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South Jefferson Avenue Businesses

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

[Top photo caption reads]
This photo was taken looking north on Jefferson Avenue. The building on the corner was the 2nd building for the Allen County Courthouse in Iola. Notice the brick streets. Iola housed numerous brick plants during this period.

[Bottom photo caption reads]
This photo is [sic - was] taken in 1907 looking north on Jefferson Avenue.

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


Iola Kiosk

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Kansas, Allen County, Iola

This 1907 picture of the old Iola Kiosk, located on the southeast corner of the courthouse lawn, displayed weather data for many years and was also used as a town bulletin board. The structure contained about 3,300 pounds of cast iron and about 250 pounds of lead. Ben McConnell is the young man standing next to the kiosk.

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

Weed's Basin

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New York, Cayuga County, Weedsport

Cayuga County
Weed's Basin
named after Elihu and Edward
Weed who constructed a
basin on Old Erie Canal
1821. P.O. established 1822
Weedsport Inc. village 1831
Village of Weedsport

(Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Maryland, Baltimore County, Towson
Dedicated to the
Citizens of
Baltimore County
Who Served Their
Nation in
Southeast Asia
1957 - 1975
In Memory of Those Who Gave Their Lives
Harvey C. K. A. Au
Charles J. Armstrong
Leland Bailey
James H. Baker, Jr.
Larry M. Barnhill
Albert L. Barthelme, Jr.
Melvin C. Bates, Jr.
Ronald J. Benke, III
Jack S. Bergman, Jr.
Leonard J. Bocek
William R. Bond
Charles B. Boynton, Jr.
Edmond D. Brent, Jr.
James D. Budahazy, II
William Bugosh
Lanny J. Burdette
Paul T. Burrier
Donald H. Butterworth
William L. Campbell
Gary E. Canapp
James B. Cannington, Jr.
Walter C. Carter
Ronald B. Cassell
Robert R. Chesser
Robert N. Chinquina
Wayne E. Christopher
Harry Crissey, Jr.
Donald C. Crutchley
Gary R. Daffin
Dwight Dawson
James J. Deasel, Jr.
Steven W. Decker
Robert L. DeVoe
Thomas A. Dolan
John Dudley
Barry W. Duff
James H. Duffett, Jr.
Jeffrey A. Evans
Earl Faison, Jr.
Donald J. Fisher
Gary B. Flabbi
Thomas W. Foy
Roland A. Gorschboth
Jack M. Gosnell
William D. Graves
Kenneth E. Grove
James Hammersla
Howard B. Henry
Robert Hettinger
Richard G. Hill
George Hitzelberge
Robert B. Horton
Tullio P. Iodice, Jr.
David R. Johnson
Kenneth R. Jones
Michael H. Kelly
Ronald L. Kesling
David G. Kirk
James M. Kozlowski
Leonard P. Kunsmand, Jr.
Edward Lamb
Arthur W. LaMorte
James W. Leaf
Glenn K. Leino
George C. Letmate
Vernon R. Lipinski
Kenneth H. Love
Arthur W. Mach
William D. McLamb
Donald L ......
Arthur H. Rogers
Donald C. Maclaughlin Jr.
James R. Macy
Lee E. Marsh, Jr.
Harry A Mattingly, Jr.
Robert W. Mazza
Jerome D. McArthur
Charles T. McCorckle
William D. Mignini
Joseph J. Miller, Jr.
Joseph C. Missar, Jr.
Lonnie W. Mitchell
James E. Morgan
William E. Nohe, Jr.
William L. Oakley
James T. O'Neill
Richard D. Ott
Donald J. Parks
James G. Patzwal
l Charles V. Penn
Paul P. Pennington
Fredrick A. Phoebus
Mark J. Preis
Thomas W. Pryor
Charles A. Pulliam
Melvin R. Ranson
William G. Rehberger
Jerry D. Rice
Joseph H. Riffle
John W. Roberts, III
William D. Robinson, Jr.
Robert P. Roehmer
Donald W. Rohleder
Clifton D. Roy
Robert W. Ruhl
Joseph Sands
Paul D. Savanuck
Frank R. Saxon
Frank M. Scarpulla, Jr.
Robert E. Scharon, III
Harry R. Schettler
Daniel L. Seekford
Robert H. Shaller
Roy E. Shanklin
Edgar A. Smith
Rodger C. Snyder
Ferdinand J. Sochurek, III
Harold R. Stafford
Stefan Z. Stalinski
Michael W. Steffe
Thomas Stegman
Kenneth M. Steinkirchner
Kenneth A. Stewart
Raymond A. Stocki
John A. Tesauro
John P. Thompson
Robert J. Twist
Richard L. Walker
Robert M. Waters
Brian C. Wehner
Tracy L. Whooler
Michael R. Wiley
Walter D. Williams
Willar Wimmer
Albert G. Wingfield Jr.
David Wisniewski
John W. Yeager
Thomas M. Deitz
.........

