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Lt. David E. Axthelm USAF DFC

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

He directed his disabled F86D away from
populated areas and crashed
into the Detroit River
His selfless action resulted in his death
while saving many other lives

(Air & Space • Disasters • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Cold) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Lost Pines of Texas

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Texas, Bastrop County, Bastrop
Located 80 miles west of the main pine belt of Texas, these trees probably were once part of vast, prehistoric pine forests. As land areas gradually rose, possibly due to glacier activity, most of the forests moved east. Ideal local conditions have kept the Lost Pines intact.

One of the first records of the trees was made in 1807 by Zebulon Pike, explorer for whom Pike's Peak was named. In the 19th century, these loblolly pines supported the county's main industry. Local lumber was shipped by riverboat and ox-wagon to points all over Texas.

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

Garden District

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Louisiana, Orleans Parish, New Orleans
Famous for its nineteenth century homes and gardens. This area was originally part of Livaudais Plantation. Became part of City of Lafayette, 1833. Annexed by City of New Orleans, 1852. Designated a National Historic Landmark, 1974.

(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memory of the Heros of the Battle of San Pasqual

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California, San Diego County, San Diego

1st United States Dragoons
Company C
Sergent. John Cox • Corporl William. C. West • Private George Ashmead • Private Joseph T. Campbell • Private Williamm. Dalton • Private John Dunlop • Private Joseph B. Kennedy • Private William. C. Leckey • Private Samuel T. Refoge

Company K
1st. Sergeant Otis L. Moore • Sergeant William. Whitress • Corporal George Ramsdale • Farrier David W. Johnson • Private William. H. Fiel • Private William. C. Gholston • Private Robert S. Gregory
California Volunteer Henry Baker

Topographical Engineer Detachment Francois Menard

The Battle of San Pasqual fought Dec 6 to Dec 10 1846 won California from Mexico for the United States of America

This stone was taken from the San Pasqual Battlefield and erected over their last resting place

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Mexican-American) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kelso Jail

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California, San Bernardino County, Kelso
After several decades, the infamous, two cell, metal jail is in its original home near the Kelso Depot Visitor Center in Mojave National Preserve. Twelve years ago, officials at the Barstow office of the Health Department wanted it removed from their grounds. Barstow residents, Kay Mahoney and her husband, took it off their hands. In the fall of 2005, Mahoney donated the Kelso Jail back to the Mojave N.P.

Bureau of Land Management Maintenance Foreman, Mike Trost, skillfully extricated the Jail which was surrounded by trees, fences and woodpiles. From the Mahoney yard, Trost and crew loaded the Jail onto a flatbed and transported it to Kelso.

World War II era Kelso resident, Richard Klepper, remembers around 1944, when the jail first arrived in Kelso, “Before that, the constable used a reefer car for a jail,” Klepper said. “In those days,” he added, “Kelso was loaded with drunks from both the Kaiser (Vulcan) Mine and Union Pacific.” A night spent in the Kelso Jail might encourage sobriety.

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

In Memory of the Mormon Battalion

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California, San Diego County, San Diego
whose members made the longest military march in U.S. History of over 2000 miles from Iowa to San Diego in 1846 – 1847 during the war with Mexico.

Albert Warren Dunham
Private – Company B
23 May 1828 – 11 May 1847

Lydia Ann Edmunds Hunter
Wife of Captain Jesse Hunter
Company B
22 January 1823 – 26 April 1847

Lydia Hunter and Private Albert Dunham were buried in a cemetery in the La Playa area of Point Loma and were moved to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery with other military personnel in 1887.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Mexican-American) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Verlaque House (1886)

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California, San Diego County, Ramona
Theophile Verlaque (1823-1913), a French immigrant, was a successful San Diego entreprenuer, saloon keeper, vintner and real estate speculator.

Verlaque was a friend of Bernard Etcheverry, a French Basque immigrant, who by 1880 owned 16,700 acres of the original Santa Maria Rancho land grant and had a thriving rancho. Verlaque and Etcheverry decided that a store and post office could be a successful venture. Verlaque's son Amos purchased two acres from Etcheverry along the stage and freight wagon road connecting San Diego and Julian. The younger Verlaque built a store and post office (1883) and the town of Nuevo (later Ramon) was born.

