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The First Golf Course in Kansas City
Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City Play began on the Kenwood Golf Links, an extension of the Hyde Park Country Club, in 1894. A group composed mostly of transplanted Scots laid out nine holes...
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Southwest Magazine
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandUsed as a shell magazine during the Confederate occupation, the Federals saw fit to use it as “dark confinement” for Confederate Officers held prisoner during the...
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Southwest Bastion
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandThe Southwest Bastion held a special type of cannon to protect the fort’s entrance. These cannon, known as 24-pounder flank defense howitzers, were aimed at the...
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War Memorial
Oklahoma, Craig County, Vinita "Not In Vain" may be the pride of those who survived and the epitaph of those who fell Winston Churchill Dedicated on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the...
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Store House
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandColonel Edward L. Molineaux, 157th N. Y. Volunteers, left a diary describing these casemates. From here, the Quartermaster Department issued bulk supplies to the...
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Powder Magazine
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandBy noon, April 11, 1862, shells breached the opposite side of the fort and struck this wall. Inside sat great stores of gunpowder. The fort surrendered two hours...
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U.S. 66 Will Rogers Highway
Oklahoma, Craig County, Vinita Will Rogers formed lifelong ties to Vinita by attending school here, the Worcester Academy, 1889 and the Willie-Hasell College, 1894 and 1895 terms. In 1934, Will...
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Model 1859 Seacoast Carriage
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandThe Phoenix Iron Works of Philadelphia made this carriage for a Parrott rifle (cannon). The weapon fired a 100 pound projectile 8500 yards. Carriage and gun weighed...
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4.5 Inch Blakely Rifle
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandMade by Fawcett, Preston and Company (Liverpool, England), this rifle and the others like it came through the blockade on the British steamship Fingall, November...
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1928 Route 66 Footrace
Oklahoma, Rogers County, Foyil Andrew Hartley Payne, a 1927 graduate of Foyil, won the 1928 transcontinental footrace, LA-NYC, a 3423.5 mi. world record in 573 hr 4 min & 34 sec. Andy "Greatest...
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Rock Springs Coal Welcome Sign
Wyoming, Sweetwater County, Rock Springs On June 6, 1929, the Rock Springs Coal "Welcome" sign was lit. The Union Pacific Coal Company Employes' Magazine reported it spanned the Lincoln Highway and was...
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Rock Springs Coal
Wyoming, Sweetwater County, Rock SpringsBuried under the streets of Rock Springs are seams of coal. In 1850 Howard Stansbury noted that coal could be found near the present town. When, in 1868, the...
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Beneath This Monument
Wyoming, Sweetwater County, Rock Springs Beneath This Monument Coal Was First Mined In This District Site Of Union Pacific No. 1 Mine A.D. 1868 Erected September 17, 1938 (Industry & Commerce)...
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Middletown
Connecticut, Middlesex County, MiddletownMiddletown The area known as Mattabesett, home of the Wangunk Indian tribe, was settled by English colonists from Hartford and Wethersfield in 1650. Situated at...
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Brooke Rifle
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandCast at the Tredegar Foundary in Richmond, Virginia, this rifled cannon had an effective range of 5 miles and fired a projectile weighing 64 pounds. Designed by a...
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Federal Siege Batteries
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandThirty-six big guns on Tybee Island, 1 to 1½ miles away, converged their fire on the fort. The bombardment proved that rifled cannon could destroy masonry forts....
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Parrott Rifle
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandOn April 10, 1862, German volunteers of the 46th N. Y. Regiment manned this gun and the one on the right. On that date the guns bore down on Fort Pulaski from one...
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First Electric Cars
Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County, ScrantonThe first street car system in the U.S. built entirely for operation by electric power was at Scranton. It began operation on Nov. 30, 1886. The initial run was...
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Immortal Six Hundred
Georgia, Chatham County, Tybee IslandConfederate States of AmericaImmortal Six HundredBrave on the field of battlewith steadfast loyality to country and comrades.They placed honour above life...
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Jonathan Brown and the Shetek Trail
Minnesota, Brown County, near SpringfieldIn the 1850s there was a land boom in southern Minnesota. Jonathan Brown, 37 years old, filed on land along the Cottonwood River in what is now Burnstown...
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