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

Swackhammer Church Cemetery

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New Jersey, Hunterdon County, Lebanon Township
It served as a burial ground from 1844 to 1915. Built by "Stuttering Jake" Swackhammer for the ministry of his uncle, Rev. Lambert Swackhammer, an opponent of slavery and alcohol, its church members over the years were predominantly of the Lutheran faith.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Washington Monument

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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
This bronze monument portrays the nation's first president, George Washington, in his role as commander in chief during the Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). The allegorical figures on the pedestal represent Washington's era in American history. The groups arranged around the lower level show Native American people as well as animals and plants of the period.

The monument was donated to the City of Philadelphia by the State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, a group of descendants of Revolutionary War officers.

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Gray Historic House

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Tennessee, Shelby, Germantown
One of the oldest surviving brick residences in Shelby County, the John Gray House, built prior to 1851, is a rare example of a Federal Period hall and parlor plan, middle-class farmhouse. Originally located in Morning Sun, near Eads, it was moved to this site in 1989 to avoid demolition, then substantially restored to its original appearance.

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

Sheepeater Cliff

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Wyoming, Park County, near Mammoth Hot Springs
This cliff was named for the Shoshone Indians who lived throughout this mountainous region.
Their use of bighorn sheep earned them the name "Tukadika" or "Sheepeaters".
The cliff is basalt lava that formed "columnar joints" when it cooled nearly 500,000 years ago.

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tomb of THAYENDANEGEA

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Ontario, Brant County, Brantford
Tomb Inscription
This tomb is erected to the memory of THAYENDANEGEA , or Captain Joseph Brant, Principal Chief and Warrior of the Six Nations Indians, by his Fellow-Subjects, admirers of his fidelity and attachment to the British Crown. Born on the Banks of the Ohio River, 1742; died at Wellington Square, U.C., 1807.

It also contains the Remains of his son, AHYOUWAIGHS, or Captain John Brant, who succeeded his Father as, TRKARIHOGEA, and distinguished himself in the War of 1812-15. Born at the Mohawk Village, U.C., 1794; died the same place, 1833.
Erected 1850.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to the Victims of Las Colinas Landslide

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El Salvador, La Libertad, Santa Tecla

Las Colinas
Monumento Memorial “Resurgiremos”
Manteniendo viva la esperanza!
En memoria de nuestros familiares y amigos/as fallecidos/as el 13 de enero de 2001.
Alcalde Carlos Palma y Concejo Municipal
Comité de afectados de Las Colinas, COMFEBA
13 Enero 2015

English translation:
Las Colinas
Memorial Monument “We Will Rise”
Maintaining hope alive! In memory of our family and friends that passed away here on January 13, 2001.
Mayor Carlos Palma and Municipal Board
Committee of Victims of Las Colinas, COMFEBA
January 13, 2015


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

Mohawk Village

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Ontario, Brant County, Brantford
English:
Allies of the British during the American War of Independence, the Six Nations Iroquois received extensive lands along the Grand River in 1784. Mohawks, led by Joseph Brant, established a village of some 400 individuals here by 1788. The community was situated at an important crossing point on the river ("Brant's Ford") and prospered as a resting place for travellers on the "Detroit path", a trail linking the Niagara and Detroit Rivers. Increasingly European settlers encroached on Six Nations' lands. In 1841 the government moved the Grand River Iroquois to a section of their land south of the river. Of the Mohawk Village, only the chapel remains.