Verlaque decided to build a country home reminiscent of the homes of his youth in southern France and his many years spent living near the French community of St. Genevieve, Missouri. He had the home erected next to his son Amos' merchantile.

The Verlaque House is a rare example of traditional French Provincial architecture in the Western United States. The home is built on a 2 foot thich fieldstone foundation with 18 inch adobe walls, has a 45 degree truncated hip roof, an elevated veranda surrounding the house and a basement wine celler with 7ft. ceilings and a ramp for wine barrels.

This home was continuously owned by Verlaque descendents up until 1962 when it was purchased by Leona Ransom who wanted the home restored and preserved as a museum. In 1984, the Ransom family donated the home to the Ramona Pioneer Historical Society and it is now the centerpiece of the Guy B. Woodward Museum.

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

Chinese Fishing and Shipbuilding Site

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California, San Diego County, San Diego
From around 1860 to the early 1890's, the Chinese had a fishing village at this site along the La Playa Trail. The village had ten shanties, drying racks and salting tanks. At the shore was a shipbuilding facility where Chinese junks were constructed in traditional design from China. The Sun Yun Lee, shown here; was the finest junk built in all California. Launched in 1884 on this site, the vessel had three masts and measured 52 feet in length, and 16 feet wide. It was built of redwood with masts and rudders made of ironwood from China. The fishermen had another village at the foot of Third Street near Chinatown where there abalone junks were anchored.They sailed these junks south along the Baja California coast to gather abalone. All the fresh fish needs of San Diego were supplied by the Chinese. Local merchants shipped marine products out of the Pacific Mail and Steamship Wharf at Fifth Avenue. By the early 1890's, due to the Chinese Exclusion Laws, the industry had to be abandoned. This monument commemorates the significant pioneer contributions of the Chinese fishermen to San Diego.

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

The San Francisco Columbarium

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco

Welcome to The San Francisco Columbarium.

Built in 1898, the Columbarium is one of the last remaining cemeteries of the City and County of San Francisco. Owned and Operated since 1980 by the Neptune Society of Northern California

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Building a Park

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New York, Monroe County, Hamlin
Originally called Northwest Beach Park when Monroe County began its development in 1929, the park's name was changed to Hamlin Beach State Park when New York State took title in January 1938. Company 1252 of the Civilian Conservation Corps arrived at the park in 1935. Over the next six years, its men constructed roads, trails, fountains, culverts, drinking fountains, parking lots, recreational facilities, walls, jetties, thirty fireplaces, and six buildings here.

This aerial photograph shows Camp SP-53 on Moscow Road, where CCC Company 1252 made its home from August 1935 to August 1941. All photographs courtesy Hamlin Town Historian.
Company 1252 stands at attention on front of its barracks.
This photograph shows the interior of the CCC camp's recreation hall where CCC enrollees would relax and unwind.
This entrance sign welcomed visitors to the newly designated state park.
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) rescued roughly two million men from poverty and provided them with jobs doing sorely needed coservation work during America's worst economic crisis, the Great Depression. CCC Company 1252 was housed at Hamlin Beach from 1935-1941.


(Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to Barrios

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Guatemala, San Marcos, San Lorenzo

[South face]
1885 - Gloria a Barrios - 1935
La decreto Julio 1932
Carretera a San Lorenzo
1934-1[unknown text, probably 938]

[East face]
San Lorenzo, Julio 19 1835
Siendo Ministro de Agricultura el Dr. Guillermo Cruz

[North face]
La trazo el Mayor de Yngenieros Pedro Zandra G.

[West face]
Chalchuapa, Abril 2 1885
La construyeron el jefe politico y presidente de la Junta Deptal. de Agr. y Caminos Jose Longo

English translation:
[South face]
1885 – Glory to Barrios - 1935
Decreed July 1932
Road to San Lorenzo
1934-1[unknown text, probably 938]

[East face]
San Lorenzo, July 19 1835
Minister of Agriculture Dr. Guillermo Cruz

[North face]
Surveyed by Major of Engineers Pedro Zandra G.

