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Missouri River Flood

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Nebraska, Douglas County, Omaha

Matthew Placzek's Labor Monument
Became the Symbol of the 2011 Flood.

The 2011 Missouri River Flood was triggered by record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming and near record spring rainfall in the upper Missouri River Basin. High water levels threatened communities of all sizes along the river from Montana to northwestern Missouri, including Omaha. The flood forced the closing of several Missouri River traffic crossings in the flooded corridor and closed or damaged portions of Interstate 29.

The City of Omaha implemented a Unified Command Team that managed the community's response to the flood from May 30, 2011 to September 7, 2011. Team members included representatives from the Omaha Public Works Department, Omaha Fire Department, Omaha Police Department, Omaha Parks, Recreation & Public Property Department, the Omaha Airport Authority and the Office of Mayor Jim Suttle.

Flood Fighting Statistics
• Volunteers filled approximately 850,000 sandbags.
• The capacity to remove storm water from the immediate downtown area back to the river required the installation of 90 temporary supplemental pumps to help alleviate flooding on the dry-side of 13 miles of levees protecting Omaha.
• 70 wells and 35 pumps kept the airport operational during the flood.
• A temporary levee over 2,000 feet long, 42 feet wide, and over 10 feet high, was constructed to protect the Missouri River Waste Water Treatment Plant.

Flood Water Statistics
• Normal navigable river stage: 16.7 feet on the Omaha Gage located at the I-480 Bridge.
• Minor flood stage: 29 feet; lasted from June 1 - September 9, 2011.
• Moderate flood level: 32 feet lasted from June 12 - August 29, 2011.
• Maximum water flow past Omaha in cfs (cubic feet per second): 271,000 on July 2, 2011.
• The Flood of 1952 lasted 25 days and crested at 40.20 feet on the Omaha Gage on April 18, 1952.
• The Flood of 2011 lasted 101 days and crested at 36.29 feet on the Omaha Gage on July 2, 2011.

A bronze marker on the sculpture indicates the High Water Line in 2011.

The Historic 1952 Flood Level is also indicated on the sculpture as a comparison.

AP Photo/Nati Harnik

(Disasters • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Joseph Weringer, Sr.

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California, Kern County, Woody
Joseph Weringer, Sr., Born 1855 In Vienna, established the “Weringer Brewery and Bowling Alley” in Bakersfield in 1881. In 1889 he moved here and established the original townsite of Woody, named after pioneer rancher Sparrel Woody. Renamed Weringdale in 1891, the name reverted to Woody after several years.

Weringer discovered copper here in 1891 and operated the Greenback copper mine until after World War One, when ore shipping costs to Arizona and drops in copper prices made the mine uneconomic. At one time, the mine employed over one hundred men.

This building was part of the nine-room Weringer Hotel (1899) and Dance Hall. Woody also boasted a blacksmith shop, a modern garage, and a post office. The original Woody General Store is now located in the Kern Co. Museum Pioneer Village.

An agricultural center, there were local citrus and fig orchards, ranching, a cold storage plant and a Fairbanks-Morse livestock scale.

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

World War II U.S. Naval Housing Building

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Florida, Palm Beach County, Jupiter
The U.S. Navy constructed this building (circa 1939) on land included in the Federal Jupiter Lighthouse Reservation established by President Franklin Pierce in 1854. Built as Married Men´s Quarters, the two-story wood-frame building had six two-bedroom apartments, each with brick fireplaces, and a continuous screened first-floor porch facing the Inlet. During World War II, Navy personnel lived in this building, and in the then adjacent Transmitter and Dormitory building and the Chief Petty Officers´ Quarters. These three buildings were part of the Direction Finding Station built on the reservation known as “Station J.” Developed to locate the German submarines torpedoing ships off the Florida coast, Station J also served as a navigational beacon for military ships and aircraft, and for communications during the war. Station J was closed in July 1945, and starting in 1958, most of the World War II military wood-frame structures including the two adjacent buildings, were demolished. In the 1960s, the Navy gave this portion of the Reservation, including this building, to the U.S. Coast Guard. In 2004, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management transferred ownership of this portion of the Reservation to the Town of Jupiter.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Stuart Welcome Arch

