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Gros Ventre Lodge

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Wyoming, Sublette County, Cora
This lodge, one of the earliest dude ranches in Wyoming, was built on the hill beyond in 1897 by William (Billy) Wells and operated until 1906. It was name for the Little Gros Ventre (now Tosi Creek) and was known locally as “Dog Ranch: because of the foxhounds Wells kept for hunting. While Wells guided guests on summer trips through the Green River Valley and Bridger National Forest, the Gros Ventre was most notable as a hunting lodge the served prominent American and British big game sportsmen. The ranch included a central lodge, guest cabins and one of the first wooden bathtubs in western Wyoming.

By 1906 the Gros Ventre was no longer profitable, in part due to stricter game laws and a shorter hunting season. It was dismantled that year and the main lodge moved across the Green River and converted into a ranch house.

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

Of Cattle and Men

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Wyoming, Sublette County, Big Piney
You are standing just north of the route taken by thousands of people, cattle and horses migrating west on the Lander Cut-off, the northern fork of the Oregon Trail, starting in 1858. None settled here then. By the late 1870s, cattle from the west were being trailed back to stock Wyoming ranges. The first Sublette County herds were a mix of western cattle but generally not Texas longhorns. In 1878-79, Ed Swan’s PL, Otto Leifer’s Circle, D.B. Budd’s Quarter Circle Six, Hugh McKay’s Sixty-Seven and A.W. Smith’s Muleshoe outfits settled on nearby Piney Creek.

In the early open range days, Big Piney ranches pastured cattle east of the Green River in winter and west of the Green River in summer. The devastating winter of 1889-1890 killed up to 90 percent of the stock, and from then on, ranchers grew hay to feed livestock in winter. Hay meadows were built by clearing sagebrush, running ditches and irrigating the land. The Big Piney Roundup Association formed in the early 1890s to self-manage grazing on the open range, and other associations followed. With the creation of the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, grazing fees were implemented for the first time on public lands. In 1934, the Taylor Grazing Act was passed to manage grazing on all federal lands through permits and fees.

Sublette County’s ranchers and grazing associations are proud of their history of stewardship on the range, which has helped keep our area beautiful and rich in wildlife.

For more information about Subllette County’s historic ranches and agriculture industry, visit Green River Valley Museum in Big Piney.

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

“The Best Mountain Road in the West”

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Wyoming, Sublette County, near Boulder
This maker consists of three plaques, each dealing with the Lander Cut-off.

“The Best Mountain Road in the West”
In 1857, Congress funded construction of the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lakes Wagon Road (Lander Road), marking the government’s first efforts to boost western emigration and fulfill its “Manifest Destiny” through road construction.
During the summer of 1857, Frederick W. Lander’s team of engineers surveyed 3,000 miles of potential routes in 90 days. Landers selected a northerly route with plenty of grass, water, and timber that crossed fewer streams than the existing Oregon and California trails.
The next summer, laborers, engineers, and surveyors assembled for the hard work of road building, constructing nearly 230 miles. This team finished construction in 1859. As many as 13,000 emigrants used the new road that year.

”(A)ll routes examined… to favor the ox team immigrants (sic) and water and grass must be found at short intervals of distance.” - Frederick W. Lander

“A Strict and Firm Man”
Born in 1822 to a prominent Massachusetts family, Lander became a respected engineer by his early thirties. He surveyed and oversaw construction for a section of the Pacific Wagon Road known today as the Lander Road. Mount Lander in the Wind River Range and the town of Lander, Wyoming also carry Lander’s name.

“A Cold Supper Was Eaten This Evening in Silence”
Think about the planning you went through to arrive at this place. What provisions did you carry in your car? Now imagine you are traveling this rout with all your worldly possessions.
How would you feel as you arrived here after weeks on a dusty road, crossing rivers, suffering through storms, enduring sickness, and witnessing the death of loved ones?

