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The Pioneer Family

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North Dakota, Burleigh County, Bismarck
Presented to the State of
North Dakota
by Harry Falconer McLean
to honor the memory of
the pioneers of
the great Northwest.

This plaque erected by
the Bismarck Chapter Pioneer Daughters.

Back of Monument: >
No trails too rugged,
no obstacle too large,
no mountains too high.
to stop the sturdy
Frontiersmen
with sureness of purpose,
with daring and venture and
from generation to generation
the pioneering spirit moves always forward and onward
to greater goals.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Apple Creek

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North Dakota, Burleigh County, Menoken

          Apple Creek today is only a mere trickle compared to what it was during the time it was formed from a large sheet of glacial ice. Looking out over the valley one can almost imagine the enormity of this creek during its formation. This creek as well as the numerous others draining into the Missouri Valley carried with them the rich fertile soil which supports the crops which in turn support the communities along the Missouri River. One of these communities, Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota is located 10 miles west of here.
          Located on the State Capital Grounds is the beautiful 18 story capital building and the State Historical Museum. The museum displays many of the items used in the everyday life of the pioneers that founded this state.

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Spencer Kellogg Elevator

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New York, Erie County, Buffalo

Image Source: Historican American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994.

This 1,000,000 bushel elevator was completed in 1911 to supply Spencer Kellogg's linseed oil mill, the world's largest at the time. Unlike most of the elevator on the Buffalo River, the Spencer Kellogg facility did not handle raw grains for foodstuffs or mill flour. Instead, the company concentrated in the processing of non-combustible vegetable oils, particularly linseed oil.

The elevator was the only concrete elevator in Buffalo that featured railroad loading and unloading facilities directly below the bins, which was commin in wooden elevators. It could also receive grain and load products by water by using an adjacent slip connected to the Buffalo River. However, as lake boats became larger, the ability to use the slip was lost.

A separate loading bin was added in 1912. In 1923, a five bin steel storage elevator was added (sonce demolished). Finally, in 1936, three 160-foot concrete bins - the tallest concrete silos in Buffalo - were added adjacent to the loading bin. The elevator was purchased by St. Mary's Cement in 1985, and is still in use as of 2012.

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

The Wheeler / GLF Elevator

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New York, Erie County, Buffalo

Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994.

The Wheeler Elevator, designed by H.R. Wait, was built in 1909 by the Monarch Engineering Company. The elevator had several unique features. It was the first elevator in Buffalo, and one of the first in America, to feature outer space "pocket bins", which utilized the pockets of space between the outside bins. It was also the only "modern" elevator that had open top bins, saving on construction costs and slightly increasing storage capacity, but increasing the likelihood of grain dust explosion. The elevator had a stationary marine leg and was designed to have an unloading capacity of 50,000 bushels per hour, the largest of all the Buffalo elevators.

The site was extensively developed after 1929, when the Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) purchased the elevator. A large animal feed mill was added to the site in 1930. A six bin, 300,000 bushel elevator and two story warehouse was added in 1936. The 1,000,000 bushel GLF "A" elevator was added in 1941. All the additions were designed by Allan H. Baxter, son of A.E. Baxter. At one point, the mil was large enough to load over 100 rail cars per day with cattle, hog, and poultry feed.

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James B. "Jimmy" Hutchinson, Jr.

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Georgia, Coweta County, Senoia

Jimmy owned and operated Hutchinson Hardware from 1956 to 2006 at this corner and gave his time and service to the City of Senoia. He became Georgia's youngest mayor when he was elected Mayor of Senoia in 1961. Jimmy was a founding member of the Senoia Downtown Development Authority and an active member of the Senoia United Methodist Church and Senoia Lion's Club. Jimmy was devoted to this family, wife Jane and children Beth and Jim III.
"Friend to many, stranger to none"

(Charity & Public Work • Politics) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Memorial to the Fallen of 1836

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Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lawrenceville
In memory of Gwinnett Company of Mounted
Volunteers, under the command
of Capt. Hammond Garmany who
were slain by Creek Indians
9 June 1836 in a Battle at
Shepherd's Plantation in
Stewart County:

Ens. Isaac Lacy
Sgt. James E. Martin
Pvt. William M. Sims
Pvt. John A. V. Tate
Pvt. Robert T. Holland
Pvt. James H. Holland
Pvt. Henry W. Paden
Pvt. James Allen

Their remains rest beneath
this monument.

