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Fishbasket Indian Town
Pennsylvania, Clarion County, AlcolaNear here, at the mouth of Town Run on Redbank Creek, a Shawnee village stood in the late 18th century. Called "Fishbasket" for these waters' immense schools of...
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Esther Short
Washington, Clark, VancouverAfter marrying Amos Short in 1829, Esther (Clark) Short set out on the adventure of her life! Originally from Tioga County, Pennsylvania, Esther Short, who was ½ Algonquin...
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Welcome to the Institute Lands
New Jersey, Mercer County, Princeton The Institute Lands are a cherished 589-acre tract of woods and farmlands known for their natural beauty and historical significance. These graceful woods...
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"Along Came the Line of Wagons"
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock Slowly along came the line of wagons, and the prairie breeze brought us, in sound, faint and far between, the driver’s invocations to their mules. Matthew C. Field,...
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Marking the Rock
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock Pawnee Rock changed very little for ten thousand years. The hill was grass-covered with a fifty-foot-high face on the southeast side in front of you. Wind, water, and...
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"A Rallying Point for the Indians"
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock No one actually knows how Pawnee Rock was named. Josiah Gregg, who had been over the Santa Fe Trail eight times beginning in 1831, wrote: the attention of the...
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"A Remarkable Rocky Point"
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock From 1821 until late in the 1800s Pawnee Rock was a noted landmark along the Santa Fe Trail. Thousands of wagons lumbered and creaked by here carrying goods to or...
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Santa Fe Trail Monument
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock In honor of the brave men and women who passing over the old Santa Fe Trail, endured the hardships of frontier life, and blazed the path of civilization for posterity...
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Cowell Lime Works
California, Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz The Cowell Lime Works Historic District [1850s-1920s] on the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz has been placed on the National Register of...
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"A Point of Red Rocks"
Kansas, Barton County, Pawnee Rock We set out at the ushal time and at 8 miles West We passed point of Red Rocks about 600 yds from the river and at Eleven miles crossed the paney River….Some...
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398th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
Georgia, Chatham County, PoolerThis Memorial Is Dedicated To The Everlasting Memory Of Those Air Crews And Support Units Who Served So Gallantly In World War II Station 131 Nuthampstead Hertfordshire,...
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Cultivating America’s Bread Basket
Kansas, Stafford County, Hudson When settlers came to the prairie in the 1870s, they learned from the land that grasses grew better than any other crop here. In 1874, Russian Mennonite immigrants...
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Sutter County Veterans Memorial
California, Yuba City Entrance to the Memorial Panel 1: We as a community have committed ourselves to honor our Veterans, the living and the dead, We must embrace the fact that we are the benefactors...
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Braving Wind and Waves
California, San Francisco City and County, San FranciscoActivated in 1890, this U.S. Life-Saving Station was built to aid endangered seafarers in the days when San Francisco was one of the world’s...
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Setting A Deadly Obstacle Course
California, San Francisco City and County, San FranciscoThe Fort Point Mine Depot was created to defend the West Coast’s greatest harbor from enemy attack. Here, U.S. Army personnel assembled mines,...
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Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
California, San Francisco City and County, San FranciscoWithin the ocean swells, beyond the Golden Gate, is an underwater world of astoundingly rich and diverse marine life. Few regions on earth host...
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Edwin Way Teale
Indiana, Porter County, near Town of Pines (Side 1) Born 1899 in Illinois, Teale became an influential naturalist, author, and photographer who won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through...
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St. John Township School District #2
Indiana, Lake County, ScherervilleBuilt, 1853, approximately one half mile south; closed, 1907; moved to this site and restored for educational and community uses, 1993-1994. One of twelve St. John...
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1911 Boiler
California, Fresno County, CoalingaThis boiler used to sit in the Claremont Oil Lease, known as Section 24-D. The boiler was used to create steam to inject into the ground to make the pumping of crude...
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Coalinga’s First School
California, Fresno County, CoalingaCoalinga’s first school opened with forty one students and two teachers. After 1908 and the opening of the Polk Street School, it is believed to have been converted...
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