”Crossing the plains is one of the best methods ever thought of to find out the disposition of a man or woman; if there is anything good in them it will crop out, and if they are mean you will find that out for sure.” - George W. Manville, 1863, wagon captain on the Lander Road in 1862

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Life Goes On .
Henry Hitchings, Album of sketches from an 1859 expedition to the West, with 68 drawings
Those traveling the westward emigrant trail developed mobile societies within which life continued despite the difficulties of overland travel.
Dust in the Wind
William Henry Jackson, Desert Crossing at Night, 1867
“The wind blew in our faces in the afternoon and nearly suffocated us with dust, the dust is worse than Indians, storms or winds or mosquitoes, or even wood ticks.” - Jane Augusta Hollbrook Gould, 1862.
Troubled Waters
William Henry Jackson, Crossing the River
“We crossed safely, no accidents at all. Some of the other trains were not so fortunate. Two wagons were capsized. One company lost all their effects and the other got everything wet and lost some few things.” - William H. Babcock, 1859

“Good Water, Abundance of Grass,” and Natural Gas!
Lander Road Superintendent Frederick W. Lander chose this route, and emigrants followed it, because of the abundance of resources found along what became known as the Lander Road.
Little did these pioneers know that below them lay an even larger natural bounty - a natural gas field that would one day be an important source of domestic energy.

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The Pinedale Anticline
The California Company drilled the first well in the Pinedale Anticline in 1939, finding natural gas but not the oil they sought. They plugged the hole and left. Development of the field began in earnest in the 1990s. Experts estimate the field can supply enough energy for 30 million homes for more than 30 years.

Preservation Through Mitigation
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages public lands for multiple uses and must strike a balance between competing interests. The BLM, therefore, must mitigate for degradation to the Lander Road’s historic setting due to energy development - in other words, the public must be compensated for an impact to this resource.

New Fork River Crossing Historical Park
The New Fork River Crossing Historical Park was created in August 2010 as mitigation for energy development impacts to the Lander Road. Shell, Ultra Resources, and PacifiCorp made the park possible by providing funds to purchase the property. Sublette County Historical Society now manages the park.

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

Home of James C. Penney

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Wyoming, Lincoln County, Kemmerer
Founded J.C. Penny Company Inc.
April 14, 1902 in Kemmerer Wyoming
Operated by J.C. Penny Homestead, Inc.

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

Kemmerer Founders Monument

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Wyoming, Lincoln County, Kemmerer
Kemmerer
founded 1897
by
Mahlon S. Kemmerer
1843 - 1925
and
Patrick J. Quealy
1857 - 1930

(Paleontology • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Blacksmith Shop

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Maryland, Prince Georges County, Croom
Blacksmithing is an ancient profession which began over six thousand years ago. It is the craft of forging and shaping iron with a hammer and anvil. The work of the blacksmith allowed for advances in transportation and industry by providing the tools, weapons, and hardware needed by society.

In the 19th century, the blacksmith's most important function was to supply farm, Transportation and household tools for the local community. He made hammers, axes, adzes, knives, scythes, and sickles for the farmers, the plane bits and carving tools for the carpenters. His skill and techniques were required to weld and fit wagon wheels, hub rings, shoe horses, and to make all the metal bits and pieces of wagons and carriages. He provided the housewife with andirons and fireplace cooking utensils as well as outfitting the children with ice skates and rolling hoops.

The blacksmith reigned at his forge as the king of craftsmen. Throughout the early 20th century, blacksmithing was regarded as a highly specialized skill. Although the need for the blacksmith was diminished with the advent of new materials and the factory production of metal parts, the craft still lives and is practiced by many in blacksmithing guilds throughout the century.

This blacksmith shop is based on a existing historic shop located on the Robert Trueman farm in Acquasco, Maryland. Mr. Truman's great uncle John Trueman, built this shop around 1890 and it was used until 1944 by Wilton W. Trueman.

