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Newport Heritage Park

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Pennsylvania, Perry County, Newport

(Top plaque)
Route of the United States Despatch Riders
who entered Perry County through Sterrett’s Gap (originally Croghan’s Gap), crossed the Juniata River at Reider’s Ferry, bearing orders from the United States Government War Department to the forces at the front, on the Canadian Border during the War with Great Britain (1812-1814).

Site of Landing of Reider’s Ferry
This marker is located at the original landing of Reiders’s Ferry, also the name of the first settlement her, later known as Reidersville, and since the coming of the Penna. Canal in 1829, as Newport. Reider’s Ferry was established prior to 1804 by John, Paul and Daniel Reider who plotted the original lots of Newport.
Erected by the Perry County Historical Society 1960

(Second plague)
Though the commitment and loyalty of the residents of this community to recover from natural and economic adversities, the community remains intact and prospers. In recognition of those residents, we rededicated this memorial on July 22, 1990.

(Third plaque)
Newport Celebrates 175 years July 19-25, 2015

(Settlements & Settlers • War of 1812 • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.


Tulpehocken Path

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Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County, Klingerstown
At Mahantango Gap, seen to the south, was the Double Eagle, a stopping place on the Indian path that ran from Shamokin (Sunbury) at the Forks of the Susquehanna to Weiser's on the Tulpehocken Valley, and on to Philadelphia.

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Hotel Edison

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Pennsylvania, Northumberland County, Sunbury
This tablet commemorates the installation at Sunbury PA., of the first three-wire central station incandescent electric lighting plant in the world. On the night of July 4, 1883, Thomas A. Edison, the creator of the incandescent lamp, and inventor of numerous mechanical and electrical devices necessary for a complete system of electric light, heat and power. Acting in the triple capacity of Chief Electrical Engineer, mechanical expert and Superintendent of Construction, turned over to the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Sunbury, PA., a completed operating central station electric plant.

The City Hotel, then on this site, was the first building in the world commercially wired and illuminated by electricity. Dedicated during the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Sunbury, PA., July 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1922.

(Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Soldiers

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New Jersey, Gloucester County, National Park

This day was especially sad for me. I lost five of my oldest friends . . . . As long as I have served, I have not yet left a battlefield in such deep sorrow.”Captain Johann Edward Ewald,
Hessian soldier

The Battle of Red Bank pitted the American forces of the First and Second Rhode Island Regiments against German soldiers known as “Hessians.” England’s King George hired German soldiers to fight for the British when he could not fill the ranks with enough British soldiers. About 30,000 Hessians fought in the Revolution. The Hessians were not volunteers. They were conscripted. The Continental Congress actually offered 50 acres to any Hessian who deserted. If caught though, they could face execution.

The American forces included the First Rhode Island Regiment led by Colonel Christopher Greene and Second Rhode Island Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Israel Angell. Following the Battle of Red Bank both Greene and Angell campaigned to allow African American troops in their regiments. The Rhode Island Regiment became the first unit to allow African American soldiers. Colonel Greene died in 1781 at the hands of Loyalists. He died fighting alongside African American troops. His body was mutilated possibly because of his advocacy for African American soldiers.

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Women and the Reliance Mines

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Wyoming, Sweetwater County, Reliance
From 1910 to 1955, the mines at Reliance produced coal for the Union Pacific Railroad. To staff these mines, people from a variety of countries were hired. During World War II there were not enough mine workers to extract the coal. People were brought in from Oklahoma and Arkansas and housed in railroad cars. Yet there were still not enough workers, and women entered the work force in the coal industry. Women had long been considered bad luck underground, and this superstition died slowly. One of the first places women found work was in the Reliance tipple. Working alongside men in the black dust, women sorted coal throughout the war years. Here, at the "picking tables'" inside the Reliance tipple, dust-covered women sorted coal amidst the deafening noise of the now silent shaking screens.

