany College

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West Virginia, Brooke County, Bethany
Side A
Bethany
Here Scots-Irish Alexander Campbell founded a religious movement which he called the Disciples of Christ. In this place Amos Dolbear perfected parts of the telephone, and longtime Speaker of the House "Champ" Clark, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Lamar and benefactor Earl Oglebay studied. Here James A. Garfield was a Trustee and John F. Kennedy affirmed belief in separation of Church and state.
Side B
Bethany College
Oldest degree granting institution in West Virginia, the College was chartered in the Old Dominion in 1840, succeeding Buffalo Seminary established by Alexander Campbell in 1818. Remaining open through the Civil War, it was the only college operating in the new state in 1863. Women were admitted in 1877 and the school was among the earliest accredited colleges in the nation.

(Education • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bethany / Rice's Fort

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West Virginia, Brooke County, Bethany
Side A
Bethany
Bethany College, established here in 1840, oldest school of college rank in State. The home and the study of Alexander Campbell, founder, are here. Prof. A. E. Dolbear here perfected parts of the telephone, which Bell used.

Side B
Rice's Fort
Near here stood the frontier outpost built by Abraham and Daniel Rice on Buffalo Creek. In September, 1782, its little garrison of six men repulsed an attack of 100 Indians, who had just been defeated in an assault on Fort Henry, Wheeling.

(Education • Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Renner Union - Bethany House

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West Virginia, Brooke County, Bethany
Dedicated to
R. Richard Renner, M.D. '17
and
Jennie Steindorf Renner '22
A major grant from the Renner Foundation, which was matched by alumni gifts, made possible, in 1970, the complete remodeling of Bethany House built in 1948. Henry Clay and James A. Garfield were among the notable guest at the first Bethany House which stood on this site from 1842 to 1932. Champ Clar, famous speaker of the House of Representatives waited on tables here while attending college.

A home away from home - a unifying force in campus life.

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

The Great Depression & The WPA

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Kansas, Republic County, Belleville

After the stock market crash of 1929, millions of Americans lost their jobs and those still working saw their wages reduced. Drought and dust storms in the Great Plains left many farm families in despair. Congress quickly drafted new federal programs for relief and recovery from the Great Depression. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in 1935 to provide jobs for unemployed workers.

In Republic County, funds were allocated for roads, bridges, "sanitary privies in rural areas," pond construction, flood control, and the renovation of public buildings. In Belleville, the municipal swimming pool, band shell, tennis courts, park and native stone grandstand at the North Central Kansas Free Fair grounds all were constructed with financial assistance from the WPA. The grandstand served crowds attracted by popular auto races on the high-banked oval race track. Federal funds also supported construction of the post office just west of the commercial district. The Belleville Post Office and the Republic County Courthouse on the square in Belleville were built with the assistance of the Public Works Administration (PWA), another New Deal economic recovery program. The Post Office also features an interior mural painted by the notable Kansas painter, Birger Sandzen.

Less well known than the public construction programs were the WPA projects initiated by the Division of Women's and Professional Projects. These programs were designed to employ "white collar" workers and women who were the heads of families. The Kansas Museum Project was intended "to awaken interest in historic and cultural backgrounds and to stimulate appreciation and contemporary creative expression."

Kansas was one of only three states to create a museum project through the Works Progress Administration. Workshops in seven Kansas communities produced handcraft and visual aid materials, which were distributed throughout the state to educational institutions. Belleville was one of those communities and in November, 1938 the Belleville Public Library ordered several Models of Industry, the All Nation figurines, and American Costume Dolls, Native Birds and Kansas Landmark prints by Margaret Whittemore, and Wild Flower paintings by Avis Chitwood.

Today the library collection includes seventeen pairs of costume dolls, forty-three prints of Kansas landmarks, five paintings of Kansas wildflowers, eight intricate wooden models, and one horn carving.

[Photo captions, from left to right, read]
· Post Office under construction in 1938 built with the assistance of PWA, another New Deal economic recovery program.

