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Rock Island Depot
Abilene, KS
Post Office Oak
Council Grove, KS
Expanding the American Intellect: Icons and Iconoclasts
Baltimore, MD
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Bullard Company #2
Scranton, PA
This oil-burning steam engine was designed to be operated by a single engineer-fireman and was among the smallest standard-gauge locomotives ever built. Locomotive #2 operated up and down the railroad sidings and loading tracks outside t… more »
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Filed Quarter Trail
Nashville, TN
This path leads to the Field Quarter, an area that was once home to at least eighty enslaved African-Americans. A series of illustrated signs near expose building foundations at the site help you to "see" what life was like for this part of… more »
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Concord's Architectural Heritage
Concord, NH
These architectural artifacts from historic Concord buildings—pilaster capitals, gargoyles, cornices and other decorative stonework—are displayed here... In celebration of Concord's Architectural Heritage whose richness a… more »
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Smothers was pioneer in Henderson County education systemFebruary 19th 2019 11:26PMA historical marker stands in Caney City â a reminder of a school where generations of black students learned skills they could use to support their ... |
Bob Marley's former home base in London to get commemorative plaqueFebruary 19th 2019 11:03PM... public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker. |
Proposed Civil War memorial featuring bust of John Wilkes Booth sparks debate in small Maryland ...February 19th 2019 9:12PM... continued, citing the 13,000 monuments, statues and markers memorializing the Civil War nationwide, according to the Historical Marker Database. |
Historic black Rosenwald School museum seeks to raise profile in PauldingFebruary 19th 2019 9:00PMHiram Rosenwald School Museum has planned events throughout this month and year in its efforts to teach about the history of Paulding's ... |
A trip down Philadelphia's Historical Marker TourFebruary 19th 2019 7:51PMVia WPVI ABC Philadelphia: Ducis Rodgers shows us, you can learn a lot about the past just by taking a walk.... |