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War Memorial

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Maine, Washington County, Lubec

We dedicate this memorial to the Glory of Almighty God, in memory of the men and women of Lubec who served in all wars and by their unselfish patriotism have advanced the American Ideals of Liberty and the Universal Brotherhood of Man

(Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lubec Veterans Honor Roll

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Maine, Washington County, Lubec


[Honor Roll of Veterans]
Revolutionary War • Civil War
World War I • World War II
Korean War • Vietnam War
Peace Time Service

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Grave Creek Mound

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West Virginia, Marshall County, Moundsville
This world-famous burial mound was
built by the Adena people sometime
before the Christian Era. The mound
was originally 69 feet high, 295 feet
in diameter, and was encircled by a
moat. There were many mounds in the
area-hence the city's name: Mounds-
ville. In 1838, the Grave Creek Mound
was tunneled into and two log tombs
with several burials and grave offer-
ings were found.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War Memorial

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Maine, Washington County, Lubec

[North face]
To her loyal sons who on land and water,
imperiled their lives for the Union
Appomattox • Antietam
Stars and Stripes Shield Emblem
[West face]
"On fames eternal camping ground
their silent tents are spread
And glory guards with solemn round
the bivouac of the dead."
New Orleans • Marie's Heights
Navy Emblem
[South face]
Fort Fisher • Rappahannock Station
Cavalry Emblem
[East face]
W. H. Brawn Post No. 33 G.A.R.
Petersburg • Gettysburg
Artillery Emblem

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 12 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dawn's First Light Shines on Free Masonry

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Maine, Washington County, Lubec


This cryptic marker placed here by the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of Maine, to commemorate dawns [sic] first light shines on Free Masonry on the East Coast of the United States of America

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Original Old Absinthe Bar

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Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans

Est. 1806
A tradition in the french quarters.[sic] This is the bar known to travelers the world over. From it came the famous absinthe drip. The bar where Jean E Pierre LaFitte, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain and other celebrities were served. If it could talk what stories the bar would tell of a thousand gone nights into history.

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

Freemasonry in Macon

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Georgia, Bibb County, Macon
Freemasonry came to Macon in 1824 when the city was in its infancy. Macon Lodge No. 5, F. &A.M., was organized in 1824 and chartered by the Grand Lodge of Georgia in 1825. Historians have referred to Macon lodge as being the “First society in the town of Macon.” In 1846 the Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. &A.M., moved its seat from Milledgeville to Macon and for many years held its annual communications in the hall of Macon Lodge No. 5.

Dr. Ambrose Baber, M.D., a physician and pioneer citizen of Macon, was the first Worshipful Master of Macon Lodge and later served the whole craft in Georgia as Grand Master of Masons during 1831. He died accidentally in 1846 and in the following year a monument was erected to his memory by joint action of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, Macon Lodge and Constantine Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons.

In 1825 during his triumphal tour of the United States by Brother and General the Marquis De La Fayette, the Freemasons of Macon and other groups lavishly entertained and honored this famous and beloved French nobleman who had contributed so much to the cause of American liberty by serving as a comrade-in-arms with Brother and General George Washington.

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fair Prospect Cemetery Montgomery County

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Alabama, Montgomery County, Lapine
Atop this hill lies Fair Prospect Cemetery, established in the 1840s as part of Fair Prospect Church. Land was donated for the church and cemetery by Benjamin Mitchell (1765-1848) and his wife Jane Scrimpton Mitchell (1775-1850). The location of their graves is unknown. The earliest marked burials date to 1851 and the cemetery is still active today. Justus M. Barnes, founder of Strata Academy, was a leader in the congregation and his parents are buried here. In the 1870s, the church burned after lightning struck it and the congregation began meeting at Strata Academy. When the Academy moved and became Highland Home College, the church retained the campus building on the site of Strata Church of Christ. A.S. Naftel, founder of the Naftel Community, acquired much of the Mitchell lands after 1850 and members of his family are buried here. Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Curtis School

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Alabama, Coffee County, Elba
Curtis School was organized in the early 1900’s and was originally located ½ mile south, where New Ebenezer Baptist Church now stands. A new school was built on this site in 1929 when Curtis, Mt. Zion, and Rhodes Schools were consolidated. Danley’s Crossroads School joined Curtis School in 1931. The building burned in 1940 and was rebuilt in 1941. After the school closed in 1967, it was vacant for a few years until it was destroyed by fire.

E. C. Griffin served as the last principal. Other principals included R. L. Farris, F. T. Waldon, D. B. Nelson, J. E. Cheatum, and C. M. Byrd.

