Arcadia Round Barn, Arcadia, Oklahoma

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Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Arcadia

Built in April 1898 by William Odor on his farm. Restored in 1992 by Luke Robinson [sic - Robison], community workers and local businesses.

Recognized by Hampton Hotels Save-A-Landmark program as a site worth seeing

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Tuton's Drugstore

May 7, 2015, 10:11 pm

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Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Arcadia

Officially listed on the National
Register of Historic Places
March 3, 1980

Built - 1916-1917
Druggist - Thomas H. Tuton
Registered Pharmacist -
Ethel Rogers Tuton

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Missionary Ridge School

May 8, 2015, 3:08 am

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Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga
You are standing just west of the site of the former Missionary Ridge Elementary School now occupied by Bragg Point condominiums which were built in 2008.
Pictured are the student body and faculty of Missionary Ridge School in 1915. Enrollment was 87 students in grades 1-8 taught by two teachers. The school was erected at a cost of $18,539. According to a pre-1912 Parent Teacher Association (PTA) memo, a school named Missionary Ridge High School apparently existed in 1896 near this location as a Hamilton County school; however, no photographs have ever been located.

The Municipality of Missionary Ridge was charted in 1923 and had 2 municipal buildings—the No. 11 fire hall and the center portion of Missionary Ridge School. (The fire hall was then located behind you near the former trolley line and had vending machines for after-school snacks.) Both buildings were semi-gothic designs with gables and slate roofs. The school went through two major additions. In 1925, the PTA demanded a new up-to-date school. Later that year, the PTA announced an addition was to be made to the north of the main school at a cost of $17,000. the last addition, pictured by architect James G. Gauntt, is shown as it would appear completed.

This addition, built in 1930 after the City of Missionary Ridge was annexed by Chattanooga, was the south wing (right side of drawing) that provided four classrooms, a principal's office, community library, gymnasium, and auditorium. The auditorium had seating for 525. A new feature of the addition was that two of the classrooms were designed to be sun rooms. These were equipped with vita-glass which admitted ultra-violet rays for those children whose physical conditions could be improved by sufficient sunshine. The older building received a great deal of remodeling - two classrooms, teacher's rooms, janitor's apartment, and a moving picture booth. The polished wood floors remained. When Brainerd Junior High was built in 1930, Missionary Ridge School became grades 1-6. Trophy cases that dominated the entrance hall contained scores of awards for athletic and academic achievement as well as citizenship. The school had upper and lower playgrounds. Before that time, students played at Bragg Reservation and at the 5-story fire tower. The upper playground had an enclosed courtyard with swing sets, a jungle gym, and long, narrow stairs to a lower ball field.

The school was closed in 1977 after 65 years. It was transferred from Chattanooga Public to the City of Chattanooga. In 1978, the Missionary Ridge Elementary School became the first home of the Chattanooga Regional History Museum. It was relocated after one year and later became the Chattanooga History Center. Unfortunately, the former beloved school building burned in 1992.

Former students fondly remember inspiring teachers, annual musical programs, a full slate of sports offerings, and clothing drives for the less fortunate. They remember the special concern for the individual that was characteristic of the school from its first days to its last.

Please visit our website at
http://www.missionaryridge.org

Visit Missionary Ridge Elementary School
Alumni on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/132403940273/

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Schenley Park

May 8, 2015, 5:07 am

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
Schenley Park
Founded 1889

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Wartime Support

May 8, 2015, 7:53 am

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Maryland, Baltimore County, Towson
Northampton Iron Furnace, operating from 1761 to about 1830 approximately a mile north of here, played a significant role in the War of 1812. Part of the prosperous Hampton estate, the foundry’s workforce was made up primarily of enslaved African-Americans who produced iron, cannons, shot and camp equipment for the war effort. Charles Carnan Ridgely, ironmaster and owner of the estate, also contributed funds and other supplies for Baltimore’s defense in 1814.

“Mr. Ridgely’s iron being in high estimation in quality than other in the state.”
Baltimore Federal Gazette, 1798.

Souvenirs
Two unexploded British shells from the bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814, are visible at the south portico of Hampton Mansion. They were likely given to Charles Carnan Ridgely as a token of esteem.

