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Das Michaeler Bierhaus

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(Entertainment • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Johnson's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Johnson's Brigade Johnson's Division - Longstreet's Corps. Colonel John S. Fulton. September 20, 1963, 7 A.M. 17th Tennessee, - Lieutenant Colonel Watt W. Floyd. 23d Tennessee, - Colonel R. H. Keeble. 25th Tennessee, - . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Johann Pollet

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Vor dem Burgtor widersetzte sich am 13. März 1848 der Oberfeuerwerker Johann Pollet mit Gefahr seines eigenen Lebens dem Befehl die Kanonen gegen die Volksmenge abzufeuern - (English translation:) In front of the palace . . .

(Notable Events) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Indian Agent's Residence

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near Lapwai, Idaho.
The Indian Agent, representing the United States Government, lived here side by side with the Nez Perce. By law the agent and the government were responsible for upholding the terms of treaties. Duties included building . . .

(Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Coming of the Railroad

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near Lapwai, Idaho.
This small train stop linked the Nez Perce with the cities of Lewiston, Idaho, and Spokane, Washington. Running directly through the reservation, the rails also opened this area to a wave of farmers and loggers who made . . .

(Native Americans • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

19th Ohio Infantry

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Text on the Front Side of the Monument: 19th Ohio Infantry, General Samuel Beatty's Brigade, Van Cleve's Division, 21st Army Corps. Text on the Back Side of the Monument: This regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Henry D. . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Watson's Store

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near Lapwai, Idaho.
Watson’s store was typical of country stores that served small communities on the Nez Perce reservation in the early 1900s. The inventory included groceries and hardware, yet Watson’s also had stocks of beads for decorative . . .

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

Beatty's Brigade

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near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Beatty's Brigade Van Cleve's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Brigadier General Samuel Beatty September 19, 1863, 2 p.m. 79th Indiana, Colonel Frederick Knefler. 9th Kentucky, Colonel George H. Cram. 17th Kentucky, Colonel . . .

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

Spalding's Presbyterian Church

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near Lapwai, Idaho.
Inspired by Henry and Eliza Spalding’s missionary zeal, this church held its first service in 1876. A number of Nez Perce embraced Spalding’s religion. Soon there were Nez Perce ministers, hymns in the Nez Perce language, . . .

(Churches & Religion • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Spargo Hoist & Sinking Bucket

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Lead, South Dakota.
The Spargo Hoist was developed by a Homestake Mining Company engineer. This small, pneumatically operated hoist was used in many applications in the underground Homestake Mine. One of the uses was a sinking hoist; used by . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Overshot Mucker

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Lead, South Dakota.
The overshot mucker was a rail-mounted, rock excavation machine, operated by compressed air. This mucker was used to scoop up blasted, broken rock and throw it overhead into an ore car positioned behind the mucker. As the . . .

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Courthouse

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Danville, Kentucky.
The original log courthouse, which was built on this site in 1784-1785, housed the Supreme Court of Kentucky and the Constitutional Conventions which led to Kentucky's statehood on June 1, 1792. This replica was erected in 1942.

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

Central Axis

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St. Louis, Missouri.
Bald cypress trees frame this majestic vista, further accented by seasonal borders and sensational summer displays. Built in 1917, the unheated pools feature tropical water lilies and giant Victoria water lilies when the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Alban Gilpin Smith Goldsmith

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Danville, Kentucky.
Native of Delaware. Trained in medicine and surgery under E. McDowell, lived in this house 1825-30. He performed the 3rd ovariotomy in the U.S. (1823), was the first to perform laminectomy (1829), and was an innovative . . .

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Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum

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St. Louis, Missouri.
Constructed between 1859 and 1860, this neoclassical building is one of only five original structures at the Garden built by Henry Shaw. While the exterior was designed by George I. Barnett, the interior resembles Museum No. . . .

(Architecture • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Whispering Pines Golf Course

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
In June 1962, when Brigadier General Gil Meyers took command of the base, he found an old set of plans for a golf course on the base. With $23,000 appropriated for the course, he got the project underway. Knowing that you . . .

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

Jail

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Danville, Kentucky.
In 1785, the District of Kentucky ordered the construction of a jail, “to be constructed of 9-inch logs”. This replica of the jail was built in 1942.

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Colonel Francis S. Gabreski

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Francis S. “Gabby” Gabreski was born and raised in Oil City, Pennsylvania, joined the Army Air Corps in 1940, and graduated from pilot training as a Second Lieutenant in March 1941. He was serving in Hawaii during the “Day . . .

(Notable Persons • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colonel Robert Lindsay Petit

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Major General Petit was born in July 1918 in Oxnard, CA and graduated from the University of Redlands in 1939 with a BA degree. He entered military service in early 1941 as an aviation cadet and received his pilot wings and . . .

(Military • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Major General Gilbert L. Meyers

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
General Gilbert Meyers entered military service in 1936. He completed his pilot training in 1938 and was assigned to the Eighth Pursuit Group at Langley Field, Virginia. His distinguished career contained many ?rsts. During . . .

(Notable Persons • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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