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Stanley Forman Reed

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Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville

In Honor of
Stanley Forman Reed
Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court
of the United States
Solicitor General of the United States
General Counsel
 Reconstruction Finance Corporation
General Counsel Federal Farm Board
Representative of Mason County in
  the General Assembly of Kentucky
Born in Mason County December 31, 1884
A tribute from friends
and life long associates
1956

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

George A. Bowlus

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

George A. Bowlus started the Bank of Allen County which was the second bank in Iola, located on this block between South Street and Washington Avenue. George was one of several business men who was instrumental in paying for the trolley tracks that went around the square. George was the father of Thomas Bowlus, the namesake of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center, located two blocks east of here.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maysville Academy

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Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville
Ulysses S. Grant entered this academy in fall of 1836, at the age of 14. Grant's home was in Georgetown, Ohio; he stayed with his uncle nearby while attending school. One of the most famous institutions in Ohio Valley, it was taught by two eminent scholars, Jacob W. Rand and W. W. Richeson. This building erected circa 1829 by Thomas G. Richardson, contractor.

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

Snow Creek

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Washington, Clallam County, near Neah Bay
Sail and Seal Rocks rise from the seascape in front of you, where Snow Creek enters the Strait of Juan de Fuca. This rich and productive marine habitat attracts fishermen, divers, kayakers—and whales!

Snow Creek overlook is one of the best places along the Strait to see gray whales. Watch for them close to shore, where they feed in the shallow, sloping bay. Look for their heart-shaped blows near the sea stacks.

Wolf eels, lingcod and octopuses thrive in the boulders and kelp. East of here, the wreck of the steamship Andalusia forms an artificial reef that is home to dozens of species.

To the west, the Strait makes a transition to the Pacific Ocean and Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary teems with marine mammals, seabirds, fishes and other sea life.

What will you discover?

The Whale Trail is a series of sites around the region where you may view orcas and other whales or marine mammals from shore.

(Animals • Natural Resources) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Madison Avenue and the Allen County Courthouse

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

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This picture was taken standing in the intersection of South Street & Madison Avenue, looking west. Notice all the different forms of transportation represented in the picture: walking, bicycle, cars, tracks from former trolley, and hitching posts for horses and buggies on the north side of the street.

[Bottom photo caption reads]
This photo was taken in the early 1900s of the Allen County Courthouse. There were four clocks at the top placed in the bell tower. There is one remaining clock and the bell on display across the street on the courthouse lawn.

(Man-Made Features • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

WilliamG. Leftwich, Jr. Memorial

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Tennessee, Shelby, Memphis
This monument is erected to preserve the memory of William G. Leftwich, Jr., Lt. Colonel, United States Marine Corps. A native Memphian who lost his life on November 18, 1970, when the helicopter carrying him and members of a reconnaissance team he had rescued from enemy territory crashed into a mountainside in South Vietnam. Ath the time of his death, he was commanding officer, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division.

This Central High School graduate was one of the outstanding officers of the Marine Corps at the time of his death. His heroic service in Vietnam earned him the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit with two gold stars, the Air Medal with one gold star, and three Purple Hearts. He served as commander of the brigade of midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy during his senior year.

Lt. Colonel Leftwich was a patriot in the highest sense of the wrod, supporting the decisions of the leaders of our country with a quiet, competent performance of duty. He died because his concept of duty called for his personal attention to the needs of his men in trouble.

(20th Century • War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pierce Homestead

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New Hampshire, Hillsborough County, Hillsborough
The Pierce Homestead was built in 1804 by Benjamin Pierce, a general in the American Revolution, twice governor of New Hampshire (1827-28, 1829-30), and father of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Franklin Pierce was born in Hillsboro November 23, 1804 and the family occupied this dwelling shortly thereafter.

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

Shipwreck Point

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Washington, Clallam County, near Sekiu
The landscape of the Strait of Juan de Fuca was carved out by ice-age glaciers 13,000 years ago. The retreat of the glaciers created deep fjords which provide abundant food and habitat for many species of marine mammals.

By the mid-1900’s, commercial whaling had pushed many great whale's to the edge of extinction. Through decades of conservation efforts, species like gray whales have rebounded. Others are endangered, and need our help to recover.