(Inscription under the image on the upper left)
1843 Map by Joshua Barney-image/Hampton National Historic Site.

(Inscription above the image in the center)
An artist’s rendering of the Northampton Furnace. The site is now located in the Loch Rave Reservoir watershed.

(Inscription below the portrait on the right)
Charles Carnan Ridgely by C.G. Stapko (after Thomas Sully, 1820) Image/Hampton National Historic Site.

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Village Marshall Murray Griffin

May 8, 2015, 8:12 am

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Ohio, Logan County, Belle Center
In tribute to:
Village Marshall Murray Griffin
whose life was taken during the late
evening hours of July 5, 1986, while
performing his sworn duty of protecting
those in his community.
presented by:
the Law Enforcement Officers of Logan County

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Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station #1

May 8, 2015, 8:45 am

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South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia
Camden and Cheraw will "in effect become suburbs of this city... through the construction of the new Seaboard Rail Line.
The State May 10, 1900.

The Blue Marlin occupies the former Seaboard Air Line Railway Station, which served passengers in Columbia. The Seaboard Air Line Railway was created in the 1880s by the consolidation of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, and a number of other lines in the Carolinas. Eventually, more that 100 lines would be incorporated into the S.A.L. By May of 1899, 65 passenger trains came through Columbia, daily, including the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Southern Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line.

In June of 1899, to insure that a new planned rail line would come through their community from Cheraw, Columbia's city council agreed to lease Sidney Park (now Finlay Park) to Seaboard for $30,000. It turned the park into a rail head (yard) in a matter of a few months, and returned the property to the city in the 1960s.

One of the most remembered of Seaboard's trains that stopped at this former station was the Silver Meteor. Begun in 1939, it ran from New York City to Miami, Florida, covering 1,389 miles in 25 hours. The Silver Meteor was diesel powered, had all-reclining seat coaches, a diner, a tavern-coach and an observation car. The streamliner proved so popular that Seaboard had to order new cars the next year and even added Pullman sleeping cars (in dull Pullman Green, spoiling the all-stainless silvery look).

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1967, and this railway station eventually closed in 1991, after serving Columbia for 87 years.

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Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station #2

May 8, 2015, 9:16 am

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South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia
The new Seaboard Railway Station "will be a daisy."
The State editorial, May 31, 1904

Completed in early summer 1904, the Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station (now the Blue Marlin) was built by J.P. Pettijohn and Co. of Lynchburg, Va. for $35,000, and was the third passenger depot built in Columbia. The first railway station was the South Carolina Railroad Depot on Gervais St., built about 1850, followed by the Union Station on Main St., built in 1902, (which served passengers for the Atlantic Coast Line and Southern Railway).

The Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station had two waiting rooms (because of segregation:, a ticket and baggage office, and a covered walkway that was 40 feet wide and 416 feet long, which continued on the other side of Gervais Street, so passengers could reach their train cars without getting wet.

Originally, Seaboard had promised to build this new station in the Sidney Park rail yard that the city had leased to the railroad company in 1899, but the rail company chose this location on Lincoln Street instead.

This depot and baggage room were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The station served passengers on the Seaboard Air-Line Railway (later the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad until 1991.

Lower Photos
Seaboard Air-Line Railway Station, 1942. (Left to right): Southbound with a 20-year-old engine; double engins headed north; single engine (purchased in the mid-twenties) headed north.
Courtesy of "Through The Heart Of The South; The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Story."
Photographs by George E. Votava

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In Memory of the Soldiers Sailors and Marines of Genesee County

May 8, 2015, 2:44 pm

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New York, Genesee County, Batavia

[front] Major General Upton

In memory of the soldiers sailors and marines of Genesee County.

