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Orchard Street

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New York, New York.
For nearly two centuries, this block, bounded by Orchard, Allen, Delancy and Broome Streets, has been a first home for immigrants, and has been shaped and reshaped by generations of newcomers Early 1880s During the early . . .

(Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Temple Israel: A Frontier Synagogue and Museum

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Leadville, Colorado.
The Jewish Settlement The group of Jews in Leadville traced their roots to Germany. They tended to be assimilationists and practiced Reform Judaism, including worship services largely in English, women as members of the . . .

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

Copake Falls War Memorial

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Copake Falls, New York.
In grateful memory of the services rendered by the men and women of this community in order that the principles of this Republic might be preserved.

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

Site of Rebecca Motte's Home

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Fort Motte, South Carolina.
Site of Rebecca Motte's Home Sacrificed for her Country May 12, 1786 ------------ Moultrie Chapter, D. A. R. May 12, 1909

(War, US Revolutionary • Women) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Presbytery

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Lafayette, Louisiana.
THE PRESBYTERY: A Simple Residence from the early 1800s This small home represents the simple but functional structures in which priests could have lived in the early 1800s. The building was originally located property owned . . .

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

Deckers Corners

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Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
In 1856, Carl Ludwig Deecke (1814-1864), pronounced Decker, purchased 10 acres of land at the intersection of Plank Road (CTH NN) and Granville Road. In 1858, Deecke petitioned the Cedarburg Town Board of Supervisors to . . .

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

House of the Corregidora

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, Mexico.
Casa de la Corregidora (Querétaro, Qro.) S. XVIII · Inicia su construcción y se llevó con cierta lentitud. El Lic. Martín de la Rocha y Ezpeleta, terminó el recinto a cambio de ser Corregidor Perpetuo. Se instaló ahí el . . .

(Colonial Era • Man-Made Features • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mianach Hero agus Urláir Chóireála / Hero Mine and Dressing Floors

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, Ireland.
D'oscail Comhlacht Mianadóireachta Éireann (1824-1890) an Mianach Hero sa bhliain 1827. In 1833 osclaíodh an Hero Nua thall sa ghleann agus forbraíodh an t-urlár cóireála chun amhluaidhe ón ngleann a scaradh ón gcarraig . . .

(Environment • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clocha an Phiobaíre / Piper's Stones

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, Ireland.
Clocha an Phiobaíre Tá 14 chloch mhóra eibhir, cuid acu ina seasamh agus cuid eile ina luí, so chiorcal cloch seo. Tá cloch mhór ina seasamh taobh amuigh den chiorcal ar an taobh thoir agus tá dhá chloch fhorimeallacha eile . . .

(Anthropology • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to 100 years of Jewish Immigration to Mexico

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, Mexico.
Monumento Conmemorativo a los 100 años de Inmigración Judía a México El corazón del inmigrante es tan voluble como el mar sobre la arena: se hincha con el deseo de alcanzar lo que está por venir, hasta que la fuerza de ese . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Churches & Religion • Civil Rights • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

LCDR. M. Scott Speicher

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Jacksonville, Florida.
The Freedom Tree Unselfish dedication and devotion by preserving universal freedom through the ultimate sacrifice of giving one’s life so that mankind will remain Free This tree is dedicated to: LCDR. M. Scott Speicher . . .

(Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, 1st Iraq & Desert Storm) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

VFW Concord Post 1631 Memorial

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Concord, New Hampshire.
(Reverse side) William H. Marston 1936 Warren W. Ellis 1952 Walter Burtt 1996 Theodore E. Noyes 1999 Buried at Sea Jan. 21, 2000 Leonard Constant July 15, 2000

(War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pottery Types of the Turtle River and Three Island Lake

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near Turtle River, Minnesota.
Pieces of pottery and other artifacts tell archaeologists that Native Americans have lived along the shores of the Turtle River and Three Island Lake for thousands of years. Because the ways in which Native Americans . . .

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

Isaac Chesbrough House

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near Copake Falls, New York.
This Greek Revival style dwelling appears on maps dating to 1858. The home was likely built in the late 1840s to early 1850s for Isaac Chesbrough, who owned the house until his death in 1893. Chesbrough was the first foreman . . .

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

Blast Furnace & Charging Deck

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near Copake Falls, New York.
In 1845, Lemuel Pomeroy II built the first iron furnace near this location. The blast furnace stack visible today dates to about 1871, when improvements were made to the Copake Iron Works by Frederick Miles after he . . .

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

Ciorcal Cloch le Claífort Chaisleán an Ridire

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, Ireland.
Ciorcal Cloch le Claífort Chaisleán an Ridire Baineann an láthair seo le ceann de na cineálacha séadchomharthaí searmanais is neamhghnáthaí in Éirinn. Ciorcal cloch a thugtar ar an láthair san áit ach i ndáirire baineann sé . . .

(Anthropology • Forts, Castles • Man-Made Features) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Methodist Church of Dixon

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Dixon, California.
The Methodist Church of Dixon Organized as the Methodist Episcopal Church of Silveyville 1858 Erected in Silveyville 1866 Moved to Dixon 1870 This tablet placed on October 9 - 1955 by Mary E. Bell Parlor No. 224 Native . . .

(Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pedro Sainz de Baranda

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, Mexico.
Calle Pedro Sainz de Baranda (1787-1845) Marino novohispano de la Guerra de Independencia quien capituló el último Batallón Español en San Juan de Ulúa el 23 de noviembre de 1825 Centro Histórico Fracc. Faros ?.?. 91709 . . .

(Colonial Era • Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kinsey House

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Genoa, Nevada.
Genoa's first two-story brick mansion built for his bride in 1855-56 by Mormon Station locator Stephen Kinsey, editor of the first newspaper (handwritten). It was the third land claim in Nevada. It was the site of elegant . . .

(Communications • Education • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

James Bradley

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Covington, Kentucky.
The life of this one man summarizes the experiences of millions of Afro-Americans. Born in Africa in the early Nineteenth Century, slave traders brought Bradley to America as an infant. By the time he was 18 years old, . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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