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Methodist Church

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New York, Genesee County, Elba

Methodist Church
Erected in 1834 by Rev. Isaac
Foster and 25 charter members
under the Meth. Prot. faith on
land deeded by Asa & Mary
Babcock. It was united in 1939.

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

Mail Pouch Tobacco

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling

Mail Pouch is one of Wheeling's most recognizable products. Aaron and Samuel Bloch began making chewing tobacco after experimenting with "cigar scrap." This afterthought quickly became a favorite with local coal miners and soon the rest of the country took notice with the help of Mail Pouch barns. From such humble beginnings grew one of America's most easily recognizable products. Mail Pouch's rustic appeal and popular barn advertisements have become a symbol of Americana.

1. Mail Pouch Barns
Beginning in 1925, Bloch Brothers began advertising their products using the now famous Mail Pouch barn signs, featuring "CHEW MAIL POUCH - TREAT YOURSELF TO THE BEST." In 1947, the company hired painter Harley Warrick, who became synonymous with the signs. During his 35-year career, Harley painted between 16,000 and 18,000 barns. Occasionally, Harley would deliberately misspell a word and wait to see just how long it would take for people to notice. Approximately 1,000 of these barns are still standing within a 500-mile radius from Wheeling, WV.

2. "West Virginia Cole Slaw"
In 1897, Bloch Brothers introduced Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco, which became their signature product. At first, their chewing tobacco was taken from the scraps and trimmings from other tobacco products. These were mixed with molasses and other flavors, earning the nickname "West Virginia Cole Slaw." Mail Pouch tobacco has been made in Wheeling for over a century. At its zenith, the company employed hundreds of female workers and produced 120 million packages of Mail Pouch a year. The company was said to have known the location of every new oil field in this country, because an order for Mail Pouch was received from the fields as soon as operations began. At one point, Bloch Brothers Tobacco was offering a dozen kinds of pipe tobacco.

3. Bloch Brothers
The Bloch family emigrated to Wheeling from Germany in the 1840s and opened a dry goods store on Main Street, between 12th and 14th Streets. The enterprising family also ran a stogie operation on the second floor of the building. After the flood of 1884 destroyed their grocery inventory, Aaron and Samuel Bloch sold their interests in the dry goods business and focused on tobacco production. The fact that the flood did not destroy their tobacco was taken as a sign that tobacco was their future.

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The Wheeling National Heritage Area preserves and celebrates the city's dramatic setting, resources, and history, including its role as the birthplace of the state of West Virginia during the Civil War.

A National Heritage Area is a part of our country's landscape that has been recognized by the United States Congress for its unique contribution to the American experience.



(Communications • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

South Side World Wars Memorial

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling

Dedicated in honor of the
men and women
of the South Side
who served in
World Wars I and II

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Our Lady of Mount Lebanon Veterans Memorial

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling

Erected by the grateful Parish of
Our Lady of Mount Lebanon
in honor of those who served
their country and dedicated
to the memory of those who
gave their lives for our liberty

World War II
David Brice • Joseph Bryan • Nicholas Coram • Michael Jalad
Louis Maroon • James Murad • Louis Nassif • Thomas Nassif
Thomas Palmer • Philip Saseen

Korea
Louis Rohana

Greater love than this no one has.
That one lay down his life for his friends.

(Churches, Etc. • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Wheeling High School

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling

On this site stood Wheeling High School. The bricks and the mortar are gone, but the memory of her will linger on in the hearts of those who loved her.

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

Three Islands in the Mississippi

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Minnesota, Hennepin County, St. Paul
The Mississippi River’s many islands are well known to navigators, and the roles of several as accessible and safe havens for villages, camps, and forts have made them significant in Minnesota’s past. Lt. Zebulon Pike chose this island, later named for him, as a camp site on his 1805 expedition to explore the upper Mississippi, following the Louisiana Purchase. Pike met with Dakota Indian leaders here and purchased land which would later become part of the Twin Cities.

Grey Cloud Island, further downstream, was known to the Dakota people for its supernatural woods and its great variety of wild fruit. U. S. troops under the command of Colonel Henry Leavenworth found it a good campsite on their way up the river to establish Fort Snelling, and in 1838 Joseph R. Brown, a former fort drummer boy, established a trading post there.

The home of the Prairie Island Dakota Indian Community, who share it with a nuclear power plant, Prairie Island at the mouth of the Vermillion River may have been one of the first Minnesota locations visited by French explorers in the late 17th century. They called it Isle Pelee (Bald Island), probably because of its extensive prairie cover dotted with several lakes and sloughs.

Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wheeling High School World War II Memorial

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West Virginia, Ohio County, Wheeling

Erected in honor of
Wheeling High School Students
who served their country
during World War II,
and dedicated to
the Glory of God
and the memory of those
who gave their lives
for freedom

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

LCPL Lewis E. Hughes II

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Ohio, Logan County, Belle Center
In memory of
Lewis Eugene Hughes II
LCPL H+S Co 5th Marine 1st Marine Division
killed in action Republic of Viet Nam
June 13, 1970


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

Suburban Style

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District of Columbia, Washington
Until 1890 Tenleytown was a rural crossroads. Then the electric streetcar arrived, followed by the Permanent Highway Plan. Real estate men promoted new houses at the top of the town: city conveniences, country charm, and great views, with a 25-minute streetcar ride to downtown.

Developers Ernest M. Pease and Colorado Senator Thomas M. Patterson snapped up the promising high ground here between the Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue streetcar lines. In 1904 they promoted their subdivision, “Colorado Heights,” to middle-income white workers, promising that homes would cost not less than $2,500. “Never again,” predicted the Washington Post “ will land anywhere near Connecticut Avenue be sold so cheaply as this.”

Despite Tenleytown’s modern amenities – police and fire protection, electric lights, water and sewers – growth dragged until after World War I (1914-1918). Then the Warren brothers bought many of Senator Patterson’s lots. They built three blocks of battleship gray, two-bedroom bungalows, many with front porches or sleeping porches. A walk around these blocks is a step back into the 1920s. Note the striking contrast with the upright brick Colonials that came into vogue in the 1940s.

In Tenleytown the Permanent Highway Plan took its cues from real estate developers, who had laid a grid over the old picturesque, curving streets. Years of changes to the area have erased portions of Grant Road and other country lanes, and the plan renamed others. The introduction of Nebraska Avenue (1930s) and Brandywine Street (1950s) led to the demolition of the old Nebraska Market, once situated behind you at Brandywine Street and Grant Road.

(Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Presbyterian Cemetery

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Flemington
The first confirmed burial here was 1794 concurrent with the erection of the church. It originally had a section for "colored and strangers" who were eventually honored with a 1999 monument. Today, it is the resting place of founding church members, prominent town citizens, and war veterans.

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

Lower Amwell Brethren Church Cemetery

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Sergeantsville
The old part of this plot is also known as the Dunkard Cemetery. The 1840 will of Gideon Moore donated the property including a wall. Many early church members lie here, including its 50 year pastor, Rev. Israel Poulson.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Barber Cemetery

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Sergeantsville
The first burial on this former farm of John Barber, Esq. was circa 1750. Early settlers, prominent citizens, slaves, war veterans, and politicians such as U.S. Senator & NJ Governor John Lambert Sr. are buried here.

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

Rosemont Cemetery

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Rosemont
This 12-acre nonsecterian plot was established in 1729 when George Fox set aside 1/4 acre as a resting place for locals who had passed from life. Captain Daniel Bray, the Revolutionary War here is among those interred here.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Colonial Era) Includes location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

Rosemont - Raven Rock Bridge

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Rosemont
Built in 1878 of cast & wrought iron by Lambertville Iron Works. One of the earliest Iron Pratt Through Truss bridges with Phoenix columns in the U.S.

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

On This Site Circa 1919 Alonzo L. Waters

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New York, Orleans County, Medina

Let it be known to all who read this:

On this site circa 1919 Alonzo L. Waters (Publisher & Editor 1919-1980) began the Journal-Register newspaper. Mr Waters and his son, Robert F. Waters (Publisher Emertius), promoted the daily activities of this community and celebrated the accomplishments of its citizens for most of the 20th century. Their work built a legacy of community pride and civic service which endures today.

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

Splitrock

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Texas, Travis County, Austin
In 1891, Thomas F. Burns bought 3 ¾ acres of the Jones and Sedwick property along the west bank of Shoal Creek. Burns, a Scottish immigrant, married Arbanna J. Nelson in Travis County in 1876. Property records and lumber marked “Sutor & Co.” Date his house to circa 1892. Thomas, Arbanna and six children lived here in 1900. Thomas was listed as a stone cutter and owner of a marble shop. He added an additional acre to his homestead in 1901. Thomas’ son, Frank C. Burns, owned the Capitol City Marble Co. at 211 W. 6th Street.

