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Butterfield Overland Mail

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Elizabeth Lake, California.
Butter?eld Overland Mail and Havilah Coachline used these houses from 1861-1881.

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

Early Exploration

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Montrose, Colorado.
Standing here, it is difficult to imagine anyone trying to cross the canyon or navigate its waters. Like hikers today, the Utes and early explorers faced rigorous hardships. In 1900, William Torrence led a crew to explore . . .

(Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Light at the End of the Tunnel

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near Montrose, Colorado.
Surveyors took daily measurements to ensure that drillers, powdermen, muckers, and haulers stayed on course inching their way toward the valley. Crews at the other end plowed toward the canyon. Using points across the river, . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Building a Dam

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near Montrose, Colorado.
Fir logs, up to 30 feet in length, formed the base for the diversion dam. Although built in the winter when the river was sluggish, pumps were needed to divert the flow around the construction site. The dam is used to fill . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Carver Lab

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Dearborn, Michigan.
One of history's great scientists worked here. Renowned scientist George Washington Carver and Henry Ford became friends in 1936. Both were interested in developing synthetic rubber and plastics from soybeans, peanuts and . . .

(Roads & Vehicles • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

F-14 Tomcat

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Point Mugu, California.
The F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, two seat, twin engine, swing wing air superiority fighter designed and manufactured by Grumman Aerospace Corporation. In addition to its primary fighter role carrying AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Laiboldt's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Laiboldt's Brigade. Sheridan'a Division - McCook's Corps. Colonel Bernard Laiboldt. September 19, 1863, 5:00 p.m., 1st Position. 44th Illinois - Colonel Wallace W. Barrett. 73d Illinois - Colonel James F. Jaquess. 2d . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Queen Anne Cottage

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Arcadia, California.
Constructed by Elias Jackson ('Lucky') Baldwin in 1881. Designed by A.A. Bennett, and intended for entertaining. There being no kitchen, meals were served from the nearby adobe (built by Hugo Reid in 1839) where Baldwin . . .

(Architecture • Horticulture & Forestry • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Santa Anita Depot

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Arcadia, California.
Constructed about 1890 in Rancho Santa Anita by Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad on its transcontinental main line. Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin donated right-of-way and bricks in exchange for agreement to stop trains, . . .

(Architecture • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

44th Illinois Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Illinois 44th Infantry. Laiboldt's Brigade. 5 p.m. September 19, 1863.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Inspiration Peak

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Brandon, Minnesota.
For Minnesota's Nobel Prizewinning novelist Sinclair Lewis, Inspiration Peak more than lived up to its name. From its "bald top," he wrote, "there is to be seen a glorious, 20-mile circle of some 50 lakes scattered among . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Notable Persons • Notable Places • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saint Croix Falls Hydroelectric Project

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Taylors Falls, Minnesota.
So read the local paper in 1904 as engineers surveyed the Saint Croix River in search of a suitable place to build a hydroelectric project. The falls had long fueled the local lumbering and milling industries, but the . . .

(Architecture • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Work Call"

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Hill City, South Dakota.
This memorial dedicated to the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942 Made possible by a grant from ”Sarge” Melvin B. Hermanson 2008

(Charity & Public Work • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad

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Etowah, Tennessee.
In 1902, the L&N Railroad was searching for a location between Atlanta and Knoxville to build their Southern Division Headquarters on a new, more direct route between the two cities. This new line would bypass the . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Militia Springs

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near Greenback, Tennessee.
300 yards southeast was this muster-ground for militia in the 1790's. It was selected as a "call" on the Indian boundary at the Treaty of Tellico in 1798; it later became a turning point on the Monroe-Loudon County boundary . . .

(Native Americans • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Norwood Inn

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Greenback, Tennessee.
Built by John Norwood in 1820, this was a stage stop on the line from Washington, D.C., to Marietta, Ga. The Old Federal Road was 200 yards south. After operation by three generations of Norwoods, it was dismantled in 1937.

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

Dragoon Circle

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Named for the dragoon units stationed at Carlisle Barracks and the Dragoons who trained at its Cavalry School of Practice during the school’s tenure of operation from 1838 to 1861.

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

To Commemorate the First Home of the "Mobile Arm"

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Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
In 1838 the Cavalry School of Practice was opened at Carlisle barracks by Captain E.V. Sumner of the 1st Dragoons. By 1846 when the Mexican War began, the majority of the troopers of the mounted forces of the United States . . .

(Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Tellico Blockhouse

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near Vonore, Tennessee.
The Tellico Blockhouse was a United States fortification constructed in 1794 and in use through 1807. Primarily, The Tellico Blockhouse served as a check against white settlement deeper into Cherokee lands. It also served as . . .

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

First Institution of Higher Learning West of the Allegheny Mountains

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Tusculum, Tennessee.
First Institution of Higher Learning West of the Allegheny Mountains, chartered by the Territory of the U.S. of America South of the River Ohio Sept. 3, 1794.

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