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Nuclear Weapons Technicians Association

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dedicated to all Air Force
Nuclear Weapons Maintainers,
past, present and future.

Dedicated October 2007

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


Thomas Avenue

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Georgia, Walker County, Chickamauga
Thomas, born in Southampton County, Virginia, graduated from West Point in 1840 and joined the artillery. He saw action in the Seminole War and the Mexican War and had frontier duty. He commanded the 14th Corp at Chickamauga. He became known as the "Rock of Chickamauga" for his defense of the retreating federal line. After the war he commanded the Division of the Pacific.

(Notable Persons • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

B-45 Tornado

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

In Honor Of All Who Served
47th Bomb Wing
1st USAF Jet Bomber
Cold War Hero
England 1952 – 1958
RAF Sculthorpe [and] RAF Alconbury

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

Selma Army Arsenal

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Alabama, Dallas County, Selma
Confederate Army Captain James White was ordered to relocate the old Federal Arsenal from Mt. Vernon, Alabama. By 1865 it consisted of 24 buildings and had over 500 workers including men, women, boys, girls, FMofC and slaves. It made or contracted for all manner of war materials including 30,000 rifle cartridges a day. These materials were then shipped from the C.S. Depot to all parts of the shrinking Confederacy. By 1865 Selma was producing 2/3 of all C.S. war materials and made the destruction of Selma the goal of "Wilson's Raid."
"April 6th. ...the rattle of exploding rifle and musket cartridges was deafening; we have not heard such a constant roar since the Battle of Chickamauga. The negroes had been cautioned to get all the artillery shells out, but in half an hour they began to explode, throwing fire and old iron 1,000 feet high. This made every fellow hunt his hole and crawl into it, too. The scene was hideous and unearthly beyond anything we had ever imagined. The explosions continued for three hours, much louder than any we had ever heard, and of sufficient violence to shake the earth for miles around, making the whole city a perfect pandemonium. What must have been the humiliation of Gens. Forrest and Taylor as they heard these tell-tale explosions and saw the fiery serpent of flame writhing in the sky over Selma, the mighty, strong and rich city!" ...Sgt. B.F. McGee, 72nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the Mounted Lightening Brigade

(African Americans • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

1st and 7th Emergency Rescue Squadrons

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dedicated to those who served saving the
lives of over 400 downed fliers and crews

1st ERS Mediterranean Theater
7th ERS China, Burma and India Theater

Dedicated 7 Sept 2007

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

601st Tactical Control Wing

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

In honor of all members of the groups,
squadrons, detachments, & flights
of the 601st Tactical Control Wing
and antecedent organizations

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

Lee Avenue

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Georgia, Walker County, Chickamauga
Lee, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, graduated from West Point in 1829 and joined the engineers. He saw action in the Mexican War. He served as superintendant of West Point 1852-55. He refused the offer to command the US troops at the beginning of the war and resigned from the US Army in April 1861. He served as military advisor to Jefferson Davis, Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and General in Chief of the Confederate Army. He signed the surrender at Appomattox. After the war he served as President of Washington (later Washington and Lee) University from 1865-1870.

(Notable Persons • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

USAF Hospital

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

In Tribute To Those Who Served
1948 – 1977

(Patriots & Patriotism • Science & Medicine • War, Cold • War, Korean) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Last Stronghold Falls

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Alabama, Dallas County, Selma

Hardie's Reserve Cavalry Battalion, about 500 strong were ordered to Selma from Talladega. They were placed along the railroad track to the right and Left of the Depot. This makeshift defensive line was made of the railroad bed, the Depot, cotton bales and other buildings. With the fall of the Interior Redoubt III to the west and General Upton's forces crossing the railroad track to the East. Major Hardie's Battalion was flanked on both sides. About 7 pm Major Greeno and troopers of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry captured the Depot.
"Upon my arrival there I reported to Gen'l Bedford Forrest in person and was ordered to leave my horses in Weaver's Grove and place my men as a second line of defense at what is now know as the So. Railway depot on Broad Street. ...We did not have long to wait for very soon the front line of defense was broken and the enemy came pouring over and for a while we were kept busy. Capt. John Donahoo was killed at this point. I soon saw our lines were broken on our right and the enemy came pouring in through the Range Line Road, so I undertook to take my Command out of the City, but finding it impossible to do so, I told each man to look out for himself... I went down to the Gee Hotel and surrendered and was sent to Watts Hall (now Sturdivant Hall) where many prisoners were congregated..."
Major Joseph Hardie, Hardie's Reserve Cavalry Battalion

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rock Springs Church

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Georgia, Walker County, Rock Springs
The majority of the people who established Walker County were deeply religious. Soon after establishing their farms, the residents of most areas usually built a church. In a typical example, the Rock Springs Methodist Church was established in a log building near the spring on the east side of the LaFayette Road. In 1854, the log structure was moved "out towards the creek" and used as a school. On the original site, the church met in a new framed and weather-boarded building. The building had two doors in front so that the male and female worshipers could enter separately and seat themselves on opposite sides of the church. A sizeable community grew up around the Rock Springs Church on the Lafayette Road.