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

Andrew Jackson Birthplace

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North Carolina, Union County, Waxhaw
Here was born
March 15, 1767,
Andrew Jackson
Seventh president of
the United States

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

Dash into the Crater

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Virginia, Petersburg
On the morning of July 30th, 1864, the Union high command became anxious as to why the mine under the Confederate position, had not been sprung. While General Meade was sending dispatches to General Burnside asking when the mine would detonate, at 4:15 a.m. Colonel Pleasants, of the 48th Pennsylvania, allowed Sgt. Reese, soon followed by Lt. Douty to go in the mine, (to your front) and investigate the fuse. As it turned out, the faulty fuse had extinguished at a splice over half way to the powder magazines at the end of the mine. Once the two soldiers succeeded in relighting the fuse, they reported to Pleasants that it would take no more that fifteen minutes for the powder to touch off.

At 4:45 a.m., Howard Aston of the 13th Ohio Cavalry reported, "A trembling of the earth was felt and a dull roar was heard. I looked to the front and saw a huge column of dirt, dust, smoke, and flame of fire apparently 200 feet high... while in the air I could see in the column of fire... bodies of men... timber and a gun carriage." Approximately two hundred and sixty Confederates were blow up and buried under the debris of the explosion. As the debris from the mine settled, the Union artillery opened upon the Confederates with about 150 pieces of cannons and mortars. These guns were soon answered by the Confederate artillery and the shriek and howl of solid shot and shell soon filled the air.

As Colonel Marshall's brigade cleared the Union earthworks in front of you, they advanced across no man's land, toward the enormous hole that was seething with smoke. They observed that it was filled " with dust, great blocks of clay, guns... and men buried in various ways." While the lead elements of Marshall's brigade made their way into the crater, they became rescue parties and started to dig out the buried Confederates. This action slowed the advance of the Union brigades and blocked the path to the heights beyond the crater. The 2nd Pennsylvania Provisional Heavy Artillery, however, was able to rush through the crater, get over the loose dirt, and reform among the bombproofs to the rear of the demolished sailent. At this point, Confederate infantry regrouped on the flanks of the Union soldiers and began to pour a light but persistent fire into the flank and rear of the men in the crater. This caused commands here and elsewhere in the crater to become quickly intermingled and confused.

Additional Union brigades would continue to file out of the covered ways and try and force their way through the Confederate line of trenches and bombproofs. As the crater became more crowded, regiments would try and push to the left and right of the pit in hopes of breaking through the Confederate line. Burnside's worst fears were coming true. Instead of pushing for the Jerusalem Plank Road and Cemetery Hill, the Union brigades were starting to dig in and hold the position.

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The sketch by Alfred R. Waud (left) depicts Union soldiers filing through the covered ways and over the Union picket line towards the crater, which is to your front. The map (above) illustrates Union and Confederate movements after the mine was exploded during the early morning hours of July 30, 1864.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George Washington High School

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Virginia, Alexandria
Dedicated to the memory of those of our boys who served in World War II and did not come back

Erected by the graduating classes of 1943**1944**1945**1946**1947

(west side)
Robert Rumshin • Herbert Joseph Petrello • Benjamin J. Vos, Jr. • George William Rutledge • John B. Myers • Elmer R. Bartlett • Elwin Irving Brawner, Jr. • Charles E. Woodruff • Charles Thomas Scott • Charles Alvin Dunn • Archie Baynes Norford • Douglas R. Drake • Israel Kleinman • Clifford Henry Wayland • J.D. Gill • Robert Hatfield • George Francis DuFrane, Jr. • William Francis Deeton • Eugene A. Barry • David Lester Gillett • Alphus Eugene Arthur • Charles Herbert Grimm • Ossie F. Snellings • Stewart Delaney Saffelle • Samuel Hobart Fleming, Jr.

(east side)
Raymond Carlyle Wood • Hirst Mayes • Edward Ralph Barclay • Harlan Eugene Amandus • James Sinclair MacLean, Jr. • Robert B. Gills, Jr. • Earl N. Tutt • Joseph Anthony Tutt • Joseph Anthony Tull • John Duvall May • Richard McGowan • Robert Dunn McIlwaine • Robert Phillip Brawner • Joseph Leonard Goodrich • Lyman Stephen Schlesser • Winfred Amos Pearson • Edmund Hunt Roberts, Jr. • Donald G. Covey • Samuel Haslett Meeks • Dabney M. Cruikshank • Ralph W. Fleming • Frank Dudley Cahill • Milton Rand Norton, Jr. • Carlin G. King • Joseph M. Gay Jr.

