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San Pasqual
California, San Diego County, EscondidoThe State of California honors with this monument the American Soldiers who, under the leadership of Brig.-Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, Captain Abraham R. Johnston,...
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Historic Town Center Park / The Mendelson Inn
California, Orange County, San Juan Capistrano [Eastern Side] Historic Town Center Park Today the San Juan Capistrano down town and Mission San Juan Capistrano are situated on the site of the Juaneño...
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Los Alamitos Sugar Company and Town's Founding
California, Orange County, Los AlamitosThe first sugar beet processing plant in Orange County was built here in 1897 on land donated by the Bixby Land Company. The industry brought jobs and development...
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Diego Sepúlveda Adobe
California, Orange County, Costa MesaThis home of early Spanish Californians, erected in the 1820's, once served as an "estancia" or station for mission herdsmen. It was dedicated in 1963 for public...
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Lebanon Baptist Church
South Carolina, Anderson County, AndersonAt the Site of the Old Lebanon Church Cemetery. Relocated to Present Site in 1860. Present Sanctuary Built in 1911. (Churches, Etc.) Includes location,...
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The First Settler
Minnesota, Wabasha County, Lake CityThe first actual settler in Lake City was Jacob Boody who came in the Fall of 1853. His brother and Abner Dwelle came the next year. Samuel Doughty built the first...
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Shipyard Owner's Home
Maine, Sagadahoc County, Bath William T. Donnell married Henry P. Hitchcock's daughter Clara in 1860, and bought this house and shipyard from Clara's mother in 1869. The proximity of residence to...
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Transformer House (1909)
Maine, Sagadahoc County, Bath The Percy & Small shipyard was electrified from its establishment in 1896. In 1909, the Sagadahoc Power & Light Company began delivering higher-voltage power to...
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Mill & Joiner Shop (1899)
Maine, Sagadahoc County, Bath This sturdy industrial building housed a sawmill for cutting and shaping ship timbers and planks, and a joiner shop for the finer woodworking that went into vessels'...
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Emanuel A.M.E. Church
South Carolina, Charleston County, CharlestonFounded 1818 by the Reverend Morris Brown Closed by State Law 1834. Reopened By The Reverend R.H. Cain 1865 Present Edifice Built By The Reverend L.R....
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Service with Distinction
Arkansas, Phillips County, HelenaThe Arkansas Frontier, 1835-1861 Many ambitious men came to Phillip County before the Civil War, drawn by the opportunities offered by the frontier. Among them were...
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Hotel Zinzendorf
North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-SalemOpening in May 1892, the Hotel Zinzendorf was a resort hotel developed by the West End Hotel and Land Company. The hotel was a venture by local business...
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The Casement: Key to a Fort's Design
Maine, Sagadahoc County, near PhippsburgLike most other masonry forts built in the United States during the middle 1800s, Fort Popham is made up of a series of casements. These are large enclosed...
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Donated Land for the Agricultural College
Colorado, Larimer County, Fort CollinsErected By The 1877 • Pioneers • 1916 In memory of the men who donated the land for the Agricultural College A.H. Patterson Joseph Mason H.C. Peterson J.C. Mathews...
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Founder of Johnstown
New York, Fulton County, Johnstown In efforts to develop great land holdings, he surveyed and laid out the village of Johnstown, built the first public school, and after Tryon County was set off in...
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New York, New York County, New YorkDedicated to American heroes of all nationalities who dies for their country in the Second World War Erected by Ukranian - Americans of greater New York in memory of...
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The Ground Beneath Your Feet
California, San Mateo County, Daly CityHere at Thornton Beach, the ground is not as solid as it seems. The ground itself is made up of a semi-consolidate sedimentary rock from here to Mussel Rock. It...
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Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co. Office Building
Wisconsin, Dane County, MadisonThis building is significant for its association with Madison's industrial history. It is all that remains of the once expansive Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co., a...
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Daisy E. Lampkin
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, PittsburghOutstanding as an NAACP organizer, Mrs. Lampkin was its National Field Secretary, 1935-47. President, Lucy Stone Civic League, 1915-65. A charter member,...
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Greenlee Field
Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, PittsburghLocated here from 1932 to 1938, this was the first African American owned stadium in the Negro Leagues. Home of Gus Greenlee's Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball...
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