· Band Shell in the Belleville City Park was built with financial assistance from the WPA.

· Completed Post Office in October 1938.

· Belleville Municipal Swimming Pool still in use today. The city of Belleville has made many improvements, but the original structure has remained.

· The Belleville Public Library houses a museum project created through the WPA. Dolls, figurines, models, paintings and prints make up the collection.

· Art Deco Courthouse in the 1940's built with the assistance of the Public Works Administration.

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 11 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Belleville Agriculture

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Kansas, Republic County, Belleville

Between 1865 and 1900, the landscape of rural Kansas changed dramatically. Settlers rushed into the state and spread from border to border. Veterans of the Union Army and European emigrants started towns such as Belleville. A county agricultural society was organized in 1871 and the first county fair was held that fall but both ended in 1878 when a drought and recession forced county commissioners to withdraw their financial support.

Along the northern border of the state, corn was the dominant crop. By 1890, however, winter wheat became more profitable and a pattern of diversified farming was established in Republic County. Farmers produced corn and wheat, cattle and hogs, horses and mules, as well as alfalfa, sorghum, milk, butter, eggs, and produce. During this period, Republic County hosted a Corn Carnival that was held from 1879 to 1904.

Towns like Belleville became the local market for crops and livestock. Local tradesmen and manufacturers also provided implements, repairs, and services to area farmers. County offices and the court held in the Republic County Courthouse brought farmers to Belleville for business and legal matters. The "Golden Age of Agriculture" from 1900 to 1914 supported local investment in city infrastructure, buildings, and institutions in Belleville. Republic County's population was 18,248 in 1900.

Reoganized in 1905, the county fair in Belleville began receiving a county tax levy after 1919. The North Central Kansas Free Fair became the third largest agricultural fair and livestock show in Kansas by 1930. Beginning in 1910, auto racing entertained fair-goers. In the 1930s, a high-banked clay oval was constructed and auto racing remains an important attraction for the Belleville community.

By 1964, local historian Louise Carstensen commented that "in less than a hundred years, a miracle has come about in the farm houses and on the homesteads of Republic County." Modern agriculture has made America a "Land of Plenty." With the decline of railroads, local businesses depended even more on the farmers' trade and that is reflected in the success of downtown Belleville throughout the community's history.

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· Rose Creek Township entry in the Corn Carnival in 1899 in Downtown Belleville. The floats were made entirely from grains, grasses or produce. It was estimated that 12,000-15,000 attended.

· Jorgensen Produce Company north of square ca. 1940's.

· Christie Hatchery east side of square. One of many Ag related businesses in downtown Belleville.

· Fair postcard from 1909. The fair now known as the NCK Free Fair combined with the auto races that started in 1910 are both still very significant to Belleville.

· The Grandstand and race track located at the Fairgrounds started with horse races and has evolved to be the fastest half mile dirt track in the world.

· Delegation of Farmers and Businessmen in front of the International Harvester and Farmall dealer on North side of square in 1955.

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

The Home of Robert E. Howard

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Texas, Callahan County, Cross Plains


This Property Has Been
Placed On The

National Register
of
Historic Places


By The United States
Department Of The Interior

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

Cross Plains Cemetery

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Texas, Callahan County, Cross Plains
Situated on a flat area near the edge of town, the Cross Plains Cemetery is the final resting place for the town’s key leaders and families. The land, originally granted to James Knight, one of Stephen F. Austin’s original colonists, for service in the Mexican-American War, passed to several absentee landowners. The first burial was the son of Uncle Johnnie Lard (Laird) in 1882. In 1905, Thomas F. Steele and his sister, Annie Parsons (Steele) Eager, deeded the land to cemetery trustees. Many military veterans are buried here, along with all of the original cemetery trustees, Cross Plains’ first mayor, John A. Wagner, and members of numerous fraternal organizations.
Historic Texas Cemetery - 2005

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Recognition of a Distinguished Career as a Player and Coach

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Minnesota, Brown County, New Ulm

   Stan Wilfahrt – an outstanding player for New Ulm's 1941 State Legion Champs & 1943 Brewers State Amateur Champions. He coached baseball at Cathedral High School for 1957-1978 with a 246-68 (.783) record. His teams appeared in nine state Catholic baseball tournaments placing second in 1962 and 1973, and were state champions in 1964. A master strategist and inspirational coach, he got the most out of his players. New Ulm proudly recognizes Stan Wilfahrt's contribution to our community's baseball tradition.

