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Nobles Trail – Junction
California, Shasta County, near ShingletownLeft branch of Nobles Trail led southwest to McCumber’s Mill on Millseat Creek, right branch led west to Shingletown were the two branches rejoined. Guidebook...
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Charlie’s Place
California, Shasta County, near ShingletownIn 1849 Charles Ogburn built a road to this site from Fort Reading. Ogburn’s road later became part of the famed Noble Emigrant route. Ogburn built a cabin,...
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Nobles Trail – Charley’s Ranch
California, Shasta County, near Shingletown“Traveled 15 miles to Charley’s Ranch and camped there. Good water, drove the stock 2 miles to grass, here we heard the first chicken crow, and saw the first...
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Gallows
California, Shasta County, ShastaThis gallows is a restoration of the one on which John Baker and Charles Crouch were hanged on August 26, 1974, for the crime of murder. Before being hanged, and with...
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Western Star Lodge No. 2
California, Shasta County, ShastaThe oldest Masonic Lodge in the State of California. Chartered by the most worshipful Grand lodge of Missouri on the 10th of May, 1848. This building was dedicated on...
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Litsch Store
California, Shasta County, ShastaBy serving the daily needs of the area, Frank Litsch’s general merchandise store gives us a rare look into the lives of the people living in Shasta during the years of...
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Wind River Canyon
Wyoming, Fremont County, near ShoshoniBoysen Dam, completed in 1951, marks the southern margin of the east-west trending Owl Creek Mountains and the Wind River Canyon. Drained by the north flowing Wind...
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Cold Storage Room
California, Shasta County, ShastaPeter Hoff’s butcher shop stood on this site. It was a wood-frame building built in 1855. The establishment, known for awhile as the City Meat Market, was destroyed by...
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High-Five Plains Towns / Ten Miles a Day
Colorado, Adams County, near Bennett High-Five Plains Towns Watkins, Bennett, Strasburg, Byers, Peoria, Deer Trail, Agate, Godfrey, Cedar Point, Riverbend—most of these Colorado high plains towns were...
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Front Range Flight
Colorado, Adams County, BennettThe Rocky Mountains proved a formidable barrier to early aviation, leaving Colorado in a familiar position: bypassed. As with the railroads fifty years earlier,...
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North Carolina Confederate Veterans Memorial Forest
North Carolina, Haywood County, near WaynesvilleThe United Daughters of the Confederacy in cooperation with the United States Forest Service planted this 125 acre forest as a living memorial to the...
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A Community's Living Room
California, Inyo County, IndependenceThis auditorium is one of three original buildings remaining here from Manzanar War Relocation Center. As you walk closer, listen for laughter, tears , music—the...
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Sacred Space
California, Inyo County, IndependenceLife at Manzanar was uncertain, but the prospect of dying behind barbed wire, far from home, may have been unthinkable. On May 16, 1943, Matsunosuke Murakami, 62,...
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Legacy
California, Inyo County, IndependenceOver the years, this monument has become an icon, inspiring a grass-roots movement to preserve Manzanar and remember the sacrifices of 120,313 Japanese Americans...
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Weaving for the War
California, Inyo County, IndependenceAmerica went to work for the war effort in 1942, and Manzanar was no exception. More than 500 young Japanese Americans wove camouflage nets here for the U.S. Army....
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Dragon Tree
California, San Diego County, CoronadoNative to the Canary Islands this unusual tree was planted at The Del prior to the turn of the century where it thrives in our temperate southern California...
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Arndahl Lutheran Church
Minnesota, Meeker County, near Grove CityOn November 26th, 1990 Arndahl Lutheran Church was destroyed by a fire. We are left with many memories of our church and its people. We dedicate this monument...
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Christmas Tree
California, San Diego County, CoronadoHere stands the world's first electrically-lighted outdoor Christmas tree, unveiled at the Hotel del Coronado on December 24, 1904 (Horticulture & Forestry)...
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Battle of Acton
Minnesota, Meeker County, ActonDuring the U.S. – Dakota War, a battle between Dakota soldiers led by Taoyateduta or Little Crow and Tunkanhnamani (Walks Under A Sacred Stone) and Co. B, 9th Minn. Inf....
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Snake River Bridge
Idaho, Bonneville County, Idaho FallsOn December 10, 1864 a franchise was granted to Edward M. Morgan, James M. (Matt) Taylor, and William F. Bartlett to operate a ferry one and one-half miles below...
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