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Colonel William Isaiah Williams

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Colonel Williams was born in Albany, GA in November 1918. He attended the University of Georgia where he received his BS in animal husbandry in 1940. He entered military service in 1941 as an aviation cadet and was . . .

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

Audubon's Mill

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Henderson, Kentucky.
John James Audubon, the famed ornithologist and painter, came to Henderson in 1810 determined to make his fortune. He tried his hand at a number of businesses, initially meeting with some success. In 1816 he decided to . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colonel Albert R. Neville

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Born December 1921 in Washington, D.C., Colonel Albert R. Neville entered military service in January 1940 as an enlisted man in the US Army. In 1941 he won a competitive appointment to West Point, graduating in 1945 with . . .

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

Colonel Warren R. Lewis

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Colonel Lewis was born on Christmas Eve, 1919, in Superior, Iowa. When the war broke out in Europe, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and then later transferred to the United States Army Air Corps. He was assigned to ?y . . .

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

Colonel Edwin A. Schneider

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Colonel Schneider was born in Passaic, NJ in September 1919. He attended Ohio State University in Columbus from 1938-1941. He entered aviation cadet training in December 1941 and attended primary flight training at King . . .

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

First Post Office

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Danville, Kentucky.
This building is the original First Post Office west of the Allegheny Mountains. General Thomas Barbee commissioned first Post Master, August 20, 1792. Logs moved from Walnut Street to Constitution Square. Dedicated to the . . .

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

Post Office

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Danville, Kentucky.
This original building built pre-1792, served as the first office west of the Alleghenies. On August 20, 1792, Thomas Barbee was commissioned postmaster. The first mail was received on November 3, 1792. The post office was . . .

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

Fisher’s Row

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Danville, Kentucky.
Fisher’s Row, circa 1816-1817, was built by Jeremiah Fisher as the first rental property in Danville. Fisher’s row consists of two, two-story houses with a common wall. The brick is laid in the Flemish Bond Pattern.

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

Watts-Bell House

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Danville, Kentucky.
The Watts-Bell House circa 1816-1817, was built by William Watts for leading Danville merchant David Bell. Joshua Fry Bell, grandson of David Bell, grew up in this house. He became a distinguished lawyer and statesman, . . .

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

Brick Schoolhouse

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Danville, Kentucky.
This one-story brick building, originally only two rooms, was the first brick schoolhouse in Danville. The schoolhouse, circa 1820, was renovated in 1975.

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

Colonel Henry L. Warren

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Major General Henry L. Warren was born in 1922 in Fayette, MO, where he attended Central College. He graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point, NY, in 1945 with a BS in military engineering. He received a master’s . . .

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

Lewiston's Chinese Community

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Lewiston, Idaho.
The discovery of gold in 1860 and the founding of Lewiston in 1861 attracted many Chinese to the area. By 1870 approximately 1500 Chinese lived here. They worked as merchants, laborers, laundrymen and vegetable farmers. . . .

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

Post

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(Upper panel) Erbaut 1753 von J. M. Keller für die Gmünder Patrizierfamilie Stahl. Später Gasthaus »Zur goldenen Kante" Hier logierten auf Durchreise u.a Johann Kaspar Schiller, der Vater des Dichters, und Johann Wolfgang . . .

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

Tsceminicum

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Lewiston, Idaho.
When the Nez Perce named this site, they viewed a desolate yet beautiful landscape. Near a large island at the confluence, crystal waters from the Clearwater joined the murky flow of the Snake. Scattered willows grew along . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Catherine R. Hoyt

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Penfield, Pennsylvania.
She tended the troops in Lanesboro, Mass. during the war. After the war, she married Revolutionary War soldier Seth Hoyt and some years later they moved to New Haven, Vermont. After her husband's death, she came to Huston . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Settlements & Settlers • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Brigadier General Robert G. Jenkins

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
General Jenkins served at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base as Vice Commander and then Commander of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing from August 1987 to March 1990. He accumulated more than 3,100 ?ying hours in tactical ?ghter . . .

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Lieutenant General Joseph J. Redden

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Joseph J. Redden was born February 16, 1943, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. General Redden was ?rst assigned to Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in March 1974 where he served as Operations Of?cer of the 356th Tactical Fighter Squadron. . . .

(Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Lewis and Clark

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Lewiston, Idaho.
The first white men to cross this country and reach the Pacific Ocean via Lolo Pass and present site of Lewiston. They came and returned the way that leads you are now on the Lewis and Clark Highway along the Clearwater . . .

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

Anita Scott Coleman

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Silver City, New Mexico.
This is a two-sided marker Front Side: Anita Scott Coleman’s mother was a slave and her father a Buffalo Soldier. Raised on a ranch near Silver City, her award-winning essays, stories, and poems emphasized racial pride and . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Means Building

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Lewiston, Idaho.
At the turn of the century, Mark A. Means, who had arrived by horseback in 1881, and stayed to amass a fortune, hired Lewiston architect J.H. Nave to build a structure to house the various enterprises Means had in mind. . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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