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

Arlington Post Office

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Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington

In the first half of the 20th Century, Arlington County changed from a handful of separate neighborhoods to a cohesive community with its own identity and government. The establishment of a central post office was a major factor in this transformation. Built in 1937, the Arlington post office was the first federal building constructed in the county. Lobby murals depicting scenes about Arlington history were painted by Auriel Bessemer in 1939. In 2000, it was named in honor of Joseph L. Fisher, former U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 10th District. This building is a designated Arlington County Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Erected by Arlington County, Virginia

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

Hopewell Plantation

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South Carolina, Pickens County, Clemson

Hopewell Plantation was home to Revolutionary War General Andrew Pickens and his wife, Rebecca Calhoun Pickens. On July 16, 1785, Pickens acquired a grant of 573 acres on the Seneca River. By August 1, 1785, Pickens received an additional 560 acres that adjoined the property and encompassed the adjacent Treaty Oak Site.

The plantation home originally built for Pickens (circa 1785) was a small log home representative of a frontier pioneer home. Hopewell was substantially enlarged over time.

General Pickens, a lifelong politician, held significant positions including: U.S. Congressman (1793-1795), Federal Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1785-1802), S.C. Representative (1783-1788, 1796-1799, and 1812-1813), and S.C. Senator (1790-1791). Pickens represented South Carolina as one of the state's first congressmen in Philadelphia and negotiated the Hopewell treaties that established peace and friendship with the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribes.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 15 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

American Éclair Studios

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New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee

          In 1911, the Société Francaise des Films et Cinematographs Éclair purchased land on the west side of Linwood Avenue for the construction of a motion picture studio in downtown Fort Lee. Éclair was a manufacturer of film and film apparatus founded in Paris in 1907. Their Fort Lee studio, a greenhouse-like structure with a 60 by 30 foot stage, was intended to produce short films for the growing American nickelodeon market. French technicians, including director Etienne Arnaud, cameraman Lucien Andriot, and set designer Ben Carré, communicated with their American employees through the aid of an interpreter.

          Films made here in 1912 included Robin Hood,” “The Raven,” and “Saved from the Titanic,” in which Éclair star Dorothy Gibson recreated her escape from the doomed liner immediately following her rescue. That same year Éclair sent pioneer film animator Emile Cohl to Fort Lee, where he produced the first animated cartoon series, The Newlyweds,” featuring Baby Snookums. Poster artists employed by Éclair included the young Edward Hopper.

          Éclair expanded their studio and film laboratory in 1913, but on March 19, 1914 the laboratory was destroyed by fire when the flammable nitrate film ignited. Some Éclair personnel returned to France, while others joined Jules Brulatour’s new Peerless studio on Lewis Street. The Fox Film Corporation, which operated several studios in New Jersey, eventually took over the reconstructed facility, which until its abandonment in 1926, was known as Éclair-Fox.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Willat/Fox & Triangle Studios

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New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee

          The Willat Film Manufacturing Corp. began assembling property at the northwest corner of Main Street and Linwood Avenue in 1913, and by 1915 owned three lots occupying nearly half this block. Carl A. Willatowski, a film pioneer known throughout the industry as “Doc” Willat (for his degree in veterinary medicine) built a film laboratory and two large vaulted greenhouse-style stages here. With his partners, Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann, Willat rented his facilities to the growing number of feature file producers active in the New York and New Jersey area.

          William Fox used the Willat stages as his first permanent studio, and his greatest star, Theda Bara, made some of her most important films here, including “Carmen” (1915, directed by Raoul Walsh) and “Romeo and Juliet” (1916). Space was also rented by Triangle/Fine Arts, a west coast producer which needed a studio in the east.

          In 1916, “Fatty” Arbuckle, whose Keystone comedies were released by Triangle, made a series of short comedies here, including He Did and He Didn’t”, “The Other Man”, “The Waiters’ Ball”, andA Reckless Romeo.” That same year, Triangle’s most important feature film star, Douglas Fairbanks, made The Habit of Hapiness here, under the direction of Allan Dwan. After 1917, the facility was used mainly for developing and printing motion picture film, and eventually became known as the National Evans Film Laboratory. It was destroyed by a spectacular fire in 1925.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World/Peerless & Metropolitan Studios

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New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee

          Jules Brulatour, who had earned a fortune as the agent for George Eastman’s motion picture film, built the Peerless studio on Lewis Street in 1914. It was the original home of the World Film Corporation, which Brulatour formed with William Brady and the Shubert brothers, Broadway impresarios interested in the new concept of feature length films.

          They installed Lewis J. Selznick as general manager, and took over most of the technical staff that had been working next door at the old Éclair studio, notably directors Maurice Tourneur and Emile Chautard. Films made here included Tourneur’s The Wishing Ring (1914) with Vivian Martin, as well as Wildfire (1915) with Lillian Russell and Lionel Barrymore, and Camille (1915) with Clara Kimball Young, directed by Albert Capellani. The studio was leased to independent producers after World ceased production in 1919.

