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Stewart Hall

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
Stewart Hall (Old Library Building) Built in 1902 Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior

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

Astronaut Robert Franklyn Overmyer

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Westlake, Ohio.
Marine Colonel Robert F. Overmyer was born July 14, 1936 in Lorain, but always considered Westlake, where his family had lived since 1941, to be his hometown. He graduated from Westlake High School in 1954. After earning a . . .

(Air & Space • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Illinois 103D Infantry

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Served with Brigade on exterior line from about June 12, 1863, to end of siege.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Whalers' Church

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Sag Harbor, New York.
First Presbyterian Church Old Whalers' Originated 1766 has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America 1994 National . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battery F. 1st Light Artillery

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Capt. John T. Cheney. 1st Div., 16th Corps. Served with Division on exterior line from about June 12, 1863, to end of siege.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cowan Pottery

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Rocky River, Ohio.
With work inspired by mythology. literature, religion, and nature, Cowan Pottery played a significant role in the formative years of American ceramic art and established a national following with products sold in fine . . .

(20th Century • Arts, Letters, Music • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Illinois Cogswell's Battery.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Lieut. Henry G. Eddy. 1st Div., 16th Corps. Served with Division on exterior line from about June 12, 1863, to end of siege.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Illinois 90th Infantry.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
Col. Timothy O'Merea. 1st Brig., 1st Div., 16th Corps. Served with Division on exterior line from about June 12, 1863, to end of siege.

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lewis Mountain Dilemma

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near Elkton, Virginia.
"Laws and generally accepted customs" When Shenandoah first welcomed visitors in 1936, Virginia was a "Jim Crow" state, its laws requiring segregation of the races. This created a dilemma for the National Park Service and . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Purington House

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
Purington House Built in 1904 - 1905 Has Been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior

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

West Virginia University

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
Through the hospitality of the Board of Governors, President & Faculty of the West Virginia University irreplaceable books and herbarium specimens belonging to The New York Botanical Garden were graciously given shelter in . . .

(Education • Science & Medicine • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Boreman Hall South

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
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(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Montani Semper Liberi

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
In memory of those 201st Infantry Veterans through our history from February 17, 1735 as frontier militia who defended their homes and families with honor through the George Washington campaign of 1754, the Braddock campaign . . .

(War of 1812 • War, French and Indian • War, US Revolutionary • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chief James H. Kennedy

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Morgantown, West Virginia.
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(Disasters • Heroes) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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near Morgantown, West Virginia.
In honor of those who served

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

South African War Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
In memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Irish Rifles, who were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in the South African War 1899·1902, this monument is dedicated. ————————————— . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Titanic" Memorial

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, United Kingdom.
Erected to the imperishable memory of those gallant Belfast men whose names are here inscribed and who lost their lives on the 15th April, 1912, by the foundering of the Belfast built R.M.S. Titanic, through collision with . . .

(Disasters • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Titanic Memorial Garden

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, United Kingdom.
The Titanic Memorial Garden was officially opened on 15 April 2012 by The Right Honourable, The Lord Mayor, Councillor Niall Ó Donnghaile to commemorate the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic and to remember all 1,512 . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Disasters • Man-Made Features • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

National Register of Historic Places

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Ville Platte, Louisiana.
Built in 1914, this building was the second location of the Evangeline Bank & Trust Company until 1976. The original 1906 site of the bank was 102 West Main Street which is also on the National Register of Historic Places. . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

City of Ville Platte City Hall

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Ville Platte, Louisiana.
This building was purchased by the Cecil R. Lebas administration on December 18,1977. To preserve a historic building and landmark of Evangeline Parish, to serve the people of Ville Platte as City Hall providing space for . . .

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