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Amistad Memorial

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Montauk Point, New York.
July 1839, Joseph Cinque, leader of Mende Captives from Sierra Leone, overpowered the crew of the slave ship La Amistad off Cuba and landed at Culloden Point, Long Island. Captured and tried in a New Haven Court, the . . .

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

USS Montauk

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Montauk Point, New York.
Commissioned on October 6, 1943, she was a 5,600 ton vessel, 451 feet in length, 60 feet in beam and with a draft of 20 feet. She carried 564 personnel. The ship was employed in the Pacific, carrying troops and cargo to . . .

(War, World II • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Men of Ancram Who Served In The World War

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Ancram, New York.
Belcher, Sheloon C. Blass, Tard B. Boice, Guy Boice, Lee Booth, George Brizzie, Lee Brandt, Frank Brower, Charles Jr. Cabe, Henry Dietter, Free J. Edleman, Lliam F. Garrisson. Arthur E. Binsdale, Alfred Hinsdale, Harry K . . .

(War, Spanish-American • War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Maison Normand

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Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Quebec.
Français: Venu travailler à la réparation de l'église paroissiale, Pierre-Philias Normand ouvre, en 1832, le premier magasin général de Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly. À l'origine, simple maison de ferme, le bâtiment est alors . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Explore a Trail Network

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Cumberland, Maryland.
Hike and bike from Pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. You are standing on part of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail. Explore the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay, and the Allegheny Highlands on this trail network that . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Parks & Recreational Areas • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cumberland Terminus: Yesterday and Today

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Cumberland, Maryland.
Independence Day, July 4th, 1828, would be an important day for Cumberland, Maryland. On that day, far to the east, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad both broke ground. The finish line of . . .

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

C&O Canal Terminus

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Cumberland, Maryland.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was planned to link the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay with Pittsburgh and the Ohio River Valley. Construction began at Georgetown in 1828; by 1850 only 184 of the 365 miles were complete. . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Late Prehistoric Period

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near Valley View, Ohio.
Beginning around 1000, American Indians in northeastern Ohio developed a distinct culture known archeologically as the Whittlesley Tradition. They started building walls around their small villages. (See illustration below.) . . .

(Agriculture • Anthropology • Architecture • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Our Lady of the Rivers

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Portage des Sioux, Missouri.
Welcome to: Our Lady of the Rivers Monument to a memory Back in 1951, raging flood waters threatened to destroy Portage des Sioux. The community pulled together and prayed to Mary, who was given the title, Our Lady of the . . .

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

Lucrative Trade to Leisure Vacations/Du commerce lucratif au voyage d'agrément

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St. Albans Bay, Vermont.
When the Champlain Canal was completed in 1823 and shipping to the south opened up a huge market to the West, St. Albans merchants benefited from the boom. Canal boats sailed south up the Lake to Whitehall, and once the . . .

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

Beach Cottage

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Manhattan Beach, California.
In the early 1900s, some families that lived in large inland homes wanted beach cottages where they could stay near the beach on the weekends and during the summer. Permanent residents moved in later. This structure was . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

A Canal Boat Replica—The Cumberland

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Cumberland, Maryland.
The Cumberland is a full scale replica canal boat, measuring approximately 93 feet long and 14.5 feet wide. It was constructed in 1976 as a Bicentennial project the C&O Canal of Cumberland, Maryland, Inc. (COCCM), a . . .

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

Footer's Dye Works

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Cumberland, Maryland.
The Footer's Dye Works building is the last remaining structure of a sizeable industrial complex that was once the largest cleaning and dyeing establishment in the United States—and one of Cumberland's major employers. The . . .

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

The Daniel Nichols House

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Hockessin, Delaware.
British General Sir William Howe embarked on a campaign to capture the city of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War in 1777. While marching from Cooch’s Bridge to Kennett Square onward to the Battle of Brandywine Howe . . .

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Springbrook First World War Memorial

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near Springbrook, Prince Edward Island.
Built of a people’s love to the memory of our glorious dead Pte Archibald Campbell, 6th Can. M. Rifles. Apr. 12, 1898-June 2 1916 Killed in action in France Gr. Arthur P. Johnstone, 2nd Can. Siege Batty. June 10, 1894-July . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Robert Pershing Wadlow

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Alton, Illinois.
Robert Pershing Wadlow, Alton's gentleman giant, was born February 22, 1918. He lived most of his life in Alton, where he attended Alton High School and Shurtleff College, now the campus of S.I.U.E. Dental School. At age . . .

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

Hessian Soldiers Memorial

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Newark, Delaware.
(Left plaque) This plaque is dedicated to the approximately 20 Hessian Soldiers who perished in these hallowed fields on September 3, 1777, and are buried here in unmarked graves. Hessian and British forces under Lord . . .

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lakes to Locks Passage

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Schuylerville, New York.
Northumberland The original Town of Northumberland extended to the northwest as far as present-day Corinth and Hadley This made sense in 1798 because an overland route ran from here to there to bypass the series of . . .

(Agriculture • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

South Park Village and the Whittlesley Tradition

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near Valley View, Ohio.
Directly across the Cuyahoga River from this spot is the South Park Village. Here, archeologists uncovered the remains of a four-acre, Native American settlement populated by people of the Whittlesey Tradition. The people of . . .

(Anthropology • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fields of Ideals

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Cleveland, Ohio.
Side A The home of Horatio Cyrus and Martha Cozad Ford stood near this corner. According to interviews conducted in the 1890s, it was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Of New England background, Horatio brought a set of . . .

(Abolition & Underground RR • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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