In memory of
Capt. James C. Winn
and
Sgt. Anthony Bates
of Lawrenceville
who served in Fannin's Company
of Texas Volunteers
Texas-Mexican War
Taken prisoners, then shot
27 March 1838
Goliad, Texas

Erected by
Henry Fitzsimmons
using
Longswamp Cherokee Marble
1840


(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Texas Independence • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Feliciana Courthouse

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Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish, Jackson
Jackson became the seat of justice for Feliciana Parish by Act of Legislature, Jan., 1815. Public town square donated by James Ficklin and John Horton. In active use until parish divided into East and West Feliciana in February, 1824.

(Politics • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Burial Site of Lt. Col. John C. McKowen

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Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish, Jackson
Lt. Col. McKowen, 1st. La. Cavalry, C.S.A., who on June 3, 1863, with 5 men captured Brig. Gen. Neal Dow near here. Dow was later exchanged for Brig. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee. A former mayor of Portland, Me. Dow ran for president on the Prohibition ticket in 1880. McKowen, a native of Jackson, was murdered over a land dispute in 1901.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Politics • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First European Settlers

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Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish, Jackson
The domination of Europeans over this section
of Louisiana is divided into five epochs:
French----1717 to 1763
British----1763 to 1779
Spanish----1779 to 1810
Independent*----Sept.10 to Dec. 7
United States----1810

*Republic of West Florida for 74 days

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Fire Station No. 6

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Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta

As a boy Martin Luther King, Jr., played basketball behind Fire Station No. 6 and watched the white crews go out on calls. He and his friends knew that they could not dream of becoming firefighters because of the city’s segregation laws. Finally, in 1963, 16 blacks were allowed to join the paid force, and, a few years later, Station 6 became the city’s first integrated station.

When I was a kid…Station 6…was like a meeting place for all the kids…It was a place you could go to get information, to get help if you needed it. It was a vital part of the community…Billy Jordan

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The city’s first black firefighters (above) worked at Station 16 in Southwest Atlanta.
Firefighters muster here at Station 6 in 1928.

(African Americans • Charity & Public Work) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saint Charles Borromeo Church

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Louisiana, Saint Charles Parish, Destrahan
Fifty-three years before the Declaration of Independence, five years before New Orleans had a permanent church, immigrants to the German Coast built on the west bank a log chapel to acknowledge their dependence upon God and to express their thanks to Him for leading them to this fertile land. With gratitude we the people of St. Charles Borromeo parish, heirs of the east bank church erected in 1740, and of its successor "The Little Red Church," 1806-1921, memorialize our ancestors during the bicentennial year of our nation.

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

Methodist Church

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Louisiana, East Feliciana Parish, Jackson
Host to Mississippi Conference in 1854. The Gothic basilica, slave gallery, windows depicting cross and crown of thorns, has served its congregation 140 years.

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

City Of Eunice

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Louisiana, Saint Landry Parish, Eunice
On this site C.C. Duson drove a stake and said: "On this spot I will build a town and name it for my wife, Eunice." An auction of lots was held here to start the town, Sept. 12, 1894. Depot listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Siege of Petersburg—Lee Strikes Back

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Virginia, near Petersburg
By March 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee had suffered through nearly nine months of fighting, had repulsed seven Union offensives, and had his men spread along a 37-mile-long front. Knowing that it was only a matter of time before his lines would break he took a desperate gamble and launched his only offensive of the siege.