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Florida, Martin County, Jensen Beach
This Mediterranean Revival style monument typical of the pre-Depression Florida Boom was designed by Nat C. Hodgdon of Pfeiffer and OReilly Architects, constructed by A. L. Doenges and completed on February 20, 1926. The arch was built to celebrate the creation of Martin County with Stuart as the county seat. This gateway greeted southbound travelers on the Montreal to Miami Dixie Highway (formerly A1A) with the bronze-lettered caption, Stuart Atlantic Gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, a reference to the cross-state canal connecting Martin County to Florida’s west coast through Lake Okeechobee. Design and construction of the arch was funded through a Stuart Chamber of Commerce campaign organized by prominent leaders and supported by citizens of the City of Stuart and Jensen Beach. Continuous repair resulting from theft during the Depression, hurricane damage, natural deterioration, and vehicular accidents reflects this landmarks significance in both the local and countywide communities. The gateway is currently known as the Rio-Jensen Arch, and its restoration is a goal in the Rio Community Redevelopment Plan adopted by Martin County in April, 2001.

(Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Colin L. Powell

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Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth

Born 05 Apr 1937
Harlem, New York
Graduated ROTC, City College
of New York, 1958
Married
Alma Vivian Johnson, 25 Aug 1962
Parents
Luther and Maud Powell

- First Black -
Secretary of State
National Security Advisor
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

First ROTC Graduate and
youngest General to become
Chairman

Originator and driving force
behind Buffalo Soldier monument

Founder
America's Promise Alliance
"to refocus the nation's
attention on the needs of youth"

"At the end, all we can leave
behind of value are our service,
our good works, our reputation,
and our children to be the next
generation of leaders for our
beloved nation." Colin L. Powell

"A leader whose motivation was
based upon selfless service -
not himself..."
General Gordon R. Sullivan
USA, Retired, Speaker, 05 Sep 2014

Commissioned ROTC, 09 Jun 1958
Retired, 30 Sep 1993
Major Commands
Cdr 1st Battalion, 32nd Inf, 1973-74
Cdr 2d Brigade, 101
Airborne Div (A/A), 1976-77
Asst Div Cdr 4th Inf Div, 1981-82
Deputy Commanding General
Combined Arms Center,
Fort Leavenworth, 1982-83
Cdr V Corps, Germany, 1986
Cdr Forces Command, 1989

Vietnam, 1962-63, 1968-69

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Major Operations
Just Cause, Panama, 1989
Desert Shield, Kuwait, 1991
Desert Storm, Kuwait, 1991
Restore Hope, Somalia, 1992

Awards
Presidential Medal
of Freedom, 2 awards
Congressional Gold Medal
Defense Distinguished Service
Medal, w/4 OLC
Distinguished Service
Medal, Army, w/2 OLC
Soldier's Medal
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Honorary British Knighthood, KCB
French Légion d'Honneur,
Grand Cross
Order of Jamaica

"The day soldiers stop bringing you
their problems is the day you
stop leading" Colin L. Powell

National Security Advisor
for President
Ronald Reagan, 1987-89

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff for President
George H. W. Bush, 1989-93
and
President William J. Clinton, 1993

Secretary of State for
President George W. Bush,
2001-05

"We have the strength to take
risks for peace...because we...have
an insurance policy...by the name
of the Armed Forces of the United
States...the Best in the World."
Colin L. Powell,
Secretary of State
Confirmation Hearing, 17 Jan 2001

"Over the years, the United States
has sent many of its fine young
men and women into great peril
to fight for freedom beyond our
borders. The only amount of land
we have ever asked for in return
is enough to bury those that did
not return."
Colin L. Powell, 2003

"We will flourish and prevail for
all ages because our diverse
American society has strength,
values and resiliency, and we will
not waste God's gift to us."
Colin L. Powell

Leadership
Powell's 13 Rules

"They Worked for Me."

