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The Pettibone House

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Farmington Hills, Michigan.
This beautifully restored Gothic Revival farmhouse is representative of homes built by well-to-do pioneer Farmingtonians. Migrating from Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1841, Levi and Huldah Pettibone homesteaded . . .

(Agriculture • Architecture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Millstone, c. 1845

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Alamosa, Colorado.
from Servilleta, an early settlement near Conejos, Colorado Gift of the Herbert Nance Family Luther Bean Museum

(Agriculture • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

"Old Mose"

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Alamosa, Colorado.
According to Outdoor Life (April, 2004), Old Mose was the most famous grizzly ever to appear in their publication. This one bear was responsible for a myriad of depredations. Known for his distinctive footprint (he was . . .

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

John C. Liken / John C. Martini House

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Sebewaing, Michigan.
John C. Liken One of Sebewaing’s most prominent citizens, John C. Liken (1832-1920), came here in 1865 from New York State where he owned a cooperage. Lured by Michigan’s bountiful forests, he opened stave and sawmills in . . .

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

Bay Port Fishing District

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Bay Port, Michigan.
The Gillingham Fish Company was established in 1886; the Bay Port Fish Company in 1895. At their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, they shipped tons of perch, walleye, herring, whitefish and carp to New York and Chicago in . . .

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

Great Fire of 1881

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near Bay Port, Michigan.
Small fires were burning in the forests of the Thumb, tinder-dry after a long, hot summer, when a gale swept in from the southwest on Sept. 5, 1881. Fanned into an inferno, the fires raged for three days. A million acres . . .

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

South Haven Lighthouse

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South Haven, Michigan.
The United States of America donated this Lighthouse to the Historical Association of South Haven for public, educational and historic preservation uses through the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act March 8, 2012

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

Stump Puller

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Sanford, Michigan.
Stump Puller machine pulled stumps after the lumberjacks left. Farmers cleared fields to plant. see the pictures in the town hall

(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lt. Orrin Russell Fox Heliport

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Pasadena, California.
Dedicated this twenty-seventh day of October Nineteen Hundred and Fifty by the citizens of the City of Pasadena in honor of the brave members of the United States Air Force living and dead who answer the call of service to . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Karman Laboratory of Fluid Dynamics and Jet Propulsion

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Pasadena, California.
The lower part of this building was constructed as a hydrodynamics laboratory in 1944 and for 16 years made many distinguished contributions to knowledge in its field. In 1960, Aerojet-General Corporation provided funds for . . .

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

Hameetman Center

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Pasadena, California.
For over a century, this site has been home to a series of campus hubs that have provided the Caltech community with a central gathering space. The first such hub was known as the Old Dorm. Built in 1910 as a dormitory for . . .

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

Jerome X. O'Donovan Pond

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Staten Island, New York.
This pond is named after Jerome X. O’Donovan (1944 – 2014), more commonly known as “Jay” O’Donovan, a lifelong Staten Island resident and decorated Marine Corps Veteran who earned two bronze stars and a promotion to Captain . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ms. Cora Brooks

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Austin, Pennsylvania.
One of Austin's most colorful turn-of-the-century citizens, Cora (center) operated a local brothel on a hill adjacent the dam. Upon seeing the dam break, she began calling townsfolk including the operator. Her efforts are . . .

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

Savannah Cemetery

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near Jefferson, Texas.
This site began as the family burial ground for Sofia Smith Whatley and her descendants. A South Carolina native, Whatley moved from Alabama with her son, Miles Jefferson, shortly after her husband, Martin, died in 1875. She . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mississippi to Nashville

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Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville country music stardom attracted many performers, songwriters and producers from nearby Mississippi, from Jimmie Rodgers to Tammy Wynette, Charley Pride, Moe Bandy and Faith Hill. Mississippians Elvis Presley, . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Balli Cemetery

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Villa Verde, Texas.
Juan Jose Hinojosa (1700-1789) was granted land including this site posthumously in 1790. His great-grandson Antonio Balli Cavazos (1813-1887), was the first to live on the land, which he named the Balli San Antonio del . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mt. Zion Cemetery

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near DeBerry, Texas.
This site was originally part of a tract owned by pioneer area settlers Richard and Polly Golden. They later gave it to their daughter Elizabeth and her husband Cornelius Crenshaw. Who buried a son here in the 1840s. They . . .

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Potter's Point

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Gray, Texas.
Site of one of most famous events in Texas. Robert Potter - a signer, Texas Declaration of Independence, a Chief Author of Republic's Constitution, First Secretary of Navy, Republic of Texas - settled 1837 on Caddo Lake. A . . .

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

Jefferson

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Jefferson, Texas.
Founded 1843. Named for President Thomas Jefferson. Chief river Port of Texas, 1846-1870. This prosperous Ante-bellum city became a Confederate Quartermaster Depot; Produced boots, shoes, iron goods, preserved meats for . . .

(Industry & Commerce • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. M.D.K. Taylor

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near Jefferson, Texas.
Alabama physician. Came to Texas, 1847. Served Cass County in Texas House and Senate for 24 years. Was called the Ablest Parliamentarian of his time. Served as one of the Speakers of Texas House of Representatives in . . .

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