[right] Battles of World War - Apr.6, 1917-Nov.11, 1918
Cambrai · Somme · Lys · Aisne · Cantigny · Belleau Wood · Chateau-Thierry · Montdidier-Noyon · Champagne-Marne · Aisne-Marne · Oise-Aisne · Ypres-Lys · St. Mihiel · Meuse-Argonne · Vittorio-Venepo

[rear] Dedicated to those men and women of Genesee County who served in World War II, Korea and Viet Nam

[left] Battles of the Civil War 1861-1865
Bull Run · Fair Oaks · Malvern Hill · Cedar Mountain · Manassas · Antietam · Fredericksburg · Chancellorsville · Vicksburg · Chickamauga · Missionary Ridge · Atlanta · Wilderness · Spottsylvania · Petersburg · Cold Harbor · Monocacy · Winchester · Cedar Creek · Five Forks · Appomattox

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Sacred to the Memory of Wm. Morgan

May 8, 2015, 3:45 pm

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New York, Genesee County, Batavia
[south] Sacred to the memory of Wm. Morgan, a native of Virginia, a Capt. in the War of 1812, a respectable citizen of Batavia, and a martyr to the freedom of writing, printing and speaking the truth. He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826, by Freemasons and murdered for revealing the secrets of their order.

[north] The court records of Genesee County and the files of the Batavia Advocate, kept in the Recorder's office contain the history of the events that caused the erection of this monument.

[east] The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. ** I owe to my country an exposure of its cancer. Capt. Wm. Morgan.

[west] Erected by volunteer contributions from over 2000 persons residing in Canada, Ontario and twenty-six of the United-States and Territories.

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First Producing Oil Well

May 8, 2015, 3:47 pm

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Texas, Coke County, near Silver
Sun Oil Company’s well – No. 1 Allen Jameson – was staked in Sept. 1946 and struck oil Nov. 17.
     Intermittent drilling had gone on in Coke County for 30 years, but this discovery began a county-wide oil boom.
     Drilled by the Dallas firm of Roberts & Hawkins, the well hit pay dirt at 6,230 feet in fossil-bearing limestone 280 million years old. In a 24-hour test it flowed 168 barrels.
     Coke County recently ranked among the top quarter of oil-producing counties in Texas, with its 18 fields exceeding 6.4 million barrels annually.

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Silver

May 8, 2015, 3:48 pm

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Texas, Coke County, near Silver
A pioneer ranching center, settled about 1880. Early land owners included S.M. Conner, W.G. Jameson and W.R. Walker. Dr. J.E. Reed for 50 years was only physician here. R.B. Allen was outstanding civic leader.
     Post office, named for peak nearby, was opened 1890 with Thomas J. Wylie postmaster.
     School (2 mi. SW) was moved here and renamed Silver Peak.
     Oil discovery, 1946, brought drilling, refining, employees’ camps, much growth. The town became busy oil-gas center.
     After camps closed, 1966, the population declined.

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Wayzata Depot

May 8, 2015, 4:14 pm

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, Wayzata
The Wayzata Depot was built in 1906 by James J. Hill, owner of the Great Northern Railroad. The English Tudor structure, designed by architect Samuel Bartlett, was noted for its hot water heat and indoor plumbing and at one time was considered the handsomest depot on the line.

The first train came to town on August 24, 1867. At the time, Wayzata was the end of the line for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, predecessor of the Great Northern. The first depot was located east of here, near Broadway Avenue. As the line expended westward, Wayzata citizens were outraged when a crew began laying ties on the stage road that ran in front of their shops, threatening to subject the town to a barrage of cinders and sparks. Thus began the famous feud between Wayzata and the “Empire Builder” Hill.

Hill is said to have threatened to wipe Wayzata off the map. He razed the Broadway Depot in 1893 and relocated the train stop a mile to the east, where he built a small depot named Holdridge. Tradition has it that Hill threatened, “Wayzata residents can walk a mile for the next 20 years!” Still, to accommodate his influential friends on the west end of town, Hill provided the Ferndale platform train stop. After twelve years of Wayzata residents trudging through marshy terrain to reach the train, Hill relented and built the present depot, putting Wayzata back on the map.

The railroad was central to the “Golden Age” (1867–1929) in Wayzata as people from Southern states came to the village by train to enjoy the cool summer breezes on Lake Minnetonka. Large steam boats transported visitors to the numerous hotels built to accommodate these Southern guests, and Wayzata flourished and grew.

In 1971, the Great Northern railroad closed the depot and donated it to the city of Wayzata. Currently, coal, grain and mixed freight trains pass through Wayzata with Burlington Northern Santa Fe destinations throughout the western half of the United States.