You are standing where Lee had pinned his hopes for breaking the Union grip on his army.

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Morning March 25, 1865—Lee launches a pre-dawn surprise assault on Union Fort Stedman hoping to break the Union grip on Petersburg. Within four hours, Lee's gamble has failed completely.

Afternoon, March 25, 1865—Union forces strike where Lee weakened his line for launching the Fort Stedman attack. By nightfall, Union forces gain valuable ground for their breakthrough assault on April 2, 1865.

(Military • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Lake and Rail Elevator

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New York, Erie County, Buffalo

Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1990.

The Lake and Rail Elevator was developed by International Milling Inc., which established a new milling operation in Buffalo in 1926. Within four years of the construction of the mill, a substantial elevating complex with a storage capacity of over four million bushels had been completed.

The entire complex was designed and built by the Jones Hettelsater Company of Kansas City. This was their only elevator in Buffalo. The site is characterized by a sharp bend in the river where the elevator takes a 90-degree turn.

International Milling Company produced several lines of grain products at the site, and milled flour that was marketed under the name "Robin Hood". During World War II, the company converted surplus wheat into alcohol grits used in making syntheic rubber. The site was sold to ConAgra/Maple Leaf Milling in 1988, which operated the facility until 2005. In 2006, it was purchased by the RiverWright Corporation and rehabilitated. The elevator was sold to Whitebox Commodities in 2008. As of 2012, it is being used as a transfer and storage elevator.

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The H-O Oats Elevator

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New York, Erie County, Buffalo

Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1994.

Development at the H-O Oats site began in 1893, with the construction of a wood-framed cereal mill and a fed mill built for Edward Wllsworth. Ellsworth was a pioneer in the manufacture of prepared breakfast food. In addition to H-O Oats, Ellsworth developed Force Toasted Wheat Flakes and Presto Self-Rising Flour. In 1896, a brick and frame elevator was added to the cereal mill.

Hecker H-O purchased the company in 1909, and added a four-story mill building, and concrete and steel elevators between 1912 and 1914. Standard Milling bought the company in 1925. In 1931, a 580,000 bushel concrete elevator was constructed. The elevator was built by the Monarch Engineering Company of Buffalo, under the design of H.R. Wait.

In 1963, all production at the site ceased. The warehouse was briefly used as a tire warehouse, until a fire in 1987 destroyed most of the complex. The concrete silos were demolished in 2006.

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Marine "A" Elevator

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New York, Erie County, Buffalo

Image Source: Historic American Engineering Record. Jet Lowe, photographer, 1990.

The Marine 'A' Elevator, constructed in 1925, is actually the third Marine elevator built by the Abell fanily of Buffalo. The original wooden Marine elevator, built in 1881, was located beside the Hatch Slip at its junction with the Buffalo River. It had a capacity of 150,000 bushels; a wooden annex added in 1894 added another 500,000 bushels of storage.

When the time came to expand again, the Abell family acquired an undeveloped site high up on the Buffalo River for construction of a new elevator, rather than attempt to construct more capacity at their existing site. When the new concrete elevator was built in 1925, it became known as the Marine "A", and the original wooden elevator was called the Marine "B".

The elevator was designed by the James Stewart Company, with A.E. Baxter acting as supervising engineer. The Marine "A" had a capacity of over two million bushels. Its greatest advantage - the rapid handling of grain - made the elevator very desirable to shippers. In 1954, the elevator was purchased by the Norris Grain Company, which operated it until 1962.