1. It ain't as bad as you think.
It will look better in the morning.

2. Get mad, then get over it.

3. Avoid having your ego so close to
your position that when your position
falls, your ego goes with it.

4. It can be done!

5. Be careful what you choose.
You may get it.

6. Don't let adverse facts stand in
the way of a good decision.

7. You can't make someone else's choices.
You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

8. Check small things.

9. Share credit.

10. Remain calm. Be kind.

11. Have a vision. Be demanding.

12. Don't take counsel of your fears
or naysayers.

13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

"Leadership is getting more out of people than
the science of management says you can."
Colin L. Powell

(African Americans • Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

2nd Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

This sculpture is a memorial to the men who served
with the squadron in combat during World War 2

[Dedicated] 18 October 1986

Combat in the Spitfire
From September 1942 through April 1944 the squadron flew combat missions in Spitfires supplied by Great Britain under the Reverse Lend-Lease Agreement. During the North African Campaign the squadron carried out harbor and airfield patrols, fighter sweeps and escort missions for cargo planes, medium bombers, attack planes and fighter bombers. In these operations 9 pilots were killed, 3 became prisoners of war, and 44 enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air. The squadron, in the Sicilian and Italian Campaigns, carried out harbor and convoy patrols, scrambles after enemy reconnaissance aircraft, fighter sweeps, dive-bombing missions, reconnaissance missions and escort missions for medium bombers. 3 pilots were killed, 5 became prisoners of war and 22 enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air, and dive-bombing and strafing, destroyed or damaged considerable enemy material.

Combat in the P-51 Mustang
In April 1944 the squadron was equipped with the P-51, Mustang, long-range fighter. From 10 May 1944 until early May 1945 the squadron, based near Termoli, Italy, carried out escort missions for heavy bombers over Europe and an escort mission for P-38 fighter bombers to the Ploesti oil fields which involved landing at a base near Kiev, Russia, refueling, rearming, and in a day or two flying back to Ploesti and then to its base in Italy. In addition its pilots flew many strafing missions against German airfields, trains, trucks and tanks. On these missions 18 pilots were killed, 13 became prisoners of war, and 117 enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air. Strafing missions destroyed or damaged many enemy aircraft and inflicted substantial damage to enemy equipment and installations, but these hazardous missions took the lives of 12 of the 18 pilots who were killed and accounted for 9 of the 13 pilots who became prisoners of war.

(Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Piute Ranch Homesite of Elizabeth "Lizzie" McGuirk

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California, Kern County, Piute Springs
Came to territory by
covered wagon in 1865
Settled here in 1876
Owned and operated
Gwynne Gold Mine, store
hotel and stage station
cattle rancher, Indian agent
Postmistress

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

Benedict Arnold

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Connecticut, New London County, Norwich

          Benedict Arnold was born here in January 1741. He and a younger sister, Hannah, were the only survivors of eleven children. The original family home no longer exists.
          As a young man of 14, he served an apprenticeship as a druggist with the Dr.’s Lathrop, on nearby Washington Street. He twice ran away to fight with the colonial militia during the French and Indian War, essentially a contest between Great Britain and France (1754 – 1763), and did eventually serve. He is described as impetuous, aggressive, and a leader. In his years here, Arnold left Norwich in his early twenties and flourished as a merchant, druggist, and smuggler in New Haven, CT.
          The Revolution fostered his remarkable abilities as a daring battlefield commander and he had no peers. He fought brilliantly and courageously at Ticonderoga, Quebec, Lake Champlain, and at the pivotal Battle of Saratoga. He repelled the British at Danbury, CT., for which he was made a Maj. General.
          His conviction that lesser men were promoted over him, affronts to his honor from various government quarters, marriage to a woman of Loyalist sympathies, indebtedness, and perhaps his belief that the Revolution would collapse, led to his defection to the British in 1780. He received the rank of Brig. General and was indemnified for his property losses, though more had been requested.
          The tragedy that ensued, culminated with attacks that Arnold led on Richmond, VA., and in Sept. 1781 on New London ad Groton, CT., but a few miles from Norwich at the mouth of the Thames River. Once a hero, he now earned the enmity of his former neighbors, particularly for the massacre that occurred at Ft. Griswald in Groton by the British under his command.
          A worn Benedict Arnold died at 60 years of age in England, in 1801, hated by the Americans, and ostracized by the British for leaving the much respected Major Andre, his British confederate, to the ignoble fate of hanging by the Americans.
Marker donated by McDermott Jewlers, Inc.