During the Chickamauga Campaign the Confederate forces occupied and camped in the Rock Spring community. "In line of battle near Rock Church," James H. Fraser, 50th Alabama Infantry, noted in his diary on September 13, "8 miles from LaFayette, Georgia. The order to move at sunset was countermanded and orders received to march at 12 o'clock at night. At the appointed time we moved out of Lafayette, marched 8 or 10 miles and this morning we are [in] line of battle at or near Rock Church Springs. We are expecting to meet the enemy at any hour, some heavy skirmishing has been going on. General Cheatham has been busy forming the line of battle."

The expected Federal attack did not come and the next day the Confederate forces moved back to LaFayette. Five days later, however, as General Braxton Bragg made ready for his major attack on the Federal Army of the Cumberland, elements of the Confederate army returned to Rock Springs. "Moved onto the Rock Spring Church," Edwin H. Reynolds, 5th Tennessee Infantry, wrote in his diary on September 18, "and took up our old position of the 13th inst, where Gen. Bragg's Battle order was read... We moved on slowly in the direction of Gordon's Mills down the 'Long Hollow' road." The next day, they moved north and began crossing the creek for the Battle of Chickamauga.

Although the departure of Polk and Hill's men marked the end of major Confederate concentrations at Rock Springs, there was still a presence in the area for sometime after the battle. At least one post-war account by a Federal prisoner captured at Chickamauga indicates that the Confederates held hundreds of captive Federal soldiers in Rock Spring after the big battle. Adam S. Johnston, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, stated that he was captured at Chickamauga and "sent to the rear seven miles, to Cheatham's headquarters, or hospital, called Rock Springs." There he said that the Confederates recorded every man's name, regiment, rank, and place of residence, and then turned them over to "rebel citizens [armed] with double-barreled shotguns, rifles, pistols, sabers, old scythes ... and almost everything you could mention." He then stated that the approximately 700 prisoners were formed into "double square" and marched to Ringgold, Georgia.

(Churches, Etc. • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Worthen's Gap

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Georgia, Walker County, near Rock Springs
Pigeon Mountain is a rugged spur of Lookout Mountain, extending in a northeasterly direction into Walker County. The space between it and Lookout Mountain is McLemore's Cove. During the war, wagon roads passed from east to west through the mountain in a series of natural gaps. These, from north to south, were called Worthens' Gap, Catlett's Gap, Dug Gap, and Blue Bird Gap. Although not used as much as the three Pigeon Mountain Gaps to the south, Worthens' Gap was very useful to the civilian residents of the central portion of Walker County. This gap also had a number of significant troop movements during the war.

During the summer of 1863, there was a strong presence of Confederate cavalry on the roads in McLemore's Cove. By early September, it was generally known that there was a major Federal army located just on the other side of Lookout Mountain and they were expected to be crossing at any time. On September 9, Confederate cavalrymen discovered that General James Negley's Federal division was at Bailey's Crossroads and were expected to be moving toward Davis Crossroads. General Braxton Bragg was informed of the findings and saw that the Federal division would be vulnerable to a surprise Confederate attack. He, therefore, instructed Major-General Thomas Hindman to prepare his division to move his men against this force and was informed that another division from Lieutenant-General Daniel H. Hill's command at LaFayette, would join him.

General Thomas Hindman responded promptly to Bragg's orders. During the night of September 9, he moved his division through Pigeon Mountain and by dawn reached the house of J. J. Morgan, a 43 year-old farmer living with his wife and nine children on the west side of Cove Road at the intersection of the road leading eastward to Catlett's Gap in Pigeon Mountain. Many of the soldiers got water from nearby West Chickamauga Creek, perhaps at Gower's Ford a short distance to the north. After a brief rest, Hindman moved his men further down along Cove Road and established his headquarters at the H. J. Conley house, where there was "a spring, the last convenient water before Davis."