Local citizens and visitors to this coastline enjoy watching marine mammals all year long. Researchers watch for the return of the southern resident orcas in the spring.

From here, look for the spouts of passing whales, a splash as they breach, or their tails as they dive. On calm days, listen for the sound of their blows.

You may see sea otters, too. Once extinct in Washington waters, 69 sea otters were reintroduced to nearby La Push in 1969. Since then, the population has grown to over 1,000, and their territories have expanded up the strait. Look for one or dozens of the big otters floating on their backs near the kelp.

The Whale Trail is a series of sites around the region where you may view orcas and other whales or marine mammals from shore.

(Animals • Natural Features) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Rankin Rogers

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Washington, Thurston County, Olympia
Born in Brunswick, Maine, September 4th, 1838. Died in Olympia, Washington, December 26th, 1901. Twice governor of Washington.

Philosopher and statesman. Author of the Barefoot School Boy Law, which gives to every poor son of this Commonwealth a fair education. Governor Rogers’ favorite motto — “I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves.”

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

Hillcrest

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Pennsylvania, Crawford County, Meadville
Developed by Meaville Housing Corporation in 1936, it was the first project of its kind to be guaranteed by the FHA.

Ninety seven industries, business concerns and individuals subscribed to the initial stock offering and the mortgage was carried by the Pennsylvania State Workman's Insurance Fund.

Ground breaking took place in April 1936 and during the following six months 202 homes would be built with the first tenant taking occupancy October 3, 1936.

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

East Madison Avenue Businesses

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

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This picture was taken in the early 50's looking east from the Madison Avenue and South Street intersection. Businesses on the block at that time were Cooksey Drug, JC Penney Co., Hoover Drug, Dr. Philip W. Waugh, Copening Jewelers, Harrison Shoe Store, Scott Self Service, and Iola State Bank.

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These two stores were owned by A.W. Beck. Anything from wagon repairs to furniture and piano sales took place on this block during that period.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A.W. Beck

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

A.W. Beck was responsible for the development of the buildings on east Madison from Jefferson to South Avenues (viewed on the other side of this sign). Mr. Beck was an instrumental business leader from 1870 to 1928. He brought many new ideas and businessmen to Iola.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Struthers Library Building

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Pennsylvania, Warren County, Warren
This property has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior

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

Warren Suspension Bridge

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Pennsylvania, Warren County, Warren
Construction of the suspension bridge on this site began in the early summer of 1871 and the bridge opened for use in November that year. The total cost for the structure was nearly $45,000 and tolls were collected for about 25 years. Workmen are shown here building the north abutment against a background of lumber rafts which were stranded in the eddy owing to a very low stage of water in the spring. Across the Allegheny River is Warren's south side, then undeveloped except for Oakland Cemetery and scattered farms. Built by Elmira, New York, contractor George W. Fishler, the new bridge was to change all that, for it made possible rapid settlement of land formerly accessible only by ferry or by crossing the ice in winter. Until 1900, when the Warren Emergency Hospital was built there, a portion of the south side west of the bridge was occupied by the Warren County fair grounds. In the middle of the river, beyond the rafts, are the remains of the covered bridge at Hazel Street, which stood only from 1839 to 1855. In the far distance, on the north bank, is the Revere House, an early railroad hotel next to the tracks and passenger station of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. Just to the left of this scene, on the foot of the island (Warren's first manufacturing district) was Rathbun's wharf, the town landing throughout much of the nineteenth century for keelboats, flatboats and steamboats plying the Allegheny on high water during the late winter and spring navigation season.

(Bridges & Viaducts • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Struthers-Wetmore-Schimmelfeng House

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Pennsylvania, Warren
This property has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior

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

Port Allegany, PA

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Pennsylvania, McKean County, Wrights
Junction of Tioga and Shamokin War Trails. Indians coming over the great divide camped here and made new canoes. Again embarking westward down
The Allegewe
No white man was allowed on these trails till about 1750. An Important Rafting Center near the Bradford Oil Fields Finest Crude in the World.
Good Hunting-Gone Fishing
Named by the Indians
Founded in 1815

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nebo Lutheran Chapel and Cemetery