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(Education • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bennett's Barber Shop

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Missouri, Newton County, Seneca

Old Seneca Family Business
Est. 1900
by W. R. Bennett
Continued by
Sons Oren and George
Grandsons Ronal and Rick

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

Men of Letters

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New Brunswick, Westmoreland County, Shediac
English:
Born in or near Shediac, Pascal Poirier (1852-1933), historian and first Acadian senator; Placide Gaudet (1850-1930), historian and genealogist; John Clarence Webster (1863-1950), historian, Professor, and eminent surgeon, all enriched the cultural life of their compatriots, in particular the Acadians, whose first newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien, founded in 1867 at Shediac by Israel Landry, was edited for half a century by Ferdinand Robidoux (1849-1921), and faithfully served the interests of the people.

French:
Originaires des Shediac ou des environs, Pascal Poirier (1852-1933), historien et premier sénateur acadien; Placide Gaudet (1850-1930), historien et généalogiste; John Clarence Webster (1863-1950), historien, professeur et éminent chirurgien, ont tous la vie Culturelle de leurs compatriotes, en particulier des Acadiens, dont le premier journal, Le Moniteur Acadien, fondé à Shediac en 1867 par Israël Landry, fut dirigé pendant un demi-siècle par Ferdinand Robidoux (1849-1921) et servit fidèlement les intérêts du peuples.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Return of the Acadians

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New Brunswick, Gloucester County, Caraquet
English:
Because of the vicissitudes of war, the Acadians, pioneers of this country, were dispersed in 1755. The arrival of Alexis Landry at Ste. Anne de Bocage, soon after 1755, symbolizes the return of the Acadians to their beloved country and the taking up of a new life.

French:
Par suite des vicissitudes de la guerre, les Acadiens, pionniers de ce pays, furent dispersés en 1755. L'arrivée d'Alexis Landry, à Ste. Anne du Bocage peu après 1755, symbolise le retour des Acadiens à leur patrie bien-aimée et la reprise d'une vie nouvelle.

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

Le Grand Dérangement

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New Brunswick, Gloucester County, near Caraquet
English:
The Grand Dérangement
L’Acadie, established by France in 1604, was a strategically located and highly coveted colony. In 1713, it was handed over to England and renamed Nova Scotia. The foundation of Halifax, in 1749, led part of the Acadian population to move to French territory. The remaining Acadians were still perceived as a threat, and in 1755, the British authorities launched their systematic deportation, splitting up families and communities, seizing all lands and possessions.

This was the Grand Dérangement or Great Upheaval. Nearly 10,000 men, women, and children were piled into ships and deported to Anglo-American colonies, to England and to France. Others escaped the deportation, seeking refuge in French territory and forming a resistance. Over the next ten years, almost half of the Acadian nation was lost at sea or died from disease and famine. By 1765, a mere 1,600 survivors remained in Nova Scotia, their fertile land now occupied by settles from other areas.

Some Acadian families returned to their former home, but most never again set eyes on Acadie. Many took root in Quebec and France, while in Louisiana they gave rise to a new community that produced the rich Cajun culture. Yet, the Grand Dérangement was unable to wipe out the Acadian presence on its native soil. L’Acadie lives on in Atlantic Canada, speaking French and offering to the world its proud and dynamic culture.

Caraquet
The arrival of Acadians in northeastern New Brunswick dates back to 1757. Hundreds of families, having survived the famine of Camp d’Espérance (Miramichi) and, before that, escaped the Deportations of 1755, settled along the coast from Nipisiguit to Néguac, including Pokemouche and Caraquet. On the Bay of Caraquet they joined a group of Norman settlers, who had moved there to live off the fishery.