Donated by:
New Ulm Legion
Booster Club
May, 1996

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

Woodville School

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Maryland, Prince Georges County, Aquasco
Constructed in 1934 to serve area African-American children, with labor furnished by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and materials purchased by the county board of Education. Larger better equipped than the typical rural schools of the period. Woodville school replaced community schools built in 1867 and 1877. The school closed after integration of the county schools in 1954 and was purchased by the Knights of St. John Commandery #373. Maryland Historical Trust
Maryland State Highway Administration

(African Americans • Education) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Frederick

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Vermont, Chittenden County, Winooski
Near this site in 1773 the first settlers Ira Allen and his uncle Remember Baker built of hewed timbers the block house called Fort Frederick as a protection from Indians and Yorkers

It had 32 port holes and in it were held the meetings of the Proprietors of Burlington between June 6, 1774 and May 1, 1775 Ira Allen being clerk

Later Allen’s house, with a large garden stood a few roads northeast of here and in it was held the first session of County Court, November, 1785

Below the falls, Allen built the schooner “Liberty”

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

The Alexander Douglass House

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton

was originally built circa 1760 on what is now South Broad Street as a one room, two story “shanty.” Alexander Douglass purchased it in 1769 and it was in that place that George Washington called a Council of War during the Revolutionary War Battles of Trenton in December of 1776. The two story front structure was added by Douglass ca 1800. The house remained in the Douglass family until 1852.

In 1876 the house endured its first move to Centre Street where it remained until 1924 when the City of Trenton acquired ownership and moved it to Mahlon Stacy Park. In 1972 it was moved to its current location in Mill Hill Park

The Alexander Douglass House is owned by the City of Trenton and operated by the Department of Recreation, Natural Resources and Culture. Its current restoration is funded by the City of Trenton, the New Jersey Historic Trust and the National Park Service.

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

William Trent House (NHL)

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New Jersey, Mercer County, Trenton

William Trent, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant (later Chief Justice of New Jersey) built this country manor house circa 1719, at the highest navigable point of the Delaware River. An important Hessian guard post was sited on the grounds the morning of the Battle of Trenton. The French army under General Rochambeau camped on the grounds September 1-2, 1781, on the march to Yorktown, Virginia, and September 4-8, 1782, on its return. The house is furnished according to the inventory taken after Trent’s Christmas Day 1724 death, while the exhibit in an outbuilding includes later house history, particularly its role in the Revolution.

(Colonial Era • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Recognition of a Minnesota Coaching Record

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Minnesota, Brown County, New Ulm

   On this date at Chaska, Minnesota, New Ulm High School coach James Senske recored his 510th coaching victory, a new Minnesota State High School League baseball record for wins by a coach. At the completion of the 1994 season, Senske had a career record of 515 wins, 125 losses, and 4 ties. New Ulm proudly recognizes Coach Senske's contributions to the baseball tradition at this school and in the community since 1960.

Donated by:
New Ulm Legion
Booster Club
June 24, 1995

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

Civil War Memorial

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Kansas, Ottawa County, Delphos

In Memory of Our
Patriot Dead

We here highly resolve
that these dead shall
not have died in vain.
Lincoln.

We loved our country
Gave our lives for her
Do ye, our children
for her honor live.

Sleep in peace with kindred ashes
Of the noble and the dead.
Hands that never failed their country.
Hearts that never baseness knew.

Erected May 30, 1897

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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