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battleship Cove 9-11 Memorial

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Massachusetts, Bristol County, Fall River

Main inscription

On the 11th of September 2001, at approximately 8:30 am, an attack began against several points in the United States. By 2:00 pm that day, both towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed. A fire was raging in a partially demolished Pentagon, and a hijacked aircraft was downed in a peaceful farming field in Pennsylvania. Thousands of lives of citizens from some 80 countries in the world were extinguished. No words can possibly convey the horror that we felt or the waves of pain and anger that swept not only the United States, but the entire world. None of us will ever forget where we were on September 11, 2001. The images of that day will haunt us forever. But the images of fire and smoke, of twisted metal and panic in the streets are not the only ones we will remember. We will also remember the determined faces of the firefighters and police officers racing up the stairwells of the World Trade Center to help those trapped above. We will remember construction workers, coated in ash, searching by hand for survivors as the skeletons of skyscrapers leaned perilously above them. And we will remember Americans lighting candles and holding hands, praying and singing as they faced a difficult, uncertain future.

Let us pause a moment, and each in our own manner and in our hearts remember and pray for those who are no longer with us, that they rest in peace; for their relatives and loved ones, especially the children, that they have the support and strength to carry on; for our nation’s leaders, that they have the wisdom and courage to invoke justice where justice is due; and for ourselves, that we will always deeply appreciate our country and the freedom we cherish.
Executive Director USS Massachusetts Memorial Committee, Inc.

President Bush Inscription
We Will Never Forget September 11, 2001 Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom, came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts… A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist acts can shake the foundation of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America… This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life united in our resolve for justice and peace. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world. President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001. United We Stand Dedicated to the memory of those Massachusetts citizens whose lives were lost as a result of the terrorist attacks against the United States of America on September 11, 2001.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Victims of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks
Stephen G. Adams * Gertrude “Trude” Alagero * Anne S.W. Allison* Barbara Arestugui * Myra Aronson Japhet Aryee* Garnet “Ace” Bailey* Christine Johnson Barbura* Mark Lawrence Bavis*Graham Berkeley*David W. Bernard*Mark Bingham*Jeffrey D. Bittner*Susan Leigh Blair*Kelly Boom* Carol Bouchard*John B. Cahill*Michael R. Canty* Christoffer M. Carstanjen*Neilie Ann Heffernan Casey*William Caspar*Robert J. Caulfield* Swarna Chalasani* Stephen Cherry*Geoffrey William Cloud*Jeffrey D. Collman*Kevin Patrick Connors*Jeffrey William Coombs*John “Jay”Cocoran*Frederick John Cox Jr.*Tara Kathleen Creamer* Thelma Cuccinello* Patrick J. Curriwan*Dorothy deArsujo*Capt. Gerald F. DeConto USN* Lt. Manuel Del Valle Jr. FDNY* Gerard P. Dewan FDNY*Simon Dhanani* Donald A. DiTullio* Alberto Dominguez*Jamie Lynn Fallon* Alexander M. Filipov*John R. Fisher* Richard Fitzsimmons*Carol Flysik*Alan Friedlander*Paul J. Friedman* Karleton Douglas Beye Fyfe* Thomas Edward Galvin* Douglas Gardner* Peter A. Gau*Linda Mae George*Edmund Glaser* Lynn Catherine Goodchild*Peter M. Goodrich*Lisa Feen Gordenstein* Douglas A Gowell* Andrew Curry Green* Donald Freeman Greene* Rev. Francis Grogan* Paige Farley Hackel* Maile Hale* Carl Hammond* Christine Lee Hanson* Peter Burton Hanson* Sue Kim Hanson* Gerald Hardacre* Milissa Harrington-Hughes* Eric Hortono*John C.. Hartz* Peter P. Hashem* James E. Hayden* Robert J. Hayes* Roberta Bernstein Herber* Edward Hennessy Jr.* Norberto Hernandez* Todd R. Hill* Cora Hildago Holland* Herbert Wilson Homer* John Nicholas Humber* William Christopher Hunt* Erik Hans Iabrandtsen* Waleed Joseph Iskandar* Aaron J. Jacobs* Ariel L. Jacobs* Jason K. Jacobs* Robert A. Jalbert* Gricelda Garo James* Amy Nicole Jarrer* John Jenkins* Joseph Jenkins, Jr.* Col Charles E. Jones* Jennifer Lynn Kane* Robin L. Kaplan* Sgt. Robert M. Laulfers PANJNY* Richard Michael Keane* Barbara A. Keating* Ralph F. Kershaw* Brian Kevin Kinney* David P. Koveloin* Katherine L. LaBorie* Judy C. Larocque* Natalie “Janis” Larden