General Bragg learned that there would be a problem coordinating Hill's troops, and modified his plan by ordering General Simon Buckner to march his corps to the support of Hindman. General Buckner received his orders dated 8 a.m., September 10, and marched his men through the gap to join Hindman. Bragg's orders to these men were to wait until the attack was initiated by General Patrick Cleburne from Hill's Corps. He then joined General D. H. Hill at Dug Gap to direct that element of the attack.

General Cleburne attacked the Federals at Davis Crossroads, and they were pushed back toward the base of the mountain. General Hindman, at last, attacked from the right but it was too late to trap the enemy. Due to this failure to coordinate the action, the Battle at Davis Crossroads resulted in no significance conclusion.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Embassy of the Republic of Poland

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District of Columbia, Washington
You are now standing in front of the longest-serving embassy building among Washington DC's more than 180 diplomatic missions: the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. Renowned architect George Oakley Totten designed the building for Mary Foote Henderson, who invested a considerable portion of her husband Senator John Henderson's fortune to make this part of 16th Street the most magnificent avenue in the Nation's Capital — and an embassy enclave. The building remains a superb example of early 20th-century Beaux-Arts design.

Completed in 1910, the white limestone structure features double-hung windows interspersed among balconies and porches in a fine blend of 17th and 18-century French and English styles.

The Hendersons built a two-story addition housing the Great Ballroom in 1912. Soon after the United States and Poland established diplomatic relations on April 16, 1919, the government of Poland purchased the building. The Polish Legation officially opened in 1920.

Since then, little has changed structurally except for modifications to the southwestern corner porches. In the 1960s a fence was added, and the open-air balconies were sealed.

Much of the English Renaissance style interior looks as it did a century ago, evoking an Old World ambiance. The second-floor conference and reception rooms showcase veined marble fireplaces, glazed columns, semi-circular Tuscan arches, and mirrored panels. The embassy is open to the public during special events. (For more information please visit the embassy's website.)

A life-sized bronze statue of world-renowned pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski stands to the building's left.

This historic marker was erected in 2011 to commemorate the centennial of the embassy building and the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Polish-U.S. diplomatic relations.
Marker produced by the Embassy of Poland in cooperation with District Department of Transportation and Cultural Tourism DC © 2011

(Government • Man-Made Features • Politics) Includes location, directions, 13 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Meta V.W. Fuller

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
One of the leading Black female sculptors in America. She lived here, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, later with Auguste Rodin in Paris. Her sculpture depicted human suffering.

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New Century Guild

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
Founded 1882 by Eliza S. Turner. One of the oldest and largest organizations created to advance the interests of women in the labor force. Originally located on Girard St., the Guild moved to Arch St. in 1893 and to this location in 1906.

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

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
Among the oldest of its kind in the nation, the special collections library holds many of the nation’s important founding documents. Founded by prominent citizens in 1824 and located here since 1884, it traces America’s history from the 17th century to the present.

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

Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
Opened in 1895 as the first hospital for Blacks in this city, this facility trained and employed Black medical professionals who were excluded from other hospitals. In 1948, it merged to form Mercy-Douglass Hospital.

(African Americans • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Philadelphia Knights of Pythias

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
Founded in 1907 by politician and civic leader, B.G. Collier, this order first met above a South Philadelphia barber shop. In 1913 the lodge moved to this site, erecting a new building here in 1923.

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Julian Francis Abele

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
The first Black graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Architecture, Abele was the chief designer for the nationally known architectural firm of Horace Trumbauer, whose commissions during Abele's career included the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia on Logan Square.

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

The Wilson Center

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District of Columbia, Washington
To The Glory of God
And in grateful memory of one of his servants
This building devoted to Christian education
Is named for
Woodrow Wilson
President of Princeton University 1902 — 1910
Governor of the state of New Jersey 1911 — 1913
President of the United States of America 1913 — 1921
Founder of the League of Nations
An Elder in the Presbyterian Church
A member of this congregation 1913 — 1924

(Churches, Etc. • Politics) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Schuylkill Navy of Philadelphia

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
The oldest governing body of amateur athletics in America was established in 1858. Rowing club members have participated in competitions at local, national, and international levels. Three-time Olympic gold medalist John B. Kelly Sr. served as commodore, 1935-1940. It hosts some of the largest regattas in the world on the Schuylkill River, one of the nation’s premier courses. Boathouse Row here is an icon of Philadelphia and of rowing.

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