Shaft Drill Core

1935-36

Experimental vertical shaft 5’ in diameter to 1125’ depth thru serpentine and gabbro at Idaho-Maryland Gold Mine, Grass Valley. Machinery invented by J.B. Newsom. Greatest drilled footage – 21’ in three days. Core weight 11-tons. Donated to Nevada City by ...

United States Merchant Marine Veterans

In memory of

United States

Merchant Marine Veterans

of

Foreign Wars

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Creating a National Park

[Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park]

“It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capital …”William O. Douglas.

Look around you. The park you stand in exists because people cared. In January ...

George Darby House Cleburne’s H’dq’rs.

May 25, 1864. Maj. Gen P. R. Cleburne’s div. marched with Hardee’s A.C. [CS] from New Hope Church May 24th, to Power Springs.

These troops, the left flank of Johnson’s Army, marched S.E. to find the position of the Federals known ...

Dr F. Crounse

Built this house, 1833

First physician at

West Guilderland (Altamont)

Practiced here sixty years

Marker is at the intersection of New York Route 146 and Danvers Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 146.

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Galveston "News", C.S.A.

Founded 1842 by Samuel Bangs, Texas' first printer. Published after 1843 by Willard Richardson, who put up the first 4-story building in Galveston to house the offices and printing plant.

Soon after the Civil War began in 1861, cut back ...

PFC Floyd Everett Campbell

In Recognition of the 2nd Marine Division

Asian-Pacific Campaign World War II

The Battle for the Gilbert Islands

In Memory of Pfc. Floyd Everett Campbell

Killed in action during the amphibious

landing on Tarawa 20 November 1942

Purple Heart presented posthumous[ly]

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Colonel Edwin H. Hawes

The men of the 38th Bomber Group, United States Army 5th Air Force, W.W.II

in honor of

Col. Edwin H. Hawes

Killed in Action 9 August 1945

Kyushu, Japan Pacific Theater

S.S., D.F.C. P.H. B.S. A.M.

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Emporia's Mexican American Veterans Memorial

In honor of the Mexican American men and women of Emporia, Kansas, who proudly served their country

Killed in Action WWII

Jesse Garcia • Robert Ramirez

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Gold Star Mothers of America War Memorial

In memory of our sons and daughters who gave their lives in service to our country

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