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Homer Ransford Watson
Kitchener, Ontario.An intimate knowledge and love of nature enabled Homer Watson to paint the environs of his birthplace, Doon, with rare sensitivity. Self-taught for the most part, he dignified...
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Wye Bridge
, United Kingdom.The bridge was built in 1490 damaged in the Civil War and widened in 1826. There was originally a gatehouse on the southern end which was demolished in 1782 (Bridges & Viaducts)...
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Hay Motte
, United Kingdom.The adjoining mound is the motte of the original Motte and Bailey Castle of the Hay (La Haie) Built by the Norman Lord Bernard of Newmarch c1100 AD (Forts and Castles) Includes...
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Doon School of Fine Arts 1948-1966
Kitchener, Ontario.This sleeping cabin is one of 15 cabins which lined the edge of the property The first five were built in 1949 by Ross Hamilton others were added until all 15 were complete Restored...
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Doon Presbyterian Church
Kitchener, Ontario.The first Presbyterian worship service in Doon was conducted on July 7, 1853 by Dr. John Bayne of Galt. Two days later an organizational meeting was held at which plans were made to...
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Abel Buell Goldsmith Shop
Clinton, Connecticut.On this approximate location Abel Buell had his goldsmith shop from 1763 - 1769 Inventor, artist, engraver, cartographer, engineer, pattern maker, lapidary, silversmith, die...
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Revolutionary Soldiers Memorial Gates
Norwich, Connecticut.(Left Plaque) In honor of the Revolutionary Soldiers buried within these grounds these memorial gates were placed July 4, 1903 by Faith Trumbull Chapter D•A•R (Right Plaque)...
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Baldemar "Freddy Fender" Garza Huerta
San Benito, Texas.Known as Freddy Fender or El Bebop Kid (the Mexican Elvis Presley), Baldemar Garza Huerta achieved great success as a Tejano, rock and country singer for over fifty years. Born on...
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Harlingen Army Airfield and Harlingen Air Force Base
Harlingen, Texas.With the depressed economy of the 1930s, Harlingen leaders sought to attract federal funds to the area. In May 1941, in preparation for what would become World War II, the U.S. War...
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Howard E. and Mary Butt House
Harlingen, Texas.In 1929 entrepreneur Howard E. Butt moved the headquarters of his developing grocery business to Harlingen. The following year, Howard and his wife, Mary, bought this house from its...
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United States Colored Troops in the Rio Grande Valley
near Brownsville, Texas.After General Order No. 143 created Union regiments exclusively for African American troops in 1863, the 62nd, 87th and 91st Infantry regiments of the United States Colored...
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V1 Lanceerplaats / V1 Launch Site
, Netherlands.V1 lanceerplaats in Castricum U bevindt zich hier aan het begin van een V1 lanceerhelling. De V1 (V=Vergeltungswaffe, vergeldingswapen), was een onbemande, door een straalmotor...
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Explosion Rocks Tolar
near Tolar, New Mexico.At noon on November 30, 1944, a World War II supply train hauling 165 five-hundred-pound bombs headed for the Pacific Theater derailed in Tolar. The train caught fire and the...
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Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.Why Here? General James H. Carleton, commanding the Military Department of New Mexico, ordered the establishment of Fort Sumner in late 1862. Carleton and others mistakenly...
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Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.A New Community Following the disastrous failure of the U.S. Government's Bosque Redondo experiment, the land set aside as reservation returned to the public domain. The Army...
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Welcome to the Historic Fort Sumner Cemetery
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.Welcome to the cemetery at Historic Fort Sumner. The U.S. Army established this post cemetery in 1863, shortly after opening the nearby fort and the Bosque Redondo Indian...
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About Como Neighborhood
Minneapolis, Minnesota.As you enter the Como neighborhood by crossing East Hennepin Avenue, Stinson Boulevard turns into 18th Ave. SE. Como is a secluded Minneapolis neighborhood, like a village in the...
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75e anniversaire / 75th Anniversary
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec.À ceux qui, au cours de ces soixante et quinze dernières années ont moule notre histoire, le conseil municipal et la population de Dorion offrent l'hommage de leur admiration...
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Joe "Texas Red" Grant
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.It is said that... While drunk one night, Grant had the misfortune of getting on the wrong side of "Billy the Kid" at Beaver Smith's saloon in Ft. Sumner, NM. After a heated...
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Billy the Kid
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.He was known by many names, William Henry McCarthy, William H. Bonney, but he was best known as "Billy the Kid." Born in New York City in 1859, he would find infamy in the old...
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Billy the Kid's Elusive Tombstone
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.• Billy the Kids tombstone was stolen in 1951. Its location was a mystery for twenty-six years until 1976 when it was recovered in Granbury, Texas, by Joe Bowlin. • The...
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Tom O'Folliard
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.Tom O'Folliard was the best friend of outlaw William Bonney (Billy the Kid). Both men were members of the Regulators during the Lincoln County War. O'Folliard was shot in the...
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Place Dumont, mon histoire... / Dumont Plaza, my history...
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Québec.[Français] 1770 Michel Chartier de Lotbinière cède ses propriétés à son fils, Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain. Pourtant destiné à une carrière militaire, la conquête de 1760 et...
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Charlie Bowdre
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.Charlie Bowdre fought alongside Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War. After losing the war, both he and the Kid retreated to Fort Sumner, NM, where Bowdre worked as a cowboy...
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Deluvina Maxwell
Fort Sumner, New Mexico.A Navajo woman born in Canyon de Chelly, AZ, Deluvina was taken as a slave during an Apache raid when she was a child. Later adopted by Lucien Maxwell of Fort Sumner, she was a...
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