French:
Alliés des Anglais pendant le Révolution américaine, les Iroquois des Six-Nations reçoivent de vastes terres le long de la rivière Grand en 1874. Des Mohawks (Agniers), menés par Joseph Brant, ont déjà établi ice un village de quelque 400 habitants en 1788. La collectivité est située près d’un passage à gué de la rivière et prospère comme lieu de repos des voyageurs qui remontent la «piste de Detroit», un sentier qui relie les rivières Niagara et Detroit. Les colons européens empiètent toujours plus sur les terres des Six-Nations. En 1841, le gouvernement déménage les Iroquois de la rivière Grand sur une partie de leurs terres au sud de la rivière. Du village des Mohawks, il ne reste plus que la chapelle.

(Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cogwagee • Tom Longboat

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Ontario, Brant County, Ohsweken
English:
An Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River, Tom Longboat was one of the world's great long-distance runners. He ran his first race in Caledonia in 1905 and two years later shot to international attention with a record-breaking win in the Boston Marathon. He represented Canada in the 1908 Olympics. Hailed as professional world champion the following year, Longboat went on to set world records for 24 and 32 km races. During the First World War he served as a despatch runner with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces (1916-1919). Tom Longboat is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.

French:
Onontagué des Six-Nations de la Grande rivière, Tom Longboat est l’un des plus grands coureurs de fond du monde. En 1905, il participe à sa première épreuve, à Caledonia, et deux ans plus tard, il attire l’attention internationale en imposant un record au Marathon de Boston. Il représente le Canada aux Jeux olympiques de 1908. l’année suivant, il est champion du monde professionnel et établit deux records mondiaux pour le 15 et pour le 20 milles. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il est estafette dans le Corps expéditionnaire canadien de (1916 à 1919) Tom Longboat est membre du Temple de la renommée des sports du Canada.

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

Allegheny Aqueduct

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Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh
The Pennsylvania Canal across Pennsylvania was an engineering triumph with a spectacular 37-mile railroad portage over the Allegheny Mountains. For half a century between 1820 and the Civil War, packet boats pulled by mules navigated through the canal.

Canal boats crossed the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh on the world's first successful cable suspension aqueduct or "water bridge". When the original canal aqueduct collapsed into the river, John Roebling was hired to build a new one. Roebling became a world-renown bridge designer, famous for the 1879 Brooklyn Bridge. He invented "wire rope", a strong iron cable, and used it in all his bridges after his experiment here with the Allegheny Aqueduct in 1844.

Roebling's aqueduct consisted of a wood trough filled with water and suspended from two iron cables. The cables were strung in place, wire by wire, and then anchored in eyebars embedded in masonry. The aqueduct was 160 feet long and contained 2,000 tons of water. Six boats loaded with passengers and goods could cross the river at the same time.

As the aqueduct filled with water for the first time, the event attracted one of the most enthusiastic crowds Pittsburgh had ever witnessed. Over 10,000 spectators watched while 100 guns saluted the first boats to float across the new aqueduct.

As canal technology became obsolete, Roebling's aqueduct was demolished in 1861 when the expanding Pennsylvania Railroad put the canal out of business.

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Firehouse

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New York, Cayuga County, Weedsport
Firehouse
constructed 1884 of
local brick to hold newly
purchased 1878 Silsby
steam powered pumper.
Belfy bell is original.

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

Jakway's Corners

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New York, Cayuga County, Cato

Jakway's Corners
Village formerly so called
from Dr. John Jakway
settling 1809, associate
of Ethan Allen. Platt
Titus first settler 1805.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tribute to Santa Tecla

