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Battleground National Cemetery
District of Columbia, WashingtonDuring the late evening of July 12, 1864, 40 Union soldiers that perished while defending Washington DC from a two day Confederate attack (known as the Battle of Fort...
View ArticleMission San Antonio de Padua
California, Monterey County, King CityFounded by Father Junipero Serra July 14, 1774. Most picturesque setting. First maass was celebrated in presence of one Indian. Later congregation grew to a...
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Panoramic View of Cottages
New Brunswick, Charlotte County, near Welshpool Two of the Campobello Company's founders, Alex S. Porter and Samuel Wells, and several of the luxury hotel visitors, including James Roosevelt and...
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Lemon-Edens House
Texas, Navarro County, CorsicanaCorsicana resident A. L. Lemon built this home in 1895 of Louisiana cypress. In 1902 it was sold to John Wesley Edens. The owner of 2400 acres of local farm and ranch...
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Griffin Plaza
California, Monterey County, MontereyHonoring Allen Griffin, 1893-1981, founder and publisher of the Monterey Peninsula Herald for his outstanding contributions to the City of Monterey. Allen Griffin...
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Attracted to Water
California, Siskiyou County, Tulelake “When I was a child…I played around Tule Lake where the tules and grass grow thick… We used to go out in the tall grass… and look for chub fish… and shoot at...
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River of Rocks - The Devils Homestead Lava Flow
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakeAt some time within the last several thousand years, an eruption of magna from the bottom of the earth crust sent a broad stream of hot liquid rock across this...
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War in the Lava Beds
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakeFrom this command post, the U.S. Army directed part of a frustrating campaign against a small band of Modoc Indians. Determined to defend their homeland, the Modoc...
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Beds of Lava
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakeImagine watching hot lava flowing toward you at this spot over twelve thousand years ago. Like treads rolling on a tank, the clinker, cooling front of the flow fell...
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A Volcanic Classroom
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakePreserved for its caves and volcanic features since 1925, Lava Beds serves as an outdoor school for professional and amateur geologists alike. While the monument...
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Veterans Memorial
Kansas, Crawford County, Pittsburg To the Glory of God and in honor of members of the First Christian Church who served their country in time of need (Churches, Etc. • Patriots & Patriotism • War,...
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Forrest Hall - Ball Field
Georgia, Stephens County, Toccoa When the school purchased a cow in 1912, Ora Frost, the first student to enroll at the Toccoa Falls site, was enlisted to do the milking. At first, Evelyn Forrest...
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Modoc War Casualties
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakeIt is difficult today to trace the disposition of all those killed in action during the Modoc War. This site was first consecrated January 17, 1873, when two...
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NASA Wallops Flight Facility
Virginia, Accomack County, Wallops IslandThe Wallops Island Flight Facility was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and is one of the oldest launch sites in the...
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Malinta Tunnel
Philippines, Cavite Province, Corregidor IslandBegun in 1922 and substantially completed in 1932, the tunnel complex consisted of east-west passage measuring 836 ft. long by 24 ft. wide 13 laterals on...
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Battleground National Cemetery
District of Columbia, WashingtonAfter the rebels were turned back as the Battle of Fort Stevens ended in 1864, scores of Union Soldiers lay cold and silent. Forty-one of them are buried here in this...
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The Lewis Family
Florida, Broward County, Fort LauderdaleComing over from the Bahamas sometime before 1792, Suries and Frankee Lewis and their three sons settled on the banks of the New River and were the first...
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Spatter Cones
California, Siskiyou County, TulelakeThe “chimneys” before you built up as hot gasses propelled globs of lava high into the air like lumpy oatmeal boiling over a pot. This lava quickly formed dramatic,...
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Art for the People
District of Columbia, WashingtonCongress ordered sculptures installed at Meridian Hill Park long before the park's completion. So many sculptures were authorized that Horace Peaslee, the park's...
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Dolley Madison
Virginia, Orange County, Montpelier StationBorn to Quaker parents in North Carolina, Dolley Payne lived with her family in Hanover County, Virginia until 1783. Following the death of her first husband,...
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