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Greene Ville Treaty Line

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Cardington, Ohio.
The Greene Ville Treaty was signed with the Indians is 1795. Locating the dividing line between the United States (Northwest Territory) and Indian land was the problem of General Rufus Putnam, Surveyor General of the United . . .

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

Civil War Soldiers Memorial

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Wakeman, Ohio.
Dedicated to the soldiers of the Civil War who so heroically served their country that these United States might endure

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

Ek Balam Building 1

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, Mexico.
Edificio 1 de Ek Balam (reproducción) La región situada al norte de la península de Yucatan comprende la planicie costera y una amplia llanura limitada al sur por la serranía Puuc. Este territorio fue ocupado alrededor del . . .

(Anthropology & Archaeology • Architecture • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Post Commander's Residence

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Missoula, Montana.
M.Y. "Bo" Foster was born in 1911, in Richmond, Virginia, but grew up in part on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana near Glacier National Park. After graduating from Yale University, Foster hitchhiked back to . . .

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

World War I Memorial

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Wakeman, Ohio.
1917 • In memory of those of this community who answered their country’s call • 1918 Over Sea. ?Merton L. Campbell • ?Ivan W. Kenyon • Blaine N. Hurst • Leland R. Kenyon • Charles R. Cooley • Glen W. Shafer • William J. . . .

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

Fort Missoula Alien Detention Camp

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Missoula, Montana.
"From 1941 to 1944 Fort Missoula served as a detention center for more than 1,000 Italians, more than 1,000 Japanese, and 22 German Nationalists. The Italians were World's Fair workers and civilian seamen whose ships had . . .

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

What's in a Name?

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University City, Missouri.
The Delmar Loop got its name from the original streetcar system that "looped" through University City. Traveling westbound, streetcars would divert north from Delmar Boulevard to Enright Avenue and then turn south from . . .

(Education • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Aaaaallllll Aboard!

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St. Louis, Missouri.
The 1928 Wabash Station was once served by the "Delmar" and "City Limits" streetcar lines, buses, and the Wabash railroad's intercity and commuter trains. When St. Louis decommissioned its Delmar streetcar #10 in 1964, . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Magazine Building

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University City, Missouri.
Built in 1903 by the Lewis Publishing Company, Edward Gardner Lewis (1868-1950), President Herbert C. Chivers (1869-1946), Architect Ralph Chesley Ott (1875-1931), Painter William T. Bailey (1857-1922), Sculptor In 1903, . . .

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

The Growth of a Neighborhood

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University City, Missouri.
Named one the 10 Great Streets in America, the Delmar Loop is home to an eclectic mix of restaurants, shops, and entertainment venues. As early as 1902, the the Delmar streetcar system sparked residential and commercial . . .

(Architecture • Industry & Commerce • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

AMDG Shrine of St. Joseph

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St. Louis, Missouri.
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(Churches & Religion • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Birmingham School

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Birmingham, Ohio.
Birminghan School was built in 1916 and served as a high school until school districts merged in 1954, and it was repurposed into an elementary school. In 1988, schools districts merged again and the Birmingham School was . . .

(Education • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Minnie Hill Palmer House

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Chatsworth, California.
Cottage built by the Hill family in 1911 Last homestead acre in the Valley

(Parks & Recreational Areas • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Missoula Barrack Building

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Missoula, Montana.
In 1941, Nick D. Collaer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), was assigned to establish interment camps for Italians and German sailors at Fort Missoula and Fort Lincoln, North Dakota. When Collaer arrived at . . .

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

Enterprise Furnace / Iron Made in Kentucky

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near South Shore, Kentucky.
Enterprise Furnace stood 6 miles south. Built, 1826, by Richard Deering, James McCoy and Jacob Clingman, on the site of a bloomery forge erected in 1824. Its air blast was operated by water power, and it burned charcoal . . .

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

Fort Missoula Alien Detention Camp

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Missoula, Montana.
During World War II, Fort Missoula was turned over to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), for use as an Alien Detention Camp. The Camp was established to hold foreign nationals and . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Bennett’s Mill Bridge

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near South Shore, Kentucky.
One of Kentucky’s longest wooden one-span covered bridges, length 195 feet. B.F. Bennett and his brother Pramley built the bridge in 1855 or 1856 to accommodate customers at their mill. It has withstood severe floods through . . .

(Bridges & Viaducts) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New Hampshire Furnace / Iron Made in Kentucky

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near Lynn, Kentucky.
Built 6 miles west in 1946 on a tract of 30,000 acres by Samuel Seaton and others. Stone stack is 35 feet high, 10 feet across inside. Charcoal fueled, steam-powered air blast. In 22 weeks of 1854, produced 970 tons of iron, . . .

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

Battle of Brandywine

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Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
September 11, 1777 on this site and along this corridor, 800 continental soldiers under General "Scotch Willie" Maxwell engaged some 8000 British Troops. So began the Battle of Brandywine. Taking advantage of terrain and . . .

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Louis Arthur Watres

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Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania.
Arthur Watres (1922-2014) was a pioneering environmentalist who spent his life working for the preservation of open spaces, education of the public about nature, and research into how ecological systems work. In the 1940s . . .

(Environment • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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