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El Salvador, La Libertad, Santa Tecla
Homenaje a Santa Tecla,
Patrona de Nuestra Ciudad
Asociación Tecleños de Corazón
Junta Directiva 2005
Ernesto Rivas Gallont Presidente ∙ Mima Charur Vicepresidenta ∙ Julio Rivas Gallont Secretario ∙ Orlando Moran Castillo Pro Secretario ∙ Bernando F. Sequeira Tesorero ∙ Ismael Gómez Pro Tesorero ∙ Luisa Maria Rivera de Soto Síndico ∙ Miguel Ángel Sol Monterrey Síndico Alterno ∙ Angelita Alvarado Director ∙ Luis Ernesto Avelar Director ∙ Oscar Mauricio Avilez Director ∙ José Domingo Chávez Director ∙ Sonia Trejo de Flores Director ∙ Roberto Fuentes Canales Director ∙ Ricardo R. Gonzalez Director ∙ Tere Parker de Gonzalez Director ∙ Carlos Harrison Parker Director ∙ Fabio Hercules Director ∙ Jaime Roberto Zablah Siri Director ∙ Jorge A. Zamora Director ∙ Sonia Aguilar de Canales Gerente

English translation:
Tribute to Saint Tecla, Patron Saint of Our City
Association "Santa Tecla in Our Hearts"
(Names of the 2005 Board of Directors)

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

The Six Nations

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Ontario, Brant County, Ohsweken
English:
Commemorating the loyal services and unswerving fidelity of the Six Nations of Iroquois Indians to the British Empire in the Seven Years War, 1755 - 1763, the War of the American Revolution, 1775 - 1783, and in the defence of Upper Canada in 1812 - 1814 and in 1837- 38.

French:
Par leurs loyaux services et leur fidélité inébranlable durant la guerre de Sept ans, 1755-1763, la guerre de la Révolution américaine, 1775-1783 et dans la défense du Haut-Canada, 1812-1814 et en 1837-38, les Six Nations Iroquoises ont bien mérité de l'empire britannique.

(Native Americans • War of 1812 • War, French and Indian • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Thayendanega (Joseph Brant)

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Ontario, Brant County, Ohsweken
English:
This celebrated Mohawk chief of Canajoharie Castle and Johnson Hall grew up in the Mohawk Valley. He received his baptism of fire at the battle of Lake George in 1755. He served with Sir William Johnson in the Niagara expedition of 1759 and fought in Pontiac's uprising of 1763. He and his Mohawks actively supported the British during the American Revolution. His vision of a new social and economic order to protect the Indian way of life vanished at the Sandusky Council after the war. He then led his people to Upper Canada where they settled on the Grand River. He died at Wellington Square, now Burlington, Ontario.

French:
Ce grand chef agnier de Canajoharie Castle et Johnson Hall grandit dans la vallée des Agniers. Il reçut le baptême du feu à la bataille du lac George en 1755. Membre de l'expédition de Niagara en 1759 conduite par sir William Johnson, il se rangea du côté des Britanniques lors du soulèvement de Pontiac en 1763. Il fit de même durant la Révolution américaine. Après la guerre, le nouvel ordre social qu'il proposa pour protéger le mode de vie indien fut rejeté par le conseil de Sandusky. Il conduisit les Agniers, leurs alliés et ses autres partisans au Canada et s'installa à la rivière Grande. Il est décédé à Wellington Square, maintenant Burlington, Ontario.

(Native Americans • War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Martyrs of "El Despertar"

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El Salvador, San Salvador, San Salvador
Martires de la iglesia salvadoreña. Fueron asesinados y resucitaron el 20 de enero de 1979. En "El Despertar"

P. Octavio Ortiz · Angel Morales · Jorge Gomez · David Caballero · Roberto Orellano

English translation:
Martyrs of the Salvadoran church, they were assassinated and reawakened on January 20, 1979 in the "El Despertar" (The Awakening) retreat center.

Father Octavio Ortiz · Angel Morales · Jorge Gomez · David Caballero · Roberto Orellano



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

Pigeon Town / Shawnee Village Site

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Ohio, Logan County, near Bellefontaine
Pigeon Town
This town was established after the destruction of the Mackachack towns in Dunmore’s War in 1774. It was named for a wild pigeon roost near by. Col. Logan’s army destroyed it in 1786.

Shawnee Village Site
The Shawnee Indians were a five division nation which included 13 gens. At an early date they allied themselves with the British. Gen. Wayne defeated them at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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