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

Tipples and the Reliance Coal Mines

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Wyoming, Sweetwater County, Reliance
The tipples constructed here were designed to serve all the Reliance coal mines. Union Pacific Coal Company opened their mines in phases. The coal mines were all located east of here with portals located along the sides of the valley. Coal from there mines was hauled to the surface by either electric locomotives or hoists. From the portal, the coal was shipped over a tramway to the tipple. The distance from the No. 7 mine portal to the tipple was about 1.2 miles. Once the coal cars were inside the tipple you see today, they were set on a rotary dump. The coal car was fastened down, rolled over, and emptied into the coal hopper. From the hopper, the coal was moved over conveyors to the shaker screen. The screen sorted the coal by size. The coal then fell through the screens into a chute that carried it to the picking tables. At the picking tables, men, boys, and later women sorted through the coal looking for stones or checking the size of the coal. Good coal was loaded into waiting rail cars while stone and refuse were conveyed outside the tipple into a refuse bin. The tipple you see in front of you, constructed in 1936 at a cost of $232,700, was designed to be a model of efficiency.

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

Bridge Tender's House

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Wyoming, Carbon County, near Sinclair
The bridge tender's house was constructed by the Union Pacific Railroad to serve as an employee surveillance point. The bridge tender could respond quickly to locomotive-caused fires and could remove flood debris which might damage the bridge and cause interruptions to railroad traffic. The photograph shows the present bridge under construction in 1910.
Restored by the Wyoming Recreation Commission in 1983, the one and one-half story, clapboard-sided structure was probably built before 1887. The replacement of steam by diesel locomotives in the mid-1900's (sic) eliminated the necessity for a bridge tender and the house was abandoned.

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

Brownsville and Benton

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Wyoming, Carbon County, near Sinclair
During construction of the Union Pacific Railroad land speculators and a large contingent of undesirables kept pace with or move ahead of the construction crews and their military escorts. Townsite speculators tried to anticipate depot locations, purchasing land, selling lots and constructing tent towns.
Before the railroad reached the North Platte crossing at Fort Fred Steele, speculators set up the town of Brownsville on the river's east bank. Commanding Officer, Major Richard I. Dodge, issued an order July 2, 1868 proclaiming all lands within a three mile radius of Fort Fred Steele to be part of the military reservation and prohibiting civilian residence. Benton thus grew up on the west edge of the reservation. In a matter of days Brownsville's population resided in Benton. The tent town of Benton lasted only a few months when its population move west to Rawlins Springs.

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

Railroad and River

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Wyoming, Carbon County, Sinclair
The Union Pacific Railroad and the North Platte River are important parts of the story of Fort Fred Steele. Located where these two great resources met, the fort and the local industries surrounding it would depend upon the rails and water for supplies and commerce.
The steam engines of the railroad depended from the beginning on often-scarce water sources in the American West. Fred Steele's location was a major water-loading stop. Eventually, the traditional wooden trackside water storage tower was supplanted by a brick pumping station with steam driven, coal fired pumps that filled a large underground reservoir on a hill above the tracks. The pumping station still exists, while the dome of the reservoir on the hill southwest of the railroad bridge has collapsed.
The North Platte provided transportation for the tie industry from the forests of the Medicine Bow Mountains to the railroad at Fred Steele for many decades, with the last tie drive taking place in the 1940's. Each year, several thousand ties were floated down the river to be loaded on railroad cars for shipment to various railroad and mining operations.
Cutting ice was another industry at Fort Fred Steele that provided what was a luxury at many forts and towns in the West. The frozen waters of the North Platte were cut and stored during the winter months, providing relief and refrigeration during the hot Wyoming summers for soldiers, lumberjacks, travelers, and railroad refrigeration cars.

(Forts, Castles • Railroads & Streetcars • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

World War Memorial

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Iowa, Cerro Gordo County, Mason City

Dedicated to the memory of
the men who entered the
service of their country
from Cerro Gordo County
and who gave their lives
in the World War

[Dedicated] June 24, 1934
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Restored by
Karkadoulias Bronze Art Co.
of Cincinnati, Ohio
with funds donated by
Citizens of Cerro Gordo Co.

Rededicated on November 11, 1993.

Project completed by
The Veterans Affairs Office
in cooperation with
The AHEPA Lodge, VFW, American Legion,
DAV, AMVETS Posts and Auxiliaries.

(War, World I • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Methodist Episcopal Church

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Iowa, Worth County, Kensett

This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior

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

African American Soldiers

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New Jersey, Gloucester County, National Park

In 1819, Prince Bent, “a man of collour,” signed a sworn affidavit that he served with Dick Potter (another “man of collour”) in Colonel Christopher Greene’s Rhode Island regiment and that the two had fought together at Red Bank. Bent, a former slave, had been born in Africa in 1760 and served with Potter, a freeman, throughout the Revolutionary War.