[West face]
Chalchuapa, April 2 1885
Built by the political chief and president of the Agricultural and Roads Council of the Department Jose Longo


(Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Recognition 99th Infantry Division United States Army

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Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Landkreis Ahrweiler, Remagen
In Recognition
99th Infantry Division
United States Army
"Checkerboard" • "Battle Babies"
The first complete Infantry Division to cross the Rhine
Remagen - Erpel
March 10-11, 1945
This plaque Erected By 99th Infantry Division Association

(Bridges & Viaducts • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Julian Pioneer Museum

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California, San Diego County, Julian
In 1888, blacksmith, Joseph Treshil, bought the property from Drury Bailey holder of homestead patent (signed by Pres. Grover Cleveland). The building, with walls two feet thick made of shist & adobe, served as a blacksmith shop. Peter Mayrhoffer, in 1891, leased & used it as a brewery. In 1899 a “smithy” Christian Grosskopf bought & returned it to a blacksmith shop. He died in 1941. Restoration of the crumbling ruins began in late 1940's by the Julian Women's Club & local civic groups. The museum opened to the public in 1952.

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

Julian / The Eagle Gold Mine

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California, San Diego County, Julian
the two markers are attached to a flag pole Upper Marker
Julian
This marker placed in memory
of
Mrs. Ida B. Wellington
May 25, 1887 – Dec. 16, 1962
Historian – Humanitarian
Daughter of Drury Bailey who
Homesteaded land and
established the townsite of
Julian in 1870


Lower Marker
The
Eagle Gold Mine
located April 5 1870
( 39 chains due east )
by
William J Moran


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

Julian

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California, San Diego County, Julian
Historic Gold Mining Town
founded by
Drury D. Bailey
Feb. 1870


(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Julian Hotel

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California, San Diego County, Julian
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

By the United States
Department of the
Interior
June 23, 1978

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

Hotel Robinson

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California, San Diego County, Julian
Built for Albert Robinson, ex-Missouri slave, and wife Margaret on the site of their restaurant – bakery, this sole surviving Julian mining era hotel became famous for its hospitality. Miners, promotors, politicians, sightseers, salesmen, and other visitors, some famous, made the hotel their base. Maggie's “excellent meals, Sunday chicken dinner, nice clean rooms at reasonable rates” were unequaled. Albert died in 1915. Margaret carried on alone until 1921 when she sold the property for $1500 and it was renamed the Julian Hotel.

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

De Luca House

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California, San Diego County, Julian
Frank Antonio De Luca, Italian immigrant, naturalized 1872 at Memphis, TN. and wife, Florence, created this small house, typical of Julian, in 1897 from a studless rough plank cabin built in 1893 by miner C.L. Barnett. De Luca came here in 1889, age 42, and became a leading merchant, grubstaker of gold miners and an astute trader in land. He, other businessmen and farmers organized the first apple day celebration Oct. 9, 1909. Childless Florence retired to San Diego when Frank died in 1925, age 77. She died there in 1945, age 90.

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

Hoskings Rental

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California, San Diego County, Julian
A mining & ranching town, many Julian people could not afford to buy a home on $3.00/10 hr. day. This rental, typical of many here, provided 564 sq. ft., four rooms, kerosene lamps, woodstove, hand dug well and privy for $6.00 to $12.00/ month. It was built with salvaged lumber from Cuyamaca City, the abandoned town at the depleted Stonewall gold mine. Landlord George Hoskings, orphaned child of early Julian innkeepers, parlayed an inheritance from bachelor foster father, Thomas Daily, into vast land holdings including 56 town lots.

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

Frary House

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California, San Diego County, Julian
Almon Phineas Frary, Jr. and his bride, Elizabeth, assembled this small house, typical of Julian, by joining Al's miner's cabin to an abandoned one-room school house on the site of the dismantled Overland Hotel & Saloon and Julian's second town hall. Almon, born c.1855 Placer County, came here in the 1870 gold rush and, with his father, developed the rich Stonewall Mine. He worked every major Julian mine, owning the Ella and Eagle. Childless “Frary,” 86, died 1940: Al 88, 1943, lifelong promoters of the Julian Mining District.

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