          Later known as Fort Lee Studios, it was renamed Metropolitan Sound Studios after talkies arrived. Various ethnic, racial, and religious groups, ignored by Hollywood, produced films of their own here in the early days of sound, including Uncle Moses (1932), starring Maurice Schwartz, Corianton (1931), a Mormon religious spectacle, and several Italian-language features. African-American producer Oscar Micheaux made some of his most important films at the Metropolitan. When it caught fire in 1958, the studio was again being used by the Shuberts, this time as a theatrical warehouse.

(Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

F. F. Fred Cavaliere

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New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee
Killed in the Line of Duty at the
Evans Film Fire – February 7th, 1925
Linwood Ave. & Main St. • Fort Lee, N.J.
          On Saturday, February 7, 1925 the department responded to a fire at the National Evans Film Laboratory located at the corner of Linwood Avenue and Main Street. Upon arrival, the firefighters found that the building’s sprinkler system had extinguished most of the fire. While the firefighters were in the process of extinguishing the remaining hot spots, an ammonia tank inside the building exploded, causing a major collapse of the structure. F. F. Cavaliere was extricated and transported to Englewood Hospital where he died on February 11, 1925 from severe internal injuries. F. F. Cavaliere was 49 years of age and a member of the department for seven years at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife, Marie Paedo and seven children. He was buried on February 14, 1925 at the Fairview Cemetery in a section called “Hero’s Corner.” This special place was donated by the owner of the cemetery, Frederick Alson-Garner, who reserved this place of honor for firefighters and police officers who were killed in the line of duty.

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

Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge

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New Jersey, Bergen County, Fort Lee
Dedicated
to the men and women
of the United States Army
who participated in
the Battle of the Bulge
during World War II
in Belgium and Luxembourg
the greatest land battle
fought by the United States Army
under extreme winter conditions
suffering the largest casualties
of any land battle
by the United States Army

Dedicated by
the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge
New Jersey Chapter 54

A Triumph of Courage
Freedom is not Free


(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Anderson Memorial Fountain

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New York, Orange County, West Point
Presented to the West Point Cemetery
in the name of
James Marsland Lawton
son-n-law of
General Robert Anderson
God gives us love. Some thing to love He lends us, but when love is grown to ripeness, that on which it throve falls off, and love is left alone.

James Marsland Lawton
Tender of heart, but firm of word
speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue, his heart and hand both open and both free.

Eba Anderson Lawton
Who through church and nation gave loyal service to her master Christ

General Robert Anderson
Nor deem that acts heroic wait on chance. The man’s whole life preludes the single deed that shall decide if his inheritance be with the sifted few of matchless breed, or with the unmotived herd that only sleep and feed.

Eliza Bavard Anderson
Of southern birth, but loyal to the flag. Daughter of patriots – her undaunted soul, her gracious presence, her brilliant wit tempered by a loving heart made her the help meet for a hero.

Robert Anderson
Died on his twentieth birthday
A brave and noble nature
Gifted, cultured and refined.

Erected
by his widow
Emca Lawton
1895

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 12 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

West Virginia Penitentiary

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West Virginia, Marshall County, Moundsville
Established, 1866, A prison for
men and women convicted of
felonies until prison for wom-
en was established at Pence
Springs, 1947. Capital criminals
were hanged here, 1889-1950.
Electric chair used until death
penalty was abolished. 1965.

(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Historic Best Building

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California, Alameda County, San Leandro
The Best Building is a significant example of commercial architecture in San Leandro and the only San Leandro Plaza building remaining from the early decades of the 20th century. As a manufacturer and inventor, Daniel Best had already contributed much to San Leandro’s growth before he retired from Daniel Best Agricultural Works and began a banking career in this building.

Constructed in 1910, the Best Building opened in 1911 housing the San Leandro State Bank. The building featured classical Beaux Arts detail and ornamentation. The architect used white terracotta tiles on the exterior and imported marble for the wainscoting and stair entrances in the interior. The building was restored in 1973-1974 by the Best Building Partnership.

Best also constructed a theater next door to the bank. It opened showing silent films, but on July 19, 1913, Thomas Edison’s first moving and talking picture was shown at the Best Theater.

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

Railroading in High Springs

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Florida, Alachua County, High Springs
This old passenger depot, built c. 1910, is all that remains of the vast railroad complex located southwest of downtown that made High Springs a bustling railroad center for nearly 50 years. In 1895 the Plant Railroad System chose the town as the site of its divisional headquarters. Rail yards, workshops, and a roundhouse serviced hundreds of steam engines and cars sent to High Springs to be cleaned and repaired. The importance of High Springs as a rail center declined as diesel engines replaced the old steam locomotives after World War II. Gradually, all of the railroad buildings disappeared, except the depot, which was moved to this site and renovated as a railroad museum in 1994.

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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