In 1751, many of these families were captured during the raid by Captain Roderick MacKenzie and then imprisoned at Halifax and Fort Cumberland (Fort Beauséjour). Those who escaped these attacks settled along Chaleur Bay, principally at Bonaventure and Mistou. Shortly afterwards, many returned to settle in their former places of refuge.

When 34 families from Caraquet received title to their lands from the colonial government on March 19th, 1784, a grant comprising 14,500 acres, these settlements finally took root in the Acadian Peninsula. More Acadian families joined them after being displaced by the arrival of the Loyalists on the lower St. John River. This is how the region became part of the new Acadie.

French:
Le Grand Dérangement
L’Acadie, fondée par la France en 1604 et convoitée pour sa situation stratégique, est cédée à l’Angleterre en 1713 et rebaptisée Nouvelle-Écosse. La fondation de Halifax, en 1749, entraîne l’exode d’une partie de la population acadienne vers les territories français. Les Acadiens qui restent son perçus comme un menace par les autorités britannique qui, en 1755, commençant leur expulsion systématique, fragmentant familles et communautés, confisquant terres et bien.

C’est la Grand Dérangement. Près de 10 000 hommes, femmes et enfants son entassés à bord de navires et déportes dans les colonies anglo-américaines, en Angleterre et en France. D’autres échappent aux déportations, fuyant en territoire français et formant une résistance. En dix ans, près de la moitié du peuple acadien périt en mer ou succombe à la maladie et à la famine. La Nouvelle-Écosse compte à peine 1 600 rescapés en 1765, leur terres fertiles désormais occupées par des colons venus d’ailleurs.

Certaines familles acadiennes reprendront le chemin du retour, mais le plupart ne reverront jamais l’Acadie. Plusieurs feront souche au Québec et en France, alors que la Louisiane sera le foyer d’une nouvelle communauté qui donnera naissance à la riche culture canadienne. Cependant, le Grand Dérangement n’aura pas réussi à effacer la présence acadienne de sa terre d’origine. Au Canada atlantique, l’Acadie est bien vivante, parle le français et propose au monde une culture fière et dynamique.

  Caraquet
L’arrivée des Acadiens dans le nord-est de Nouveau-Brunswick remonte à 1757. Des centaines de families, rescapées de la Déportation de 1755 en fuyant la disette du Camp d’Espérance (Miramichi), viennent alors s’installer le long du littoral de Nipisiguit à Néguac, y compris Pokemouche et Caraquet. Dans la baie de Caraquet, ils se joignent à un groupe d’habitants d’origine normande venus dans la région pour y pratiquer le pêche.

En 1761, plusieurs de ces familles sont capturées lors du raid du capitaine Roderick MacKenzie et emprisonnées à Halifax et au fort Cumberland (fort Beauséjour). Ceux qui échappent à ces attaques s’établissent autour de la baie des Chaleurs, notamment à Bonaventure et à Moscou. Par après, plusieurs reviendront s’établir dans leur ancien lieu de refuge.

Au moment ou 34 familles de Caraquet reçoivent leur titres de terre du gouvernement colonial le 19 mars 1984, totalisant 14 500 acres, ce peuplement prend définitivement racine dans la Péninsule acadienne. S’ajouteront à cette colonie des familles acadiennes fuyant le bas de la rivière Saint-Jean après l’arrivée des Loyalists. C’est ainsi qui toute cette région d’inscrira dans la nouvelle Acadie.

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

K.C. Irving

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New Brunswick, Kent County, Bouctouche
English:
Here, within sight of the farm where he was born and the river where he swam as a boy, stands a monument in honor of the memory and accomplishments of Buctouche’s most famous son Kenneth Colin Irving. Born March 14, 1899, he was one of Canada’s leading 20th century industrialists, entrepreneurs and businessmen.

After serving with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, he returned to Buctouche to sell Ford cars and build his first garage and service station.