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

The General Nathanael Greene Homestead

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Rhode Island, Kent County, Coventry

Homestead OverviewIn 1770, this house was built by 27 year-old Quaker and iron-master, Nathanael Greene. The building is a well-preserved 18th Century structure of simple, yet refined design. The iron forge, which was located on the Pawtuxet River behind the house, manufactured ship’s anchors and chains. As part of various industries owned and managed by the Greene family, it served as the primary source of employment for the men of Coventry.

Greene’s sense of responsibility to his employees and his respect of formal education (which he lacked) prompted him to open the doors of his home and provide a teacher for the local children. Thus, the Homestead became known as “Spell Hall.”

Nathanael married Catharine “Caty” Littlefield, of Block Island, in 1774. They envisioned a quiet married life, but that was not to be, as Nathanael was already involved on the political stirrings between the American Colonies and Britain.

Immediately following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, militia Private Nathanael Greene was promoted by the Rhode Island General Assembly to the rank of Brigadier General and given command of the Rhode Island militia regiments. General Greene quickly marched his troops to the aid of Massachusetts. During the war, Nathanael’s brother Jacob, and his wife Peggy, moved into the house with Caty.

The Continental Congress promoted Greene to the rank of major general. Nathanael Greene, a former Quaker, self-educated, with no military experience became known as the Strategist of the American Revolution. His sense of duty and discipline saved the Continental Army:

• At Valley Forge, in the winter of 1777/78, Major General Greene accepted a ‘demotion’ to Quartermaster General, bringing stability to that office and provisions to an army in the throes of certain death.
• In autumn of 1780, with the focus of the British Army in the South, Congress and General Washington assigned Major General Nathanael Greene command of the Southern Campaign to subdue the British. Greene, through keen tactics, including guerilla warfare and planned retreats, was able to weaken the British and gradually pull them into Washington’s snare, and ultimate defeat at Yorktown in 1782. Though the new nation rejoiced in the victory, Major General Greene continued to lay siege to the British in the South for another year, and, was forced to personally take on the financial responsibility of supplying his troops when all other means of obtaining sustenance for them failed.

Shortly after the war ended, Nathanael signed the house and forge over to Jacob, and in 1785 moved his family to Savannah, Georgia.

On June 19, 1786, Nathanael Green died at the age of forty-four. Some believed the cause was sunstroke – others questioned whether it was due to the hardships of the Southern Campaign, and the stress of the enormous financial burden he was under. It was not until 1791 that Catharine Greene was able to successfully petition Congress and receive money toward repayment of the debt incurred by Nathanael to supply his troops, during the war.

The house remained in the Greene family for two more generations, before it was sold in 1915.

In 1919, four members of the Kent County Chapter of Sons of the American Revolution purchased the home, restored it and gave it the name we know it as today – the Nathanael Greene Homestead.

(Notable Buildings • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Sue Mundy" Here

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Kentucky, Woodford County, Midway
Jerome Clarke, called Sue Mundy, one of Morgan's Raiders, formed his own guerrilla band on Morgan's death Sept. 1864. Clarke and band raided here Nov. 1, 1864, killing Adam Harper. Four Confederate prisoners executed in reprisal by Union forces. Feb. 2, 1865 Clarke returned with William Quantrill, another guerrilla leader, burned depot here and stole 15 horses.

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

Morgan at Midway

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Kentucky, Woodford County, Midway
Taking 300 abandoned USA horses and mules at Versailles, Morgan's Raiders came here July 15, 1862. Advised of troop train approach from Frankfort he had tracks torn up and howitzers set. Train warned and returned to Frankfort. Morgan took telegraph line and coaxed train at Lexington to come on but it turned back. He and his men reached Georgetown that evening.

