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Millstone from the Bates Flour Mill

MILLSTONE FROM THE BATES FLOUR MILL This Limestone Millstone Was Donated To The Dexter Area Historical Society By Erwin and JoAnn Mast SEPTEMBER 14TH 1990   THE BATES MILL SITE: THE SOUTHWEST...

100 Years of Camping on this Site

100 Years of Camping on this Site 1910 – 2010 Beginning in 1910, Lawrence Hall, a Chicago orphanage for boys, operated a summer camp on this site, known as Camp Hardy.  The program ended in 1963. ...

Montgomery's Slave Traders

MONTGOMERY'S SLAVE TRADERS Vast plantations with large populations emerged in Alabama's Black Belt beginning in 820. Montgomery's proximity to the Black Belt made the city a center for...

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Ted Librero

In memory of  Theodore "Ted" Librero For His Dedication to Emery Cove February 1938 - October 2002

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Emeryville Peninsula Fire Station

Charles and Frankie Hromada Foyer

THIS GRAND FOYER IS NAMED IN HONOR OF   CHARLES AND FRANKIE HROMADA   AFTER COMPLETING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN FORESTRY IN 1953 AND MASTER'S DEGREE IN ENTOMOLOGY IN 1954, CHARLIE HROMADA BECAME A...

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Purdue University's Gratitude to Mrs. Alice Earl Stuart

THIS TABLET IS ENDURING EVIDENCE OF THE GRATITUDE OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY TO MRS. ALICE EARL STUART 1850 - 1937 WHOSE FAR-SEEING GENEROSITY MADE POSSIBLE THIS LABORATORY OF APPLIED PHYSICS IN TRIBUTE...

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Thomas Duncan Laboratory

THIS LABORATORY IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS DUNCAN GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. SCOTLAND. DECEMBER 26, 1865 LAFAYETTE, INDIANA. JANUARY 21, 1929 "MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS"      Submitted...

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Wayne State University

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   Here in the Central High building Completed in 1896 was founded in 1917 Detroit Junior College from which grew a College of Liberal Arts. It united with other...

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The Montgomery Slave Trade

THE MONTGOMERY SLAVE TRADE Montgomery had grown into one of the most prominent slave trading communities in Alabama by 1860. At the start of the Civil War, the city had a larger slave population...

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Downieville

DOWNIEVILLE   DOWNIEVILLE IS HISTORICALLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT & COLORFUL TOWNS OF THE NORTHERN MINES. GOLD DEPOSITS WERE DISCOVERED IN 1848 - 1849. THE SPOT WHERE THE TOWN LATER DEVELOPED...

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Santa Fe de Toloca

  A Spanish Mission was established near here within sight of the Santa Fe River about A.D. 1606 by Franciscan missionaries. The river took its name from the mission, as did the modern town...

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Almost to Cape Horn

Continental DivideMilner Pass   elev. 10,759 ft. The "Great Divide" separates drainage to the Atlantic from drainage to the Pacific. It traverses America from Alaska almost to Cape Horn.

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Eliza Fowler Hall

ELIZA FOWLER (1817 - 1902) BY WHOM FUNDS WERE PROVIDED TO ERECT THE UNIVERSITY'S  FIRST AUDITORIUM KNOWN AS ELIZA FOWLER HALL (1902 - 1954) REPLACED HEREIN AND DEDICATED TO THE GREATER USEFULNESS...

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Home of Silas Wright

Home of Silas Wright Statesman U.S. Senator 1833-43 Gov. of New York 1844-46  Built circa 1830, the home of Wright (1795-1847) is now owned by the St. Lawrence County Historical Association. A...

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Seven Sisters Country Park and Interpretive Centre

SEVEN SISTERS COUNTRY PARK AND INTREPRETIVE CENTRE Opened 17th July 1974 by [illegible] [illegible]

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Talleyrand stayed here

TALLEYRAND FRENCH STATESMAN AND AMBASSADOR STAYED HERE 1831

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Constitution Oak

Constitution Oak Planted By The Tippecanoe County Bar Association To Commemorate The Bicentennial  Of The Constitution of the United States Of America September 17, 1987   Submitted by: Melissa McCurley

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The Memory of the Revolution Soldiers Buried in Clinton County

THIS TABLET IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVOLUTION SOLDIERS BURIED IN CLINTON COUNTY CAPTAIN HARMON AUGHE JOHN APPLEGATE WILLIAM CARTER THOMAS HARRIS JOHN REED FREDERICK SHAFFER...

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Tree Donation

"Trees Donated by Dwight Lydell Chapter of Izaak Walton League of America" From the website of the Izaak Walton League of America: The Izaak Walton League was founded in 1922 to conserve...

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