In 1925, he moved to Saint John to take over the Ford Dealership in that city. After establishing Irving Oil, his business and industrial base expanded rapidly into all Atlantic Provinces, Québec, Ontario, the United States and beyond. A man of vision, and organizer and a builder, he provided jobs for thousands of people. A pioneer of reforestation, he planted hundreds of millions of trees in New Brunswick in a program that won hime national and international recognition.

He returned to Buctouche often and regularly, He never forgot his old friends and contributed in countless ways to the community. He spoke often of the practical, small-town lessons and work ethics he learned here as a boy. In his own words, Buctouche was forever the “home of my heart”.

French:
Afin de rendre hommage à Kenneth Colin Irving, son fils le plus célèbre, la ville de Bouchtouche a érigé un monument ici, près de la ferme où il est né et près de la rivière où il se baignait. Né le 14 mars 1899, M. Irving est devenu un des plus grands industriels et entrepreneurs du XXᵉ siècle.

Après son service au sein du Corps royal d’aviation pendent la Première Guerre mondiale, il retourne à Bouctouche, où il devient vendeur d’automobiles Ford et où il construit son premier garage et sa première station-service.

En 1925, il déménage à Saint John ouù il assure la direction du concessionnaire Ford de la vile. Après avoir crée l’entreprise Irving Oil il élargit rapidement sa base industrielle et commerciale et conquiert le marché notamment dans les provinces de l’Atlantique, le Québec, l’Ontario et les États-Unis. Un home de grande vision, organisateur et créateur, il crée des milliers d’emplois. Pionnier des techniques de reforestation, il plante des centaines de millions d’arbres au Nouveau-Brunswick dans le cadre d’un programme qui lui confère une renommée nationale et internationale.

Il est souvent retourné à Bouctouche. Il n’a jamais oublié ses premiers amis et a apporté une énorme contribution à la ville. Il parlait souvent de l’éducation pratique et des principes de travail qu’il y avait reçus dans sa jeunesse. Pour lui, Bouctouche était la “véritable pays de ses amours”.

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

The Battle of the Restigouche

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Quebec, Gaspésie– Îles-de-la-Madeleine (region), Pointe-à-la-Croix
English:
In May 1760 a French relief fleet, unable to reach Quebec, took refuge at the head of Chaleur Bay. It was there that a British squadron blockaded them on June 22. Aided by Acadians and Micmacs, the French planted batteries on the shores and blocked the channel, hoping thus to keep the enemy from their ships anchored in the estuary of the Restigouche. The British were able to get by these obstacles and, on July 8, the French vessels were scuttled after about seven hours of fighting.

French:
En mai 1760, une flottille de secours française, renonçant à rallier Québec, se retira à la tête de la Baie des Chaleurs. Une escadre britannique les bloqua à compter du 22 juin. Appuyés d'Acadiens et de Micmacs, les Français installèrent des batteries sur les rives et obstruèrent le chenal. Ils voulaient ainsi empêcher l'adversaire de s'approcher de leurs navires, ancrés en retrait dans l'estuaire de la Ristigouche. Les Britanniques eurent raison des obstacles et, le 8 juillet 1760, les bâtiments français se sabordèrent après quelque sept heures de combat.

(War, French and Indian) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emma Frantz Millinery

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Missouri, Newton County, Seneca

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

Featherstun-Brady Drug Store

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Missouri, Newton County, Seneca

C.T. and Mary V. Featherstun
LeRoy and Flossie Brady
R.R. "Babe" Brady
1891 - 1989

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

Modoc Church and Cemetery

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Oklahoma, Ottawa County, near Wyandotte

The Modoc Church and Cemetery, the last remaining site commemorating the 153 Modoc prisoners of war exiled to the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory in 1873.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches, Etc. • Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Fire Company

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New York, Erie County, Boston
The Boston Valley's first volunteer fire company was organized in 1904. After seeing the futile efforts to battle the disastrous burning of Schunk's Hotel and the Boston Town Hall, Fred Frank rallied the North Boston community to support the formation of a local fire company.

(Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Long

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Oklahoma, Ottawa County, near Wyandotte

Youngest Warrior in Modoc War

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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