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The Coliseum

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The City of Sioux Falls purchased this land in 1905 to be used as a Farmer's Market. Architect Joseph Schwarz designed the auditorium. Constructed in 1917 for $218,000 it features Art Deco adornment both inside and out. The . . .

(Architecture • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Orpheum Theater

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(panel 1) On October 2, 1913, the grand opening of the Orpheum Theater at 315 N. Phillips Avenue was a full-dress affair with patrons paying the unheard of price of $5 per seat. First nighters were entertained with a full . . .

(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

“The Ink Well”

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Santa Monica, California.
The beach near this site between Bay and Bicknell Streets, known by some as "the Ink Well”, was an important gathering place for African Americans long after racial restrictions on public beaches were abandoned in 1927. . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt. Jonas Lien

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(side one) After the United States declared war against Spain in 1898, Jonas H. Lien enlisted into the First Regiment of the newly formed South Dakota Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was mustered into federal service at . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Spanish-American) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dakota Iron Store

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
On this site in March 1910, Bernard Scott Reardon, Sr. and an associate founded the Dakota Iron Store as a wholesale distributor of heavy hardware, farm equipment, and automotive parts and supplies. In 1975 the corporate . . .

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

Foundation of the City

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Quartzite is the stone you see revealed throughout Falls Park. Sioux Quartzite is the local name for his stone. It was also called Jasper. Sioux Quartzite provided both the physical and financial base for the city of Sioux . . .

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Beginning of Great Changes

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
In the city's early days, the falls attracted both industry and pleasure seekers. During their leisure time, settlers and visitors enjoyed both the falls and Seney Island The Island, as it was called by early residents, was . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The First School House 1873

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
1873 near this site was erected The First School House in Sioux Falls, South Dakota This tablet placed by Mary Chilton Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1929

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

Illinois Central Depot

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Directly east is the Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot. The Illinois Central, the fourth railroad company to extend its service to Sioux Falls, opened its line and passenger depot in December, 1887. The building . . .

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

Oscar Howe & Marilyn Wounded Head

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Mitchell, South Dakota.
This sculpture depicts a bird atop a person and is meant to show a co-existence of man, animals, and societal or physical environment. Other visual forms that appear bring a message of reconciliation with nature. Oscar Howe, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Villanueva State Park

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Villanueva, New Mexico.
Couched between high red sandstone bluffs in a beautiful valley of the Pecos River, this park is located near the picturesque Spanish colonial village of Villanueva. The park offers hiking trails with historical markers and camping/picnicking sites

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Han Christian Lumbye

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, Denmark.
Her fødtes Komponisten H.C. Lumbye 2 Maj 1810 - (English translation:) The composer H.C. Lumbye was born here on May 2, 1810.

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kana-Ta-Go-Wah

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Syracuse, New York.
Large Iroquois-Onondaga village located on east bank of Onondaga Creek and extending to this site Onondaga Indians began to settle here after the burning of Onondaga Village in Frontenac's Invasion 1696 From 1720 known as . . .

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

Christ Church

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, United Kingdom.
Christ Church Oxford’s Unique Foundation of College and Cathedral The collegiate University of Oxford contains within it almost 40 independent educational institutions, or colleges. Christ Church is the largest. It is also, . . .

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Reredos Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
The Reredos is Dedicated to God With Praise and Thanksgiving In Memory of All S. Aldgate’s Men Who Gave Their Lives in The Great War 1914-19 Robert Allsworth · Harold Bricknell · Charles H. Bull · Sidney F. Bull · Fred . . .

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Great Jewry

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, United Kingdom.
This Street Known Till 1300 As Great Jewry Contained Many Houses of the Jews Including the Synagogue Which Lay to the North Of Tom Tower 1931

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George Claridge Druce

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, United Kingdom.
George Claridge Druce FRS 1850 - 1932 Botanist Pharmacist Mayor and Alderman lived here at his shop 1879 - 1905

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Sandford Lock

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, United Kingdom.
Water power from the Thames Although the Romans introduced watermills to Britain they mainly relied on slave labour to grind grain by hand. As a result mills did not become numerous until Saxon times. By the time of . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Wilkinson

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, United Kingdom.
William Wilkinson 1819 – 1901 Architect of the Randolph Hotel and designer of North Oxford Victorian suburb lived and practised here 1860 - 1886

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

Beaumont Palace

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, United Kingdom.
Near to this Spot Stood the King’s Houses Later Known as Beaumont Palace King Richard I Was Born Here in 1157 And King John in 1167

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