In 1911, Thomas Burns sold the property to Hippolyt Dittlinger, owner of Dittlinger Roller Mills in New Braunfels. His niece, Anita Dittlinger Quinlan, and her husband, James, lived here with their three children from 1912-39. In 1939, the Quinlans moved to Fredericksburg and subdivided land surrounding the house into eight city lots on the east side of Splitrock Avenue (later Wooldridge Drive). In 1945, Anita sold the property to Joe H. Klein, Jr., and his wife, Jayne Linville Klein. The 1 ½-story frame house is a vernacular center passage dwelling, designed with three rooms on each side of the hallway. Stairs provided access to the attic and dormer bedrooms. Originally, the east side of the house, looking toward the city, was the front. When Splitrock Avenue became a designated street in Pemberton Heights, primary access was reversed and the west side became the front. The scenic property on a bluff above the creek includes numerous centuries-old live oak trees, the largest of which is a city of Austin registered tree. The house has remained largely unaltered, even as the city has expanded far beyond its once-rural setting.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 2013
Marker is property of the State of Texas

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

Coral Castle

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Homestead
The United States Department
of Interior
has placed this property on the
National Register
of
Historic Places


(Entertainment • Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pinewood (Cocoplum) Cemetery

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Coral Gables
Pinewood (Cocoplum) Cemetery is the oldest designated cemetery in the Miami area and one of the oldest Coral Gables Historical sites. Adam and Rosa Richards deeded one acre of land on May 13, 1897 for 10 dollars to Wilson A Larkins, Arthur F. Lang and Arthur E Kingsley as Trustees. In 1908, Harley Staudt sold three more acres. Originally known as Cocoa Plumb, its name alternated between Pineywoods, Cocoplum, and then Pinewood. The cemetery includes 268 plots, driveways and a large oval in the center. One of the earliest documented burials was Walter F. Pickford, a local sawmill owner, who was buried in Cocoa Plumb on April 12, 1898. Burials continued until the 1940s. As descendants of those buried at Pinewood moved away, the cemetery became overgrown and vandalized. In 1983, local citizens and civic groups began restoring the cemetery. The City of Coral Gables created an advisory board and allocated funds for the restoration project. These efforts helped return the cemetery to a place of beauty and dignity.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coral Gables Miracle Mile

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Florida, Miami-Dade County, Coral Gables
Immediately after World War II, the "Father of Miracle Mile," George K. Zain and his wife, City Commissioner Rebyl Zain conceived, developed and implemented the concept of a Miracle Mile for the section of Coral Way between Douglas Road and Le Jeune Road. The street was officially named Miracle Mile in 1955 by resolution of the Coral Gables City Commission.

In 1949, Albert H. Friedman of Ro'al Apparel Shop that he owned with his wife Rose, with "Jimmy" Baldi of J. Baldi Salon, and Carroll Seghers of Carroll's Jewelers established the Miracle Mile Merchants Association, often holding meetings in the rear of Ro'al at 348 Miracle Mile. The Association honored Mr. Friedman in 1980 for outstanding achievement in the establishment and promotion of Miracle Mile by officially declaring him "Mr. Miracle Mile." In 2005, the Coral Gables City Commission named the Downtown District in honor of George and Rebyl Zain and Albert H. Friedman.

Coral Gables Miracle Mile is composed of small boutiques in the heart of the Central Business District and is one of the few remaining developments of its type that has maintained its original purpose and significance in the continental United States.

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

Birthplace of General Justo Rufino Barrios

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Guatemala, San Marcos, San Lorenzo
Al noble caudillo e ilustre castrense
Gral. Justo Rufino Barrios
como un homenaje del gloriosos I.A.V. Hall San Marcos
Cuerpo de Ar. Sup. Sub. V. C. Als. Prom. XXV
Cnl. Dem. Pedro Vidal Cifuentes R.
Cnl. Dem. Oscar Somoyoa B.
Tte. De Inf. Luis A. Manrique Reyes ∙ Carlos E. Bonilla Cetino ∙ Abimael E. Veliz Colib ∙ Baudilio Charchal Ramos ∙ Cap. As. Miguel Ochoa Fuentes
Promocion XXV ∙ Sarg. II E. Martinez Barrios, Edwin ∙ Sarg. II D. Mendoza Herrera, Marvin ∙ Gonzales Menchu, Juan ∙ Villatoro Alfaro, Baudilio ∙ Ramirex Orozco, Fredy ∙ Orozco Fuentes, Pablo ∙ Cabo E. Rosales Rodas, Luis ∙ Gutierrez Rodas, Joel ∙ Vasquez Fuentes, Olivar ∙ Ventura Merida, Williams ∙ Cabo D. Gonzalez Mendez, Marvin ∙ Vasquez Orozco, Jener ∙ Munguia de Leon, Jose ∙ Rosales Hernandez, Erik ∙ Ricardez Orozco, Hans ∙ Vasquez Vasquez, Danilo ∙ C. A. Barragan Velasquez, Fredy ∙ Barrios Rabanales, Juan ∙ Bernerdo Tomas, Benedicto ∙ Escobar Gomez, Fredy ∙ Ochoa Barrios, Eberto ∙ Rabanales Reyes, Walter ∙ Sandoval Alfaro, Francisco

San Marcos, 5∙7∙92

English translation:
To the noble leader and illustrious militant
General Justo Rufino Barrios
As a tribute from the glorious
I.A.V. Hall San Marcos, XXV Promotion
[Names of student officers in the XXV Promotion]
San Marcos, May 5, 1992



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