(Communications • Railroads & Streetcars • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

County Named, 1819 / Franklin

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Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin


County Named, 1819 For Capt. John Simpson, one of the nine officers killed at Battle of River Raisin, Jan. 22, 1813, for whom Ky. counties named. Fought under "Mad Anthony" Wayne, Battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794. Settled in Shelby Co., Ky. Speaker of Ky. House, 1811. Congressman. County formed from Allen, Logan, Warren. "Cut-Off" three mile strip along Logan Co. added in 1869. Over.

Franklin When Legislature formed county, it authorized commission to purchase site for county seat. Three owners of land sought to sell site. Water source essential. William Hudspeth dug well here, but it was dry. He hauled water secretly to fill well, sold 62 acres. Water primed well and it was used many years. Town surveyed, 1819, and made county seat by Legislature, Nov. 1820. Over.

(Politics • Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Beverly L. Clarke

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Kentucky, Simpson County, Franklin
Born in Virginia, 1809. Came to Simpson County in 1827. Studied law under noted Kentucky lawyer George Robertson. Served in the Kentucky legislature, 1841-42; US Congress, 1847-49. Delegate to Kentucky Constitutional Convention, 1849. US Minister to Guatemala, 1857 till his death, 1860. State legislature authorized reinterment in the Frankfort Cemetery in 1868.

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

Home of Thomas Hines

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Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green
Capt. Thomas Henry Hines enlisted in the Confederate Army, 1861. With Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan, 1862-63. Captured, July '63, in Ohio with Morgan. Led escape from Federal prison, Nov. '63. Leader of northwest conspiracy '64. Termed most dangerous man of Confederacy. Ky. Court of Appeals, 1878-98. Born Butler Co., 1838; lived here, Buried Fairview Cemetery, 1898.

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

Shake Rag

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Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green

Side 1
This African American community was founded in the 1800s. Bordered by the river and High, Ky., and 7th Sts., the area grew to include hundreds of residents, two schools, businesses, and churches. The architecture of Shake Rag shows a growing middle-class community.

Side 2
The lives of residents revolved around church, school, and family activities. The congregation that became State Street Baptist was organized in 1838. State Street School was founded in 1883; the Carver Center began in 1946. The Southern Queen Hotel served black travelers. Shake Rag is a reminder of progress residents made despite social and economic hardship.

(African Americans • Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ora Porter

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Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green
Ora Porter, born in Butler Co., in 1880, moved to Bowling Green at age 10. She graduated from Tuskegee Institute School of Nursing and was among the earliest registered nurses in Ky. She was an organizer of the George Washington Carver Community Center, the Interracial Commission, an active campaigner for civic improvement. Died, 1970.

(African Americans • Education • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Civil War Defense Line

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Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green
Troops under Generals S. B. Buckner and A. S. Johnston, CSA, took up this key position in the Southern defense line on Sept. 18, 1861. After Fort Henry fell and Fort Donelson was threatened, they evacuated Feb. 11-13, 1862. Gen. O. M. Mitchell and Federal troops entered Feb. 14, 1862, occupying the evacuated fort and securing the defense line for the North.

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

5th Bomb Group (H)

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Dedicated to those who
served from Hawaii to the
Philippines and all those
islands in between.

[Dedicated] 30 May 1987

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

64th Troop Carrier Group

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

This memorial is in honor of
those who served with the
64th Troop Carrier Group
of the 12th Air Force in
England, Africa, Sicily
China-Burma-India Theater,
Italy and France during
World War II.

Squadrons
Headquarters
16th, 17th, 18th, 35th

Dedicated 17 September 1987

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

Flying Cadet Class 40-G

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Ohio, Montgomery County, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Graduated at Kelly Field, Texas
15 November 1940

— We flew and fought proudly —
World War II - Korea - Vietnam

A salute to the pilots who flew
the BC-1 airplane

Dedicated 15 November 1987

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

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