The Rhode Island Regiment is frequently referred to as the “Black Regiment” because in 1778, Rhode Island officially authorized the recruitment of African American soldiers, but we know from muster records that as early as 1777, African Americans already served with Colonel Greene. These muster rolls reveal a fascinating group of men including former slaves, Native Americans, and freemen who fought together to defend the Delaware River. This diverse lot, including Dick Potter and Prince Bent, helped to inflict one of the heaviest losses on the Hessians in the Revolution.

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Richard Potter
did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy.
“ . . . this indigent application . . . is now very meanly clad, so much so as to appear indecent and has no means of subsistence . . . . an early disposition of his case . . . will be the only remedy that can rescue him from Public or private Charity.”Pension application, 1822, of Richard [Dick] Potter, veteran of the Battle of Red Bank

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

Roark’s Gap Incident

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Virginia, Tazewell County, near North Tazewell
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and the American Revolution (1775 1783), European powers encouraged their Indian allies to attack frontier settlers. Such conflicts took place as settlers moved into lands that once were Indian territory. During the winter of 1780, a food shortage caused hardship for people and animals. While James Roark, an early settler of this region, and two of his sons went on a hunting trip, Indians attacked his home, on 18 Mar. 1780. The Indians, alleged to be Shawnee, killed Roark’s wife and seven of their children. This event was unanticipated by the settlers because snow covered the ground.

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

USS Saratoga: Turning point in America’s second war with England

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New York, Saratoga County, Schuylerville

After the American victory in 1777, the name Saratoga became linked to a developing shared American identity. The second war ship christened the U.S.S. Saratoga was a 26-gun corvette built in the spring of 1814 on Lake Champlain for use against the British during the War of 1812. In 1814, the British planned to invade the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor from Canada. The U.S.S. Saratoga controlled the invasion route until the British launched the 37-gun frigate H.M.S. Confiance in late August 1814. Within days, the British staged a land and water invasion into New York.

On September 11, 1814, the British and American forces clashed at the Battle of Plattsburgh. The naval engagement settled the battle, with the U.S.S. Saratoga capturing the 16-gun brig, H.M.S. Linnet and the H.M.S. Confiance. The fledgling United States Navy defeated the world’s strongest naval power on Lake Champlain! The Battle of Plattsburgh was one of the most decisive battles in American History. Once again, the name Saratoga was connected with the turning point of a war with the British Empire.

(War of 1812) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chicot County

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Arkansas, Chicot County, Lake Village
The county seat of Chicot County was located at Columbia in 1823, where it remained until 1855. The county took its name from Point Chicot, on the Mississippi.

(Settlements & Settlers • Political Subdivisions) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Italian Immigrants On Sunnyside Plantation

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Arkansas, Chicot County, Lake Village
In 1895 Austin Corbin, a New York banker and land developer, working with immigration officials brought 100 families from north central Italy to grow cotton at Sunnyside, a plantation located between the Mississippi River and Lake Chicot. These Italians struggled against exploitation, prejudice and language barriers, and many died of malaria and other lowland diseases. Many of their descendants are now among the leading citizens of Arkansas and the nation.

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

New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

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Arkansas, Chicot County, Lake Village
Jim Kelley, a slave, organized this church in 1860. His owner allowed the use of this plot of this plot of ground on which to build a church. On May 15, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Street deeded the property to the trustees of the church. New Hope Missionary Baptist Church claims to the the oldest Black church in the State of Arkansas.

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

Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh

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Arkansas, Chicot County, Lake Village
In April 1923 Lindbergh, then an unknown 21-year-old mail pilot, experienced engine trouble and landed his airplane on the now-abandoned golf course behind this site of the old Lake Village County Club. He remained in Lake Village overnight. During the evening he took his host, Mr. Henry, for a moonlit flight down the Mississippi and over Lake Village. It was the first time that Lindbergh had flown after dark.

(Notable Events • Notable Persons • Air & Space) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh

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Arkansas, Chicot County, Lake Village

Col.
Charles A.
Lindbergh

Made his
first night
flight here
April 1923

(Notable Persons • Air & Space • Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First National Bank

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Iowa, Worth County, Northwood

This property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places

by the United States
Department of the Interior

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

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