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Rubber Glove Employees World War I Memorial

May 8, 2015, 6:23 pm

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Connecticut, New Haven County, Naugatuck
In Honor Of
The Employees Of
Goodyear’s India Rubber Glove
Manufacturing Company
Who At The Call Of Their Country
Laid Aside Their Vocations And Entered
The Service To Fight In The Great War
For World-Wide Liberty
1917 – 1919 Oscar Adamson • Carl A. Anderson • William Annis • Peter Aramowic • John A. Ashmore • William Asplund • William Augustinack • Paul Belski • Matthew Bickerdike • Stanley Bober • Chester Boroski • William Boylan • William Brennan • Henry Bugai • Dominick Cancellaro • Charles Capello • Rocco Cardaldo • James Carroll • Michael Chaplitski • Ernest S. Cook • Joseph Corey • Martin Dodge • William M. Dolan • Raymond P. Donnelly • Stanley Duliepski • Lawrence Dunn • Benjamin Edwards • Joseph Glimskas • George Gotoski • Herbert Hanks • George Harper • James Healy • Frank C. Holm • Briggs T. Hubbell • John F. Jackson • Joseph L. Jackson, Jr. • Axel J. Johnson • Joseph L. Johnson • John Jurinskas • Gaston Kaupinas • James Keating • Daniel Kiernan • Emil King • Charles W. Kleps • Louis Koebler • William Krodel • George Kroncke • Henry Krulikoski • Edgar Larson • Edward J. Leary, Jr. • Thomas Leary • Stanley J. Levinsky • Walter Levinsky • Mcintyre Lilly • William Mai • Jake Mariano • John Martinitis • Emil Martino • John Melnichenko • Gustav Metz • Antonio Mikawez • Emil Miller • Alexander Moleski • Justin F. McDonnell • James McGuinness • Edward C. McSorley • Charles Noble, Jr. • William Nyquist • Frank A. O’Donnell • Roger O’Donnell • Mikolaf Ogonowski • John A. Orlawski • Richard F. Ostrom • Leroy J. Penrose • Adam Raczkowski • Richard J. Reilly • Percy Richmond • John Romoski • Stanley Rosinonki • Joseph Salerano • Anthony Sandorgoss • Alexander Schokofsky • Saul Sodoti • Howard L. Smith • Phillip J. Smith • Daniel Sparan • Felix Struzinski • Frank Suma • Joseph Suma • John Swisoski • Julius Szxreploski • William R. Talbot • Jean Thomas • Daniel J. Toohey • Theodore Waskiski • Thomas F. Whelan • Edward J. Wilcox • Frank Wylong • Peter Yagello • George Zur In Memory Of
Those Who Gave Their Lives
To This Great Cause
Matthew Bickerdike
Stanley Duliepski
Roger O’Donnell
William R. Talbot
Daniel J. Toohey

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Rubber Shoe Employees World War I Memorial

May 8, 2015, 6:33 pm

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Connecticut, New Haven County, Naugatuck
In Honor Of
The Employees Of
Goodyear’s Metallic Rubber Shoe
Company
Who At The Call Of Their Country
Laid Aside Their Vocations And Entered
The Service To Fight In The Great War
For World-Wide Liberty
1917 – 1919 Samuel W.K. Allen • Joseph Alleghyni • Frank Affhauser • Luigi Amico • John Adinas • Edmund Bowler • Jacob Bober • Oscar Brychta • Thomas Brooder • Daniel Boyle • Peter Brennan • Jenness W. Brown • Edward Butler • Everett C. Coleman • Petrio Calari • John Cullinane • John Cudnevitz • Harry Classey • Andrew De Bold • Joseph De Propso • Ludwig Duliepski • John Dermody • Richard Durkin • Frank Dillon • Raymond Erricson • Patrick Falvey • Raymond L. Forbes • Frederick Frank • Charles Gibiino • Harold L. Goodwin • Walter D. Goodwin • Alfred C. Greene • Stanley Gridowski • Eugene Gladding • Willard Hicks • Seymour Hadaway • Joseph Heimers • Torsten W. Johnson • J.H. Edward Johnson • Robert F. Joyce • George Joannioes • Frank Koslofski • Michael Kenney • Anthony Klustis • George V. Lawson • Charles Lozes • Dominic Mortikites • Eugene Murphy • Thomas P. Murtha • Richard Mayer • Felix Nardiello • David E. Ostrom • Carl W. Olson • Leroy E. Olson • William C. Painter • Casimer Posilla • Stanley Rikowski • William Ryboski • Charles A. Resz • William T. Rodenbach • James Reed • Edward Rikisky • Clarence W. Ripp • Albert Sumpf • Joseph Seviderski • John Switzis • Daniel P. Sulzer • Emil L. Stormvall • Frank D. Smith • Peter Sacles • Anthony Sibulski • Thomas Trestrail • Frank C. Trestrail • William R. Todd • Constanti Uricati • John Wrinn • John Whalen • Walter Ziems In Memory Of
Those Who Gave Their Lives
To This Great Cause
Torsten W. Johnson
George V. Lawson
Stanley Rikowski