*Robert G. LiBianc* Doug Lee* Joseph A. Leniham* Jeffrey LeVaca* Daniel Lewis* Sara Low* Sean P. Lynch* Marianne MacFarlane* Susan McAleney Mackay* L. “Neil” Mariani* Kenneth J. Marino FDNY* Karen Martin* Joseph Matha* Margaret Mattic* Kevin M. McCarthy* Juliana Valentine McCourt* Michael Gregory McGlaty * Thomas F. McGuinness Jr. Co-Pilot* Gavin McMahon* Christopher Daniel Melio* Stuart Todd Meltser* Raymond Joseph Metz III* Martin P. Mitchelstein* Craig J. Mioller USSS* Antonio Montoya* Carlos Montoya* Laura Lee Defazio Morabito*Christopher M. Morrison* Brian Joseph Murphy*Mildred Rose Naiman* Shawn M. Nassancy*Laurie Olsen Neira*Renee Tetreault Newell* Kathleen Ann Nicosia*Jaqueline Norton*Robert Norton*Captain John Ogonowski*Leah E. Oliver*Betty Ann Ong*Jane M. Orth*Marie Pappslardo*Robert Pattison* Thomas Nicolas Pecorelli*Todd D. Pelino*Berinthia Berenson Perkins*Jean Peterson*Dennis J. Pierce*Everett “Marth” Proctor III* Carrie Beth Progen* Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopoio*Patrick J QuigleyIV*David E. Retik*Vanesha Richards*Fred Rimmele MD*Iszias Riveria*Waleska Martinez Riveria*Stephen L. Roach*Raymond J. Rocha*Laura Rockefeller*Jean D. Roger*Phillip M. Rosenzwewig*Richard Barry Ross*Michael Craig Rothberg*James M. Roux* Jessica Leigh Sachs*Rahma Salie*Jesus “JR” Sanchez*Matthew Carmen Sellirro*Kathleen Shearer*Robert M. Shearer*Antonette Sherman*Jean Louise Simpkin*Heather Smith*Dianne Bullis Snyder*Timothy C. Stout* Edward W. Straub*Brian David Sweeney*Madeline Amy Sweeny*Kevin T. Stocik*Deborah Tavolazella*Leonard Taylor*Michael Thoedoridia* Eric Thorpe*Alecia Titus*Amy E. Toyen*Daniel Trant*Jim Trentini*Mary Trentini* Tyler Ugoiyn* Michael Augustine Utlano*Kenneth E. Waldioe*Meta Fuller Walder* Stephen Ward*William Michael Weems* John J. Wankus* Peter M. West*Maudlyn A. White SSG* Candace Lee Willliams*Christopher R. Zerba Jr.

Compass Inscription
Shanksville PA. Boston MA. Arlington VA. New York NY

(Disasters) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Stone House

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Vermont, Orleans County, Brownington

In 1836, Rev. Alexander Twilight, the schoolmaster of the Orleans County Grammar School, on a main stage route to Canada, built this structure, Athenian Hall, as a dormitory for his pupils. It now holds the interesting collection of the County Historical Society.
Open to Public

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

Jonathan Myrick Daniels

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New Hampshire, Cheshire County, Keene

Civil Rights activist Daniels worshiped at St. James Episcopal Church during his high school years. Born in Keene, he graduated from Virginia Military Institute before entering the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, MA. While studying for the priesthood, he went south to assist with voter registration. On August 20, 1965 in Hayneville, AL, Daniels was shot and killed as he stepped in front of a young African-American coworker, saving her life. His funeral was held at St. James.

(African Americans • Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. • Civil Rights) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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