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Pennsylvania, McKean County, Mount Jewett
The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Nebo Church was in 1886 as the first Lutheran Congregational in the Mount Jewett area. The octagonal shaped church was built in 1887 and was patterned after Ersta Kyrka at Danviken, near Stockholm, Sweden. The name Nebo comes from the mountain where the Old Testament Patriarch Moses stood when he viewed the Promised Land. Nebo Congregation served as the only Lutheran Parish for the community until 1919 when Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized. In 1950 Nebo and Zion Congregations merged to form Saint Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Worship Services are held here on Easter Sunday 6:00 a.m., Ascension Day 7:30 p.m. Swedish Festival Sunday 10:30 a.m. and for Weddings and Funerals. The Sunday Schedule at Saint Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Main Street, Mount Jewett is: Sunday Church School 9:15 a.m. and the Worship Service 10:30 a.m.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Louis Nuschke Store

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Pennsylvania, Potter County, Austin
On this site a wood frame business was built by Louis Nuschke. A grand store for it's time, one could purchase anything from furniture, carpet, wall paper, hand painted china and jewelry as well as hardware items. When the dam broke in 1911 the Nuschke Store was swept away. Mr. Nuschke quickly rebuilt a new store of brick. Louis owned and operated his business until his death in 1923 when son Walter took over. In 1958 Robert Cooney purchased the business and operated it until 1969 when the old building was demolished to make room for Austin's new Main Street bridge.

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

The Erie Canal

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New York, Cayuga County, Brutus
In 1807 Jesse Hawley, a prisoner in the Canandaigua jail, wrote a series of essays proposing a waterway from Lake Erie to the Atlantic Ocean.

Following the War of 1812 the settling of western New York and Ohio resulted in an increased demand for improved transportation to carry manufactured goods and produce to and from the west.

Under the sponsorship of DeWitt Clinton, the state legislature approved an artificial waterway.

On July 4th, 1817 construction began in Rome, and on October 26, 1825 the packet boat "Seneca Chief" traveled from Buffalo to Sandy Hook accompanied by the roar of cannons along the route.

Within 10 years over 3000 boats worked the canal.

Fast packet boats carrying passengers overtook heavily ladened freighters and line boats carrying mixed cargo. Travel time between Buffalo and New York was reduced from 6 weeks to 10 days.

The canal operated 7 to 9 months of the year, 24 hours a day, with a meximum speed limit of 4 miles an hour.

By 1835 increased traffic made it necessary to widen the canal to 70 feet. As part of the continuing construction, the Centreport Aqueduct was built in 1854 to carry the canal over Cold Spring Brook.

The improved Erie Canal brought increased prosperity to the area that it served. Businessmen, tourists and immigrants moved west with manufactured goods, while grain, coal, lumber and other raw materials traveled east.

In 1917 the Erie Canal was replaced by the New York State Barge Canal System and an important era of New York State history came to an end.

The Erie Canal was the most ambitious public works project of its time and led to the canal movement at a national level.

By the beginning of the Civil War, the agricultural Mid-West and the Industrial East were politically and economically joined and New York was cast in its role as the "Empire State".

The Centreport Aqueduct

Packet Boat; Typical Farm Bridge; Station, R.S.& E. Railroad.

1. Centreport Aqueduct (1854-1857)
2. Reconstructed Erie Canal (1862-1913)
3. Tow Path
4. Heel Path
5. Farm Bridge (1855-1858)
6. Stone Dam (1854-1857)
7. Earth Dam
8. Farm Pond
9. Rochester, Syracuse & Eastern Railroad (1906-1931)
10. Original Erie Canal (1825-1862)
11. Cold Spring Brook

A. State Route 31
B. Parking Area
C. Picnic Area
D. Interpretive Court (You Are Here)

Centreport Aqueduct Park
Supervised for New York State by Town of Brutus. Dedicated 31 May 1975. David E. Coyle, Supervisor. Councilmen Kenneth Weller, James Sullivan, Ernest D. Blumer, Kenneth Spingler. Town of Brutus, 1976.

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washington Women Win the Vote

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Washington, Thurston County, Olympia
Here, in February 1909, both Houses of the Washington Legislature authorized a vote by the State’s qualified voters to amend the Washington State Constitution to enable women to vote in all elections. Male voters of Washington approved the amendment on November 8, 1910.

(Notable Events • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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