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Standard Oil Building

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Baltimore, Maryland.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

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

The Burk Building

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Baltimore, Maryland.
This building stands on the site of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Building circa 1880

(Education • Notable Buildings • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument Place

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Baltimore, Maryland.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

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

Notre Dame Convent

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Baltimore, Maryland.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

(Churches & Religion • Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hillcrest Park Veterans Memorial

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Lansdowne, Maryland.
This memorial is humbly dedicated to all who ever fought to preserve the freedom and dignity we now enjoy and to those at home who also made many sacrifices and anxiously prayed for and awaited their return.

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

204 South Royal

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Alexandria, Virginia.
Built in 1880, 204 South Royal Street was originally the site of the Concordia Hotel. Commissioned by Jacob Borhaus, the Concordia incorporated every modern convenience. The original hotel entrance was located on Royal . . .

(Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Industry & Commerce • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dwight David Eisenhower

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near Herrington, Kansas.
The 34th president of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower, grew up in Dickinson County. His parents, David and Ida Eisenhower, moved to Hope, about 10 miles west of here, in 1885. There, the Eisenhowers opened a . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

City Point Veterans Memorial

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near City Point, Wisconsin.
Remember those who served.

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

Birth of the Allman Brothers Band

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Jacksonville, Florida.
(Side 1) On March 23, 1969, an interracial group of Southern musicians held a jam session in the front room of this house, known as the "Gray House." The jam went so well that veteran Muscle Shoals session guitarist Duane . . .

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

From Prairie Schooners to Locomotives

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Gardner, Kansas.
Travel along the Oregon and California trails increased in the 1840s with the cry of “Westward Ho.” When the 1848 discovery of gold was made at Sutter’s Mill in California, the desire to reach the gold fields ahead of others . . .

(Native Americans • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Following Their Dreams

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Gardner, Kansas.
"We took the Oregon road, instead of that to Santa Fe and went twelve miles before we discovered our error. In returning two of our wagons broke down, by which we were detained two days until July 4th. We at last got fairly . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Apprehension and Conflict

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Gardner, Kansas.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 required that many American Indian Tribes in the eastern part of the United States be moved to the Great Plains Region west of the Missouri River — lands identified as the “Permanent Indian . . .

(Native Americans • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eye of the Needle

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Gardner, Kansas.
"This morning we passed the road to Oregon that leaves, about eight miles from Round Grove, the Santa Fe Road, and turns to the right towards the Kansas. A way post had been put there, marked "Road to Oregon." —Dr. Frederick . . .

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

The Old City Jail

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Anna Maria, Florida.
In 1927, a particularly rowdy tavern and dance hall on the beach near Spring Avenue rapidly disturbed the quiet town of Anna Maria. Town mayor Mitch Davis built a jail to lock up the offenders. The jail was unique. With only . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Potter Barn

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Bradenton, Florida.
This barn is typical of those built by Florida farmers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Its design was determined by Florida’s climate which allowed farm animals to stay outside year round. The interior of the barn was . . .

(Agriculture • Horticulture & Forestry • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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, Mexico.
Homenaje a Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla el C. Lic. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. Presidente de la República. el C. Lic. Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez. Gobernador del Estado. el C. Dr. Pablo González Cansino. Presidente Municipal . . .

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ehemalige Rückert-Buchhandlung / The Former Rueckert Bookshop

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, Germany.
Im Juni 1871 gründete Ernst Stoer (1846-1934) eine Buchhandlung, die lange Zeit am Markt angesiedelt war (an der Stelle des heutigen Rathausneubaus). 1921 ging sie in den Besitz von Johannes Trebst (1887-1972) über, der die . . .

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

Professor Theodor Fischer

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, Germany.
Vormals Geburtshaus des Architekten und Städtebauers Professor Theodor Fischer 1862-1938 Er gilt als Befreier der Baukunst vom Historismus. In Schweinfurt erinnert u.a. die "Wirsing-Villa” an ihn. (English translation:) . . .

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

Städt. Sparkasse / Municipal Savings Bank

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, Germany.
Ehem. "Schranne" Erbaut 1560 Bis 1606 Bürgerhof Nach Umbau 1935 im Besitz der 1823 gegrundeten Städt. Sparkasse - (English translation:) Former "Granary", built 1560. Was an inn until 1606. After renovation in 1935 it was . . .

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

Can-a-Gor-Ha

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Fonda, New York.
Mohawk Indian castle burned by French and Indians 1693

(Forts, Castles • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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