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Early Settlements in The Tehachapi Area

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Tehachapi, California.
Green Street was named for Peter D. Greene, who came to the Tehachapi Area in 1856, when he set up camp in Mormon Gulch near Tehachapi where he prospected for gold (named after a company of Mormons who had previously . . .

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

Seabreeze High School

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Daytona Beach, Florida.
Seabreeze High School Erected in 1916 on this location served the Daytona Beach Peninsula Service Terminated 1983

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

33 East Main Street

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Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior [Center plaque:] This property recognized by Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County c. . . .

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

Church c. 1795

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Clifton Park, New York.
Site of Clifton Park Dutch Reformed Church. Referred to as “North Church.” Sold in 1862 and dismantled.

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

History of Railroad Pump Cars

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near Ronks, Pennsylvania.
Did you know that this style of pump car dates back to approximately 1880? The relatively low weight allowed a crew of four to six people to easily lift it on or off tracks to clear the way for approaching trains. The cars . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Catonsville Nine

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Catonsville, Maryland.
On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic activists raided the Selective Service office in Catonsville and burned several hundred draft files to protest the Vietnam War. In a highly-publicized trial, the “Nine”, who included priests . . .

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

Original Head Race & Water Turbine

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near Ronks, Pennsylvania.
This area, now retired from mill operation, was the end of the "head race" or canal originally used to divert water from the Pequea Creek to run an "undershot" water wheel, inside the Mill in 1738. [Captions:] At Mill, water . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The West Side of Main Street

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Upper Lake, California.
From the late 1860's to the present day businesses have come and gone in Upper Lake. At the time of the 1924 fire the concrete building at 9449 Main was Doc Niderost's Home Pharmacy complete with soda fountain. It not only . . .

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

Teach Archer / Archer House

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, Ireland.
Teach Martin Archer, a bhfuil a arnas le [illegible words] scríbhinne Insignia Martin Archer...Kilkenniensis ————————————— The house of Martin Archer, whose arms are displayed here, with the inscription Insignia Martin . . .

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Death of Aurelio Monfort

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, Mexico.
El H. Ayuntamiento de Veracruz rinde homenaje al policía municipal "Aurelio Monfort" caído heroicamente en cumplimiento de su deber para con la patria Victima de las balas del ejercito invasor el 21 de abril de 1914 . . .

(Law Enforcement • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Hacienda de las Flores

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Moraga, California.
In 1857, Lot No. 1, a quarter section of Rancho Laguna De Los Palos Colorados was bought by a squatter, Jesse Williams, from Jose de Jesus Moraga. In 1906, the land was then purchased by Manuel Lucas and 10 years later, 20 . . .

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

Midori Hotel

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San Francisco, California.
Formerly Hotel Lafayette This building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places Uptown Tenderloin Historic District

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

Percival's Island Overlook

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Lynchburg, Virginia.
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown & 250th Anniversary of John Lynch's Ferry

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Plaza of the Republic

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, Mexico.
Plaza de la República 500 Años Veracruz · Puerta de Mar · 1519-2019 Es en el año 2014 que se define adosarla longitudinalmente a los edificios porfirianos, generando un gran parque lineal de más de 320 metros de longitud, y . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Clifton Park Center

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Clifton Park, New York.
Area named to distinguish it from Clifton Park Village. Geographical center of town.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Captain Robert Young Conrad

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Winchester, Virginia.
In Memory of Robert Young Conrad Captain Co. I, 116th Inf. 29th Division Son of Major Holmes and Georgia Byran Conrad who was mortally wounded while leading a charge on a machine gun nest at Ormont Farm in the Meuse Argonne . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old Pine Street

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Old Pine Street (side 1) This congregation was organized as the Third Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia in 1768. The original building, completed that same year, was a simple Georgian structure of red brick, designed by . . .

(Architecture • Churches & Religion • Colonial Era) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Livingston

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Livingston, New York.
The present village of Livingston was formerly called Johnstown after John Livingston.

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Brigadier General James Reed

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Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.
This veteran Captain of the French and Indian War, born in Woburn, Mass., settled here about 1765 as an original proprietor of Monadnock No. 4, now Fitzwilliam. After the Battle of Lexington, he recruited several companies . . .

(Colonial Era • Settlements & Settlers • War, French and Indian • War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Manchester, Ohio

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Manchester, Ohio.
In 1784, the state of Virginia ceded all of its Northwest Territory to the federal government except for this tract to satisfy the land bounties owed to its Revolutionary War soldiers. The Virginia Military District extended . . .

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