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United States Rubber Employees World War I Memorial

May 8, 2015, 6:40 pm

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Connecticut, New Haven County, Naugatuck
In Honor Of
The Employees Of
United States Rubber Company
• Jersey Factory •
Who At The Call Of Their Country
Laid Aside Their Vocations And Entered
The Service To Fight In The Great War
For World-Wide Liberty
1917 – 1919 Henry J. Baier • Chester A. Brokaw • Arthur Buckelew • Risieri Casagrande • Warren E. Gillian • Robert Hussey • J. Wallace Jernee • Vincent L. Lynch • George F. Meirose • John E. Pyatt, Jr. • Edward Wittkofsky • William Wittkofsky • William R. Yetman In Memoriam
Chester A. Brokaw

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Old Community of Cedar Hill

May 8, 2015, 7:50 pm

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Texas, Coke County, near Silver
The Cedar Hill area, settled by stock-farming homesteaders about 1890, was named for the nearby cedar-covered elevation.
     A one-room school built in 1891 was located about 100 yards north of the cemetery, which remains. However, no post office or town ever developed.
     Discouraged by drouths and the lack of conveniences, many people had departed by 1904. The school closed after 1917.
     30 years later, an oil boom swept the county. Cedar Hill area, supplying 2 big companies, now lies within one of West Texas’ largest oil fields.

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Edith

May 8, 2015, 7:56 pm

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Texas, Coke County, near Robert Lee
Settled by cattlemen who ran herds on open range, and stock-farming homesteaders.
     Development began in early 1880's after Winfield Scott, rancher, fenced his spread.
     Area had three schools, lodge hall, tabernacle, general store, cotton gin and blacksmith shop.
     The post office, established in 1890, was named for Edith Bonsall, an admired young lady of Ballinger. It closed in 1955. Dwindling schools combined, then consolidated with those of nearby Robert Lee.
     As trend toward urban living increased, Edith declined.

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Southern Overland Mail, 1858-1861

May 8, 2015, 8:12 pm

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Texas, Coke County, near Bronte
Passed near this site, providing for the first time combined passenger and mail service between Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Operating west from St. Louis and Memphis, John Butterfield’s company used 1,350 horses and mules and 90 Concord coaches and wagons.
     Stage traveled at a run, despite lack of good roads. A signal given approaching a station would have fresh horses ready and food on the table for crew and passengers. Route had stations 12 to 113 miles apart, and was sometimes changed to get water. Crew and passengers wore guns; to reduce danger of Indian attacks, mules (less coveted than horses) were used west of Ft. Belknap. The trip one way took 25 days—seven spent crossing Texas, from Prston (now under Lake Texoma) to Jacksboro, Ft. Belknap, Ft. Chadbourne and El Paso. One way fare for the 2,700 miles was $200. Passengers rarely stopped off, because they might not find seats on a later stage. Merchants in Jacksboro and other towns used Butterfield’s light freight service to make mail-order sales.
     Greatest contribution of the Overland Stage was its carrying news; coaches also brought mail from the west one to 10 days faster than it came by ship.
     Service was ended in 1861 by the Civil War.

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Washington Irving's Camp

May 8, 2015, 8:40 pm

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Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Arcadia

Near here, 1832, Washington Irving hunted wild horses, an exciting event described in his book on his Oklahoma tour as "Ringing the Wild Horse." In party were H. L. Ellsworth, U.S. Comm., Chas. J. Latrobe, English writer, and Swiss County, Albert de Portales.

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